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
Finally some 6 months after Joomla 1.5.15 was released Joomla have put together a security release of Joomla 1.5.16. There has been alot of bug fixes and alot of improvements to the core system. Some users have reported issues upgrading from 1.5.15 to 1.5.16 so it is a good idea to backup your joomla site before commencing the upgrade. Attached below is the list of fixes as documented on the Joomla website as well as direct links to download Joomla 1.5.16 full package.
Security
Four security issues were fixed in this release:
- Moderate Priority – Core – Negative Values for Limit and Offset. More information »
- Low Priority – Core – Installer Migration Script. More information »
- Moderate Priority – Core – Sessation Fixation. More information »
- Low Priority – Core – Password Reset Tokens. More information »
For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.
Components
- Fixed error in contacts with SEF enabled (17235)
- Fixed SQL error when sorting news feeds by section. (18648)
- Fixed problem showing URL for image files in Atom news feeds. (18936)
- Fixed problem where author alias was not escaped correctly. (19009)
- Fixed bug in pagination of category blog menu item. (19245)
- Fixed display of image captions in some situations. (19405)
- Fixed caching problem with com_contact. (19435)
- Added framework validation to com_media file. (19763)
- Fixed PHP notice when enabling or disabling a user. (19798)
Modules
- Fixed caching for related articles module (17000)
- Fixed notification error in login module (17762)
- Fixed problems with upgrade method in module installation (17878)
- Fixed typo in mod_latestnews. (18403)
- Fixed HTML validation problem with mod_search. (18619)
- Fixed problem with some news feeds not showing. (18672)
- Fixed problem in mod_login where trashed menu items show in redirect list. (19831)
Plugins
- Fixed problem saving content in TinyMCE when editor is toggled (17936)
- Fixed bug in email cloaking that added an extra space (17986)
- Fixed problem saving valid attributes for some HTML tags. (19055)
Legacy
- No legacy issues were fixed for this release
Templates
- Fixed problem loading template files for RTL languages. (18614)
- Fixed beez template to show correct Itemid after a search. (18683)
Language
- Added missing translation strings in installation. (19604)
- Added sr-YU language for installation. (19627)
- Added Phnom-Penh to timezone files. (19715)
- Added missing language strings in installation files. (19816)
- Added Arabic Unitag installation language ar_AA (19836)
- Added missing language strings for is-IS language in installation. (19864)
- Added missing strings in installation ini files. (19871)
- Added new hi-IN install language (19966)
- Added updates on installation ini files (20024)
- Fixed language bug in Menus (20055)
- Added language credits update (20195)
Administrator
- Fixed display problem in back end with RTL languages. (18570)
- Fixed problem where Menu Item types for disabled components still showed when adding menu items. (18617)
- Fixed problem with display of module position in Module Manager. (18848)
System
- Fixed JFolder::makeSafe method to not remove dots in path (16506)
- Fixed problem that prevented using a cache in some cases (16974)
- Remove PHP warning message on some versions (18612)
- Fixed problem installing modules in update mode. (18987)
- Fixed problem with Yagoon and Norfolk timezones. (19555)
- Fixed problem with return value when saving polling components. (19655)
- Fixed problem in JToolbarHelper class media_manager method. (19680)
- Fixed incorrect URI for IIS platforms (18046)
- Improved handling of failing Apache plugins (19859)
- Added Reykjavik in timezone (20025)
- Fixed JApplication::redirect() to not use 301 code (20043)
- Fixed SEF search URL’s for cross-platform compatibility (20184)
Statistics for the 1.5.16 release period:
- Joomla 1.5.16 contains:
- 48 issues fixed in SVN
- 52 commits
- Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 83 active issues:
- 224 new reports
- 94 closed
- 48 fixed in SVN
- At the time the 1.5.16 release was packaged, the tracker had 303 active issues:
- 169 open
- 103 confirmed
- 31 pending
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