As it happens first time through I read all of that and didn't use 223 for nearly 3 days. Then I noticed the Alpha and Beta downloads link and figured that if it was out of beta I could probably put up with a few glitches until we were ready to go as this was a test system.

I would draw a distinction between 'might fall over a bit in some circumstances' and 'cannot actually register new users which is a fundamental part of the app's functionality'

As it happens if you install advanced user management module everything is fine. So what really needs changing is the login box's functionality so that you are only given an option to register if the appropriate module is installed (or if you are not given an option about installing it and it comes as part of the default setup).

Anyhoo. I have rolled back to 222 even for testing but will continue poking around with 223 out of curiosity.

You might want to roll back the hostility. I genuinely love this product so far and have been wildly evangelising about it everywhere at work. I was more disappointed that this makes the product look bad (which it isn't) and me look like an idiot (which I sometimes am). I look forward to working with it more extensively.

This blows my mind.

I installed XOOPS 2.2.3 as the latest stable release and just wanted to muck about with registering myself as a new user only to find there are 'installation' issues with this module. Then I find this thread and find that it's all known about.

I'm now going to have to put myself two days behind on work I am doing for my employers to roll back both of my installations.

Not only that but when venting my frustration a colleague made some crack about building our company webste on dodgy free software.

Is it any wonder Open Source is getting a bad name when I can't defend a product I love because the release candidate has such a fundamental bug in it? I mean fair enough if it was marked as an unstable beta I would simply not have installed it.

I don't want to sound like an ass but I had to fight to get my company to switch to PHP web servers and I have to fight to get them to even look at open source software and this kind of thing just proves the nay sayers right and makes me look like a tool.

Am I being unreasonable? I'm not sure. But I wish software in danger of falling over in its everyday functionality was clearly labelled as not a stable release.

Vent over.

Sorry this had to be my first post. Otherwise I am in love with this software.