Your cookie may have been hosed

Post by **Sylvus** » August 22, 2006, 2:32 am

We upgraded to newest version of PHPBB.

Deal with it!

noel · Post by **noel** » August 22, 2006, 2:41 am

I was surfing the site at the time you did it. Nearly zero outage. Great work!

Trek · Post by **Trek** » August 22, 2006, 8:18 am

Had to log in....WTF!

Drolgin Steingrinder · August 22, 2006, 8:31 am

"Hosing the cookie" is one of the oddest euphemisms yet.

laneela · Post by **laneela** » August 22, 2006, 8:34 am

Dude, quit hosing my cookie! I'll get around to it as soon as I can...

Drolgin Steingrinder · August 22, 2006, 8:38 am

- Did ya fuck her?

- Yeah, I totally hosed her cookie!

or

- Did you nail her?

- No dude, she totally hosed my cookie ><

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » August 22, 2006, 10:19 am

So, Any new features that we should be aware of?

Post by **Sylvus** » August 22, 2006, 11:29 am

Nah, I don't think so. Looked mostly like security updates and bug fixes.

[Fix] Changes to random number generator code to explicitly truncate the length of the string
[Fix] Quoting on boards with HTML enabled
[Fix] Special characters on boards with HTML enabled
[Fix] Redirect to list if cancelling deletion of ranks, smilies or word censors
[Fix] Missing error message if an inactive user tried to login (Bug #1598)
[Fix] Do not alter post counts when just removing a poll (Bug #1602)
[Fix] Correct error in removal of old session keys
[Fix] Changed filtering of short search terms
[Sec] Improved filtering on language selection (also addresses a number of bug reports related to missing languages)
[Change] Backported more efficient highlighting code from Olympus
[Change] Backported zlib emulation code so that there is only a single confirmation image even if zlib is not available
[Fix] Prevent login attempts from incrementing for inactive users
[Fix] Do not check maximum login attempts on re-authentication to the admin panel - tomknight
[Fix] Regenerate session keys on password change
[Fix] retrieving category rows in index.php (Bug #90)
[Fix] improved index performance by determining the permissions before iterating through all forums (Bug #91)
[Fix] Better handling of short usernames within the search (bug #105)
[Fix] Send a no-cache header on admin pages as well as normal board pages (Bug #149)
[Fix] Apply word censors to the message when quoting it (Bug #405)
[Fix] Improved performance of query in admin_groups (Bug #753)
[Fix] Workaround for an issue in either PHP or MSSQL resulting in a space being returned instead of an empty string (bug #830)
[Fix] Correct use of default_style config value (Bug #861)
[Fix] Replace unneeded unset calls in admin_db_utilities.php - vanderaj
[Fix] Improved error handling in modcp.php
[Fix] Improved handling of forums to which the user does not have any explicit permissions - vanderaj
[Fix] Assorted fixes and cleanup of admin_ranks.php, now requires confirmation of deletions
[Fix] Assorted fixes and cleanup of admin_words.php, now requires confirmation of deletions
[Fix] Addition and editing of smilies can no longer be performed via GET, now requires confirmation of deletions
[Fix] Escape group names in admin_groups.php
[Sec] Replace strip_tags with htmlspecialchars in private message subject
[Sec] Some changes to HTML handling if enabled
[Sec] Escape any special characters in reverse dns - Anthrax101
[Sec] Typecast poll id values - Anthrax101
[Sec] Added configurable search flood control to reduce the effect of DoS style attacks
[Sec] Changed the way we create "random" values for use as keys - chinchilla/Anthrax101
[Change] Changed handling of the case where a selected style doesn't exist in the database
[Change] Changed handling of topic pruning to improve performance
[Change] Changed default forum permissions to only allow registered users to post in new forums
[Fix] corrected index on session keys table under MS SQL
[Fix] added session keys table to backup
[Fix] delete session keys entries when deleting user
[Fix] changes to support MySQL 5.0
[Fix] changes to some of the admin files to improve efficiency and remove a potential error condition when building the menu
[Fix] change truncation of username length in usercp_register.php - BFUK
[Fix] incorrect path to avatars in admin_users.php (Bug #667)
[Fix] fixed get_userdata to support correct sql escaping (non-mysql dbs) - jarnaez
[Fix] fixed captcha for those not having the zlib extension enabled
[Change] Placed version information above who is online in admin panel for better visual presence
[Sec] fixed XSS issue (only valid for Internet Explorer) within the url bbcode
[Sec] fixed XSS issue if html tags are allowed and enabled
[Sec] added configurable maximum login attempts to prevent dictionary attacks

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » August 22, 2006, 12:22 pm

Animalor wrote:So, Any new features that we should be aware of?

The new version apparently comes with copious cookie hosing humour...

Pherr the Dorf · Post by **Pherr the Dorf** » August 25, 2006, 12:44 am

stop hosing my cookie!

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » August 25, 2006, 4:04 pm

my first thought was that Sylvus was involved in a circle jerk

carry on

Post by **Sylvus** » August 25, 2006, 4:34 pm

Keep dreaming, pal!

masteen · Post by **masteen** » August 25, 2006, 4:55 pm

IM SUING YOU ASSHOLES FOR THAT LOST 10 SECONDS OF MY LIFE!!! DONT YOU KNOW WHAT AN IMPARTANT MAN I AM?!?!?

Siji · Post by **Siji** » August 28, 2006, 1:00 pm

Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:my first thought was that Sylvus was involved in a circle jerk

That would have been the cracker. Wrong food group.