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PunBB 1.3 hotfix system
Hotfix is a lightweight extension consisting of single manifest.xml
file. It's aimed to fix some bug or group of similar bugs. Hotfixes are cooked by PunBB development team. When Administrator visits the forum, it periodically requests the information about new hotfixes from http://punbb.informer.com/
server. If new hotfix is present, forum shows an alert (to the Administrator only). After that Administrator may visit hotfixes page1) and install new hotfix with one click. manifest.xml
is being downloaded and installed as usual extension.
Technical details
- The request for all the hotfixes for PunBB 1.3 (just this forum version):
http://punbb.informer.com/update/?version=1.3
- The request for all the hotfixes for PunBB 1.3, except hotfix_13_moderate_xss:
http://punbb.informer.com/update/?version=1.3&hotfixes=hotfix_13_moderate_xss
1)
/admin/extensions.php?section=hotfixes