Site Status Update: Drupal 4.7 Upgrade

Just wanted to provide folks with a quick status update on the site. As some may have noticed, the site was down for a short time here and there yesterday and had a couple of periods of unresponsiveness today. The reason is that I was upgrading Drupal -- the content management system that everything you see here runs on -- to version 4.7. It took about 1/2 a day yesterday and then about 1/2 the day today to get everything running correctly (including having to manually kill off the whole search index and recreate the tables, manually hack a couple extensions, re-do sections of the site theme, etc)

The upgrade is complete except for a couple minor visual issues that are still being completed. But, other than that, the site is now upgraded and stable. 4.7 will result in a few improvements for both registered users and guests, too, including better performance, even better performance for guests, improved site-wide search (including new advanced search features), etc. Another plus is that some new modules to add functionality will be added in over the next couple weeks... including built-in WYSIWYG text editing for developers on their project pages and some download-related stuff. I'll post more on both when I have some more time to work on the updates.

Just thought everybody might like to know.

Regards,
John