[TYPO3-english] CoolURI and link tag shot by Sec. Upd. 6.2.16?

[Axel Joensson]

Hi there,

two days ago my hoster updated a five language T3 6.2.15 website to
6.2.16. 

Today I first discovered that the CoolURIconf.xml (I had updated it just
about three weeks ago to the recent version 1.1.1) had simply vanished
from the typo3conf directory, while an old version (renamed for backup
purposes to CoolURIconf-old.xml) was still present. Uploading the
recently changed version by ftp to its place, CoolURI immediately awoke
from knock-out and reassumed service. 

How can an automated patch update shoot the conf-file of an up-to-date
ext in its last available version for no reason? Didn't that happen to
anyone else? And WHY?

Then something else: In each language in my site, there is a link page
with about 100 links available. I choose a list as content element type,
so each link is preceded by a dot. The syntax I used is simple and old,
each link as plaintext in a line of its own:

<link http://www.example.com/1>Anchor 1</link>
<link http://www.example.com/2>Anchor 2</link>

While T3 so far used to make proper clickable links out if this, it now
suddenly vomits the plaintext text as quoted above into the webpage. No
link, plain, unchanged syntax as entered. 

Wouldn't it be nice to warn people if (obviously) an old tag is about to
be executed? Or why does this syntax suddenly work no more? What am I
expected to do?

That wasn't a nice way of providing a system security update patch, at
least to me. 
 
Greets,
Axel