Is JKI VIPM still alive?

[D_mitriy]

Does anyone know what's happened with JKI VIPM?

There are issues with their website, forum seem to be hacked, and no one answers the contact requests:

• Link from the page https://www.vipm.io/desktop instead of version 2023 brings me to the page for version 2021 (https://www.jki.net/en/vipm-2021-download). And when I try to download from this page, I could download version 2022 latest (from https://www.vipm.io/desktop/versions/), version 2023 is not availble.
• I can install 2023 from the NI Package Manager, but it is buggy (more details here: https://www.vipm.io/posts/cca22338-eba1-4eda-80a9-f4faf9520612). Which makes LabVIEW 2023 unusable for me.
• https://www.vipm.io/posts is definitely hacked. Because probably the advertisment of the, errr... sex services is not something what the vipm.io is about.

[altenbach]

Looks all fine.

[rolfk]

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@altenbach wrote:

Looks all fine.

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It didn't an hour ago. 😁 But I forwarded a message to Jim.

I think it is safe to assume, that JKI is still fully alive and operational.

You need to consider that they are located in California, and hackers like to spam forums in the weekends in the hope that their spam stays a few hours longer on the system. You can't expect someone from JKI to be 24/7 online to take care of these things and they seem to have reacted as soon as they got into the office this morning.

[Jim_Kring]

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@D_mitriy wrote:

Does anyone know what's happened with JKI VIPM?

There are issues with their website, forum seem to be hacked, and no one answers the contact requests:

• Link from the page https://www.vipm.io/desktop instead of version 2023 brings me to the page for version 2021 (https://www.jki.net/en/vipm-2021-download). And when I try to download from this page, I could download version 2022 latest (from https://www.vipm.io/desktop/versions/), version 2023 is not availble.
• I can install 2023 from the NI Package Manager, but it is buggy (more details here: https://www.vipm.io/posts/cca22338-eba1-4eda-80a9-f4faf9520612). Which makes LabVIEW 2023 unusable for me.
• https://www.vipm.io/posts is definitely hacked. Because probably the advertisment of the, errr... sex services is not something what the vipm.io is about.

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Thanks for posting this list of issues.

We updated the website early last week with the latest VIPM 2023 for Windows links.  Maybe your browser cache hadn't refreshed yet, when you looked today?

Thanks for the links to the bug reports. I see the issue about the packages and Windows OS version compatibility. Will take a closer look...

Regarding the spam posts, we just cleaned those up. There was a big wave off spam posts over the past week, it seems.

Regards and Thanks Again!

[D_mitriy]

Thank you, now forum looks OK and new version (23.1.2499) is available for download. Am I correct that this is an RC2?

[D_mitriy]

Nevermind, RC2 also has the same bug. Waiting for the update then.