[NTLK] [ANN] UNNA.org maintenance today

[Morgan Aldridge]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 16:14 Marisa Giancarla via NewtonTalk <
newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:

>
> On 10/23/26 9:29 AM, Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk wrote:
> >> On Oct 23, 2026, at 7:19 AM, Morgan Aldridge <morgant at makkintosshu.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Just a heads up that the UNNA.org site will be unavailable today while I
> >> perform regular maintenance and security updates. There are major PHP
> >> vulnerability patches, not to mention certificate authority breaches
> and such.


Status update: the upgrades are going well and data is safe — with several
extra backups during the course of things! — but the VM was a few more PHP
versions behind than I remembered. This requires some further minor code
updates and testing.

So, until completed, I'm keeping the server inaccessible... just-in-case.

I've been taking this opportunity to further automate the configuration &
deployment of the VM so that it will be easy for me to keep it up-to-date
going forward. This will also ease the process of configuring mirrors too.

Last, but not least, I'm also reviewing the admin auth configuration. Grant
and Greg (Doc Clu), I'll be touching base with you both about that soon.
(My sincerest apologies for my silence on that front!)

Unfortunately, I'm on the road today without Internet access, so I may not
be able to wrap this up until tomorrow. Sorry for the extended downtime!

> Related to the security updates, the NewtonTalk, Newton Glossary, and
> Newted Community sites were automatically patched by their respective
> hosting services. The Newton FAQ is hosted on GitHub, so that wasn’t an
> issue either.
>
> > The newtoncity servers were also patched a couple days ago for the php
issue...

Excellent to hear that NTLK, the glossary, newtoncity, et al are patched as
well!

Morgan
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