Update of Simple Machine Forum software

[admin]

SMF have released a minor update to the forum software. We are currently on 2.1.4 and the new update is 2.1.6.  The update is mainly bug fixes and I will try and do the update in the middle of next week after I have taken a full backup.
 
I expect the update will take less then an hour, but I will know a bit more detail as I will test it out on a backup system first. I will post an update around Tues next week.

Dave

[admin]

OK, I had a go at updating my test system. The update is in two parts:

1) update to version 2.1.5   (this is the main update)
2) update to version 2.1.6   (this fixes a few issues with the main update)

I tried the one click update process o go to 2.1.5 and it seemed to go OK, but completely messed up the format of the forum. It was not obvious what was wrong and the update on the UCET server is on hold for at least a week while I try and fix my test system to run the 2.1.6 version with a recent snapshot of the production server.

If I can get this working then I will schedule a time to do the upgrade - this is likely to take a day if I end up doing the install from scratch. I will post a schedule once I am sure what is needed.

Dave