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Pixaria Gallery 4.0.5

Hello Pixaria Users

Evolusent has just released version 4.0.5!

This version includes updated security on the login and registration pages to ensure the risk of SQL injection attacks are properly mitigated.

If you are using a version lower then 4.0.5, we recommend upgrading to the latest version.

If you need assistance with upgrading your site, please let us know at http://evolusent.zendesk.com.

Thanks,

Pixaria Important Update

Hello Pixaria Users,

We introduced Pixaria 4.0.3 in 2012 as a visually rich way to think about your pictures and galleries and have your assets securely stored.

For this reason, we've decided to introduce the following features in our next release...

- Video Thumbnails
Automatically create video thumbnails for galleries

- Picture gallery with user rating system
Users can assign ratings to images in the gallery

- More payment methods
We will offer more payment methods in addition to Paypal, like for example iDeal payment gateway.

Before implementing these changes to our next version, we ask that you take part in a survey that will be released very soon. We welcome all input regarding future product enhancements, including any feature ideas you would like to see as your feedback is important to us. Social media will be used to keep users informed, so we hope you will visit us and share your thoughts. We also welcome your comments or questions at info@pixaria.com!

- The Evolusent Team

Pixaria Support Tickets

Hello Pixaria Users,

We've implemented a new Ticketing System to streamline the support process. To use this new system, simply e-mail support@pixaria.com - and your ticket will be created automatically. You can then track the status of your ticket through evolusent.zendesk.com.

Please get in touch with us, and we will get back to you promptly and thoroughly.

Warm regards,

- The Evolusent Team

Pixaria Acquisition

Toronto, Ontario - Monday, September 17th, 2012 - Pixaria, a leading image and content management software firm has been acquired by Evolusent. Over the years, Pixaria came to represent an innovative and cost effective digital asset and gallery management software. Evolusent has been providing content management software for over a decade as well providing leading edge learning solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Digital asset and gallery management represents an important part of Evolusent's long term vision of providing content
services and content centric technologies. Pixaria fits into that vision perfectly.

Pixaria provides streamlined services which help professional photographers and digital image librarians publish and sell their work online. Pixaria is used worldwide by multinational organizations, businesses and individuals; from creative agencies, to wedding, events and sports publishing companies.

Evolusent offers full-service technology solutions for e-learning and mobile. Evolusent has a strong history in software development and will leverage Pixaria into their existing content management services. Their current clients include established international organizations such as Staples, Honeywell, Sears and Best Buy.

The acquisition of Pixaria represents a significant market opportunity for Evolusent to expand; with both companies combining efforts to strengthen their Digital Asset Management offerings. Pixaria's comprehensive software platform combined with Evolusent's development, marketing and support teams will give customers
unlimited potential to manage, distribute and monetize their images/digital assets.

Pixaria 4.0 Released!

Evolusent would also like to announce the release of Pixaria Gallery and AssetDeck version 4 - a major upgrade to it's acclaimed web-based digital asset management and photography ecommerce software suites.

With a wealth of new features including an updated user interface, support for promotional discounts and coupon codes for ecommerce enabled websites - version 4 represents a significant leap forward in ease of use and functionality for Pixaria.

Many users are going to be excited by the new features and refinements in Version 4 of Pixaria Gallery and AssetDeck. Photographers and artists selling their work online will love the improvements to ecommerce workflow. And now, with the ability to create your own promotional offers, Pixaria users will be able to strengthen
their business relationships like never before.

Pixaria Asset Deck 4.0 is available online from the Pixaria Software store, priced at $999.00, including one year of technical support and software updates.

Pixaria Gallery 4.0 is priced at $499.00, including one year of technical support and software updates.

Please visit www.pixaria.com or email sales@pixaria.com for assistance with sales.

Important Security Update

All Pixaria users are advised to apply an important security patch to the software's thumbnail image proxy script pixaria.thumbnail.php. The patch file can be downloaded here and once unzipped the pixaria.thumbnail.php script should be uploaded to replace the existing version.

This advice applies to all current versions of Pixaria Gallery and AssetDeck from version 2.0 onwards.

Thanks to the iPhone and iOS developer Nicholas Krut for reporting this issue.

How to Get Technical Support

With the release of Pixaria Gallery 3, I've taken the opportunity to switch from the old PHPBB forum to a new help desk system powered by Zendesk that will make it faster and simpler to get technical support for Pixaria Gallery.

From Monday the 6th of December, all technical support enquiries should go through the Community Helpdesk and support requests sent to info@pixaria.com by e-mail will no longer be given priority treatment.

Security Patch Updated

Some users (mainly those running Pixaria Gallery on Windows servers) have reported problems with the security patch issued in response to a recent published remote file discovery exploit. For anyone who applied the patch and is having problems with large images not displaying, the file has been updated to fix the issue and can be downloaded here.

For any issues related to the patch, please email me at info@pixaria.com rather than posting in the forums as I check my e-mails far more regularly than the forum.

Security Vulnerability Fixed

Users have reported a security vulnerability in Pixaria which can be exploited if PHP's register_globals variable is turned on.

My current advice is for everyone to upgrade to the newly released version 1.4.3 or if that's not possible, to install this patched file: class.Smarty.php.zip into resources/includes on your current installation.

For reference, the installation documentation of Pixaria has been updated with information on how to prevent malicious access to Pixaria's 'include' and 'libraries' scripts as this can easily be prevented by creating a text file called .htaccess with the following text in it:

Order Deny,Allow 
Deny from all 

This file should then be uploaded to:

-/resources/incoming/
-/resources/library/
-/resources/includes/
-/resources/pixies/
-/resources/smarty/

To test whether this is working on your site, browse to these directories using your web browser like this:

http://www.mysite.com/pixaria/resources/includes/

You should get an error message and access denied warning.

PopPhoto Studio security update

PopPhoto Studio has been updated to patch a serious security vulnerability that could leave a server open to being compromised by malicious attackers by using a specially designed URL to include and execute remote PHP code.

Full details of the vulnerability are described in the Secunia security advisory SA SA20087 published on the 15th of May 2006.

The vulnerability only affects servers where the PHP configuration setting register_globals is turned on. PopPhoto does not require this value to be on and all users are advised to turn it off where possible in addition to applying the new security patch.

An updated version of PopPhoto (version 3.6.1) can be downloaded from the PopPhoto version history page which also provides details of the bug and a link to the file change log where you can see which file has been updated.

This security vulnerability is specific to PopPhoto Studio and does not affect Pixaria Gallery.