Joomla has announced 1.5.8 release on 10th November.

 Release Notes -

Security

• Two moderate-level security issues were fixed in this release:
  
  • Default filtering for content
  • Filtering for Web Link descriptions

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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