Custom field casting affected by recent update?

[icaria36]

In case this is indeed the bug causing problems, here I explain the consequences (it may make your site unusable):

Events Plugin

This patch seems to work! I can tell that the difference between having this patch or not for us meant having a broken site or a(n apparently) fully functional one. These were the effects of the bug: Discourse not rendering to anonymous users beyond the header (totally unusable site). For registered users, probably non-cached content (i.e. Latest lists) wouldn’t render, and the rest was a hit or miss. Strangely enough, from three admins two would lose access to the web UI completely while a t…