Announcing Movable Type 3.34

Tags : Blog Platform, FastCGI, Movable Type, SixApart
Posted on : Feb 8, 07 11:18 PM

Last night we released version 3.34 of the Movable Type Publishing Platform. Movable Type 3.34:

Fixes important potential XSS vulnerabilities
Is a free and recommended update for all Movable Type users
Enables simple use of FastCGI which yields a 15x performance increase

We encourage all of our users and customers to upgrade to this latest release of Movable Type because it addresses a hand full of important XSS security vulnerabilities. In addition to security enhancements, this release introduces a feature enhancement that has increased application performance for a number of users by over an order of magnitude.

We have been educating users for some time about the benefits of hosting Movable Type under FastCGI, a free and light weight persistent hosting environment for web applications. However, prior to Movable Type 3.34, FastCGI support could only be achieved by applying a number of patches to the MT source code. In 3.34, however, those patches are no longer necessary; FastCGI support has been fully integrated into the core application. Now Movable Type is capable of detecting when it is running under FastCGI automatically and take advantage of its unique performance benefits without the user or the system administrator needing to do a thing.

Because of the profound performance benefits of FastCGI and the security fixes made in Movable Type 3.34 we encourage all users to upgrade to the latest version of Movable Type as soon as possible.

Keep reading to learn more about the specific benefits of Fast CGI and to find resources that will help you install and setup FastCGI on your system.

Why FastCGI?

Running Movable Type under FastCGI is still optional, but why do we recommend so strongly to users that they run Movable Type under it? Listed below are the primary benefits and advantages of running your Movable Type installation under this free, light weight and persistent hosting environment:

Increased Application Performance – FastCGI has shown to increase application performance by almost 15 times. The speed increase is so dramatic because the application is persisted in memory, allowing information to be cached between page requests reducing page load time and database load.
Increased Commenting Performance – Movable Type routes incoming comments through the application itself in order to filter out comment spam and to store them in the database for moderation or publication. Therefore, the time it takes to process a comment is greatly enhanced for all the same reasons the application performance is increased.
Increased Reliability – Fewer resources are needed to load a single page within the Movable Type application, reducing web server loads and database load, taxing your system less and freeing up those resources for other applications and system components.
Increased Resiliency During Spam Attacks – When a blog is undergoing a spam attack its resources are put under tremendous load. Under this kind of attack any application has to process each comment in order to determine whether it is spam or not. Under FastCGI, comment spam can be processed and filtered much faster because the Movable Type application is resident in memory lowering database load and network overhead.

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