Sorry for the downtime, everyone!
Yesterday's PHP CVE was a very serious security vulnerability, and I wasn't about to take chances with BCTS.
The site should have been back online last evening, around 10 PM Eastern, but naturally, I ran into a few problems I wasn't expecting.
Because, of course I did.
And eventually... I went to bed.
So, after a wonderfully restful three hours of sleep, I got up, got the NinjaPotato off to school, and got right back to work.
And now, BCTS is back online! (Which you've probably figured out, considering you're reading this.)
If you run into any problems, broken features, or anything else that doesn't seem quite right, please let me know. I'll get to it as soon as I can.
And with that, I'm going to go take a birthday nap.
(Yes, today is my birthday. Apparently, the servers decided to celebrate by giving me extra work.)
Thanks for your patience, everyone.
— Kirstyn
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Thank you!
Thank you for everything that you do to keep the site up and running. Security issues are no joke and you worked hard to patch things up and get the site back online.
And happy birthday! Hope that the rest of the day is peaceful and you enjoy yourself!
Well done Piper
I had to upgrade my blog late last night as soon as the updated rpm's were release for Rocky Linux.
Take a rest and enjoy what is left of your birthday. I'll be upgrading three more sites tomorrow. These are readonly sites and hold zero personal data. They are fully backed up so it does not matter if the hackers get in. They won't get much. They live on their own subnet as well.
On a serious note, I would expect a lot more CVE's of this severity level to hit us in the coming months as AI is used more and more to find bugs. While I hate most things about AI (like that it is not Artificial and it is not Intelligent), it can make testing and subsequent bug finding a lot easier and quicker.
You win some, you lose some.
Samantha
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I practically live on this site.I don't know if it went away.Just be even more miserable, I guess.
Thanks, Kirstyn!
And, I hope that the REST of your birthday is happy!
— Emma
Thank you and Happy Birthday!
Thanks for all your hard work! The site for me is pretty snappy with pages loading fast.
Once again thank you
I felt bereft yesterday, which tells you something about how much this community ( thanks to your wonderful work) mans to me.
Seriously, many many thanks.
Lucy xx
"Lately it occurs to me..
what a long strange trip its been."
Happy Birthday to you, Happy
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you!!!! ;-)
Kirstyn, thank you for all your efforts on our behalf - we all really appreciate it!!
Hugs,
Miriam
Happy Birthday!!
And thanks for getting things back up and running so we can all wish you a happier conclusion to the day!! :)