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Bad Behavior 2.1.4

July 13th, 2010 by Michael Hampton

Bad Behavior version 2.1.4 has been released. It is a development release intended for testing and verification of new functionality and should not normally be used on production sites.

Please note: The 2.0 series of Bad Behavior is receiving limited updates, including unblocks, bug fixes and security fixes only. Future development is taking place in the 2.1 development tree.

Who should upgrade?

All users should upgrade to prevent a fatal error which may cause sites to fail to load correctly.

Users of Bad Behavior who expect a significant amount of traffic from Facebook, or who use Facebook integration tools, should upgrade to ensure that these tools work correctly.

What’s new?

New in this release (since 2.1.3):

• A logic error in the CloudFlare code introduced in 2.1.3 caused installation or upgrading to fail under some circumstances, and caused a fatal error on systems which are using CloudFlare. This code has been rewritten.
• A web crawler used by Facebook was inadvertently blocked because it engages in some unusual behavior. This could cause links to protected pages to appear on Facebook without their title, photo or description. This issue with Facebook’s crawler has been worked around.

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Support

You’ve probably noticed that until recently there hadn’t been a release of Bad Behavior in several months. This is due entirely to the fact that I can only spend time on it when incoming donations cover the cost of my time. Otherwise I have to engage in paying work to keep food on my table.

I happen to like giving spammers a hard time, and it’s frustrating that I don’t get to spend enough time on it. You can help me make Bad Behavior even better by setting up a recurring contribution, or making your most generous one-time contribution for any amount.

Thank you again for supporting Bad Behavior development!