I've posted a quick poll about the PHP version all of you use.  I would appreciate it if EVERYONE could take the time to click the answer to the question.

The poll is on the left side menu.

For those of you with an interest, WRM 3.2.1 is now available for your use.  The biggest change to this release is that all 3.2.0 patches (and a few other bugfixes) have been rolled into the release, as well as WoW Armory character and item tooltips are now available.

If you are just starting out with WRM this is your release, don't pick up anything prior.  If you already have a working 3.2.0 release that is fully patched you may choose to skip this release and wait for me 3.3 release that should be comming out in a few weeks to a month or so.  That said, I may decide that 3.3 should be something more long term like 3.5 and do a "kitchen sink" release, in which case it may be a while in coming and you should really download 3.2.1.  Up to you guys out there but personally I like this one. :)

--Derex

I'd like to quickly thank the community here for their support and their service in my abscence.

I've said it before, it's a sign of a healthy project and good people when the community can step in when the developer takes leave for a while and support the questions and issues that arrise.  I am VERY proud to say that this commuinty lived up to that in my 2 month+ abscense from the boards here.  Everyone needs a break sometimes and it's my opinion that projects go south quickly when a developer needs to take time off, and has to come back to screaming users who havn't had support during the time the developer was away.  Again, the community here has been excellent.

EVERYONE who answered questions, read forums, and assisted the community did a HELL of a job, and my deep thanks go out to all of you.  It's a very big weight off my shoulders to know that from time to time I can step away for a short while and not have to worry that my "customers" are going unsupported. 

So thanks to Neme, Nino, Nalumis and all of the rest of you who spent some of your pressious time here on the boards supporting other users.

--Illydth

All:

    I know i've been abscent from these boards for a bit, my apologies to all of you who are lookign for support I will try to get to your questions as soon as I can.

For me, it is that time of year when my family goes out of town and leaves me at home to hold down the fort (and my job).  This time is usually pretty hectic for me as it's my one time a year to get things done around the house with the computers without having to worry about who i'm taking offline, what i'm affecting or if i'm stopping my wife from contacting her clients or not.  To compound this, my job situation has gotten VERY harry (the company I work for just fired every contactor on the project EXCEPT me) lately and I havn't had alot of time for "external" projects in the last couple of weeks.

Unfortunately, during this week or two of the year this leaves me almost NO time for anything but work and network/system reconfiguration and this year has been no different.  Again, my apologies for any of you who i've left hanging or who've gotten the feeling i've abandoned the project, I very much have not.

On a second item of note, I wanted to let everyone know about a minor change that might affect some of you trying to contact me.  My e-mail system I use (wagnerweb dot org) has undergone quite an overhaul, seems to have been being used as an "open" SMTP transport by spammers even though I had multiple restrictions on mail forwarding.  I've since switched to a totally new system with alot tighter security.

How does this affect you?  One of the items i've installed is a Greylisting policy server, for those who don't know what this is and are interested you can search "Greylisting" in wikipedia for a good writeup on the policy.

For those who don't care about the technical mumbo jumbo the end result is that the first time my mail system sees an e-mail from ANYONE it will bounce it with a *temporary* failure.  So long as the mail system you use works as it should and follows standard procedure, there should be nothing more you need to do (i.e. if your mail system automatically re-transmits "temporary failure" messages)...you won't even see this bounce.  If, however, you are on a system and you KNOW that it does not follow the SMTP RFC properly then you may need to re-send your message yourself if you get a permanent failure posted back to you.

The VAST MAJORITY of e-mail systems around the world do follow the RFC perfectly fine and will have no problems, meaning you can mostly ignore this warning unless you know there are issues with the system you use.  If you do have issues, or you keep getting permanent failures when trying to e-mail me, please shoot me a PM and let me know and i'll try to work with you to get your mail through.

Thanks in advance for all of your patience in this and I should be back to full capacity within the next week or two here on the boards.  Till then everyone be kind and try to hold down the fort for me. :)

--Illydth

All:

    Wanted to put out a front page announcement that, thanks to the wonderful work of Neme on this board there is now a new bridge available for WoW Raid Manager: PHPBB3 is now supported!

Please head over to the Ports and Bridges forum and find Neme's post about the final version of PHPBB3 Bridge being released. 

Unpack the 3.2.0 (DON'T FORGET THE PATCHES IN THE SUPPORT FORUM) installation to your webserver (did I mention not to forget patches?) and then follow Neme's instructions for getting phpbb3 support loaded.  THIS MUST BE DONE BEFORE INSTALLATION.

Currently there is no "official" support for switching between authentication methods.  That said however if you know your PHPBB3 users and your WRM users all match up then you SHOULD be able to go into your config table and change a row in there to swap your authentication module.

--Illydth