The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.12 [Wojmamni Ama Woi]. This release contains a number of bug fixes and three moderate-level security fixes. It has been less than a month since Joomla 1.5.11 was released on June 3, 2009.

This release marks an important milestone for the Joomla Project due to the upgrade of the PEAR library to the new BSD licensed version, which brings the codebase into full compliance with the GPL. In addition, this release contains an important upgrade to TinyMCE v 3.2.4.1.

The Production Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

 


 

Download

• Download Joomla 1.5.12 (Full package)
• Download Joomla 1.5.11 > 1.5.12 update package
• All 1.5.12 Packages

Instructions

• New installation and technical requirements
• Upgrade from an existing Joomla 1.5.x version
• Migration from Joomla 1.0.x
• Documentation for beginners

Want to test drive Joomla?

• Check out the online demo.
• Try an easy to use, pre-configured virtual application with Turnkey Linux or JumpBox.

Release Notes

Before upgrading, read the Release Notes and review the Post-Release Notes to see if there is important supplemental information or helpful hints discovered after the release. Also, do a backup your site before performing the upgrade.

Security

• Moderate Priority - Core - Frontend XSS. More information »
• Moderate Priority - Core - Missing JEXEC check. More information »
• Moderate Priority - Core - Frontend XSS. More information »

Components

• Category List Layout sorts correctly (15541)
• Category List Layout HTML error resolved (16595 )
• Minimum User Level for Media Manager works correctly for Editors submitting Articles (16597)
• Article Manager shows non-duplicated Page Titles with Page Breaks (16686)
• Section Filter for Content Component correctly lists only Article Categories (16601)
• Reverted escaping of miscellaneous information field in com_contact (17006)

Modules

• No modules were fixed for this release.

Plugins

• Update to TinyMCE 3.2.4.1 (12376)
• Updated installer SQL to correspond with TinyMCE upgrade (17005)
• Added missing language strings for TinyMCE after initial upgrade (16977)

Legacy

• No legacy issues were fixed in this release.

Templates

• Beez Template fix for Contact Component Layout (14540)
• Beez Template fix for Article Published Date in the Form Layout (15673)
• Beez Template Newsflash Module now has correct Read More link (16607)
• Beez Template and User Component print the correct Page Title on Login Page (16890)
• System Template CSS correctly links to OpenID login-bg.gif file (14540)
• JA Purity Template now has anchor tag ending for Category Title on Frontpage Blog Layout (16896)
• JA Purity Template shows Modified Date in Article Layout (15740)

Language

• Feed Module Tip wording changed to correctly state "time in minutes" (15740)
• en-GB Language File Date Format displays correctly with Frontend Components using Calendar Date Selection (16779)
• Missing language strings available for Beez Templates (16820)
• Additional language strings added for Tiny MCE (16950)
• Added mk-MK installer language pack (no tracker item)

Administrator

• CSS files save correctly when edited using Template Manager (16753)

System

• Upgraded PEAR with a newer version that has BSD licensing (12746)
• PHPMailer allows secure connections to SMTP Servers (12886)
• File::upload() uses chmod 644 in FTP mode (16593)
• Tooltips correctly encoded (16719)
• Reverted detailed module caching fix (15727)

Statistics

Statistics for the 1.5.12 release period:

• Joomla 1.5.12 contains:
  • 25 issues fixed in SVN
  • 14 commits
• Tracker activity resulted in a net decrease of 11 active issues:
  • 54 new reports
  • 74 closed
  • 25 fixed in SVN
• At the time the 1.5.12 release was packaged, the tracker had 146 active issues:
  • 59 open
  • 60 confirmed
  • 27 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 in Joomla, please report it on the Joomla 1.5 Bug Tracker.

Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-coordinators; Airton Torres, Alan Langford, Ashwin Date, Dennis Hermacki, Elin Waring, Flavia Tarzwell, Gergő Erdősi, Hannes Papenberg, Jennifer Marriott, Johnathan Cheung, Kevin Devine, Klas Berlič, Marieke van der Tuin, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mati Kochen, Ole Bang Ottosen, Sajid Ahmed, Samuel Moffatt, and Tibor Tóth.

A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Johnathan Cheung, Sajid Ahmed, and Shaun Janssens.

Today we are proud to announce an important shift in the organisation and governance of the Joomla Project. This change is focused on making it easier to fulfill our mission, achieve our vision and remain true to our values.

Firstly, we are simplifying the current Working Group structure. Secondly, we are changing the leadership and management of the project in a way that provides a more open and flexible structure. Thirdly, we are shifting the governance of the project to a model that reflects the increased maturity of the organisation and provides a solid foundation for sustainable growth.

