Patch Release 5.3.1.

We've just issued a patch release of CourseForum and ProjectForum, now at version 5.3.1. This version fixes several "memory leaks", which are problems in the software that can lead to the program using more and more memory over time.

Because this increasing memory can sometimes lead to instability, we'd recommend upgrading to anyone who has had problems in the past where the software runs fine for a while, but weeks or months later mysteriously crashes.

For those who are interested, the leaks we fixed were in three places: one where the program frees up forums from memory that haven't been used for a while, a second in the versions pages where it figures out the differences between versions, and the last in a weird situation with search if the requester (usually a robot, not an actual web browser) sends a particular set of http headers in their request.

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CourseForum and ProjectForum 5.3 Released

We've posted the production versions of CF/PF 5.3.0 to our website for download, and these are also now running on our hosting servers. As always, visit the main CourseForum and ProjectForum pages for full details and downloads.

You can see a list of changes here.

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