Joomla 1.5.9 Security Release

Joomla 1.5.9 [Vatani], the Security Release. Here’s a run of what’s in the release:

Statistics for the 1.5.9 release period:

  • Joomla 1.5.9 contains:
    • 81 issues fixed in SVN
    • 55 commits
  • Tracker activity resulted in a net decrease of 1 active issue:
    • 169 new reports
    • 92 closed
    • 81 fixed in SVN
  • At the time the 1.5.9 release was packaged, the tracker had 113 active issues:
    • 63 open
    • 47 confirmed
    • 3 pending

WordPress 2.6.2

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.