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Infobright's analytic database, built on MySQL, is ideally suited for software vendors and SaaS providers who want to provide flexible reporting, information-rich dashboards and embedded analytics while ensuring high performance, ease of management and low cost. MySQL/Infobright is easy to embed within your application.

By attending this technical webinar you will learn how to migrate from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL/Infobright, and the benefits that companies have seen from doing so.

Date and Time: Tuesday, 30 Mar 2010,

Bango is the leading mobile payments and analytics provider, with over 50 million mobile web users worldwide. Bango delivers mobile analytics as a hosted online solution, providing data collection, campaign tracking, page tracking and other services for web sites targeted at mobile phone users.

Attend this webinar to learn why Bango turned to MySQL with Infobright’s columnar database engine to achieve the performance they needed to support large data volumes.

Date and Time: Tuesday, 23 Mar 2010,

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.2. This is a maintenance release in the 5.3 series, which includes a large number of bug fixes. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.2: Improved LCG entropy. (Rasmus, Samy Kamkar) Fixed safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not end with a /). (Martin Jansen) Fixed a possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in the session extension identified by Grzegorz Stachowiak. (Ilia) Key Bug Fixes in PHP 5.3.2 include: Added support for SHA-256 and SHA-512 to php's crypt. Added protection for $_SESSION from interrupt corruption and improved "session.save_path" check. Fixed bug #51059 (crypt crashes when invalid salt are given). Fixed bug #50940 Custom content-length set incorrectly in Apache sapis. Fixed bug #50847 (strip_tags() removes all tags greater then 1023 bytes long). Fixed bug #50723 (Bug in garbage collector causes crash). Fixed bug #50661 (DOMDocument::loadXML does not allow UTF-16). Fixed bug #50632 (filter_input() does not return default value if the variable does not exist). Fixed bug #50540 (Crash while running ldap_next_reference test cases). Fixed bug #49851 (http wrapper breaks on 1024 char long headers). Over 60 other bug fixes. For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3. Further information and downloads: For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.2, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CORE-2010-001
• Project: Drupal core
• Version: 5.x, 6.x
• Date: 2010-March-03
• Security risk: Critical
• Exploitable from: Remote
• Vulnerability: Multiple vulnerabilities

Drupal 6.16 and 5.22, maintenance releases which fix issues reported through the bug tracking system, as well as security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Drupal 6.16 also fixes other smaller issues.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in the Drupal 5.0 release announcement. Drupal 5 will no longer be maintained when Drupal 7 is released. Upgrading to Drupal 6 is recommended.

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• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2010-024
• Project: eTracker (third-party module)
• Version: 6.x-1.1
• Date: 2010-March-03
• Security risk: Moderately Critical
• Exploitable from: Remote
• Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2010-023
• Project: Workflow (third-party module)
• Version: 6.x, 5.x
• Date: 2010-March-03
• Security risk: Less Critical
• Exploitable from: Remote
• Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2010-022
• Project: Internationalization (third-party module)
• Version: 6.x-1.x 5.x-2.x
• Date: 2010-March-03
• Security risk: Highly Critical
• Exploitable from: Remote
• Vulnerability: Arbitrary code execution

• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2010-021
• Project: AddThis Button (third-party module)
• Version: 6.x, 5.x
• Date: 2010-March-03
• Security risk: Less Critical
• Exploitable from: Remote
• Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Drupal 6 Attachment Views, by me, J. Ayen Green, is my second title from Packt Publishing. It is aimed at Drupal web site developers who want to build more functionality and interaction into their views, but aren’t ready quite yet to take on panels. As a reader of drupal.org, you can receive a 15% discount (see below) and benefit the Drupal Association!

I wrote this to be a fun, informative, hands-on learning guide. It uses actual case study that was developed in parallel with the book’s writing. This guide presents purposeful and interactive examples that build on each other. Clear, concise instructions and practical examples help you to learn quickly to use this exciting feature of views.

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Over 400 session submissions have been submitted for DrupalCon San Francisco, which will be held April 19-21, 2010. We need your help in deciding which of those sessions will be included in the conference program. Please come review the list of sessions and vote on the ones you'd like to see most.

Voting ends Monday, March 1st at 23:59 PST.

DrupalCon is a community-driven event. You've shared with us a vast array of exciting new ideas, proven recipes for success, case studies, best practices, new solutions to old problems, and other gems of knowledge. Now help us narrow down the selection. Your opinions are what shapes what happens at DrupalCon. Remember, every vote counts!

If you're a business, organization, or individual interested in helping to sponsor DrupalCon San Francisco, opportunities are still available. Contact us via the Web site, via e-mail at fundraising@drupal.com or phone at 415-894-9320 today!

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The Augusta Chronicle, the flagship newspaper of Morris Publishing Group, recently relaunched its website on the outstanding Drupal framework.

Morris first began using Drupal in 2005 with the launch of BlufftonToday.com, a blog-centric community website coupled with a free daily newspaper. In 2006 it adopted Drupal for both news and blogs at SavannahNow.com, the website of the Savannah Morning News. Both newspapers won Digital Edge awards for innovation in user participation.

