Tonight we upgraded our DNN server from build 5.4.2 to 5.5.0 which was released on Augest 18, 2010, the latest stable release from http://www.dotnetnuke.com/. Our DNN hosting customers can now enjoy a more robust, stable and secure solution.

Major Highlights:

• Added Content Localization support
• Added new wrappers for additional Telerik controls
• Improved performance by updating Data Access Block
• Updated Telerik components to latest release
• Added core Unit Tests to the source code package
• Added new Default Visibility setting for Profile Properties
• Added ability to suppress auto-injected Module css class
• Added new Settings and Configuration properties to base Presenter class
• Improved logging during upgrades
• Added support for Media element in styles skin object
• Fixed issue which prevented system from running correctly when using alternate port number
• Fixed issue with portals not being created after upgrade
• Fixed issue where incorrect AdministratorRoleId could be added leading to UI incorrectly showing "padlock" icons in permissions grid
• Fixed issue with welcome emails not being sent if system is set to use a double byte langugage
• Fixed issue with viewing Profile picture
• Fixed portal creation so User profile page is set correctly
• Fixed broken link to verify language resources
• Fixed issue with Host updating Site Settings
• Fixed issue with HTML module's database level dependency on the Modules.ModuleTitle field
• Fixed issue with Host/Admin being able to disable all languages
• Fixed issue where it was possible to have a disabled portal default language by enabling the applicable values on upgrade
• Fixed issue with User Profile Image not showing
• Fixed issue with Tab Order starting at -1 when hard deleted from Recycle Bin
• Fixed issue where an exception occurred when editing page settings of a disabled language (that once had been enabled)
• Fixed issue with File Manager when adding new folders, no longer have to Click the root folder first
• Fixed parent drop down in edit page settings so that users who have edit rights, bt are not Administrators get None Specified option
• Fixed issue with Profile Image Control
• Fixed issue where wrong portalid was used if accessing site settings via host->portals menu. This could display the wrong set of languages for a portal and lead to portal display language being incorrectly updated
• Fixed issue with GetTabPaths Stored procedure to handle null culture pages correctly
• Fixed issue with case insensitive fonts in Captcha control
• Fixed issue with Telerik editor file management
• Fixed issue with exception thrown when creating new languages
• Fixed issue where host vendors did not allow selection of an image from a host folder
• Fixed issue with upgrades when there are deleted portals
• The Edit Profile link in the View Profile should redirect to the Manage Profile page
• Fixed issue where language editor page size was not defaulting to 10 as required
• Fixed issue with SendMail removing HTML formatting
• Fixed issue where anonymous users were not respecting the browser default language setting for current locale
• Updated CoreSitemapProvider to use the ModifiedDate of the Tab and Modules on the Tab for the LastModified date for the PageUrl
• Verify Language Resources to Verify Language Resource Files to match the wireframes for the Content Localization project

 

DotNetNuke is an open-source Web Application Framework written for the ASP.NET framework. It is utilized for creating and deploying solutions such as commercial websites, corporate intranets, online publishing portals, and custom applications. DNN is a fast, easy and reliable Content Management System (CMS), which allows novice users to use simple yet powerful editing controls within a standard web browser.
Total down time was 10 minutes. 

 

Today we upgraded our POP3 mail server to the latest version (5.0e3-3). With this upgrade, our customers can be assured we are providing the best protection and services for their messaging systems. 

