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
If you are wanting to switch module positions on and off when there are no modules in given positions on certain pages you can employ the following code:
<?php if($this->countModules(‘right’) == 1) : ?><div id=”main”><jdoc:include type=”component” /><jdoc:include type=”module” style=”xhtml” name=”right” /></div><?php else : ?><div id=”main100″><jdoc:include type=”component” /></div><?php endif; ?>
This will now show the right hand column if there is a module on the right. if there is no module it will hide the right hand column giving you more space in your content.
Looking for a component can not only be very time consuming but also challenging. While there are many great ideas and options out there for joomla components. There are unfortunately alot of “hack together” styled components. In saying that it is good to see that developers are attempting to make components for joomla and share them with other joomla fans.
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Have you been spending hours looking for that right joomla template? Have you had a few joomla templates in the past or are sick of being stuff with the default ones that are supplied with Joomla when you download it? The good news is that you are probably not the only person who has had this issue. Infact up until a couple of years ago there were millions of users out there with this very issue. Joomla templating can be very difficult and time consuming even for the “experts in joomla”.
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Joomla as you are more than likely aware is an open source content management system (CMS). This however can come at a cost with regards to any open source project. It usually means that the core developers involved are not able to commit to it full time and for extensive periods of time. Joomla however has gone against the grain in this instance by being around for quite a while now. Not only that but they have had many different releases of their software. Joomla 1.0.x which came out 4 or so years ago and then 2 years later 1.5.x was released.
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