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"The Geeklog Team would like to announce that Geeklog 2.0.0 is now available
for download. This is a major release and a recommended upgrade for Geeklog
1.8.2sr1."

Erm WHY is it recommended to upgrade? I just upgraded to GL 1.8.2sr1. I`m not running 1 GL, I`m running a few.

What are the plans of the release cycle of GL in the future? Contao has a long term version being supportet 18 months. Looks like they got feedback from their users who want stability and reliability.

Upgrading is recommended if you need to:



The hard point is updating your themes but Geeklog 2 has a lot of very good new features

Ben

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I'm available to customise your themes or plugins for your Geeklog CMS

I try to get a discussion started on the release cycle of GL. Once there was a rule 1 update and 2 bugfixes per year. If 2 versions back are being supported then it means a compulsory update every 2 years. 3 years would be better for me with many installations.

Yes I understand the programmers want to see their stuff running. This is the dilemma.

Updating multi sites do not must be an issue. This is how I do the job*:
I prepare the files with the necessary modifications for a single site, then I upload it all by ftp for a first site. I updated this site using the dedicated script and I check everything works perfectly. Then I repeat this process for each site.

* Updating Geeklog

1. DB and files backups
2. Download a fresh archive from geeklog.net
3. Extract files from the archive
4. Remove db-config.php
5. Remove backups folder
6. Remove data folder
7. Remove unwanted languages from language folder
8. If needed update your language files (core and plugins)
9. Remove the logs folder
10. Remove the lib-custom.php file from system folder

From public_html folder

11. Remove 404.php file if customised
12. Remove robots.txt file if customised
13. Remove siteconfig.php
14. Remove sitemap.xml
15. Remove backend folder
16. Remove unwanted docs files in the docs folder
17. Remove myconfig.js file from the fckeditor folder
18. Remove unwanted layout from layout folder

Edit your siteconfig.php file to disallow access to your site >> $_CONF['site_enabled'] = false;

19. Upload all the files to your web server with ftp
20. Update your site with the script on admin/install/index.php
21. Check everything is ok
22. Remove the public_html/admin/install/ folder from your web server

Edit your siteconfig.php file to allow access to your site >> $_CONF['site_enabled'] = true;

Ben

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I'm available to customise your themes or plugins for your Geeklog CMS

Our release cycle got a little out of wack since 2.0.0 contains a lot of new stuff and took longer to develop and test.

Moving forward we plan to develop for 2.X.X only. As far as I know there are not plans to continue with 1.8.X. The only reason I see for another release of 1.8.X is if a security issue is found.

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.