* extracts the kernel version between square brackets (if any)
* does not remove the distribution specific postfix of the kernel version but that only makes the string a little bit longer
* adjust old version for longer version numbers like 3.14.77-81
Modern Browser complain if there are non-https elements in https websites. This makes sure that if the user visits via https all elements of the page are also retrieved using SSL. Furthermore it uses https urls in emails that are send to the user, if SECURE_URL_BASE is set in project/project.inc.
The only remaining places where URL_BASE is used is when it is used as master_url where it is important that it is in sync with what the scheduler uses.
Change all the PHP code to use _mysql_query() instead of mysql_query()
(and similar for other functions).
_mysql_query() uses the mysqli API if available, else the old API.
Going forward, all PHP code should the DB abstration layer if possible;
else it should use the _mysql_* functions.