• Fix: Display within surgeweb of user.cgi "disable responder after x days" was not working (it was saving and applying any value you set here though).
• Fix: Multilanguage utf8 translations in some languages were not working in popup message windows under safari.
• Fix: Minor further tweak to the messeage selection & preview handling.
• Fix: When selecting using checkboxes to prevent message preview / download now explicitly clears preview pane to avoid confusion between messages.
• New: Can now search for messages with some or no attachments - added "With Attachments" to Display menu.
• Fix: Crash when trying to read messages with certain invalid mime / html formatting.
• New: (non surgeweb) "Friends pending" IMAP folder name is now "Spam" by default to match surgeweb name, existing configurations remain unchanged but this (g_friends_pending_name "Spam") is now a recommended setting. Surgeweb now also uses g_friends_pending_name and no longer needs imap_spam_folder setting in config_*.dat files. Note existing IMAP copy/move behaviour remains unchanged: IMAP move/copy Inbox->Spam = isspam training; IMAP move/copy Spam->Inbox = notspam training.
• Fix: OSX only fix for longstanding issue of "some of many concurrent requests" failing. Affects all protocols on all ports but two particularly noticable cases: Connecting to surgeweb under HTTPS in Safari on OSX - a few images and other parts of the interface randomly fail, Connecting to admin interface does not show some graphs.
• Fix: (non surgeweb) Solaris & osx platforms were crashing during every email processed on smtp due to bug introduced a few days back.
• Fix: Several cases of the attachments remove links were not working.
• Fix: On certain Nokia phone formatted messages with attachments surgemail would crash when viewed from surgeweb (introduced with fixes in 4.3k-4)
• Fix: Removed the Attach from Filestore link (until implementation is complete)
• Fix: Removed prototyping code added to the html editor link button on the html editor which made it non functional (will be restored once fancy link addition and image addition code is complete)
• Fix: Failed surgeweb logins were not getting logged to login_failed.log (although g_bad_login_* / g_honeypot_* limits were already getting applied)
• Fix: Crash during send on some particularly unusual formatting in recipent addresses.
• New: Rewrite of the attachments handling when forwarding messages. Should be much more reliable in terms of not losing attachments when sending. New features include: auto scaling of wide images to fit message window, being able to forward images in messages with "inline" (as opposed to MPR) images (notably as sent by iphone), slide show of attached images, ability to remove individual mpr images when forwarding, ability to treat mpr attachments as normal attachments.
• New: Improvements to caching of images that attached to a message so display images do not have to be redownloaded if a message is forwarded (or in some cases displayed multiple times).
• New: Link added to permanently hide the information line telling you that you can use desktop drag and drop
• Fix: HUGE speed improvement in the sending speed of messages with large attachments. (it is possible this will even noticably reduce loading on large systems)
• Fix: Attachment download links and multipart related images did not work (Chrome 6.0 only)
• New: Version number change and full set of specials builds for all platforms in preparation for a new release.

Total down time was 5 minutes.

 

Today we upgraded our Web Statistics Service to version 6.7. With this upgrade we will be able to deliver deeper, accurate and cleaner reports for our web hosting customers. Some of the new features included in this update are:

• Ability to backup and restore settings
• Minor improvements

Total down time was 0 minutes. 

Last night we installed a 4TB iSCSI NAS in the data center. This unit will provide support for the clustered virtual servers that are hosting critical customer services. Should there be a primary server failure; the backup server takes over the role of providing services, utilizing the new shared network storage.
Total down time was 0 minutes.

 

The new 6Tb Buffalo Network Attached Storage (NAS), utilizing AES-128 data encryption, was installed tonight. With this new device we can do larger, faster and more backups between remote locations and the NOC. Configured as a RAID 5 NAS, it will be capable of holding 4.5TB (4500GB) of data for both internal and external customers.

The primary function for this unit will be to support the secure synchronization backup service for the internal and external customers. This service is able to synchronize an off line copy of critical company data quickly, efficiently and securely!

If you are interest in utilizing this service, please call or email us using the contact form.
Total down time was 0 minutes.

 

Today we released a new award-winning Content Management System (CMS) server solution called, Joomla. Written in PHP, this open source software can allows users to easily publish their content on the world wide web and intranet's. This is a 100% Open Source Content Management System which can support multilingual, role-based multi-user access, e-commerce features and online communities. Joomla was designed to be managed in a web browser with no extra software needed by the end user.

If you are interest in utilizing this service, please call or email us using the contact form.
Total down time was 0 minutes.

 

Today we upgraded the main firewall to the latest firmware. We continually keep our network services up to date to prevent unauthorized intrusions into customer content.
Total down time was 5 minutes.