SMF 2.0.14 Released with PHP7 and SSL support

Simple Machines Forum has released a new patch to the 2.0.x line, bringing our latest release version to 2.0.14.

This patch adds both security and general maintenance fixes to your forum, so it is imperative that you install this patch quickly. You can view this release, per usual, on the downloads page.

The quick summary of changes is as follows:
Added PHP 7 support.
! Updating session handlers
! Adding HTTPS
! fetch_web_data now uses cURL, falling back to sockets
! Ported image proxy support from SMF 2.1
! Also added HTTPS for avatars
! Added a simple exception handler
! Check session while logging in
! Sanitize some fields to help guard against XSS
! Validate email addresses with PHP’s filter method
! Fix search highlighting to not mangle/expose some HTML
! Fix password acceptance when special characters were used in UTF-8;
! Correct some random logic errors in the profile area
! Use ampersands instead of semi-colons for PayPal’s return link
! Fix sending multiple MIME-Version headers in notification mail
! Fix sending multiple Content-Type headers in all requests

Details: https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=553855.0

 

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