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Hi,
I am using Serendipity v.0.6-pl1 and would like to upgrade to the latest release. How do I do this?
Help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
cdrom600

hi!

It's described in both the INSTALL/README file (provided with every installation) as well as in our WiKi at www.s9y.org.

However, here's the short version:

1. Get the archive from our homepage

(optional) 2. Make a backup (via FTP oder Shell) from your files. Always a good idea.

(optional) 3. Make an SQL backup of your database, via Shell/mysqldump or phpMyAdmin.

4. Unpack the files from the latest version straight into your blog directory. Overwrite all files.

5. Visit your blog. It will show you a message that s9y can be upgraded. Click on the two buttons which follow, and the version information in your installation will be changed.

6. You're happy, because the 0.6-pl2 upgrade doesn't change any database things.

7. It's suggested to open your configuration and save it again, so that s9y updated your .htaccess file and includes the register_globals Off switch for maximum security.

Hope that helps, and have fun!

Ok.
Thanks. I just didn't find the instructions in the wiki very clear.
By the way, there seems to be a bug with thumbnail images - when you insert one into the entry, it messes up the layout of the page a little bit and makes the text in the entry invisible.

The layout thing is more of a CSS problem. It shouldn't happen in our distributed, unmodified themes. Which one do you use, so I can have a look at it?

Regards,
Garvin.

I am using the default theme, SerendipityV2 (but it also happens with Mozilla Modern Tribute). This only happens when the image is right-aligned. See an example at http://blog.chrisdzombak.net. Also, the text around an image disappears until you (a) highlight it or (b) scroll down below the entries and scroll back up. Note that this is while using IE6; I'll post tests in other browsers.

Test Results:

Mozilla Firefox 0.8: OK
Netscape 7.1: OK
Opera 7.23: OK
IE 6: NOT OK

Confirmed for a long time, but we don't know how to fix it - ideas are welcome

tomsommer wrote:Confirmed for a long time, but we don't know how to fix it - ideas are welcome

I'm not sure. Thanks anyway.

I just talked with Tom about it, there's this URL: http://qsdqsd.free.fr/Articles/MSIE6_CS ... ndex2.html which talks about that bug and how to fix it.

I couldn't reproduce the error in my own blog and Tom tries to look into it when he finds the time.

However, if you are somewhat familar with CSS, maybe you could try out the fix? I saw you changed your template, so I couldn't test the fix with your "wrong" entry...

Regards,
Garvin.

OK. I changed the template to one that didn't get messed up; I can try to reproduce the problem later. I'm sort of experienced with CSS - my current Web site (http://www.chrisdzombak.net/) uses CSS for layout, font controls, etc. I'll try to find a fix sometime.

It's an IE6 bug, not your CSS. But you have to workaround the CSS by removing nested bkg's

I fought with it and solved it. Knock wood. I made a test post on my blog about it from the other night:
http://toastedlemons.com/blogs/index.ph ... in_v1.html

Incredibly frustrating.