diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index e741d6d..17784d1 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v19.0.0
+v19.0.1
diff --git a/www/winc/app_sysconf_edit.inc.php b/www/winc/app_sysconf_edit.inc.php
index b9818ac..513e3f0 100644
--- a/www/winc/app_sysconf_edit.inc.php
+++ b/www/winc/app_sysconf_edit.inc.php
@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ function ws_save($window_name, $form='') {
                                             array('name' => $form['name'],
                                                   'value' => $form['value'],
                                                   'description' => $form['description'],
+                                                  'field_validation_rule' => '',
+                                                  'failed_rule_text' => '',
                                                   'editable' => 1,
                                                   'deleteable' => 1)
                                             );
diff --git a/www/workspace_plugins/builtin/desktop_versioncheck/main.inc.php b/www/workspace_plugins/builtin/desktop_versioncheck/main.inc.php
index 7752bff..8d0cc36 100644
--- a/www/workspace_plugins/builtin/desktop_versioncheck/main.inc.php
+++ b/www/workspace_plugins/builtin/desktop_versioncheck/main.inc.php
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Since fopen is required, I had been getting 'unable to determine' messages.
 I was able to fix it by adding the following to my apache config for the ona site
 
-php_admin_flag allow_url_fopen on
+php_admin_flag allow_url_fopen on # not sure this is required anymore?
 */
 
 $title_right_html = '';
@@ -17,11 +17,13 @@
 // Display only on the desktop
 if ($extravars['window_name'] == 'html_desktop') {
     // Dont perform a version check if the user has requested not to
-    if (!array_key_exists('skip_version_check', $conf)) {
+    if (!$conf['skip_version_check']) {
         //@ini_set('user_agent',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']."-----".$conf['version']);
 
         // Define the URL we use to check what version is the latest release
         $ona_check_version_url = 'http://checkversion.opennetadmin.com';
+        $onaver = 'Unable to determine';
+        $buffer = '';
 
         if ($ona_check_version_url) {
             $stream_opts = array(
@@ -49,15 +51,17 @@
                 $timeout = 2;
                 $old = @ini_set('default_socket_timeout', $timeout);
                 $file = @fopen($ona_check_version_url, 'r', false, $context);
-                @ini_set('default_socket_timeout', $old);
-                stream_set_timeout($file, $timeout);
-                #stream_set_blocking($file, 0);
+                if (!$file) {
+                  $onaver="Unable to reach check version server";
+                } else {
+                  @ini_set('default_socket_timeout', $old);
+                  stream_set_timeout($file, $timeout);
+                  #stream_set_blocking($file, 0);
+                }
             //}
         }
 
-        $onaver = 'Unable to determine';
-        $buffer = '';
-        if (isset($file)) {
+        if (isset($file) && $file != false) {
             while (!feof ($file)) {
                 $buffer .= trim(fread ($file, 1024));
             }