It will be broken when some hacker exploits the security vulnerabilites of this forum …
I can remember quite a few of us asking for this in another thread
many month ago.
The security threat for the older version ( the one we are now using ) hasn’t gone away
but any interest in updating hasn’t yet been mentioned by Alwil. 
Well… sometimes I feel that Alwil is not even interested in the whole board…
There are several topics that we ask that keep without answer, vacations, detection rates, etc. all things, from time to time, get lazy lazy…
Sorry to be bashing Alwil team… but, for their business, seems that forum is NOT even more a priority. There was a time that even Eduard used to post here, avast was doing marketing, was increasing the marketing share, etc… When we become something like 2 million people arround the world, well, the forum went to a second, third or fourth place of interest…
Where is Pavel? What will be of the Off Topic forum? When the forum software will be updated?
Questions, questions… no answers at all…
It’s disapointing from time to time
I hope that they(alwil) are working so hard on avast! 5 that they simply don’t have much time to look at the forums.
If that is the case i can’t wait to see what they’ve come up with …
Heh, I’m the resposible for this forum’s installation and I can assure you it’s not one-click. That’s why it’s pre-empted by much more serious work. It’s in the todo list. And as someone mentioned - this is not phpBB.
Well, at least, we stop being disapointed ;D
We’ll be happy when you get time for it.
The SMF-upgrade process itself is easy. Of course SMF forums should be scanned/searched first and of course a full backup of files and database is recommended. Has been done xxxxx times before. Only reason it could be troublesome is if you have tons of incompatible mods, themes, user-hacks, have to also upgrade php/mysql - dont think that is the case.
Avast could become a charter-member for 50$ and get premium support http://www.simplemachines.org/charter/ Not really needed but if you get doubts about whatever there should be better chance of one on one support by SMF support through closed sections on forum. Why waste time or not be close to 100% foolproof - Avast should be able to afford.
I know for sure (by running this and also other SMF based sites) that the upgrade of the core is not problematic, but the upgrade of all the mods and themes is major pain… So there must be real reason to go thru it. For me now, the only real reason is 1.1 getting gold, nothing else.
kubecj wrote:
So there must be _real_ reason to go thru it. For me now, the only _real_ reason is 1.1 getting gold, nothing else.
Well, maybe for you… But, don’t you think that every forum is more than just “I” or “you” or “him”. Forums are all these people gathering in here, trying to help each other and to seek help when needed. Whether you like it or not, this is a community, and it’s consisted of many people not just few individuals. Security related forum and it keeps outdated forum engine, even though developers said themselves that new version fixes some security flaws as well… it may sound strange for some people.
Edit: I wrongly spelled word “consited”, and changed it to “consisted”.
Quite a few of the other forums that I participate in and also use SWF have long since updated.
Some of them are even larger than this one and they didn’t seem to have had any problems with
their updates.
I also agree that since the reason for these updates was security related and. since this is a security related forum,
an upgrade would be considered paramount. ???
May be he has taken a calculated risk and is ready with 1.1 RC3 (considered very stable) and backup of old data? Just more convinient to save power for 1.1 update.