Upgrading Drupal

I downloaded the 4.7.1 update, uploaded the files and ran the update.php file. My system works correctly, but I installed the "System Info" module and it reports I have 4.7.0, even though the change log file is that of 4.7.1. Fantastico also reports I have 4.7.0, but I don't put a lot of stock in Fantastico.

Does 4.7.1 correctly report the version number to System Info? Is there another way I can confirm what I have installed? My web provider is climbing down my back about security issues and I want to make sure it's correctly installed.

-dave

How far apart was the release from Drupal 4.5 to 4.6 and Drupal 4.6 to 4.7?
Is there a pattern? For instance: a new release every 12 months, or is it just random, as it is being devloped?

Thanks.

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Hello,

I made a full upgrade from 4.7.0 to 4.7.1: moved all the old files, uploaded all the 4.7.1 files and then uploaded the old dir and files I need: /files, .htaccess, /themes, settings.php, some modules

Do I need to upgrade the DB?

Last time I upgraded the DB (from 4.6x to 4.6xx) a huge list was available I couldn't make head or tail of.

How do you choose the latest update in that list? Perhaps it's very different now in 4.7.1?

Another glitch experienced with upgrading was with the subscriptions module. It started sending out notifications to 100's of folks not subscribed to anything every time I posted a new "story." I had to disable it, but I had several folks legitimately subscribed to stuff that now can't get their notifications either.

Reckon there's anything we can do about this?

I upgraded a 4.6.5 site to 4.7.0 and then upgraded contrib modules to 4.7. I see two collation types in my database, utf8_general_ci (all the new module tables) and latin1_swedish_ci (all the old tables). Should I make an effort to convert the latin1 to utf8 or can I ignore it?

I upgraded to 4.7.x last night and now I can't get logged out. Well, actually I can get logged out, but I (and my users I assume) are still showing logged in. I've done the usual clearing browser cache, deleting site cookies, mysql delete from cache...

Is there something one can do to fix this?