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1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 16:41:54 EDT Clarissa Walker
   I have a hard-forked repository of someone's future eFiction 3.5.9 and merged those changes to my Testing Grounds, which previously ran 3.5.8.f1.
   
   This turned out fine (barring the buggy touchpad issues), so I do have a layout of the 3.5.9 additions/changes and my MD5 -> bcrypt password + MyISAM -> InnoDB engine + latin1 -> utf8mb4 collation modifications. (Though, looking back, it seems I may have to force all tables to utf8mb4 in the install script anyway...)
   
   However, my mods are for the 3.5.8.f1 version, so this will have to be documented for the future 3.5.9 changes.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 20:47:57 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Checked the modifications document against the files from eFiction 3.5.9 and only two files would be affected by the future changes: install/install.php and docs/settingstable.sql.
     
     Won't be hard to alter the modification steps to accommodate for the future 3.5.9 changes.
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-2026 01:06:09 EDT Clarissa Walker

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     Tested the future eFiction 3.5.9 install script, but with PHP 7 rather than PHP 8. Since they are one and the same with 3.5.8.f1, it will work with PHP 8 as well.
     
     However, I should add a note for efiction3-mod that PHP 8 is technically required despite this oversight.