Any closer to release ?

Hangin' Around Joined: Jul 09, 2006 Posts: 49

I can only imagine you've been asked this time and time again Twisted Evil

Just curious as to an eta, just got tasked to build my third nuke site and would really love to give it a run with this version. Sites 1 and 2 run your .02 distro so I look forward to upgrading them when the time comes tho with this new site I wouldn't mind building it with a fresh .10 Smile

Excellent work you guys/gals commitment to the community is bar none the best!

Regular Joined: Sep 09, 2005 Posts: 88

ive been waiting for this release too.. any rough date? Very Happy

Worker Joined: Jan 22, 2007 Posts: 104

Our website was hacked last night. I have taken the site offline for the moment. It looks like the guys went through our donations node. The config tables were completely corrupted, from there they hacked the PHPBB forums. We have been up for 2.5 years and only hacked twice. I have never run a raven release, instead applying all the security fixes on my own and running Sentinel. However, this time around, I would like to try the raven release. As long as the table structures aren't off too badly, I should be able to write the SQL scripts to migrate the code. I'll have to verify my version, it's been about 6 months since I patched anything. I believe it was 7.5 (whatever the last release was before PHPNuke started charging).

I can take the donations node down and get the latest PHPBB fixes (if there are any... probably are). With that in mind, should I wait for the .10 release or go ahead and get the website back up again on the older version?

Thanks!

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:42 am

If you are going to migrate your existing tables and their data then you will need to fix them anyway. So I'd recommend you fix your existing site then migrate to RN2.10 when it's available. There are upgrade scripts in the release ... at least from several versions of Nuke to 7.6 and maybe from 2.02 to 2.10. If you've customized things then you'll need to customize those scripts but they'd be a good starting point rather than totally "rolling your own". So to speak of course.

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:42 pm

Problem is, I'm not 100% sure of how they got into the website. I'm guessing it was via the Donations node, because I found it out that it was corrupted. The only other table corrupted was the table containing the forum titles. Couple the unknown with the fact that the last time we were hacked, about 6 months ago, something got messed up with our forums section and I continued to receive a blank screen for the PHPBB administration (been doing everything manually in the DB, when necessary).

I'm only running a couple of custom nodes, one for the donations and a shoutbox. Other than that it's just straight up Nuke. So hopefully a clean install, then data migration will work...

Looked at the code tonight, and I'm running version 7.5. It doesn't seem that a move from 7.5 to 7.6 won't be too painful... I think I would prefer to start with a clean install, and simply migrate the data myself. I'll do a table by table comparison to make sure the tables/data line up. Is there a big difference between 7.5 and 7.6 in regards to the DB tables that would make this an inadvisable approach?

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:18 pm

In the 2.02 distribution on this site (downloads) in the phpNuke_7.6docs\upgrades\7.6 there is an upgrade script. You will need to look at your own settings and whether you've customized things but it could be a good starting point. Once you get to 7.6 you'll need to get to 2.02 of Ravennuke and then eventually you'll want to get to 2.10, but the changes are not that many or that complicated and the issues have been discussed extensively here.

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:26 am

helidoc wrote:

I can only imagine you've been asked this time and time again Twisted Evil

Just curious as to an eta, just got tasked to build my third nuke site and would really love to give it a run with this version. Sites 1 and 2 run your .02 distro so I look forward to upgrading them when the time comes tho with this new site I wouldn't mind building it with a fresh .10 Smile

Excellent work you guys/gals commitment to the community is bar none the best!

Yes, you are right, this has been asked time-and-time again and the answer will always be the same: "when Raven says it is ready"!

We have talked about a january release and we are really close, but it does no good to release this and you have issues with some portion of it. Nothing will EVER be perfect, but we are doing are best to find and fix what we can before release...

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:56 pm

Last 3 days before feb.. Very Happy

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:58 pm

You guys keep pushing and it may become Jan 2008! Wink

Believe me, we're CLOSE! Unless any other issues are found, we are wrapping up the upgrade scripts and documentation....

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:18 am

montego wrote:

You guys keep pushing and it may become Jan 2008! Wink

Believe me, we're CLOSE! Unless any other issues are found, we are wrapping up the upgrade scripts and documentation....

