December 2013 Website Changes and Updates

Greetings, once again!

As of late, we have updated PHP to the latest minor revision. This is an upgrade to 5.4.22 from 5.4.21. PHP, of course, is the server-side hypertext processor used by most websites. The type of under-the-hood changes can be found with these release notes:

Core:
Fixed bug #65911 (scope resolution operator - strange behavior with $this).
CLI server:
Fixed bug #65818 (Segfault with built-in webserver and chunked transfer encoding).
Exif:
Fixed crash on unknown encoding.
FTP:
Fixed bug #65667 (ftp_nb_continue produces segfault).
ODBC:
Fixed bug #65950 (Field name truncation if the field name is bigger than 32 characters).
Sockets:
Fixed bug #65808 (the socket_connect() won't work with IPv6 address).
Standard:
Fixed bug #64760 (var_export() does not use full precision for floating-point numbers).
XMLReader:
Fixed bug #51936 (Crash with clone XMLReader).
Fixed bug #64230 (XMLReader does not suppress errors).

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Most of these changes are completely irrelevant to our members, but keeping our server-side software up to date is essential for both performance and security reasons.

Litespeed Web Server:

While we are still experiencing problems with the rendering of CSS elements using Litespeed, we are looking to see if there is a turning point or fix for this issue. While Litespeed is active, it may not necessarily be running at a given time, due to this issue. However, Litespeed was updated with these release notes:

• Improved handling of resource limits to avoid generating 508 error pages when possible. After resource limits have been reached, requests will instead be re-queued until resources become available.
• Fixed bug: Failure to detect all IPv6 addresses.
• Fixed bug: Multiple <Files ...> <FilesMatch ...> directives in different .htaccess files along a path were processed in the wrong order.
• Fixed bug: Server crash when an .htaccess file has been updated while it is still referenced by a long running request.
• Fixed bug: suEXEC ProcessGroup mode set at the virtual host level fails to override server level suEXEC Daemon mode.

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Mobile Apps:

All of our mobile apps have been updated, except for iOS (Apple). This is expected, but we are looking forward to a quick turn around. Right now, version 3.0.5 is the universal copy for anyone running Android 4.0+ (Ice Cream Sandwich, Jellybean, and KitKat)

Those people with versions of Android that do not meet the ICS requirement will receive a different, but similar application. More information on this can be found here.

Thanks for your support!