ibiblio services/changes announcement list

[Don Sizemore <dls AT metalab.unc.edu>]

  Hi ibiblio-announce,

 1) PHP-5.1.6 is installed in a testing capacity on our development web 
server.  If you'd like to test your code, please do browse to:

http://www-dev.ibiblio.org/yoursite

  or, if your site is virtually hosted:

http://www.yourdomain.org.test.ibiblio.org

  Many of our sites look fine under PHP5, but we know of several that do 
not.  This may not be the final PHP5 engine that will go into production, 
so please don't fret if your code breaks under it.  As always, drop a note 
to help AT ibiblio.org with any questions or suggestions.

 2) Wordpress 2.0.7 was released this week to address security and bug 
fixes, and contains a fix for the feedburner problem mentioned on 
webgroup.  If you run Wordpress on ibiblio, please do take a moment to 
perform this painless upgrade.

 3) We're beginning a series of infrastructure version updates, beginning 
with PHP5 mentioned above, and the MySQL servers we think will be next. 
We are building a new, more powerful login.ibiblio.org with current 
software, and are excited about the possibility of new hardware and the 
improved services we hope to offer.  This is all coming down the pipe, one 
service at a time.

 4) Finally, and this is the least pleasant...  We have had some security 
problems resulting from the remote exploitation of out-of-date content 
management installations.  If you have installed phpBB, phpMyAdmin, 
Wordpress, MediaWiki, or any other such content management system, 
*please* subscribe to that CMS' announcement list in order to stay aware 
of new releases and any security problems they may present.  We would 
prefer that phpMyAdmin in particular be protected by an .htaccess file, 
especially since a large number of users shouldn't be accessing any 
particular installation.  Drop a note to help AT ibiblio.org if you have any 
questions about upgrading or protecting your CMS installation.

  ibiblio is a group effort.  We are working to improve the services we 
offer to you, our contributors, and we ask that you in turn keep us in 
mind when you set up a new CMS, or more importantly when you decide to 
cease using that CMS.  We're working on a way for us to offer centrally- 
installed and managed installations of MediaWiki, Wordpress, Lyceum, 
Joomla, Drupal, and possibly others - but we're not there yet.

  We're excited about the things in store for us in 2007.  We're starting 
with the service upgrades mentioned above, and are working on a much 
broader proposal which would allow us to completely redesign our 
infrastructure if we can make it happen.  Wish us luck! and thank you
for continuing to host your sites with ibiblio.

  thank you,                                    919.962.5646 w
  donald sizemore, ii                           919.260.4915 c
  ibiblio.org n stoof                           919.962.8071 f