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WHMCS 5.2.4
ModulesGarden
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WHMCS have just released version 5.2.4 : http://blog.whmcs.com/?t=72070
Any observations? I am curious what do you think about recent wave of updates.
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A try to make it more secure and less buggy or vice versa
Still running the 5.0.x version. 5.1.x was a complete joke (as in it screwed lots of stuff over) and since then haven't really tried 5.2.x (apart from the demo found on WHMCS).
Will possibly upgrade to 5.2.x later though.
So many fixes, I'll spin this up on my dev license and see how it is first :-)
Not a security patch but its ridiculous with the amount of bugs that have been patched wonder how many more are hiding around on .3 and now .4
They bumped the version number.
Updated; everything seems OK.
Lots of bug fixes are expected since they did a lot of internal changes on how things interact with each other. 5.2.3 is stable, and some fixes in 5.2.4 are welcome as well.
seems like they actually might have the bug fix deal figured out this time. Lots of releases latley to fix bugs, and patches. Cpanel finally got that part dialed in maybe?
Again?!
Offtopic from a complete non-provider, but is it very difficult to roll your own? Just user signup, payment, and integrate with SolusVM. And also admin and ticket. Sure, there's a large quantity of code, but none of it is particularly complicated...is it?
It's probably not, but buying software that works for our business, and is extendable either with modules or modification when it doesn't work for our business, allows us to spend time on other things. I'd definitely spend more than $17.95/month writing our own software.
^ this.
It would take a lot of time (which is $) to build a robust payment system that works with so many different payment processors. While a proof of concept system might be easy to spec out quickly, when you look at the plugin ecosystem and stuff that WHMCS has, you realize that it's just easier to work with it instead of reinventing the wheel.
Not to mention it's really the part of your business you don't want messing up, and writing a really robust payment system that can tie into PayPal/2CO/Google Payments/etc/etc isn't something that should be taken on lightly.
In order to really redo it, you'll have to write some of these too: http://www.whmcs.com/appstore/9/others
(edit) Nevermind, post was bad karma.
5.2.3 needs no patch so they originally patched all the bugs for the old systems. Now, they are also offering individual patch for each WHMCS version.
Can't fault them.