WordPress 2.6.2

semadmin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:00:07 +0000

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.

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Joomla 1.5.7 Security Release

semadmin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:30:23 +0000

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.

Release Notes

Security

Several security issues were fixed in this release. There was 1 critical, 1 major and 2 moderate security vulnerabilities fixed in 1.5.7. For more information, visit the Security Center.

Articles

com_content: Metadata handling; Alias not copied for Articles
String Escaping: External links; Titles; Alt tags missing on images
Blog Layout: Article Page break; new Left-to-Right option; Breadcrumbs; Archive Intro Text formatting issues; Section Blog Article links
Submit Article: Article Order Drop-Down List on Front End Shows Archived and Trashed Articles; Preview edited Article does not use Template Editor.css
RSS Feed: Publish Date fix; External URLs rendering incorrectly
SEO: Index and Follow Meta Tag for Print View

Modules

Show_noauth problem; Module Deletion after uninstall; Colspan in mod_latest; Copy Newsflash Module
Name and Username in mod_login; Menu item is locked after closing
Search: Textfield Width Parameter; Show Search Results option; Category Search

Legacy

Menu Access Rights Corrections; Menu Separator shows as Link

Templates

Beez: Contact Image; Typo in Attribute value; Newsflash Article URL
ja_purity: e-Mail and Print Button files; Default Article Layout does not display Edit Icon for Authors; Site Logo Text goes under Header background; Top menu
UPDATE (Sept. 10, 2008): New function countMenuChildren() added for hiding empty split menus

Administrator

$row is not Initialized
Help: Latest Version check; Help Key Reference Update for Modules: New Screen
Configuration: Time Zone correction
Media Manager: Base path missing slashes
Sample Content: Outdated Links in “Welcome to Joomla”, Newsfeed Fixes, several updated articles and statistics
Installation: Remove confusing error message about language files for extension installations

System

IIS 6 and IIS 7: JRoute::_() and Application Redirect() fixes
Parameter Types: SQL, Textarea for Templates
E-mail: JMail class ignores JConfig.sendmail path for sendmail; Incorrect SEF URLs for outgoing recommendation e-mails
API: JHTMLSelect fix; queryBatch logging in debug mode; JSite::getParams(); strpos(); setMetadata creates duplicate meta tags; $row is not initialized
XML-RPC client ID is too high; Profiling J1.5 framework; $row is not initialized
Cache: JCacheStorageFile::gc flawed logic in cache expiry; Clean Cache file with Cache Manager