Lots of Core Modules needing to be updated

[DavidCBL]

Hi all,

 

Yesterday my 1.6.1.6 store reported it needed to update 12 modules, as of today that's risen to 31 modules!

 

I've tried searching everywhere online to find the reason for so many updates needed and can find no reason. I contacted PrestaShop through their online chat but they weren't aware of any updates. I've seen this issue now on 3 of my ecommerce stores, two of which are 1.6.1.6 and one is 1.6.1.5.

 

I ran up a demo store and went through all of the updates but there doesn't seem to be any changelog as to why so much has changed. I did notice that the updates correlated with a lot of changes someone called Maxime Biloe is currently doing on GitHub. for example the BankWire change is for stating it's not compatible with 1.7.

 

I don't suppose anyone can advise as to why so many of the modules are being updated and whether it's safe to actually take the changes as I don't wish to break my websites.

 

The modules that are requesting updates are:

Bank wire, Banner Block, Cart Block, Categories Block, CMS Block, Contact Block, Contact Information Block, Currency Block, Custom CMS Information Block, Featured Products on the homepage, Image Slider for your homepage, Language block, Layered Navigation block, manufacturers block, my account block, my account block for your websites footer, new products block, newsletter block, payments logo block, product payment logos block, quick search block, social networking block, social sharing, specials block, store locator block, tags block, theme configurator, top horizontal menu, user info block, viewed products block and wishlist block!

 

Thank you,

David

 

[Krystian Podemski]

The only change was the change in compatibility array that those modules are not available for PrestaShop 1.7

[DavidCBL]

So by taking all them updates I won't break my stores? If that's the case then I'll update them tomorrow. 

 

Thanks.

[bellini13]

If you are nervous to take updates, and rightfully so since release notes for PS core modules are never provided, then your best course of action is to create a test copy of your store, and upgrade and test each individual module.

 

If you are satisfied that the update is working properly, then you can safely update the module on your live store

[DavidCBL]

Thanks Bellini13. I've got a test store running these updated modules and will do a code comparison against one of my backups. I was concerned with the recent security issues that it might somehow be related to that. 

[bellini13]

I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them are.  Let us know what you find out

[DavidCBL]

Unless I've missed something they do all appear to be version number updates, general formatting updates and changing the max version to 1.6.99.99.

 

I've updated both of my 1.6.1.6 sites and they're still running and none of the settings on the updated modules have changed. I'll be updating my 1.6.1.5 site tomorrow once I get it to 1.6.1.6.

 

My SagePay module was also updated by the PrestaShop Addons team and that still appears to be working though I had no idea what they changed on that either as no changelog! I had to ftp down the code and compare it to a previous version to find they'd changed two files and added in a blank file under translations!