Just two days after 6.1.0.1 was released, 6.1.0.2 is now available to download in the Members Area. We recommend you upgrade right away in order to fix a potentially dangerous bug that has sprung up.

Read the official release info for more news of the upgrade.

Cool. I'll get my copy.

i guess i will get mine aswell


please tell me there wont be a 6.1.0.3

[ 10-26-2001: Message edited by: lg ]

upgrade...

upgrade...

upgrade...

tell me about it, what a pain

Nah.

This time around it's easy.

Upgraded!

its not that, its jus that i installed some hacks already

Well that part is the pain. But you can use a program like Beyond Compare and keep your hacks.

With Beyond Compare it is an easy thing to upgrade as long as Matt keeps telling us what files were altered

beyond repair??? where can i get it? what else does it do?

Beyond Compare

Beyond Compare is the coolest utility ever and if it wasn't for it, I'd probably never upgrade lol.

[ 10-27-2001: Message edited by: DGMayor ]

so all it does is upgrade for you?

It compares the files for you.

Trust me, it's VERY useful.

installin it now

Hey, do you guys think when you make small updates that only seem to be a few lines. Maybe also put a readme in there telling them the exact lines to edit. Just thought it would make it more efficient.

Development board is updated. Wish all updates were this easy

Hello i'm new here
can i use it to upgrade from 6.05f to 6.1.0.2?
i've downloaded the software i just needs to know how to use it.
thanks alot

[ 10-27-2001: Message edited by: The Candyman ]

Didn't know there was a 6.05f version...

But yes, use the Upgrade zip to upgrade from 6.05.

sorry i ment 6.04f
but how exacly i do that...

Go to the Member's area and download the "upgrade zip" and replace your files with the one inside the zip.

Then follow the upgrade doc inside of the zip on what else you need to do.

Yeah it's one good program. Saves you heaps of time compared to upgrading and installing all the hacks again!

I just downloaded Beyond Compare to upgrade from 6.1 to 6.1.0.2...are there any easy instructions about how to do this anywhere??

Well now for once i finally listened and tried beyond compare
Thank you this is the best program ive ever encountered

i know how to upgrade but how i can use beyond compare to upgrade without losing my hacks?
i dont know how to use the program.

Just grab the shareware version of beyond compare Its easy to use.I just made 1 folder with all my hacked UBB files and another folder with all the files from the Upgrade.Then compared and made the changes to the upgrade files

it is easy until one of the upgrades affects one of the areas that a MOD changed then the problems start! (at least for those of us that are not PERL gurus like our guys)

Isn't it about time hacks were wrote as self installing software!
Make it easier for us non tech guys, and it would save everyone hours no doubt!

does ultimate.php in 6.1.0.2 work with the XHTML templates?

Hi,

can someone tell me how the programm is to handle...???

Thanks...

Whhhhaaaaaaaaaaa? Could you be more precise in your question, please? Sorry if you don't speak English very well.

Beyond Compare rules!!!!

Can Beyond Compare work for upgrading a 6.04e board to a 6.1.0.2 board? Or has the basic UBB code changed too much for that? I have many hacks installed and I want to have a minimum of fuss when upgrading. Thanks!

[ 10-29-2001: Message edited by: Scratch ]

The base code has changed too much as quite a few of the subs were moved around.

Not yet... I believe Charles posted a bug-fix in the thread. I'll update the xhtml templates sometime between now and late tonight.

alright thanx, i guess i missed the bug fix

I'm new here. I am now using v 5.7 with a whole load of hacks (ICQ, Whos Online, etc). Will I have to "back out" all those mods first before installing the latest version? (Can I even jump from 5.7 to 6.1.0.2?? ) Advice?

I'm assuming your speaking of 5.47, and if so, yes, you can upgrade to 6.1.0.2... you won't have to backout all your mods b/c the new version will write over all the old files... make sure to read the instructions on infopop's site before going from 5.47 to version 6...

You assume correctly. 5.47d to be exact. Thanks for the reply. I'll check out the info pop info.

Basil

Basil if you had ANY hacks at all that added fields to member's profiles run the script that cleans your Member files first. It's in the Infopop Member area. newstrip.cgi I think it was named.

i cant figure out this Beyond Compare thing. i have alot of hacks i just installed in the last 7 days. i know i dont have to upgrade, but i want to keep up with the newest version.

anybody wanna do this for me?