Thats cool! Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:43 pm

montego wrote:

You guys keep pushing and it may become Jan 2008! Wink

Believe me, we're CLOSE! Unless any other issues are found, we are wrapping up the upgrade scripts and documentation....

Regarding the upgrade scripts. Will I be able to upgrade from a 7.5 version of Nuke (non-Raven based)? In another post, it was suggested that I upgrade to 2.02.02 first, and then to 2.10. That was my plan, but for some reason the PHP MyAdmin from my provider is not allowing me to export my database, and I'm not going to do anything until I have a backup of the database to fall back on should anything go awry during the upgrade process. Since it's nearly the end of January, I could go ahead and wait for the 2.10 release now... It's kind of a race... will my provider get the PHP Admin export functionality working first... or will RavenNuke 2.10 be released first? Smile

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:51 am

ur provider will be the 1st one i guess.. Very Happy

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:00 am

Jan 29... last 2 days before feb.. Bang Head

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

valdarez wrote:

That was my plan, but for some reason the PHP MyAdmin from my provider is not allowing me to export my database, and I'm not going to do anything until I have a backup of the database to fall back on should anything go awry during the upgrade process.

To backup your database you do not need to export it. Create a new database and then use phpMyAdmin to copy the tables from your current database to your new database.

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:19 am

nooblet wrote:

Jan 29... last 2 days before feb.. Bang Head

Thank you for pointing out the painfully obvious. We all were wondering what the date was since none of us have slept for several weeks!.

I was just talking with the Team yesterday and I told them "Hey! You know what? Let's stop working on the release and postpone the release until we hear from nooblet and he tells us what the date is. Then we can continue working."

Well, now that we know the date we can start working again. Thanks!

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:37 am

Raven wrote:

nooblet wrote:

Jan 29... last 2 days before feb.. Bang Head

Thank you for pointing out the painfully obvious. We all were wondering what the date was since none of us have slept for several weeks!.

I was just talking with the Team yesterday and I told them "Hey! You know what? Let's stop working on the release and postpone the release until we hear from nooblet and he tells us what the date is. Then we can continue working."

Well, now that we know the date we can start working again. Thanks!

Good to hear that Raven... Wave

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:38 pm

nooblet just to save your over worked fingers, its now the 30th here which means its the day before tomorrow and the day after yesterday.

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:04 pm

thanks for reminding me guardian... Laughing

Jan 30.. Last 1 day before feb... Bang Head

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:28 am

Come on Man....I know you you got some code man...give'me some code man...come on man...you know I'm good for it man...just one piece...just enough to keep me going man...come on man...give'me some code....

Dawg

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:33 am

It isnt programmatically correct but...

Code:

if(!defined('_DAWG')) {


define('_DAWG','Dawg');


$Impatient=1 }





if $Impatient=>"1" shoot dawg;





function shoot_dawg() {


INSERT INTO dawg 'big_stick','2';


}

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:11 pm

Dawg, what's your point?

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:00 pm

nooblet wrote:

Jan 29... last 2 days before feb.. Bang Head

I was just reacting to Nooblet.....I thought it was funny...

...Tough crowd today... Cool

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:20 pm

The next person to tell me what day it is or when 2.10 will be released I am going to:

Smack

Do you want a high quality release or not?

"Patience is a virtue, seldom found in a woman, and never in a man."

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:44 pm

Raven wrote:

valdarez wrote:

That was my plan, but for some reason the PHP MyAdmin from my provider is not allowing me to export my database, and I'm not going to do anything until I have a backup of the database to fall back on should anything go awry during the upgrade process.

To backup your database you do not need to export it. Create a new database and then use phpMyAdmin to copy the tables from your current database to your new database.

I googled for 'copy database PHPAdmin' but all of the results appear to show that you create a new database, export the existing one, and then import the sql/data into the newly created database which leaves me right back where I started. I like the idea of just copying it over. Is there an actual copy feature that's available through PHPAdmin that I'm missing?

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:19 pm

Yes, it's in cPanel/phpMyAdmin. Here is a screen shot PMA Screen Shot