Extensive upgrade completed.
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:52 pm
The "bricks" from phpBB used to build The Hambone have been upgraded to 3.3.14, and php to 8.1.31 .
Why? To cover a vulnerability or two, and improve robustness and functionality of some older code.
Astonishingly, it all appears to work, but with a few minor wrinkles mostly ironed out now.
To do: The latest free version of gtranslate seems to have taken an instant dislike to the latest php, so the options were:
It seems that Google has not made it easy, so there may be a bit of a wait until we can go back to a more modern and better translator. Thank you HiFiKabin for all the fine work!
So, The Hambone still self-translates, but temporarily does it with old and tatty code. Just select your language from the dropdown list on the right side of the page header. Bienvenue!
Why? To cover a vulnerability or two, and improve robustness and functionality of some older code.
Astonishingly, it all appears to work, but with a few minor wrinkles mostly ironed out now.
To do: The latest free version of gtranslate seems to have taken an instant dislike to the latest php, so the options were:
- Pay Google for the latest version of gtranslate,
or,
Exhume an old fossil experimental version of Google Translator
It seems that Google has not made it easy, so there may be a bit of a wait until we can go back to a more modern and better translator. Thank you HiFiKabin for all the fine work!
So, The Hambone still self-translates, but temporarily does it with old and tatty code. Just select your language from the dropdown list on the right side of the page header. Bienvenue!