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More Vulnerabilities Fixed: Security Updates: All Movable Type v4.x and v5.x versions!

By Mihai Bocsaru on June 28, 2011 9:15 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

As Jun Kaneko from Six Apart KK pointed out recently, his crew is working on auditing the core of this excellent publishing platform and would continue to come up with improvements and security fixes.

On June the 22nd Six Apart KK announced movable type v5.12, v5.06 and v4.37 as mandatory security updates mentioning that these updates resolve multiple vulnerabilities discovered in Movable Type 5.x and Movable Type 4.x and that all users must upgrade to this latest release immediately.

The impact of the vulnerabilities is described as:

Under certain circumstances, a user who has "Create Entries" or "Manage Blog" pemissions may be able to read known files on the local file system.

Go ahead and upgrade your installation right away or hire me to upgrade it on your behalf.

Movable Type Installation Upgraded to v4.37

Movable Type Installation Upgraded to v5.12

Find these releases available under the "v4x" and "v5x" pages from the top navigation.

Happy testing!

Security Updates: All Movable Type v4.x and v5.x versions!

By Mihai Bocsaru on June 9, 2011 12:43 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Today Six Apart KK announced movable type v4.361, movable type v5.11 and movable type v5.051 as mandatory security updates.

These updates resolve critical vulnerabilities discovered in Movable Type 4.x and Movable Type 5.x.

The impact of the vulnerabilities is that a remote attacker could create, read or modify the contents in the system under certain circumstances.

All users must upgrade to this latest release immediately.

N.B.

If you need help on upgrading your installation(s), I'm available.

Movable Type Installation Upgraded to v4.361

Movable Type Installation Upgraded to v5.11

Breaking News: Movable Type v5.1 is Live!

By Mihai Bocsaru on May 26, 2011 2:22 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

It's such a pleasure for me to announce that today Six Apart KK released movable type v5.1.

This release is full of new features and things that you wouldn't have thought before!

I would say that it is one of the strongest releases so far, if not the strongest one.

Start from the slideshow available at:

http://www.slideshare.net/sakk/introducing-movable-type-51

Or read the new features and watch the slideshow from:

http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/beta/movable-type-51-beta.html

The release notes are available at:

http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/release-notes/movable-type-51-release-notes.html

Do you want to upgrade your project to movable type v5.1? If you do and you need another pair of hands, I'm available for consultancy on upgrading your installation.

Movable Type v5.1 is available for immediate online evaluation from:

http://www.movabletypedemo.org/v5x.html

Happy Blogging,

Mihai Bocsaru

Mandatory Security Updates: Movable Type v4.36 and v5.05

By Mihai Bocsaru on May 26, 2011 2:04 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Dear Friends,

Today movable type released movable type v4.36 and v5.05 as mandatory security updates.

If you are running movable type v4.35 upgrade it to v4.36, and if you are using movable type v5.0x upgrade it to v5.05.

In case you need somebody to upgrade your movable type installation, I'm available.

I've also upgraded movable type v4.x to v4.36. This release is available from:

http://www.movabletypedemo.org/v4x.html

Kind Regards,

Mihai Bocsaru

v5.1 RC4

By Mihai Bocsaru on May 20, 2011 2:25 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Within less than 48 hours from releasing v5.1 RC3, the wonderful SAKK team launches v5.1 RC4 which addresses a bug reported by a movable type v5.x user in the forum one week ago.

Nick and I tried to help the movable type user that signaled the issue and after debating a bit what the issue was, JunKaneko joined the conversation, reproduced the issue, opened a bug ticket and passed it to the QA team.

The conclusion was:

The root of the cause was a regex bug in Perl 5.8.x which was fixed in 5.10.0

http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod#Regular_expressions_optimisations

To support 5.8.x with MT5.1, we changed the category filter of "Manage Entries" to an input filed instead of a pull-down menu. We would like to improve the usability in MT 5.1.1 (case 106204 ).

I'm pleased to announce that I've made this bug fix release available for evaluation at:

http://www.movabletypedemo.org/v5x.html

v5.1 RC3

By Mihai Bocsaru on May 18, 2011 7:10 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Jun Kaneko just announced movable type v5.1 RC3.

This is supposed to be the last RC version before the final v5.1 release would be launched.

It's again a pleasure for me to invite you to evaluate v5.1 RC3 on this initiative for absolutely no cost.

Start from http://www.movabletypedemo.org/v5x.html

Enjoy!

v5.1 RC2 is here

By Mihai Bocsaru on April 28, 2011 1:56 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Today Jun announced v5.2 RC2 and shortly after I've made it available for evaluation.

According to Jun's note this release includes several minor bug fixes and an improved French localization thanks to François.

Go ahead and evaluate this version from:

http://www.movabletypedemo.org/v5x.html

v5.1 RC1 ready for evaluation

By Mihai Bocsaru on April 22, 2011 1:51 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Everytime there is a new version of movable type released, I feel a great joy.

This joy is even higher when it is about movable type v5.1.

Why?

Because starting from movable type v5.1, the product would allow us to be as flexible as we've used to be until v5.x change the product architecture.

While v5.1 would continue the v5.x architecture, it would allow developers and clients the option to maintain the architecture from v4.x.

What is all this about?

It is about having a parent website in order to have a blog. This is the new architecture in v5.x and it is something that many people that are already having a blog don't like.

On the other hand, I like the v5.x architecture because it could allow people to have both a website and a blog in one go, by simply installing movable type v5.x.

Would you like to take a look at this release?

Go ahead and start your evaluation from here:

http://www.movabletypedemo.org/v5x.html