It looks like the life of Joomla 1.5.16 was the successor to Joomla 1.5.15 for about 3 days and unfortunately it appears there was critical bugs with the Joomla 1.5.16 release. This has made the dev team speed up the old development process for the next roll out. Instead of hypothosizing the whole scenario all I can say is that atleast all the 1.5.16 updates are included in this update and there is even a string of upgrade packs available. I am willing to accept comments on this article with guesses as to the longevitiy of this release.
Here are the updates in the joomla 1.5.17 release: (Please note this list is massive!)
Security
No security issues were fixed in this release. For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.
Components
- No component issues were fixed for this release
Modules
- No moduleissues were fixed for this release.
Plugins
- No plugin issues were fixed for this release.
Legacy
- No legacy issues were fixed for this release.
Templates
- No Templates issues were fixed for this release.
Language
- Updated ru-RU installation language (20239)
- Added en-AU installation language (20220)
- Updated help sites list (20238)
Administrator
- No administrator issues were fixed for this release.
System
- Fixed problem logging in when Session Handler is set to None (20221)
- Fixed error message when running Joomla! in a PHP version prior to version 5.2 (20219)
- Reverted change to JFolder::makesafe method that introduced a bug (16506)
Statistics for the 1.5.17 release period:
- Joomla 1.5.17 contains:
- 6 issues fixed in SVN
- 6 commits
- Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 4 active issues:
- 10 new reports
- 0 closed
- 6 fixed in SVN
- At the time the 1.5.17 release was packaged, the tracker had 307 active issues:
- 171 open
- 105 confirmed
- 31 pending
