Site for Charles' and Cedric's Research Group, Constellations.

Primary contact: Charde Brown, their communications officer.

GT Theme: needs carefully updated, so as to not break constellations appearance. The Homepage and other landing pages are especially customized.

Libraries and versions (to track separately from Drupal)

• phpCAS 1.3.8
• CKEditor 4.17.1 via CDN

Historical updates

• 2024-10-31: The SSL cert for constellations.gatech.edu on cleric has been renewed until 10/31/25.
• 2023-11-30: Migrated the constellations website from wheezy (VM running PHP 7.1 / Drupal 7 website) to cleric (VM running PHP 8.0 / Drupal 9 website).
• 2023-06-15: Updated the Google Analytics module (7.x-2.6 to 7.x-2.8) to prepare for the Google Analytics 4 upgrade (https://www.drupal.org/project/google_analytics).
• 2023-05-04: Updated Drupal Core to the current version (7.95 to 7.97) because of a critical security vulnerability (https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2023-005).
• 2023-03-28: Updated Drupal Core to the current version (7.91 to 7.95) because of a critical security vulnerability (https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2023-004). Updated the Mercury Reader module (7.x-2.7 to 7.x-2.20).
• 2023-01-17: The SSL cert for constellations.gatech.edu on wheezy has been renewed until 1/17/24.
• 2022-08-10: Updated Drupal Core to the current version (7.89 to 7.91) because of a critical security vulnerability (https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-012).
• 2022-06-02: security updates: link module 7.x-1.7 to 7.x-1.11
• 2022-03-03: security updates: Drupal Core from 7.87 to 7.89 (security issue)
• 2022-01-27: security updates: Drupal Core from 7.82 to 7.87 (jquery issue); CKEditor CDN from 4.16.1 to 4.17.1 (XSS issue). Also fixed SSL certificate: vhosts were using wrong IP address.
• 2021-07-29: security update for Drupal Core from 7.80 to 7.82
• 2021-06-02: update CKEditor to 4.16.1 to fix security issue.
• 2021-04-27: update Drupal core to 7.80 to fix security issue. Update CAS to use sso.gatech.edu.
• 2021-02-11: update Drupal core from 7.77 to 7.78 to fix security issue
• 2021-01-13: update CKEditor CDN from 4.14.0 to 4.14.1 because older version has disappeared.
• 2020-12-28: update Drupal core from 7.74 to 7.77.
• 2020-11-24: drupal core security update 7.73 to 7.74. Change edit.hg to hg in feed URLs.
• 2020-09-24: drupal core security update 7.72 to 7.73
• 2020-06-25: Update Drupal core (7.70 to 7.72).
• 2020-05-28: update Drupal core (7.69 to 7.70).
• 2020-04-01: Update CKEditor module (7.x-1.18 to 7.x-1.19) and CDN (4.11.2 to 4.14.0)
• 2019-12-31: Update Drupal Core (7.67 to 7.69), phpCAS library (1.3.5 to 1.3.8) and these modules: link (7.x-1.6 to 7.x-1.7); special_menu_items (7.x-2.0 to 7.x-2.1); and views (7.x-3.22 to 7.x-3.23).
• 2019-06-03: site migrated off of OIT Web Hosting and onto wheezy.cc.gatech.edu (temporarily directing all traffic to port 80 until SSL cert process completes).
• 2019-05-14: update core (7.66 to 7.67) for security vulnerability (https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/7.67); change security updates email to tsowebpatch@cc.gatech.edu; non-security module updates for ctools (7.x-1.14 to 7.x-1.15)
• 2019-04-25: Update Drupal Core (7.63 to 7.66) because of a critical security vulnerability (https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2019-006).
• 2019-04-10: Updated the following modules because of security updates Module Filter (7.x-2.1 to 7.x -2.2) and Views (7.x-3.20 to 7.x-3.22)
• 2019-04-10: update Drupal Core (7.63 to 7.65) because of critical security vulnerability (https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/7.65).
• 2019-01-22: update Drupal Core (7.60 to 7.63) because of critical security vulnerability (https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/7.62). Patch custom modules to fix SimpleXMLElement update errors (https://drupal.gatech.edu/troubleshooting/simplexmlelement-errors). Set site to email only about security type updates. Updated the following module: Adminstation Menu (7.x-3.0-rc5 to 7.x-3.0-rc6)
• 2018-11-28: update CKEditor (full html format) to use dropdown Styles from GT Theme and CSS from themes, as well.
• 2018-11-27: update Drupal Core (7.60 to 7.61) due to automatic Installatron settings, so changed settings for future to manual updates only.
• 2018-10-30: update modules to latest versions, in preparation for PHP 7.1 switch (https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-7-8-and-9). ( Libraries API (7.x-2.3 to 7.x-2.5), Views (7.x-3.18 to 7.x-3.20) )
• 2018-10-18: update Drupal Core (7.59 to 7.60) because of critical security vulnerability (https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2018-006).
• 2018-06-14: added hg_reader module (7.x-2.7).
• 2018-05-31: add new editor, Allie Blinder (ablinder6) & create Editor role for site.
• 2018-04-25: update Drupal Core (7.58 to 7.59) because of critical security vulnerability.
• 2018-04-19: did not upgrade CKEditor library because does not include insecure image2 (enhanced image) add on.
• 2018-03-28: backed up site, patched 7.58 core, blocked ekorotkin3, checked security settings for User Accounts and phpCAS/library, Comments.