Emergency server upgrade - please report any glitches
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You may have seen in the news today that two critical vulnerabilities were just unveiled in software that runs about 70% of Internet sites. This has led to quite a scramble, with portions of the Internet going dark while companies and developers rush to apply patches. The vulnerabilities are about as severe as they can be -- you can read more about them here.
And guess what I just spent the past 7 hours doing (from a hotel room in Switzerland, sigh...)
A lot of the underlying software stack for DCSki is a bit dated -- I've been planning on doing a server hardware upgrade after this ski season, which would be a natural time to bring the whole software stack up to date. But I just had to essentially do a heart transplant on DCSki while it was running. And software isn't simple; there can be a lot of dependencies, so when you try moving one piece of software forward you realize there are 20 other things you have to fix.
Yeah, my brain is fried at this point.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I believe DCSki has been patched so it is not affected by these vulnerabilities, but the new version of the software stack may cause some weird behaviors, bugs, glitches, etc. I've tried testing a lot of the site and think I have caught most of the bugs, but I could use help from all of you too. So if something looks odd or doesn't behave the way you think it should, please post your observations here and I'll investigate.

