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For the last couple of weeks I have been working on updating the REST API documentation.

Guys and girls.

As you know, it's my 50th Birthday soon and I've started a fundraiser for the Dog's Trust charity on Facebook.

I appreciate all of the good wishes you've sent so far, if you're inclined it would be great if you could support the amazing work that Dog's Trust do to look after dogs in the UK.

Dog's Trust fundraiser on Facebook

Introducing the Jomres Syndication Network

The biggest problem that new site developers today experience is the burdensome cost of advertising and SEO in general. Getting their sites and properties known to Google and other search engines requires a significant investment of time and energy, both of which can be better spent gaining more clients for their sites and improving their existing websites.

I asked myself how I could help new and existing site owners to make their properties more visible on the net? How could I leverage the existing functionality in Jomres in a way that would benefit everybody?

First things first, a couple of people may be aware of a reported CSRF bug in Jomres. I tested the PoC as described as soon as I became aware of the report and I'm delighted to say that the report is false.  Nevertheless I made the JED and VEL aware of the report and my findings.

Moving on.

14 Years and still at it

Jomres 9.11.0 has been released. This version includes tools that help you to ensure that your sites are GDPR compliant.

There are significant changes to how guest and manager details are stored, all details are now securely encrypted when "at rest" in the database. I have tested Jomres as thoroughly as I can however as always I advise you to first make a backup of your site before you run any updates, and ideally test the update on a staging/development server before applying the same changes to your live server.

Just a quick post to remind everybody that whilst we do offer the forum it doesn't get a lot of use.

The vast majority of our users actually use the issues page on Github for discussing feature requests and bug reports.

I'd like to update you on upcoming changes to Jomres to help you to ensure that your sites are GDPR compliant.

9.15.0 resolves security vulnerabilities found in the  Blueimp Query File Upload library that is used by Jomres.

I am aiming to make the next version of Jomres compatible with the GDPR. To that end I will be adding several new features that I would appreciate feedback from the community with.