The well-known open source Content Management System (CMS) named Joomla! has just been updated to version 1.5.4. This new release comes some ten weeks after version 1.5.3 and it features updates like:
Big Fixes
- Major Cache overhaul, including unit testing for quality assurance
- Router issues related to extending the router
- Menu ordering issues when nested menus were used
- Several Search component fixes, including the removal of HTML tags as possible search results
- Menu permissions issues
- Unpublished menu item issues, including fatal errors and allowing an unpublished menu item to be selected as default
- Banners can handle Flash items
- Polls and Latest and Most Popular articles listed in the Administrator now support GMT dates
- