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New release of PSA has been made available to the public. The new release is a minor maintenance release to resolve some problems with MySQL 5 and reserved words.

There is now a new release with some bug fixes regarding the MDB PEAR package that is used for database interactive.

The first release of PSA 4.0 has been made. This release uses the same code base as the last beta version (tested for quite a few months) as well as an added feature to allow administrators to set an expiration date on accounts.

So far, PSA4 is functional - except for the supplemental UI. The class has been reworked to interface with PEAR::MDB instead of Metabase, and so far the _restrict.php file is working. The next step will be to get all the UI pages arranged and functional. Also, I have some work to do on the SQL queries that are used in the class, and will get to them when I start work on the UI.

I have been thinking of possibly setting up another restriction method that checks for GET or POST variables. Then there would be 4 or 5 access methods instead of just 2:... read more