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TagsJoomla has announced 1.5.8 release on 10th November.
Release Notes -
Security
- Two moderate-level security issues were fixed in this release:
For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.
Components
- Articles: Remove brackets around Last Updated date and time, Start Publishing date corrections for other than UTC 00:00, hit counts correct for Articles, adding a space after a cloaked email address
- E-mail addresses: Correctly cloaked when presented in Section and Category descriptions
- Categories: Edit icon correctly shows for Articles without Title links, Print icon correct now on first page for Blog Layout
- Sections: Plural and singular form correction, Category link properly ended, Router changes reverted to version 1.5.6 so Article ID does not append to the Article slug
- Frontpage: Article assignment correction, corrected number of Links
- Contacts: Image display correction when Image Directory is configured
- RSS Feed: Corrected spelling of Category in Category feed
- User: Added isInternal checking on referer values
- Weblinks: Language strings
Modules
- Feed: Target attribute validation, language string correction
- Login: ItemID is preserved on redirect
- Menu: Changing Menu Link Type now functions properly, Section Language string, Article Reset button working
- Related Items: Keyword matching functions correctly and filters characters appropriately
- Stats: Corrected Time
- Sections: No authorization parameter works correctly
- Search: Form validates correctly for Transitional xHTML
Legacy
- Return statement added for Legacy Menu Check
Templates
- Beez: Lengthened E-mail Content Popup, Search button now works when pressed, password reset works correctly, corrections to Beez HTML folders, User details page corrected
- JA_Purity: Added missing language strings
Administrator
- Console: Added "Welcome to Joomla!" information and Joomla Security RSS feeds to Administrator Console
- Installation: Proper deletion of component directories, default entries for Templates and Languages are now correct for uninstall
- Media Manager: Changed default for new sites to disable Flash multi-file uploader due to incompatibility with Flash 10
- Installation: Remove confusing error message about language files for extension installations, Administrator Modules now correctly uninstall INI files
- Sample data: Updated news feeds to point to free software community sites, extensive corrections and updates to sample content
System
- API: JFolder::files and JFolder::folders corrections for Search, missing Method added to JRecordSet, Database Class correctly quotes names not using dot notation, JTableUser matches using the correct number of fields
- Cache: Correct undefined variable in Cache Class
- Language file: Corrected wording, correct installation of PDF fonts independent of language choices, several language string corrections in en-GB.ini
- Menu: Performance improvements for sites with many menu items
- Users: Temporary Users are now able to logout, secure protocol can now be used when editing account details
- Added PHP 4 compatibility for isInternal checking
Statistics
Statistics for the 1.5.8 release period:
- Joomla 1.5.8 contains:
- 71 issues fixed in SVN
- 26 commits
- Tracker activity resulted in a net decrease of 4 active issues:
- 65 new reports
- 130 closed
- 66 fixed in SVN
- At the time the 1.5.8 release was packaged, the tracker had 114 active issues:
- 44 open
- 44 confirmed
- 24 pending
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