Since then, the digital media arm of Morris Communications, Morris DigitalWorks, has developed a robust digital newspaper platform built on Drupal 6, to eventually power all 13 of its daily newspapers. Morris also uses Drupal for its radio stations and Skirt.com, a national specialty site for women.

Reader Participation

Morris has made a commitment to make their online platform a dynamic arena for reader participation and contributions. Readers are encouraged to comment on stories and blogs, and, on some papers, are encouraged to create their own blogs on the site. Journalists are expected to post news online immediately and to interact with the public, and they need to be able to do it without learning HTML or tools such as FTP. These requirements made Drupal a natural choice.

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The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.13. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 40 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.13: Fixed safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not end with a /). (Martin Jansen) Fixed a possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in session extension identified by Grzegorz Stachowiak. (Ilia) Improved LCG entropy. (Rasmus, Samy Kamkar) Further details about the PHP 5.2.13 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog.

Drupal 7 is moving along nicely, and is becoming increasingly stable. We just released a second alpha release, fixing a number of critical bugs, following our initial alpha release in January. Alpha releases are to give Drupalistas something to download and test, so they can report and help fix bugs.

When will we switch to betas? We will switch to betas when the upgrade path from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 is working. Once we hit beta, we will become increasingly strict about accepting any more changes and we'll also commit to making HEAD to HEAD upgrades work.

Finally, we'll start rolling release candidates once the number of critical bugs is zero (or close to zero). To help us focus on critical bugs, we're working on adding a 'major' severity level to our ticketing system, making the options 'critical', 'major', 'normal' and 'minor'. 'Major' bugs would be really bad, but not necessarily block a release. For example, bugs that don't prevent Drupal from working, or that only affect a fraction of the Drupal population would be prioritized for fixing in follow-up releases. Critical bugs are those that badly break Drupal, or that are a major regression compared to Drupal 6.

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• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2010-020
• Project: Facebook-style Statuses (Microblog) (third-party module)
• Version: 6.x-2.x
• Date: 2010-February-24
• Security risk: Not Critical
• Exploitable from: Remote
• Vulnerability: Access bypass

• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2010-019
• Project: Weekly Archive by Node Type (third-party module)
• Version: 6.x-2.x
• Date: 2010-February-24
• Security risk: Less Critical
• Exploitable from: Remote
• Vulnerability: Access Bypass

In early 2009, the Archdiocese of Saint Louis determined that it needed to upgrade its website, mostly for security concerns. After investigating a move from Joomla! 1.0.x to Joomla! 1.5.x, the Archdiocese determined it would be more cost effective and a more future-proof decision to migrate the over 49 individual Joomla! sites that comprised www.archstl.org into a single Drupal installation.

This upgrade/migration provides many benefits, not the least of which are a better end-user experience, a better administrative experience, and much improved page load and search indexing performance. In addition, Drupal's structure and content presentation provide much greater flexibility in design and information structure, as well as SEO (search engine optimization) than other popular CMS frameworks that were investigated.

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Our first Drupal 7 alpha version was released just over a month ago. Today, we're proud to announce the release of the second alpha version of Drupal 7.x for your further testing and feedback. The first alpha announcement provided a comprehensive list of improvements made since Drupal 6.x, so in this announcement we'll concentrate on how you can help ensure that Drupal 7 is released as soon as possible and is as rock solid as the previous Drupal releases that you've grown to love!

The most notable change for developers is moving $form['#field'] to $form_state. This makes field forms more resilient to form_alters and debugging became a lot less tedious. Comment body became a field and new fields can be added to comments through the field UI module. And congratulations to the docs team and associated helpers for their outstanding work in enhancing and correcting lots of API documentation this release.

We've also fixed a number of issues since the previous alpha, most importantly one that caused all files to be deleted after six hours. Oops. :P This is a great time to reiterate...

It is important to note that this alpha version should not be used for production sites. We've resolved most errors reported so far, but there are outstanding known issues (including security issues) and most likely some problems that have not been reported as of yet. It is expected that there will be at least one more alpha version followed by a few beta versions and at least one release candidate before Drupal 7.0 is finalized. You can help us reach the final release date sooner by testing this alpha and providing feedback.

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The Dutch PHP Conference is now in its 4th year and yet again promises a varied and inspiring few days of excellent technical content including Sebastian Bergmann, Kevlin Henney, Chris Shiflett, Ilia Alshanetsky and many other fascinating speakers and topics. The event is held in Amsterdam from 10th to 12th June 2010, for more information see the website at http://phpconference.nl - we hope you can join us in Amsterdam in June!

From the earliest days of the Internet, many firms have tried to build community sites for medical professionals. Large sums of money were expended on technologies, and expectations around these feature-rich sites became very high.

So when a longstanding client, Jobson Healthcare Information (JHI) in New York, wanted to build a community website for America’s 200,000 pharmacists, we at ISL Consulting took it on as a welcome challenge. Given JHI's strong position in the market – they publish the most popular professional magazine for US pharmacists – we knew there would be no shortage of domain expertise or marketing prowess. The question was whether Drupal would permit us to build an affordable yet world-class website with everything from e-commerce to personalized pages, an elaborate friend activity notification system and other community features medical professionals have come to expect from professional sites.

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