{"id":115964,"date":"2025-02-25T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/?p=115964"},"modified":"2025-02-25T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:39:14","slug":"version-7-1-of-all-our-add-ins-will-be-affected-by-upcoming-security-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/version-7-1-of-all-our-add-ins-will-be-affected-by-upcoming-security-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Version 7.1 of All Our Add-ins Will Be Affected By Upcoming Security Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Version 7.1 of all our add-ins will be affected by security changes going into effect soon.\u00a0 Back in <a href=\"\/Email-Tools\/enhancing-cyber-security\/\">October of last year<\/a>, we mentioned that security concerns are at an all-time high and Sperry Software is no exception to these requirements which are sometimes imposed by other institutions (e.g., Microsoft, credit card transaction processors, large corporate customers and others).<\/p>\n<p>We are planning on upgrading our security system to keep pace with industry standards (in particular PCI\/DSS).\u00a0 As part of that upgrade, we are going to force all communication with the sperrysoftware.com server to be over &#8220;https:\/\/&#8221; and not &#8220;http:\/\/&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Version 7.1 of all our desktop add-ins use some form of &#8220;http:\/\/&#8221; during communications to our server (ironically to check for new versions and other functions).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you still using v7.1?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is still time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/update\/#:~:text=If%20your%20add%2Din%20is,main%20%E2%80%9Cengine%E2%80%9D%20or%20framework.\">automatically check for updates<\/a>.\u00a0 But, <em>beginning in the next two weeks, we will flip the switch to force &#8220;https:\/\/&#8221;.<\/em>\u00a0 Once this happens, if you are still using v7.1 it may be impossible for you to automatically upgrade.\u00a0 Of course, you can still do a <a href=\"https:\/\/sperrysoftware.freshdesk.com\/support\/solutions\/articles\/5000617123-how-do-i-perform-a-clean-reinstall-\">manual upgrade<\/a> to install the newest version (v8.1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 7.1 of all our add-ins will be affected by security changes going into effect soon.\u00a0 Back in October of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-115964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}