WebCrossing server – Targeted Neighbors Upgrade and Major Security Upgrades

This upgrade is targeted towards very large Neighbors sites. Until now, Neighbors has made use of WebCrossing’s “web map” feature to redirect to member personal home pages. That’s where members see activity feeds, people view their profiles, preferences are set, and where you find their personal blogs, files, and photo albums. Please read about Neighbors for more information about this private label, complete social network system.

With this new build, the special Neighbors web map no longer needs to be maintained. It’s gone. Poof! The needed redirections are instead done internally, making start times blazingly faster, freeing up cached memory, and making the web map available for other uses.

Also, we want to remind you of our most recent, major upgrade of our encrypted security for sites using SSL certificates. This includes (1) a thorough and complete upgrade of server-side supported protocols, through TLSv1.2; (2) an upgrade of certificate and CSR generation features, upgrading from MD5 to SHA256, (3) and all the cipher suites have been upgraded to support connectivity from the latest secure browsers.

That upgrade includes not just server-side protocol upgrades. Your WebCrossing server is also capable of acting like a client and making API calls to other servers. Those servers also are requiring higher protocol TLS 1.2 connections these days. With this major upgrade, now your WebCrossing server can make those calls.

The latest release version is now WebCrossing 6.4-1343 2018-07-01.

All self-hosted customers with valid support and maintenance contracts can download this new version at no cost.

If you are running a self-hosted site we strongly recommend upgrading your WebCrossing server to this new build. If you are a self-hosted customer and have a valid support and maintenance contract, please contact support for access to the new server. If your support and maintenance contract has expired, please contact us to renew so we can provide you with this important update.