The Conk

Drupal 5.1 was released today. It fixes a highly critical remotely exploitable security issue.

Does The Conk seem to be a little faster today?  It is probably just your imagination, but it might also be due to some PHP and MySQL tuning that I did tonight.

Read about it in this blog post.

Well, it was! See?!?

I've updated The Conk to the latest 5.0 version, 5.0 RC1. The most interesting new feature is the CSS Preprocessor. This merges all of the 15+ CSS files that a typical Drupal page load incurs into a single packed file. So not only is the overall transfer size reduced, but there is considerable less HTTP traffic and the result is significantly faster page load times.

I have updated the site to use the latest version of Drupal version 5.0, directly from the CVS HEAD.

The update process was fairly painless, except I didn't fully backup the database beforehand and the first attempt failed, leaving both Drupal 4.7.4 and 5.0 unusable.  Fortunately I had a nightly backup to restore from, and the second attempt went much better.  The only other issue was that my selected theme wasn't available in 5.0, so when I loaded up the new site, it looked completely messed up - no menus or other blocks.  Other than freaking me out for a few moments, that was easily fixed.

Most of the (few) modules I was using in 4.7 are either already on the Drupal Modules page or were already updated in CVS

So all in all, it is nice to be at 5.0.  The new administration menu system is much nicer than in 4.7, otherwise, I haven't noticed a huge difference so far.

This is the initial posting to the Conk