I have to second the opinion that updating skins is the hardest part of B2evo updates. Every single install I have running uses heavily customized skins. That’s part of what I like about this app, but it’s still the majority of the work involved with an update for me. Using WinMerge is very useful in expediting the skin tweaks.

With the frequency of updates that B2evolution has, is there any chance of working toward doing updates and backups through the application (like SMF)? Most SMF updates don’t touch the skin/template and can be accomplished in 30 seconds directly in the admin area of the application.

It’s not in the upgrade instructions (probably because it is more or less common sense) but anyone upgrading should round up the following info before starting:

1. Your SQL database user name (on my webhost, it’s a long line of seemingly random characters, and has nothing to do with my user name as site admin, b2evolution, etc.)

2. Your B2Evolution SQL Database name. (Again - on my webhost this is a _really_ long line of characters.)

3. The password for your B2Evolution SQL database.

I installed my initial B2E setup from a script provided by my webshost - which is probably why the database user name and DB name are so odd. But with each upgrade I stop and have to look up that stuff.

1.10.2 looks great though!

Nothing bad about this upgrade, not even a tiny issue - although mines is about as vanilla an install as it gets