On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 4:41:31 PM UTC-8, Dave S wrote: > > > See below: > > On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 12:22:27 AM UTC-8, Massimo Di Pierro > wrote: >> >> There are many reasons you should upgrade, depending on which version you >> are using now: >> >> - to help us make sure we did not break backward compatibility. If your >> existing app does not work with 2.13.4 (and it should) you give us a chance >> to fix the problem. If no, any potential incompatibility will propagate >> forward making it more difficult for us to fix it later, and more difficult >> for you to upgrade. >> > > Looks good so far. Limited testing of one app (the one that has the most > code, as it happens, though it isn't exactly a Massive Super Site). Went > from 2.12.3 to 2.13.4 (on creaky old Fedora 16) and didn't see any problems > with DB (SQLite), http access, CSS, or the admin page for DBs. >
Footnote: I'm a BeyondCompare user, which made it very easy for me to migrate. Unzip into a 2.13 directory, use the folder compare between that and the existing (2.12) directory to set up the apps in their new home, then do a folder compare between the Welcome app and my apps to catch all the changed files in the js, css, etc sub-dirs. > (Looks like ticket display shows the version of the currently running > instance, not the version that created the ticket.) > > >> - to take advantage of new features. For example the awesome JWT feature >> that allows to create API tokens and use them for authentication without >> hitting the database. >> > > I'm drooling ... > > >> - there is also an important security bug fix in 2.13.4 related to >> auth.settings.registration_requires_approval=True. The bug allows a newly >> registered user to bypass the approval process and approve himself/herself. >> Under come conditions. This is now fixed. >> >> > Not using this yet, so untested. > > I have the Windders version downloaded, but haven't deployed it ... I was > going to, because that's an even smaller app, but didn't get there before > wandering away aimlessly. > > I will mention any issues should I encounter any. > > Thanks Massimo, Niphlod, Anthony, and the others! > > /dps > Repeated thanks! -d -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
