| 30 June 2009
The Joomla Project has announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.12 [Wojmamni Ama Woi -- download here]. 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.
According to Joomla. org, "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."
According to Joomla.org, the following changes and updates are included in the new release:
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)