Forum Upgrade to vB 3.5.4

[thomas]

Dear members,

I would like to inform you that I am going to upgrade the forum to its latest version, vB 3.5.4 (mainly a security update) shortly. The upgrade requires the forum to be closed. I expect a downtime of about 30mins.

Thanks for your understanding!

 

[thomas]

Upgrade completed. Post any errors or other issues related to the upgrade right here.

Thanks.

 

[Carlson]

none so far. good job.

 

[RockLee]

It seems after the upgrade it takes about a minute for my post to be submitted ☝ JRef overal is pretty slow compared to before the upgrade :?

 

[Glenn]

One thing that hasn't changed that I wish would have is that Japanese punctuation still doesn't display properly in subject lines. Commas still become two vertical lines, and periods one vertical line. Other than that I haven't noticed any problems to this point.

 

[thomas]

Carlson, Rock, Glenn, thanks for your feedback!

The speed of the forum is not related to the upgrade, but rather to our poor and busy server. We are already thinking of solutions.

As for the mojibake issue: we have found a solution on the Tokyo Cycle forum (in Japanese and English), but it required us to re-edit all Japanese posts. I am a bit reluctant to implement that modification here, but will further inquire.

 

[Glenn]

I see. Thanks for looking into it.

One other thing that I noticed: right after the upgrade when I would preview or edit a post it would leave the line breaks intact, but lately it's gone back to deleting them. I'm not sure why that would have happened after the upgrade, but there it is.