Forum Maintenance Announcements

[number6]

Work towards another round of upgrades is underway. After 4 hours (7:00pm PST November 9, 2021) if you notice new problems, please let me know.
Upgrade and testing completed.
Please let me know if you see new problems after November 9, 2021 at 6:30PM PST.

No other maintenance planned on forums in the near future unless new problems are found.

Thanks!

[number6]

Test comment.

[number6]

OS, DB, web server, kernel etc. upgraded on forums. Testing posting
Let us know if you see new problems with the forums since this upgrade.
Thanks!

[number6]

Minor upgrade to forum software completed earlier today. No problems found. Please let us know if you see issues.

[number6]

Minor maintenance. Please let us know if you see problems on forums.

[number6]

More forum maintenance completed. This was more significant than the last upgrade. Please let me know if you see issues.
Thanks!

[number6]

Some maintenance completed on the forums server. Please let us know if you see new issues. So far, no problems have been found.

[number6]

Minor forum upgrade. Please let us know if you see new issues since this upgrade. If you could post before and no longer can, please let us know by email: forum@defcon.org

[number6]

Minor change to cookies. Your old session/auth will no longer be valid forcing you to login again.
Let us know if you see issues.

[number6]

Upgraded a system service on the forums server. Basic testing has not shown any problems with this upgrade, but testing will take a few hours.
Please let us know if you see problems on the forums. If you are unable to post, you can send us an email about the problem you have encountered by using the email address which sent you your forum registration process or using the "Contact Forum Account Support" link at the bottom on the page.
Thanks!

[Dark Tangent]

Minor tweaks:

• brotli dynamic compression default changed from 6 to 7
• Remaining static files compressed with brotli level 11
• Finished switching off gzip compression now that we are using TLS and can exclusively use brotli
• Headers adjusted to disable Google FLoC user tracking
• Working on getting more consistent artwork in different sub forums

[number6]

Major OS and software upgrade completed on DEF CON forums. Please let us know if you see issues with the forums.

[number6]

Work was done to clean up issues related to improved security preventing new avatar and new attachments from being made available to browsers.
Please let us know if either of these re-surface or if the applied fixes break other things which were working.
Thanks!

[number6]

Minor update to software forms uses. I don't anticipate any problems. No new features. Please let us know if you see problems by replying here or sending us an email with the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of this page.

[Dark Tangent]

Looks like it caused a problem with picture uploads. It's been fixed and the hunt continues by number6 to find other issues.