The PHP developers recently released versions 7.0.23 and 7.1.9 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded the PHP 7.0 and 7.1 series on our servers as a result.
These changes should not be noticeable, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble.
The authors of the Mailman mailing list software we provide for customers have recently released version 2.1.24 to fix several bugs.
We’ve upgraded the Mailman software on our servers as a result.
Users of Mailman lists shouldn’t notice any changes, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or see any problems.
We’ve added Let’s Encrypt SSL support to many Mailman mailing list pages, including all the pages that ask for passwords or login information.
The use of SSL should be transparent. If you have bookmarks to URLs on your own lists like http://lists.example.com/mailman/admin/listname, you’ll automatically be redirected to the SSL (https) version of that page when you load it.
(New lists may not use SSL immediately when created, but will be switched to SSL when our system is able to obtain an SSL certificate for them. Quicker automation of this is something we’re working to improve.)
Users of Mailman lists shouldn’t notice any changes beyond pages being marked as “secure” in web browsers, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or see any problems.
The PHP developers recently released versions 7.0.22 and 7.1.8 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded the PHP 7.0 and 7.1 series on our servers as a result.
In addition, ionCube Loader is now available for the PHP 7.1 series, so we’ve made that an option you can enable in our “My Account” control panel.
These changes should not be noticeable, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble.
This post describes a technical change that most customers can ignore; we’re posting it for advanced users who may be interested.
If you have hosting service with us, we publish a default SPF record in your DNS zone if you don’t provide one yourself.
The PHP developers recently released versions 5.6.31, 7.0.21, and 7.1.7 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded the PHP 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1 series on our servers as a result.
These changes should not be noticeable, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble.
One of the features of our e-mail system is that we add SpamAssassin headers to most incoming mail, as described on our SpamAssassin page.
Until now, we didn’t add SpamAssassin headers to messages that were “whitelisted” because they appear to be from someone you’ve sent a message to.
In recent years there’s been an increase in forged spam claiming to be from addresses you know, though, often because the other person’s address book has been stolen by a virus. Because of that, it can be useful to see SpamAssassin results even for these whitelisted messages, and we’ve changed our mail system to add SpamAssassin headers to them as well.
This doesn’t change the fact that we won’t reject these whitelisted messages, regardless of their SpamAssassin score. The only change is that we now add SpamAssassin headers, allowing customers who want to examine the SpamAssassin score to do so. Customers won’t notice any change unless they have their own systems to examine the SpamAssassin headers.
The PHP developers recently released versions 7.0.20 and 7.1.6 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded the PHP 7.0 and 7.1 series on our servers as a result.
These changes should not be noticeable, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble.
We’ve also added a custom “patch” to our copies of PHP 7.0 and 7.1 that provides a new feature: logging of slow outgoing connections from your scripts.
This can show the cause when a WordPress or Joomla site suddenly becomes slow or unresponsive for no obvious reason. The culprit is often an add-on plugin or component that contacts a third-party server to do its work, but “hangs” when the third-party server doesn’t respond.
Our page about logging slow external connections has more information.
The PHP developers recently released versions 7.0.19 and 7.1.5 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded the PHP 7.0 and 7.1 series on our servers as a result.
These changes should not be noticeable, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble.
The PHP developers recently released versions 7.0.18 and 7.1.4 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded the PHP 7.0 and 7.1 series on our servers as a result.
These changes should not be noticeable, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble.
