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Following the upgrade to Drupal 6, I noticed an awkward error when publishing content from my desktop editor (Ecto 3). From what I've read, it will affect any editor that uploads content via the blog api integrated in Drupal 6.

How to resolve:

It looks like it's down to the version of libxml2 and php involved. You can either:

1. Upgrade php & libxml2 if you have access to the server or
2. Patch the xmlrpc.inc file in the includes folder of your Drupal 6 installation.

I went with option 2 and it's not as scary as it sounds.

This is the log of issues resulting from the recent upgrade from Drupal 5.x to Drupal 6.x. The issues are relatively minor and so the site is still live and mostly working.

It's been a while coming. I was waiting for some modules to become available before this site was upgraded.

I've been excited by what I've seen in Drupal 6 for some time now, especially having triggers built into the core system. That could be very useful.

Most of the site works now, there are a couple of issues that would have needed to have been fixed for other reasons anyway (e.. RSS subscriptions via Feedburner since it's moving to Google Feeds).

I'll be updating the underlying content management system of this website in the next week or so. I'll be moving it to Drupal 6.1. I know there will be a few features missing such as Similar Entries.

You'll also come back to a new look - ok, I'm cheating there, I'll be using on of the default themes while I'm waiting for contributed themes to catch up. That suits me, I wanted to change from this theme since it was looking a bit too busy.

I'll leave a maintenance message up, hopefully for only an hour or so.

I've had to look at a few options for improving performance on this site. I noticed that the introduction of the Feedburner module and moving the RSS feeds across to Feedburner had caused some performance issues.