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Just a quick word on the outage on Friday night.

Since the very beginning, CMSMS has been using Zoneedit as their DNS hosting provider. This was in the days before every domain registrar offering their own DNS hosting, so Zoneedit was the perfect solution for some quick, free DNS hosting. Since budget was such an issue in those days, we gladly accepted it.

Early Friday night, we started getting random reports of CMSMS sites not being able to resolve. Of course, since all of our DNS hosting was on Zoneedit, it was the only place to look for answers. It looked like ns19 (our first server) was totally out, and ns8 (the secondary) was intermittently answering.

We let it go for a few hours, but things weren’t getting resolved and more and more people started to question what was going on. So late Friday evening, I decided to move the DNS totally over to Godaddy, since that’s where the domain is registered anyway. I’ve been using the service for a few years and never had any issues, so I figured that it can’t hurt.

However, at some point in the near future, I will come up with a tertiary DNS server, so that if Godaddy does experience some kind of outage, we’ll at least have one more server to handle any new requests.

DNS name server changes can take anywhere between 1 and 72 hours to show up, depending on network conditions and your ISP’s caching. Most users should be fixed shortly, and if not, patience please… the DNS changes should be coming down your line soon.

Hopefully we won’t have any more issues like this in the future.

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This is primarily a bug fix release… with a number of ‘relatively important’ fixes. It is recommended you upgrade your site(s) at your earliest convenience.

Version 1.6.5 – Poya
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- Fixes a problem with bulk deletion of pages that have inactive children.
- Fixes many problems with ability to get content objects
- Fixes the CreateFormStart method to reliably get the page url.
- Fixes problem with pretty urls (internal or mod_rewrite) and GET parameters on the URL.
- Printing
– Fixes problem with stylesheet not being found if pretty urls were being used
– Fixes problem with parsing the URL to print.
- News
– Fixes trivial issue with editing an article that had expiry dates set.
- MenuManager
– Fixes problem with having a default database template
– Fixes problem with being able to delete the default database template.
- TinyMCE
– Fixed bug disabling the wysiwyg togglebox upon saving the basic toolbar profile
– Fixed bug with truncated menutexts with quotes in them not getting properly escaped, breaking config
– Updated to latest TinyMCE 3.2.6

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