Fixed an issue with log entries being truncated (Requires administrator action!)

- added a new entry to the admin tools (Administartion -> Administrative tools)
- converts title and change columns in the logs table to text from varchar(255)

INSTALL/MYSQL.sql

@@ -139,13 +139,13 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `jobs` (
 
 CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `logs` (
   `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
-  `title` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
+  `title` text COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
   `created` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
   `model` varchar(20) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
   `model_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
   `action` varchar(20) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
   `user_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
-  `change` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
+  `change` text COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
   `email` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
   `org` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,
   `description` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL,

INSTALL/upgrade_2.3.sql

@@ -125,6 +125,16 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `template_tags` (
 
 -- --------------------------------------------------------
 
+--
+-- Change in the servers table and the logs table, addressing
+-- hotfixes 2.3.57 and 2.3.78
+--
+
+ALTER TABLE `servers` MODIFY COLUMN `organization` varchar(255) NOT NULL;
+ALTER TABLE `logs` MODIFY COLUMN `title` text, MODIFY COLUMN `change` text;
+
+-- --------------------------------------------------------
+
 --
 -- Default templates
 --

app/Controller/AppController.php

@@ -356,9 +356,13 @@ class AppController extends Controller {
 		$sql = '';
 		switch ($command) {
 			case 'extendServerOrganizationLength':
-				$sql = 'ALTER TABLE servers MODIFY COLUMN organization varchar(255) NOT NULL';
+				$sql = 'ALTER TABLE `servers` MODIFY COLUMN `organization` varchar(255) NOT NULL;';
 				$controller = 'Servers';
 				break;
+			case 'convertLogFieldsToText':
+				$sql = 'ALTER TABLE `logs` MODIFY COLUMN `title` text, MODIFY COLUMN `change` text;';
+				$controller = 'Logs';
+				break;
 			default:
 				$this->Session->setFlash('Invalid command.');
 				$this->redirect(array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'administration'));

app/View/Pages/administration.ctp

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ if (!$isSiteAdmin) exit();
 <li><a href="/users/verifyGPG">Verify GPG keys</a> (Check whether every user's GPG key is usable)</li>
 <li><a href="/events/generateThreatLevelFromRisk">Upgrade Risk to Threat Level</a> (As of version 2.2 the risk field is replaced by Threat Level. This script will convert all values in risk to threat level.)</li>
 <li><a href="/servers/updateDatabase/extendServerOrganizationLength">Extend Organization length</a> (Hotfix 2.3.57: Increase the max length of the organization field when adding a new server connection.)</li>
+<li><a href="/servers/updateDatabase/convertLogFieldsToText">Convert log fields to text</a> (Hotfix 2.3.78: Some of the log fields that were varchar(255) ended up truncating the data. This function will change them to "text")</li>
 </ul>
 </div>
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