phpBB patch?

[Gordon Stratton]

On 1/24/07, gareth <bsd at lordcow.org> wrote:
> hi, portupgrade just upgraded phpbb-2.0.22 to phpbb-2.0.22_1.
> it used phpBB-2.0.22.tar.bz2 from www.phpbb.com (same as before),
> and as far as i can tell the .php files are the same (and naturally
> the database is untouched). does anyone know what this upgrade
> was meant to achieve?

>From the log[1]:
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Remove previously added security patch against session table
exhaustion, as it causes more problems in the latest phpbb
version.  Users are advised to drop and re-create their
session tables (phpbb_sessions, phpbb_sessions_keys) without
using "HEAP" tables.
---

Gordon

[1] http://www.freshports.org/www/phpbb/