[ZendTo] 4.99-9 beta released

Fri Jan 26 08:58:51 GMT 2018

Hi all,

I confirm that just moving folders from /var/zendto/dropoffs and /var/zendto/zendto.sqlite was enough and is working okay.

I just noticed a small problem when upgrading : The version number (but maybe other settings ?) is stored in the preferences.php file. So If you upgrade and keep pour preferences.php config file, the version number displayed is totally wrong.

Maybe it would be a good thing of the user settings and the system/version settings were stored in different files (so that you can move your settings from one version to another with no need to check the whole preferences.php file ..)

Regards,

Denis

Réponse ou transfert de la part de Denis CARRE
-----Message d'origine-----
De : zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] De la part de Jules
Envoyé : mardi 23 janvier 2018 13:03
À : Bocquet Stéphane <Stephane.Bocquet at mediapost.fr>
Objet : Re: [ZendTo] 4.99-9 beta released

You're pretty much there, but there are 2 extra things you have to do as you are upgrading from 4.11.
If you look on the
     http://zend.to/downloads.php
under the list of the packages you can download, there are a series of notes for upgrades from specific versions.

You will see one of them is for MySQL users upgrading from 4.11 or earlier. Read that and do what it says, as there is a database schema change you need to apply (if you are using MySQL). If you aren't using MySQL then the extra table will be added automatically the first time ZendTo shows its home/menu page.

If you are changing database format, perhaps from SQLite (version 2) to SQLite3, then you will need to check SQLite's documentation to see how to do the upgrade. If you were using SQLite3 before, you can just copy the /var/zendto/zendto.sqlite file over to the new server, when you copy all the rest of /var/zendto over.

So the answer to your question depends very much on what database you were using on the old server.

And as you are also therefore coming from 4.19 or earlier, you need to install/enable the extra PHP module as noted on the downloads page too.

Cheers,
Jules.

On 23/01/2018 09:03, Bocquet Stéphane wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I think it depends on the database used.
>
> If you use SQLite, then you have to dump the database and import the dump on the new database created in the new one.
> If you use MySQL, you just need to configure your new preferences.php 
> with your MySQL database. Personnaly, I found this solution more 
> flexible when time to upgrade is coming ;)
>
> The drop-offs are in /var/zendto/drop-offs, and you need to copy all the directories.
>
> I think that it should work, but Jules can surely give more infos on that quick 'how-to'.
>
> Stéphane
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] De la part 
> de Christian Hopfensitz Envoyé : mardi 23 janvier 2018 09:31 À : 
> zendto at zend.to Objet : Re: [ZendTo] 4.99-9 beta released
>
> Hi all,
> also thanks for the new version.
> Regarding the question of Denis - could you also provide a howto for migrating users and passwords from an old installation to a new machine running the new version?
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
> Am 23.01.2018 um 08:36 schrieb carré, denis:
>> Hi all, thanks Jules for the work and the new release.
>>
>> About the new release I have a question ...
>>
>> I currently use (in production) an old 4.11 version.
>>
>> I'd like to upgrade to 5 version on a clean, fresh new server. Question is : how is it possible (if it is possible ..) to keep the old version (only to allow access the previously dropped files), and start new drops (and access to the them, of course ...) on the new server ? Or (probably easier) is it possible to export/import current (not expired) drops into the news server ?
>>
>> At this time, all my public webservers (including Zendto) are behind a NGINX reverse proxy, so I could eventually write specific url-based rules if needed ...
>>
>>
>> Réponse ou transfert de la part de Denis CARRE -----Message
>> d'origine----- De : Jules [mailto:Jules at Zend.To] Envoyé : lundi 22 
>> janvier 2018 11:09 À : carré, denis <d.carre at maine-et-loire.fr>; 
>> ZendTo Users <zendto at Zend.To> Objet : Re: [ZendTo] 4.99-9 beta 
>> released
>>
>> Good news!
>>
>> I tried putting the traditional javascript alert box code into every single text box I could find, and they all rendered correctly, with no alert boxes.
>> I found 2 cases of "over-quoting" in the send-request --> external drop-off to internal-user process, where eventually an accented character in just the wrong field produced something like &eacute; and sorted those out.
>> I haven't been able to find any more problems like that.
>>
>> We'll see what Stéphane has to say, but if he agrees then I reckon we're ready for version 5 !!!
>>
>> I must take some nice screenshots for the website too.....
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jules.
>>
>> On 22/01/2018 08:40, carré, denis wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Everything seems perfect !
>>>
>>> I didn't see any remaining problem with accents .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Réponse ou transfert de la part de Denis CARRE -----Message
>>> d'origine----- De : zendto-bounces at zend.to 
>>> [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] De la part de Bocquet Stéphane 
>>> Envoyé
>>> : vendredi 19 janvier 2018 11:04 À : ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to> 
>>> Objet : Re: [ZendTo] 4.99-9 beta released
>>>
>>> Hi dudes  !
>>>
>>> For me, everything seems to be OK with this new release. Nothing broken at the moment.
>>> I just need to tweak my French translation with the need of my company at the moment.
>>>
>>> I will continue to test this version...
>>>
>>> Good job Jules !
>>>
>>> -----Message d'origine-----
>>> De : zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] De la 
>>> part de Jules Envoyé : jeudi 18 janvier 2018 18:39 À : ZendTo Users Objet :
>>> [ZendTo] 4.99-9 beta released
>>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I have fixed everything that I have found, and that has been reported to me.
>>> You also now have very nice icons for different types of files when viewing the contents of a drop-off.
>>>
>>> *Please* can you do a few last tests with international (accented) characters, in names, organisations, recipients names, filenames, file descriptions, notes and so on.
>>> I want to be sure that in fixing the bugs reported earlier, I have not badly broken anything else.
>>>
>>> *If* everything now looks okay, we'll head for a full 'production'
>>> release very shortly...
>>>
>>> Thanks all!
>>>
>>> Jules
>>>
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