Developer’s of open-source systems has been very vigilant nowadays after a lot of hacking incidents. Joomla released version 1.5.7 and WordPress released a new version, 2.6.2, as well.
These moves strengthens the belief open-source users to the development community.
This is a security release and contains a number of bug fixes, improvements as well as security fixes. It is strongly recommended that users immediately upgrade. It has been nearly four weeks since Joomla 1.5.6 was released on August 12, 2008. The Development Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.