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oss perse doenst have a non backwards compatibility statement. there are lots of projects that have a very good backwards compatibility record. however, since the major cost of upgrading is doing the labour (instead of buying yet another license) most OSS projects go with lightspeed and dump the balast of the past. drupal is such a project, with some bugfixes backported and every now and then a module. but never afraid to break with the past to create the future (unlike some other companies)

willy currenlty runs 4.5 and i might upgrade to 4.6 or if 4.7y ships early to that one. most work will be however making a new linux hosts they way i want it and maybe customise a new theme. 4.7 has a very powerful theme engine where blocks can be placed anywhere, not just left and right. there are some very cool modules out for 4.6 and higher. what 4.6 plus adds can be found here. basically 4.7 adds AJAX in the core (lookup ajax on willy or google to see how powerfull webapplications can get!) and folksonomy or free tagging flickr sytyle.

some excellent ajax examples can be found on this site (note: our employer is partner!)

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You know I support Feyenoord, don't you? Ajax is that the OSS variant of Atlas :DDDD????

you seem to be missing out the buzz of a month or 3 ago. Asynchrone
Javascript And XML. Google for yourself, or look on willy where I
posted a bit on this as well. BTW: AJAX has been around for a couple of
years and was "invented" by... MSFT. I didnt become succesful
of cource, with a new spiffy name (AJAX) and google and others making
new web applications, it IS the Web TWO dot O.

And yes, I know you would have preferred another name, just think of this Ajax as the successful one.

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willy will be back. planx needs willy as well (and Big Balls :-). The XMLRPC that shipped with willy had a vulnability a week or 3 ago. Not related to drupal but all php XMLRPC stuff was highly insecure. I disabled it on willy (and I would have lost willy a couple of times if I hadnt judging from my logs) and the new 4.7 (current: head, status: code freeze) has a new XMLRPC and a patched one is out for 4.5 and 4.6 (drupal was in fact the first CMS/CMF with the patch).

drupal.org btw was migrated to the states and is blazing fast.

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it is just me being back, willy is kinda back on the old hardware. will install a fresh box tomorrow, upgarde the distro's rpm's, harden the box, move the data, upgrade drupal (with a new drupal just a week or so ahead :-( ), make a new theme, install the new modules, curse, reinstall things and post an update about my holiday in corfu, upload a 500 pictures, delete 1000 mail on my domain (all spam I hope), check the 32 new gmail mails and I wont look at my corporate mail.

fast seeing/posting your site btw...

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