[Mediawiki-l] Reminder: 1.4.10 data corruption fix

[Brion Vibber]

In case some of you out there haven't got around to it, don't forget
that 1.4.10 (1.3.16 for 1.3 branch) fixes a serious data corruption bug
which is triggered by the requests a particular spambot uses.

I strongly urge anybody out there running a 1.3 or 1.4 MediaWiki to
upgrade or at least apply the fix patch described in the release
announcement:

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2005-September/000030.html

If your wiki gets hit by this corruption bug, you can only recover the
damaged data from a backup or extracting the original data from MySQL
binlogs, and that's a big pain in the butt.


1.5 wikis are not vulnerable to this problem.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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