[NTLK] [ANN] UNNA.org maintenance today

[Morgan Aldridge]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2026 at 09:48 Morgan Aldridge <morgant at makkintosshu.com>
wrote:

> 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!
>

Like the Newton FAQ, NewtonScript.org is hosted on GitHub and so didn't
require any updates.

Morgan
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