Discuss Joomla! 3.9.7

[sozzled]

May help:

[trogladyte]

Hey sozzled

Yep tried that earlier - no joy. However, since the release of 3.9.8 everything is behaving correctly again.

[sozzled]

Thanks, everyone, for the information (and saved me wasting my time, also). I had not attempted to update to J! 3.9.7 before reading this discussion. Cheers.

[hleithner]

@trogladyte if you don't have any french sites you don't need to update from 3.9.7 to 3.9.8.

[trogladyte]

LordRod, that is true, technically. However, I have update notifications set on every site so that means 100's of "There is an update to your site..." every day.

[hleithner]

Yeah sadly this is a pain.

[sozzled]

@trogladyte (and anyone else who manages hundreds of J! websites): it may pay to invest in a service like myjoomla.com.

DISCLAIMER: I have no association whatsoever with the service mentioned in this post.

[sozzled]

@nitria: see also viewtopic.php?f=707&t=972458

[hleithner]

It would also be really helpful to all Joomla users to help testing PRs and Release Candidates.

[trogladyte]

sozzled, have you used MyJoomla? I know you say you have no affiliation, but, before I jump into something else, I'd like some user feedback.

[DavidBoggitt]

I use MyJoomla, have no affiliation and can give you some user feedback.

[TomT]

When I goo to Joomla update and first click the 'Check for updates' button it shows the 3.9.8 update. On my sites this works okay.

[darb]

I ran two updates so far, both went wrong, something with ajax extract error. One at Percent complete 87.3%

Had the same problem with one site...

[Webdongle]

sozzled, have you used MyJoomla? I know you say you have no affiliation, but, before I jump into something else, I'd like some user feedback.

If you need a professional to fix a hacked site then https://myjoomla.com/ is good

[sozzled]

@trogladyte (and anyone else who manages hundreds of J! websites): another useful service is watchful.li.

DISCLAIMER: I have no association whatsoever with the service mentioned in this post.

As far as J! 3.9.7 is concerned, I bypassed this version and went straight to J! 3.9.8.

[hleithner]

@trogladyte there is also a self hosted extension that can manage joomla sites.

https://www.yoursites.net/

Don't know if its good but my personal policy so to avoid cloud services as much as possible. Especially if I have to gave them full access to customer sites.

[ltempest]

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[jgress-]

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