informednetworker.com dmackey on 10 Sep 2007 01:25 am
InformedNetworker - Upgrade & Bug Fixing.
Pligg released 9.8 and I performed the upgrade. It was only a minor movement from 9.7 to 9.8. The upgrade is mainly a bug fix release, so don’t expect too many new features. But in the progress I ran into two errors.
First, the upgrade install was complaining about a non-existent table. Apparently the developers (probably accidently) had hard coded pliggx_links into the upgrade.php file. Unfortunately, we aren’t using the pliggx_ prefix.
Secondly, the About box disappeared. This was the more frustrating problem. This in turn caused the entire sidebar to disappear as well once the page was cached (Pligg uses caching to speed up page loads). The site had this error from around 7:30 p.m. to 9:20 p.m. EST and I apologize for the downtime. I was able to remove some code from a template file and everything seems to be working correctly now, but hopefully I will be talking to the Pligg developers about what caused the issue in the first place.
All said, it was a much more time consuming experience than I had initially hoped - but its done now. Please let me know if you see any issues.