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

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.

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.

Jomres 9.10.0 has been released.

This version is a significant version bump because the installation process has been completely rewritten to modernise it and to integrate it more tightly with the host CMS.

We have tested this as thoroughly as we can, however because this is quite a large change we cannot stress how important it is that you remember to perform a site backup before you upgrade. It's something that we always say when we release a new version, but it needs to be repeated.

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.

I have been doing some maintenance on the license server. As a result, those of you with older license keys might be getting license incorrect messages in the admin area of your Jomres installations.

If you do see that, please log into your account on Jomres.net and use the key that you can find on your licenses page, it may have changed slightly and you'll need to use the new keys.

It's a new year and it's time for a new version of Jomres.

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

Jomres 9.9.16 has been released

This version has a handful of changes and is for the most part a maintenance release.