These changes will bring the organisation of the Joomla Project in line with its mission to "provide a flexible platform for digital publishing and collaboration." The vision statement for the Joomla Project describes "People publishing and collaborating in their communities and around the world" and the goal of these changes is to facilitate this within the Joomla Project as well as for communities built using Joomla software. These changes developed from discussions at the Joomla Leadership Summit held in June of 2008. At that summit the core team and the board of Open Source Matters worked to clarify the mission of the project and to develop more flexible structures to carry out the work of the project.

The Joomla Project is excited to celebrate a remarkable benchmark in the world of open source—our 10 millionth download.

As one of the most powerful publishing platforms available, Joomla has grown exponentially since it's first release in 2005, which was downloaded just over 72,000 times from JoomlaCode. That meteoric rise in less than four years is a solid statement by the Joomla Community about how the project changes lives all over the world.

With Joomla 1.6 on the horizon, that same community is energized and excited for what the future holds. Development is underway on the next generation content management system, which will enable you, our faithful users, to achieve new heights and hopefully accomplish another 10 million downloads. 

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.11 [Vea]. This is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.

This release contains 26 bug fixes, two moderate-level security fixes and one low-level security fix. It has been 11 weeks since Joomla 1.5.10 was released on March 28, 2009. The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Download

Click here to download Joomla 1.5.11 (Full package) »

Click here to find an update package. »

Instructions

• New installation and technical requirements
• Upgrade from an existing Joomla 1.5 version
• Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x

Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is available for beginners.

Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.

Release Notes

Check the Joomla 1.5.11 Post-Release Notes to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.

If you have modified core template overrides, please be sure to back them up before upgrading.

Security

One low-level and two moderate-level security issues were fixed in this release:

• Moderate Priority: Core - com_users XSS. More information »
• Moderate Priority: Core - ja_purity XSS. More information »
• Low Priority: Core - Front-end XSS. More information »

For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.

Components

• Prev and Next links no longer create duplicate content with SEF URLs (13890)
• Atom feed validates for Contact Category and Weblinks Category layouts (15446)
• Article Category layout sorts correctly (15541)
• Form correctly uses JRoute for action (15551)
• Improved control over who is able to upload files (15691)
• Search results work correctly for multiple search terms with SEF URLs enabled (15853)
• RSS 2.0 feeds try to turn mailto links into absolute URLs (15909)
• Atom link in RSS feed causes validation problems (16211)

Modules

• Login correctly uses view=register (15740)
• Module cache, ID, ItemID (15727)

Plugins

• No plugin issues were fixed in this release.

Legacy

• No legacy issues were fixed for this release

Templates

• Khepri template has correct CSS icon for Article (15912)
• Align attribute in mod_mainmenu no longer causes problems for some templates (15963)
• Updated the helpsites.xml files (16397)

Language

• Translated description for Component, Module, Plugin, etc. after installation (13898)  
• Change in Montenegrin language ISO Code (16112)
• Modified Montenegrin language code to be ME from SLA for consistency (16349)
• Install language changes (16405)

Administrator

• Global Configuration "Undefined Variable" warning now resolved (15699)
• Legacy code in installer premigration system causes unrelated errors (16236)

System

• Installation of some packages no longer fails (15701)
• Installation Version Display corrected (15913)
• JFile::getName() loses first character (16007)
• db->updateObject function outdated (15417)
• PHPDoc Comment for JFactory getDocument method incorrect (16314)
• offline.php file now has correct stylesheet (16500)

Statistics

Statistics for the 1.5.11 release period:

• Joomla 1.5.11 contains:
  • 26 issues fixed in SVN
  • 33 commits
• Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 13 active issues:
  • 76 new reports
  • 27 closed
  • 25 fixed in SVN
• At the time the 1.5.11 release was packaged, the tracker had 157 active issues:
  • 90 open
  • 49 confirmed
  • 18 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, please report it on the 1.5 Bug Tracker.

Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-coordinators; Airton Torres, Amy Stephen, Dennis Hermacki, Elin Waring, Ercan Ozkaya, Flavia Tarzwell, Gergő Erdősi, Hannes Papenberg, Jennifer Nodwell, Joe Palmer, Kevin Devine, Klas Berlič, Marieke van der Tuin, Marijke Stuivenberg, Marius van Rijnsoever, Mark Smeed, Mati Kochen, Ole Bang Ottosen, Pete Nurse, Rajesh Dhanusu, Samuel Moffatt, Shantanu Bala, Anthony Ferrera, and Wilco Jansen.

A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Flavia Tarzwell, Jason Johnston, Jason Powers, Julio Pontes, Mark Smeed, Omar Ramos, and Ricardo Accioly.