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Aug 24
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he Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.10 [Wohmamni]. This is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.
This release contains 66 bug fixes, one low-level security fix, and one moderate-level security fix. It has been 11 weeks since Joomla 1.5.9 was released on January 10, 2009. The Development Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
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Release Notes
Check the Joomla 1.5.10 Post-Release Notes to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.
Security
One low-level and one moderate-level security issue were fixed in this release:
- Moderate Priority: A series of XSS and CSRF faults exist in the administrator application. Affected administrator components include com_admin, com_media, com_search. Both com_admin and com_search contain XSS vulnerabilities, and com_media contains 2 CSRF vulnerabilities. More information »
- Low Priority: A XSS vulnerability exists in the category view of com_content. More information »
For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.
Components
- Article Alias no longer missing from Category Views (14228)
- Section List now drills down correctly to a Category List with Global Content Filters (14510)
- Web link Router now uses correct Category value (14705)
- Article HTML filtering correct when only one Filter group selected (14758)
- Tooltip Help corrected for Section, Category, and Article Alias (15007)
- Sorting lists by values other than Order corrected (15107)
- Archived Article Filter Function works correctly (15124)
- Ampersand in site name no longer breaks Position value in vCard (15143)
- Added “/” before URL in Remind Me and Password links for com_user (15215)
- Search works properly using international characters with SEF enabled (15233)
- Register to Read More in redirect URL correct for Section and Category Menu Items (15266)
- Multiple Search Menu Items now return correct ItemID (15293)
- com_media no longer incorrectly loads CSS files from the backend (15354)
- Fixed invalid XHTML output in com_content and com_contact (15362)
- Small errors in code comments corrected for com_user (15461)
Modules
- Changing the module’s ‘Position’ value now correctly changes the value for the ‘Order’ listbox. (12119)
- When Module is saved, Module’s cache is now cleared (12137)
- Encoding behavior for quotes and ampersands corrected in Modules (13111)
- Menu image alignment resolved (14071)
- Menu Alias respects Active setting (14767)
- Resolved tag error in mod_feed (14948)
- Login Redirect returns to current page when no Redirect URL is specified (15376)
Plugins
- Fixed ID tags used by openid.js (13285)
- Pagebreak works correctly with JCE (14525)
- Pagebreak outputs correct XHTML elements (14496)
- Pagebreak accurately tracks active page (14558)
- Pagebreak works correctly with Section tables (14827)
- Caching error resolved for Remember Me function (14857)
- Menu Item changes are now cached properly (14896)
- SEF Plugin correctly handles “Data” attribute (15137)
- Load Position no longer deletes dollar sign and next two positions, in Module output (15237)
Legacy
- No legacy issues fixed for this release.
Templates
- Beez: Correct Last Updated date used in Section Blog (14571)
- JA Purity: All Article text no longer linked when Category presented (14286)
- rhuk Milkyway: Correct authorEmail value (14439)
- Corrected RTL issue for Site Title when mouse hovering over Template Logo (14945)
Language
- Localization for user name corrected in registration form (14468)
- Corrected localization issue for new Module (13999)
- User details translatable (14710)
- Localization corrected for installation of Component (14859)
- Copy Menu Items function is now translatable (14944)
- Pagebreak now translatable (15300)
- Uninstalling a Component now has all Language Strings (15375)
Administrator
- Categories are now sortable in reverse order by Order data element (14004)
- Parameter Element ID for folderlist and filelist are correct (14514)
- Date format correct for ‘checked out date’ (14381)
System
- Installation of Extensions no longer fails when zip files are included (9701)
- No longer missing l10n in JApplicationHelper::parseXMLInstallFile() (11798)
- Resolved Javascript errors created by previous SEF Background Image Fix (13973)
- Resolved problem with error handling in JFactory::getXMLParser (14022)
- Case-sensitive image extensions (14059)
- Atom feed validates correctly (14515)
- JString::RTrim method is correct (14491)
- Removed short open tag in admin.categories.html.php (14660)
- JInstallerComponent::_rollback_menu() error resolved when getting DB Connector (14795)
- File move now correctly returns “false” when not read or writable (14818)
- Directory Permissions listed correctly for Temp and Log Folders (14865)
- JFolder::folders no longer returns unnecessary warning (14875)
- Setting Tooltip Offset works correctly (15006)
- JArchiveZip::_extractNative() correctly identifies zip_open() failure (15044)
- Installer.php parseMedia points to correct folder (15047)
- Custom Install file upgraded on Component installation (15217)
- Undefined index HTTP_USER_AGENT error fixed in behavior.php (15282)
Statistics
Statistics for the 1.5.10 release period:
- Joomla 1.5.10 contains:
- 68 issues fixed in SVN
- 281 commits
- Tracker activity resulted in a net decrease of 8 active issues:
- 176 new reports
- 133 closed
- 68 fixed in SVN
- At the time the 1.5.10 release was packaged, the tracker had 95 active issues:
- 44 open
- 40 confirmed
- 11 pending
Joomla! Bug Squad
Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug with Joomla, find out more information here on how to report the bug.
Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-coordinators; Airton Torres, Akarawuth Tamrareang, Arno Zijlstra, Amy Stephen, Andrew Eddie, Anthony Ferrara, Ashwin Date, Dan Walker, Dennis Hermacki, Edvard Ananyan, Elin Waring, Ercan Ozkaya, Gergő Erdősi, Hannes Papenberg, Kevin Devine, Kevin Sookocheff, Klas Berlič, Marieke van der Tuin, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mati Kochen, Niels Braczek, Pete Nurse, Rosario Buste, Samuel Moffatt, Shantanu Bala, and Wilco Jansen.
A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Amit Kumar Singh, Andrew Rose, Ashwin Date, Edvard Ananyan, Joe Palmer, Kashyap Puranik, Niels Braczek, Parth Lawate, Pete Nurse, Philip Walton, Richard Malinowski, and Srinivas Chilukuri.
- Google Summer of Code 2009
The 2009 edition of the Google Summer of Code projects has been announced. We appreciate Google’s continued support of free software and for funding numerous open source projects, and will apply certainly for this years edition. It will be the fifth edition of this open source event, and when accepted we will have been part equal times…we are really looking forward to welcome another group of contributors with fresh ideas.
Joomla! is an international award-winning open source content management system (CMS) deployed worldwide with more than 8 million downloads in the last 2 years. If you participate with Joomla!, your work will have a positive impact on people all around the world. If you enjoy developing applications and you want to work with experienced developers using emerging technologies, consider to join in to the Google Summer Of Code for Joomla!
Joomla! version 1.5, released last year, provides developers with an object-oriented, pattern based API that follows best practices and is organized into well-structured and logical framework packages. It uses an MVC design pattern for components, which gives developers a great platform for rapid application development and prototyping. Developers can hook into nearly any part of the application stack using Joomla!’s newly reworked events system, implemented according to the observer design pattern. Judging from the community participation since the 1.5 release, developers have been pleased with this new technology foundation for Joomla! They have written over 4,500 extensions for Joomla!, which are available on the Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED).
Work on Joomla! version 1.6 is well underway and expected to be available later in 2009. This major upgrade contains many important new features. SoC participants will have the opportunity to help with this important Joomla! version. Work on Joomla! 1.6 could be just one of the goals, we really would like to see other areas of innovation getting worked on also.
- Joomla 1.5 Coming of Age and Looking Forward
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the release of Joomla 1.5, the first major release of the popular content management system.In January 2008, the first stable release was downloaded almost 200,000 times. Since then, the total number has exploded to over 8 million downloads. Joomla is seeing the highest rate of adoption ever.That same month, the Joomla Extensions Directory contained 2,600 extensions written for Joomla 1.0.x, a small percentage of which worked with Joomla 1.5. Today, that number is approaching 5,000 and most are Joomla 1.5 native. The JED is a a powerful barometer of the commitment of the community to the Joomla Project and platform.And that community continues to grow exponentially. The Joomla Discussion Forums contain over 1.5 million posts from almost 250,000 users. The spirit of open source, collaboration, and users helping users has never been stronger.The Joomla Web sites have undergone a dramatic facelift and restructuring to better serve our users of all levels and the positive feedback has been overwhelming. Last January, there were approximately 10 million unique visitors to the family of Joomla sites and that number has doubled to 20 million in the last year.The Joomla Project teams have released nine versions of Joomla 1.5 in the last year, improving security, increasing usability, fixing bugs, and adding new features.The Joomla Code forge provides a solid development resource for almost 1,500 open source projects and over 138,000 developers.Around 20 Joomla Days (and countless other events and expos) took place in 2008, allowing people all over the world to not only learn more about Joomla, but to connect an untold number of developers, users, and designers in one of the most unique open source projects in the history of the Internet.Clearly, the state of Joomla is strong and on the upswing.
Looking forward in 2009
The retirement of the Joomla 1.0.x series in 2009 reallocates resources to the future of Joomla and in 2008, the white paper process allowed the community to submit suggestions and prioritize focus on features for the next major version of Joomla. With that process complete and all the Joomla teams working tirelessly toward this goal, the delivery of Joomla 1.6 in 2009 promises to push the envelope even further.The family of Joomla Web sites provide an energizing hub for users and developers worldwide and work to improve their effectiveness is an ongoing effort. New ways to excite users about the power of Joomla and new ways to engage developers with the sophistication of the Joomla framework are in progress.Joomla events are wasting no time in amassing users in 2009. Already, there are many scheduled events. Of note are the Melbourne Joomla Day ’09, Joomla Day UK, and Joomla Day Las Vegas, where members of the Joomla team will be on hand to give first-hand help and information.The promise of Joomla’s future is limitless. The foundations of freedom, innovation, and creativity help lead the charge in developing one of the most empowering publishing platforms available. The Joomla Project is grateful for the trust which users have placed in us and hopes to make 2009 as prosperous as 2008.