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AlanT

Hi Everyone,

we've been planning a migration to a newer and more capable forum site for some time now, and were just a few weeks away from kicking off this process. Unfortunately, a recent vulnerability has appeared in the wild, affecting vBulletin, the software we were using for the astaro.org communities site. Astaro.org was not compromised from this vulnerability, but as a precaution, we did take the site down, to protect our users. 

The site used a number of add-ons, and some custom plugins, which would need weeks of effort to convert and replace, if we were to upgrade the site and apply fixes for this vulnerability. As we were planning to migrate by that time anyway, we've made the decision to cut immediately to the new communities site, which has been running successfully for other Sophos products. To that end, we've spun up two forums quickly, where astaro.org users can again congregate. unfortunately, it will still take some time to complete the migration, so user accounts, and previously posted content has not yet been migrated. This process will take a matter of weeks to complete. In the interim, we will create a static view of the astaro.org, so content there will still be accessible. This should be completed later today.

This certainly wasn't the introduction we wanted for our new communities site, but we are excited about the new platform, and its capabilities. Please be patient as we step through this transition as quickly as we can. There will be some pain, but we will try our best to minimize it for you. 

Thanks everyone for your patience, and understanding!

Alan Toews

Technical Product Manager, Network Security, Sophos



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  • I...just...wow.
    Having had the misfortune of buying into the UTM world at arguably the worst possible time (right around the debacle that was the release of 9.3), I continue to be blown away by how poorly just about every aspect of this company is handled. While I very much appreciate (most of) the staff posts here, the fact is that their bosses and their bosses' bosses must be seriously clueless.
    Support was god-awful before (completely overwhelmed by the hot mess that was 9.3) - I can only imagine what it's been like the last couple of weeks. Luckily we've had relative success with 9.313 (finally a stable release) and have been far too frightened to even think about moving off of it on our dozens of deployments.
    My wallet is calling for continued optimism that Sophos will get their isht together and stop making boneheaded mistakes (and, knowing that mistakes happen to all of us, following them up with ridiculous marketing-driven doublespeak - i'll stop short of saying lies).
    HUGE thanks to Bob and other contributors at astaro.org who made our rollout possible, while Sophos made it painful.
    Here's hoping.
    Wes
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  • I...just...wow.
    Having had the misfortune of buying into the UTM world at arguably the worst possible time (right around the debacle that was the release of 9.3), I continue to be blown away by how poorly just about every aspect of this company is handled. While I very much appreciate (most of) the staff posts here, the fact is that their bosses and their bosses' bosses must be seriously clueless.
    Support was god-awful before (completely overwhelmed by the hot mess that was 9.3) - I can only imagine what it's been like the last couple of weeks. Luckily we've had relative success with 9.313 (finally a stable release) and have been far too frightened to even think about moving off of it on our dozens of deployments.
    My wallet is calling for continued optimism that Sophos will get their isht together and stop making boneheaded mistakes (and, knowing that mistakes happen to all of us, following them up with ridiculous marketing-driven doublespeak - i'll stop short of saying lies).
    HUGE thanks to Bob and other contributors at astaro.org who made our rollout possible, while Sophos made it painful.
    Here's hoping.
    Wes
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