WordPress 2.6.5 – All Should Upgrade

WordPress 2.6.5 is immediately available and fixes one security problem and three bugs. We recommend everyone upgrade to this release, in order to make your blog as secure as possible.

The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package.

2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The first prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a revision. The second prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types. The third adds some user ID sanitization during bulk delete requests.

Note that WordPress are skipping version 2.6.4 and jumping from 2.6.3 to 2.6.5 to avoid confusion with a fake 2.6.4 release that made the rounds. There is not and never will be a version 2.6.4.

Running WordPress? WP Super Cache is For You!

WordPress is the world’s most popular blogging software and the most used by our clients here at HostedFX. Naturally, when something comes along to make one of the best pieces of software ever made even better, we’d like to let you know aout it! WP Super Cache is a plugin that will speed up just how quickly your blog loads;

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

Download and Installation
1. Download the newest version of the WP Super Cache plugin from the WordPress.org plugin db and follow the instructions contained in the readme.txt file. If you have installed WP-Cache before this shouldn’t be any more difficult.
2. After installation, go to the WP Super Cache options page and set your desired cache time.

Installation shouldn’t be a problem, but should you have any issue just submit a support ticket in our client area and we’ll be only too happy to help.

Here’s to happy, speedy bogging!

Apache 2.2.9 Introduced to all Servers

This is a quick update to let everyone know that HostedFX has now officially upgraded all of our servers to be using the latest stable build of Apache – version 2.2.9. We have previously delayed the upgrade as we wanted to make certain that most, if not all, of the bugs would be corrected by the time we have upgraded. We believe now is a great time to roll out the latest version of Apache, whilst maintaining our stable hosting environment.

The full list of new features and benefits of Apache 2 can be seen here.

The upgrade is now complete, and out of our eight servers we have only had one report of there being an issue – which was quickly resolved. As always, if you have any issues they we be quickly addressed via our secure client area.

Thank you,
Gareth Hodson

[Updates] Fantastico Programs Updated Today

This is just a brief message to let you know that some of the default fantastico applications have been updated today. It is strongly recommended that you always keep your scripts up to date.

Here are the updates:

- 4Images Gallery: 1.7.4 -> 1.7.6
- Crafty Syntax Live Help: 2.14.4 -> 2.14.6
- Drupal: 5.3 -> 6.1
- Joomla: 1.0.14 -> 1.0.15
- Mambo Open Source: 4.6.2 -> 4.6.3
- Nucleus: 3.24 -> 3.32
- PHPauction: 2.1 -> 3.2
- phpAdsNew: 2.0.9-pr1 -> 2.0.11-pr1
- TikiWiki: 1.9.8.3 -> 1.9.10.1

Ruby on Rails Is Here

With the latest cPanel upgrade now complete and running smooth, we’ve decided to go ahead and add support for Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

What exactly is Ruby on Rails?
Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture. It strives for simplicity, allowing real-world applications to be developed in less code than other frameworks and with a minimum of configuration. One of Rails’ guiding principles is “Don’t Repeat Yourself”.

We have also installed the needed gems for the proper functioning of RUBY, these are listed below:

Successfully installed rails-1.2.3

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (1.3.3)

Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.

actionpack (1.13.3)

Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.

actionwebservice (1.2.3)

Web service support for Action Pack.

activerecord (1.15.3)

Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

activesupport (1.4.2)

Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

fcgi (0.8.7)

FastCGI library for Ruby.

mysql (2.7)

MySQL/Ruby provides the same functions for Ruby programs that the MySQL C API provides for C programs.

rails (1.2.3)

Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer, and ORM.

rake (0.7.3)

Ruby based make-like utility.

sources (0.0.1)

This package provides download sources for remote gem installation

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As always, HostedFX pushes forward and constantly improves its services for the benefit of our clients, I hope you enjoy this latest addition.