Aurora Update 17.6

August 15, 2024

Update 17.6 was released (8/15/2024). WordPress Core was upgraded to 6.6.1 and all central third party plugins were updated to the latest version.

Aurora Update 17.5

June 20, 2024

Update 17.5 was released (6/20/2024). WordPress Core was upgraded to 6.5.4 and all central third party plugins were updated to the latest version. 

Each site’s media library storage limit has been increased to 10GB.

ITS Disaster Recovery Test

May 16, 2024

Aurora will be migrated to our alternate data center as part of the ITS annual disaster recovery test. There will be service interruptions during the morning of Sunday May 19th and then again during the evening of Wednesday May 22nd.

Aurora Update 17.4

March 21, 2024

Update 17.4 was released (3/21/2024). WordPress Core was upgraded to 6.4.3 and all central third party plugins were updated to the latest version. 

A new calendar plugin has been released with an easy to use interface and advanced display options. For more information go to Events Calendar.

Aurora Update 17.3

September 28, 2023

Update 17.3 was released today (9/28/2023). WordPress Core was upgraded to 6.3.1 and all central third party plugins were updated to the latest version. 

Smash Balloon Instagram Feed and YouTube Feed

May 17, 2023

Instagram Feed

Please ignore the email with Subject “There has been a problem with your Instagram Feed.”

“This is a courtesy email sent from the Smash Balloon Instagram Feed plugin on your website to alert you when there is an issue with one of your Instagram feeds.”

 

YouTube Feed

Ignore the link within the Dashboard for YouTube Feed as shown below.  Do Not add license key.

The message states in the blue banner, “Your license key is inactive. Please add license key to enable PRO features.” 

Smash Balloon plugin

Please send an email to webdev@uconn.edu if you have any questions.

ITS Disaster Recovery Test

May 11, 2023

Aurora will be migrated to our alternate data center as part of the ITS annual disaster recovery test. There will be service interruptions during the morning of Sunday May 21st and then again during the evening of Wednesday May 24th.

Aurora Update 17.2

April 20, 2023

Update 17.2 was released today (4/20/2023). WordPress Core was upgraded to 6.2.1 and all central third party plugins were updated to the latest version. 

Aurora Update 17.1

July 28, 2022

Update 17.1 was released today (7/28/2022). WordPress Core was upgraded to 6.0.1 and all central third party plugins except Meta Slider were updated to the latest version. 

Update 17

March 24, 2022

Aurora Update 17 was released on 3/24/2022 with a new plugin to allow bulk attachment download for form entries, media library storage limit increased from 2GB to 5GB per site and WordPress Core and central third-party plugin updates. Read the complete change log and user guides.