QUESTION: are ALL the files that are in the upgrade file NEEDED for the upgrade???

[ 11-01-2001: Message edited by: DJSharp ]

DJ, you might want to wait on upgrading as many hacks are still in the process of being updated for UBB v6.1.0.2

I'm screwed. I tried to trim my member files with newstrip.cgi and I get this error:

Can't continue after import errors at newstrip.cgi line 12 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at newstrip.cgi line 12.


Now what? I can't upgrade because of the hacks adding fields to my member files and now the program that fixes it won't run!! AARGH!!

Do I have to start clean and have my 2000 members reregister or is there a way to import messages and members from the old to the new version??

Here is the start of newstrip. What is in line 12 that is causing the problem all you CGI literates??

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# UBB Member Field Stripper, 2.0
# Copyright 2001 Infopop Corporation
#
# WARNING: This is an EXPERIMENTAL BETA SCRIPT.
# Use this script at your OWN RISK.
# We offer NO official support for this script!

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);
set_message(&ErrorHandler);
use vars qw(%in @memberslist $memberspath);

%in = map{$_ => param($_)} param();

my($vc, $us) = ("./vars_config.cgi", "./UltBB.setup");

if(!-e $vc && !-e $us) {
&StandardHTML("Error", "Sorry, I was unable to find either a
vars_config.cgi or a UltBB.setup file.
Please make sure that you have placed this file in the UBB's
CGI directory!");
} elsif(-e $vc && !-e $us) {
open(FILE, "<$vc") or die "$! opening $vc";
my @lines = ;
close(FILE);
foreach(@lines) { chomp; }
my @pathline = grep(/MembersPath/, @lines);
$pathline[0] =~ m/=>(.+)$/;
my $closer = $1;
$closer =~ s/^s+//g;
$closer =~ s/s+$//g;
$closer =~ s/,$//g;
$closer =~ s/['"`]//g;
$closer =~ s/^q+~//;
$closer =~ s/~$//;
if(!-e "$closer/memberslist.cgi") {
&StandardHTML("Error", "The MembersPath I detected, '$closer',
does not seem to exist. I could not find the memberslist
file.");
} else {
$memberspath = $closer;
}
open(FILE, "<./vars_misc.cgi") or die "$! opening vars_misc";
my @misc = ;
close(FILE);
foreach(@misc) { chomp; }
my @closedline = grep(/BBStatus/, @misc);
$closedline[0] =~ m/=>(.+)$/;
my $thiscloser = $1;
$thiscloser =~ s/^s+//g;
$thiscloser =~ s/s+$//g;
$thiscloser =~ s/,$//g;
$thiscloser =~ s/['"`]//g;
$thiscloser =~ s/^q+~//;
$thiscloser =~ s/~$//;
if($thiscloser !~ m/OFF/i) {
&StandardHTML("Error", "Your UBB must be OFF before this

[ 11-07-2001: Message edited by: Rinkrat ]

Make sure it's in your UBB directory, then change the

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);

line to read:

use UBBCGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);

I guess they tweaked the install file so it would allow me to install without running the member file trimmer. I'm up to date now and ready to reinstall all my mods!

Thanks for the help guys.

Does anyone know if Version 6.1.x will allow NO BACKGROUND's in the message cells (table headers, footers, columns, etc?
(I'd like the html page background, a graphic, to show through, but the Style Templates page in Version 6.05 .doesn't allow it.---it requires that an html color be specified...)
Thanks eversomuch....

My 6.1.02 is finally installed but it is so slow that it just hangs half the time. I pretty much uploaded nearly every file from a full copy after upgrading to same my members and conferences but it is so bogged down that the pages won't even load.

If I delete vars_config.cgi then refill in the data on the opening screen it will run fast for 5 minutes then bog down again. I even deleted nearly all of the vars files and filled them in one a time but it still hangs after a few minutes. I rebuilt all the stat and forum and member files but it still as like a snail.

Any ideas what the problem is?? THe rest of my site is fine so it's not the servers,

Does UBB 6.1.0.3 come in php and cgi versions? Im gonna buy a license soon and just wanna know if 6.1.0.3 is available in both forms.

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Originally posted by SomeGuy:
Does UBB 6.1.0.3 come in php and cgi versions? Im gonna buy a license soon and just wanna know if 6.1.0.3 is available in both forms.

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It's just 1 version. With the option to turn on the PHP accelerator.