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Revive Adserver v5.5.2 released

by | Apr 17, 2024 | Featured, News, Release Notes | 0 comments

Revive Adserver is an open source project, dedicated to building and supporting the open source ad server software and the community of users around the world.

We just released Revive Adserver v5.5.2

This version ensures that MaxMind GeoLite2 City file downloads continue to work automatically after May 1st, 2024. It also contains some bug fixes and performance improvements.

Changes in v5.5.2 of the Revive Adserver software:

  • We updated the MaxMind GeoIP2 plugin to support the upcoming changes in the procedures required to download database updates from MaxMind. In order for the automatic updates to continue working, the MaxMind account ID needs to be added in the plugin configuration screen. We’ve updated the page that explains How to Configure MaxMind’s license key to download GeoIP2 files, please review and add your MaxMind account ID to the plugin’s settings before May 1st, 2024.
  • We fixed the “Geo/Organisation” delivery rule that was not working as expected.
  • We fixed and issue with the password recovery process showing an empty recovery screen at the end of a successful process, under some circumstances.
  • We fixed an issue with midnight maintenance potentially becoming very slow during pruning of the  data_summary_ad_zone_assoc table on big instances.
  • We fixed the unexpected 500 errors when using an invalid configuration file.
  • We fixed an issue with zone chaining being presented as a viable option for Email/Newsletter zones while it cannot  actually work due to the limitations of such zone type (the click URL is hardcoded to the original zone ID).
  • We fixed an issue with search settings being reset when typing a new search keyword. Compact view is also the new default in order to keep resource usage low.
  • We fixed an issue with manager user delete permission not being properly checked when third party products were using the “DLL” data access layer. This issue was reported by the developers of the Revive Adserver REST API.

Full release notes for v5.5.2 can be found on our Github page.

Download, install and update

Revive Adserver v5.5.2 is available for download now.

We originally posted version 5.5.2 on April 17, 2024, at around 13.00UTC. On April 18, 2024, around 10.00UTC, we decided to rebuild the packages to fix an issue with an outdated version number of one of the embedded plugins.

Once downloaded, please refer to the instructions for Installations of Revive Adserver or for Updating Revive Adserver. Make sure that the server(s) being used meet(s) the minimum technical requirements.

Community contributions

The continued development of Revive Adserver is being sponsored by community members, either financially or in the form of code contributions, or by reporting issues they discovered while using the software. We’re very grateful for the support we’ve received. If you would like to contribute to our project, please consider becoming a patron on Patreon.com.

Another way to contribute to our project, is by using the Revive Adserver Hosted edition.