Upgrade instructions are included in this article. 

I have released Mad Blanks 1.2.1.

This release solves several minor problems and changes the default settings to be more useful for most users.

The following minor features, additions, and bug fixes have been added to Mad Blanks version 1.2.1:

• Changed the default behavior to always automatically approve and automatically publish records submitted via the Create Single Record module
• Streamlined the speed of queries when viewing records on the front end when there are many records in a category
• Rewrote client side (JavaScript) form validation to work with form element types other than input (text) and textarea
• The number of "most recent lookup" tags allowable to use in a Score Script has been increased to 500
• The number of "lookup" tags allowable to use in a Score Script has been increased to 50
• Fixed "most recent lookup" tag output formatting that was incorrect in a Score Script when the category of the just-submitted record was different than the category of the looked up value
• Fixed: Itemid is present even if not set in auto generated list of quizzes to take on main component page
• Fixed: Report of 1st question repeating twice
• Changed the default behavior to show who the record was entered by when displaying Mad Blanks records using the component on the front end
• Removed irrelevant error message when deleting Score Scripts in Joomla 1.0.x
• Several other small fixes and alterations

How to upgrade the Mad Blanks component and modules to version 1.2.1

Before making any changes to your Joomla! website, it is always wise to back up your Joomla! directory tree and your website's database.

If you have custom configuration settings in <Joomla! root directory>/administrator/components/com_madblanks/madblanksconfig.php or custom CSS in <Joomla! root directory>/components/com_madblanks/madblanks.css, be sure to save a copy of those files in particular. 

Once you have backed up your data, you can simply uninstall the previously installed version of the component and then install com_madblanks-1.2.1.zip in the Installers->Components section of your Joomla! administrator interface. No data is removed from the database when uninstalling the Mad Blanks component.

When installing the new version of the component, the installer will attempt to update the existing Mad Blanks database tables, if necessary. In most cases this should succeed without a problem. In the event that the installer is unable to apply the needed updates, the post-installation screen will provide you with an SQL query or queries that you should run on your database using your database manager.

There are no changes to the structure of the Mad Blanks database tables in this (version 1.2.1) release.  The last changes were additions to both the jos_madblanks_categories and jos_madblanks_records database tables in version 1.2.0. If you are updating to Mad Blanks 1.2.1 from a version prior to 1.2.0, you should receive either a confirmation that the tables were updated in green text or a notice to run one or more SQL queries given in red text when upgrading from a previous release of the component.

How to upgrade the modules to version 1.2.1

To upgrade the modules, you can uninstall them and install the new ones using the Installers->Modules section of your Joomla! administrator interface. The disadvantage of this is that any module parameters you have saved will be lost. If you wish to preserve the parameters you have saved in your older-version Mad Blanks modules, in a temporary directory manually unzip the Mad Blanks 1.2.1 modules you will be installing and then manually copy those files to the <Joomla! root directory>/modules directory, overwriting the existing Mad Blanks module files. Note that each module consists of two files: a PHP and an XML file.

Once you have copied the module files, edit each Mad Blanks module on your website and resave the module parameters in order to be sure all the new parameters as well as the original parameters have values saved in the database. In general, failure to (re)save the parameters of any newly installed or upgraded module or plugin in Joomla! can cause strange behavior.