thank you for the information, is it reported elsewhere what are the security issues?
The problems i have encountered after the upgrade are mostly related to messed up server configuration, messed up firewall, messed up apache configuration, messed up mail server, so it requires big time updating on a production server and trying to restore configuration.
Possibly if i'll keep using cwp, i'll install the new version on a fresh server and will import the cwp users and web sites on it, this is at the moment the most safe procedure i can think of.
About the warning message inside the control panel, i have seen it, this is another thing that looked a bit unprofessional, because it is visible by all users and it never stated that the panel will be unavailable soon, sorry but this is not a good behavior in my opinion.
I don't have updated because there is not a working script and the manual procedure doesn't work right.
If the security issues are serious and update doesn't work, then i'll have to switch to a different panel.
you have the notification in cwp.admin in "red alert" box more than a few months now.
You need to do this upgrade as version 0.9.8.15x is very old and has security issues which were fixed a long time ago.
Also, each cwp version has expire date so you can't run it forever as it will be unusable soon and then you will have an error and no notification about upgrade needed.