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Looking at the version of mantis at mantisbt.org/bugs shows that captchas are in use when signing up for a new account.

On my local installation, which has been upgraded to 1.1.5, captcahs are _NOT_ in use, yet a few greps from the code show that captchas are definitely possible.

Where do I turn ...

I've updated to 1.1.5. Today I got a notice that someone unexpected had registered a new account. Looking at httpd logs definitely showed someone was probing and then passing in code:

88.80.193.15 - - [27/Nov/2008:09:17:09 -0500] "GET /mantis/ HTTP/1.1" 302 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows ...

Turns out my error was probably caused in part because for some reason my mantis_upgrade_table had the columen upgrade_id as a char(6), which is too small. I'm attempting to fix the problem by altering the table to increase the number of chars allowed.

I feel silly not knowing where to post a bug report for software that's used to report bugs, but I hope you'll excuse that I'm in a hurry and don't want to fail to report this _somewhere_.

I've found, while attempting to upgrade from 0.18 to 1.06, that I needed
to edit the select command in upgrade ...