Gabriel Harper’s Blog

I just announced an update for the phpLinkBid Advanced Link Statistics Add-on over in the phpLinkBid Forums. This is just a minor update to fix a bug with MSN indexed pages statistics. Crawling has it’s disadvantages compared to oh, say, and API!

ALS is also due for some more updates in the somewhat near future and a few small improvements will be ready for public beta soon as well. Feedback, feature requests and complaints should be directed to the ALS forums.

I already posted this announcement on the Scriptalicious Blog but I thought it was worth sharing here as well. For a few months now IPN errors have caused orders to sit in PENDING status until they can be manually processed (which can be, well, a process). The IPN handler has been updated and tested and is now processing PayPal Instant Payment Notifications (IPN’s) so orders will be activated instantly upon payment. Yay!

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Jelsoft just announced a new patch level release for vBulletin 3.7.1 and 3.6.10. vBulletin 3.7.1 PL2 and 3.6.10 PL2 are intended to address the deeper issues behind the XSS flaw first noted in vBulletin 3.7.1 PL1 and 3.6.10 PL1. According to the Jelsoft release annoucement 3.7.1 PL2 and 3.6.10 PL2 fixes an XSS flaw affecting the URL redirection system in vBulletin.

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Jelsoft has just announced a security update for vBulletin forum software that resolves a cross-site scripting (XSS) error. These are patch level fixes for the existing vBulletin 3.7.1 and 3.6.10 versions that focus on the XSS flaw.

According to the Jelsoft announcement:

…it is difficult to exploit the XSS flaw, and the potential for exposure and damage is limited…

However, the implications of the flaw are not entirely clear in the announcement. Has anybody out there had problems with this cross-site scripting error?

Approximately one month after the vBulletin 3.7.0 Gold release, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. has released a round of bug fixes and improvements in the vBulletin 3.7.1 update. Many vBulletin owners have still yet to upgrade to vBulletin 3.7.0 so this is a good time to jump right to the new version. Let’s look at what’s different in vBulletin 3.7.1.

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cPanel just announced the release of cPanel 11.23 which focuses on some key issues with cPanel. According to cPanel’s blog announcement the cPanel 11.23 release focuses on memory usage, mail efficiency, backups and users. cPanel server admins are getting pretty excited about the performance increases in cPanel VPS optimized, and 11.23 addresses memory usage with VPS optimized and Tailwatch.

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Jelsoft just released vBulletin 3.7.0 Gold on April 29th, right alongside the new vBulletin price changes. Good timing on their behalf, because now there is even more motivation to upgrade those licenses and buy some new ones! Starting immediately vBulletin license owners will be able to access vBulletin 3.7.0 from the member’s area.

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Jelsoft just announced a bunch of changes in their pricing scheme. They must have read my blog about whether vBSEO is worth the money and decided they could charge more! While not a huge increase, it’s enough to make me shake my head as I now run several vBulletin forums. That’s the nature of business though, and hopefully Jelsoft will continue to improve their software and make use of all that extra cash.

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I’m taking the plunge with vBSEO on Fury-Tech Forums. $149 for vBSEO is almost twice as expensive as a leased vBulletin license, so like many vBulletin owners I’m tentative to say the least. To make things worse, they want $117 to remove vBSEO branding from your forum. On the bright side of things, I should have a reliable SEO solution for vBulletin - where Jelsoft is really lacking in my opinion.

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More fun in the Webmaster world of updates. Jelsoft today announced vBulletin 3.6.10, including various backported bugfixes from 3.7.0 but primarily to fix a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in vBulletin 3.6.9.

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