News

CMS Infrastructure Upgrade Dec. 10th 2016

Update: These infrastructure changes have now been completed. In the early hours of December 10th 2016, the infrastructure for UBC CMS will be upgraded. While the vast majority of sites will be unaffected, CMS will be in read-only mode until noon, so website updates won’t be possible during this time. However, if you run a […]

Resolved: Sept. 7th ’16 Log In Issues

This outage is now resolved. Currently, users are unable to sign in to UBC CMS (and other platforms using the CAS authentication system at UBC). It is being investigated and we will post more information as we know it.

CMS Updated to WordPress 4.6.1

This morning, the core WordPress team released version 4.6.1. As this is a security and maintenance release, the CMS team decided to push through this update as soon as possible. The staging and production environments have been updated. For further information, check out the WordPress 4.6.1 release post.

CMS Updated to 4.5.2

WordPress on the CMS platform has been upgraded to 4.5.2. Happy weekend!

CMS Updated to WordPress 4.5.1

The CMS WordPress platform has been upgraded to WordPress 4.5.1 For further details, please review the release post Also as a side note, even though we haven’t published posts when we updated, the CMS Platform has been tracking the most recent release of WordPress core. We will endeavour to publish a blog post whenever we […]

CMS Updated to WordPress 4.3.1

After a delay due to the shortcodes API changes, The CMS WordPress platform has now been updated to version 4.3.1. Please check your sites and, for further information, please see the release post. With this release we have introduced 3 new shortcodes which may be useful if you experience issues with missing or malformed links, […]

CMS updated to 4.2.2

Sorry about the delay in putting out a blog post about CMS being updated. WordPress on CMS has been updated to 4.2, then 4.2.1 and now 4.2.2 (all within about 6 hours of them being released to the public).

UBC CMS updated to WordPress 4.1.2

UBC CMS has been updated to WordPress 4.1.2. For further details please read the release notes. Additionally, UBC Blogs and UBC CTLT Events have been updated.

WordPress updated to 4.1.1

After testing on our verification servers, UBC CMS has been updated to version 4.1.1 of WordPress which fixes 21 bugs. You can read the full changelog on the release post. As the release post mentions they; …fixed one annoying issue where a tag and a category with the same name could get muddled and prevent […]

Scheduled Maintenance Jan 29, 2015 05:00 – 06:00 PT

Brief outage window required or patching of  servers.