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  • The PHP Scare of 2026, Saved by AI

    The PHP Scare of 2026, Saved by AI

    Yesterday, October 21, 2026, we had a big “scare” in the developer world. PHP, the software that runs most of the World Wide Web, was discovered (by AI) to have two vulnerabilities of the worst kind. It allowed an attacker to take control of the server running the PHP. 😮 This was bad, very bad.

    I want to reassure our members and visitors across all our sites that we are covered. My cloud hosting provider already has an extensive set of protections in place during normal operations, including a hardy firewall and active monitoring, to prevent any such attacks, even beyond what PHP might be doing. In addition, they added even more strict conditions and monitoring while the PHP patches were being rolled out.

    And, we have already patched those flaws with new versions from the excellent PHP Foundation and community – less than 24 hours after the event. We see no evidence of any intrusion or negative effects on our stuff.

    That is all.

    UPDATE: Our patches rollout is complete as of 12:35 Ki Time (KiT / Cavern / Tomahna / New Mexico, US / Mountain / GMT-6) on 22 October 2026.

  • Game Chronology

    (This was originally a thread on the MOUL forum)

    This is an attempt to compile a complete and precise, real-life chronology of the releases of D’ni (Myst universe) games – a smaller scope than the Guild of Archivists’ in-character D’ni Timeline. Boldface denotes milestones, usually (but not always) required making new accounts.

    1993-07-24 — Release of Myst
    1997-10-31 — Release of Riven
    2001-05-08 — Release of Exile
    2002-03-xx — Opening of Choru
    2002-12-xx — Closing of Choru
    2002-12-06 — Public Beta
    2003-01-xx — Opening of Ubiru
    2003-08-xx — Closing of Ubiru
    2003-11-11 — Release of Ages Beyond Myst
    2003-11-17 — Opening of Prologue/Rehearsal (Ubisoft)
    2004-01-02 — Clerical Error
    2004-02-04 — Announcement of the closing of Prologue
    2004-02-09 — Closing of Prologue
    2004-03-23 — Release of To D’ni
    2004-07-07 — Release of The Path of the Shell

    2004-08-07 — Opening of Untìl Uru
    2004-09-28 — Release of Revelation
    2005-09-05 — Earliest confirmable Fan addition, by D’Lanor
    2005-09-20 — Release of End of Ages
    2005-10-xx — Original release of PyPRP
    2006-02-15 — Opening of D’mala
    2006-05-09 — Opening of the beta-test of MO:UL (Nuru)
    2006-05-28 — Opening of the limited Preview of MO:UL (Sneak Peek or Ajar); closing of the beta-test of MO:UL
    2006-12-12 — MO:UL Preview open to all GameTap subscribers
    2006-12-19 — Official closing of D’mala (a.k.a. the Great Scream)

    2006-12-20 — Soft launch of MO:UL (Rehearsal)
    2007-01-18 — Announcement of the MacOS porting of MO:UL
    2007-01-19 — Release of the Eder Delin age
    2007-02-05 — Closing of D’mala and Untìl Uru
    2007-02-15 — Official opening of MO:UL (GameTap)
    2007-02-15 — Release of the Eder Tsogal age
    2007-03-01 — Release of the Negilahn age
    2007-03-15 — Release of the Dereno age
    2007-04-05 — Release of the Payiferen age
    2007-04-19 — Release of the Tetsonot age
    2007-05-19 — “Scars”
    2007-05-24 — Release of the Minkata age
    2007-06-23 — “A New Light”
    2007-06-23 — Release of the Watcher’s Pub
    2007-06-26 — Release of the Er’cana age
    2007-07-30 — “Familiar Voices”
    2007-07-31 — Release of the Kirel age
    2007-08-02 — Release of the Jalak age
    2007-08-xx — Founding of the modern Guild of Writers
    2007-09-09 — Release of the Guild Pubs
    2007-09-10 — “Deception”
    2007-09-xx — Founding of the modern Guild of Messengers
    2007-11-01 — “Exodus”
    2007-11-02 — Release of the Ahnonay age
    2007-11-03 — Release of the K’veer age
    2007-11-05 — Release of the Myst age
    2007-11-05 — Yeesha’s last appearance in the Cavern (transcript)
    2008-02-04 — Announcement of the closing of MO:UL
    2008-04-10 — Closing of MO:UL
    2008-12-22 — Beginning of the fan-made Starry Expanse Project

    2010-02-04 — Laxman’s post Activity in the Cavern? (backup)
    2010-02-08 — Opening of MO:ULagain (Cyan)
    2011-04-06 — Release of the CWE source code
    2011-04-11 — H-uru fork of CWE code announced
    2011-04-15 — Build 902 released
    2011-08-01 — Opening of The Open Cave shard
    2011-12-11 — Opening of the OpenUru.org Minkata shard
    2012-02-04 — Opening of the Guild of Writers’ Gehn shard
    2012-02-09 — Build 905 released
    2012-03-26 — Build 906 released
    2012-05-29 — Build 912 released
    2013-02-01 — Opening of the Destiny shard
    2013-02-06 — Announcement of the fan-made SAND project
    2013-06-07 — Original release of the fan-made Seltani project
    2013-06-12 — Build 918 released
    2014-02-20 — Announcement of the fan-made DIRT: Uru Live project

    2014-09-18 — The Great Crash
    2014-09-26 — Re-opening of MO:ULagain
    2015-02-03 — Build 918.0.1 released
    2015-02-03 — First fan-made clothing added
    2015-07-11 — Original release of Korman
    2015-12-22 — Build 918.OpenUru#131 released
    2016-03-xx — Account creation disabled
    2016-11-16 — Build 918.OpenUru#131 (a & b) released
    2017-06-07 — Build 918.OpenUru=138 released
    2017-07-26 — Account creation back online
    2019-10-28 — MO:ULa assets open for fan modification
    2019-11-21 — Build 918.OpenUru=139 released
    2020-01-22 — Announcement of the closure of the MOULa forum
    2020-02-20 — Build 918.OpenUru#153 released
    2020-02-27 — Release of Chiso Preniv, the fan Age Library
    2020-03-07 — Release of Veelay Tsahvahn, the Memorial Age
    2020-08-21 — Release of Chiso Preniv, GoMe Pub & Veelay Tsahvahn to MOULa

  • The Guild of Messengers (v4.0)

    The Guild of Messengers (v4.0)

    Shorah b’shemtee! Welcome to the new home of the Guild of Messengers, delivering news to the Uru community. If you have news, we want to hear it.

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