CWL will be undergoing maintenance on the following dates:

· Saturday 24 Jan ’09, 8:00am-8:30am

· Sunday 01 Feb ’09, 6:00am-10:00am

During this time CWL users will be able to access CWL integrated applications with their CWL accounts, however users will not be able to create new CWL accounts or edit existing CWL accounts.

For the last three days UBC Blogs along with other UBC services relying on CWL have been experiencing login issues. IT services is attempting to resolve these issues.

On Monday December 22, 2008 UBC Blogs will be down for a maximum of 2 hours starting at 6:30AM.

2.6.5 contains three small fixes. See the WordPress.org announcement post for full details.

WP Super Cache was also updated.

UBC Blogs now has Akismet Antispam software enabled.

Users will notice a new link in the Comments section of the blog called “Akismet Spam”. Messages that are deemed to be potential spam threats are sent to the “Akismet Spam” area for moderation.

Themes will now have a “Spam prevention powered by Akismet” placed in the footer, this is required to meet the Akismet licensing terms.

Thanks to D’Arcy Norman at U Calgary Blogs for writing the Akismet Credit plugin and to Automattic for writing the amazing Akismet software.

UBC Blogs has been updated to the latest version of WordPress MU.

Changes in 2.6.3:

- minor security fix no new features.

UBC Blogs has been updated to the latest version of WordPress MU.

Changes in 2.6.2:

- minor bug fixes no new features.

We implemented MySQL query caching some might notice a slight improvement in speed.

For those wanting to include math symbols in their posts WP LaTeX is now enabled.

For more info see the WP LaTeX FAQ.

Thanks goes to Alex T. our new part time student helper for tweaking the plugin.

$latex e^{\i \pi} + 1 = 0&s=3$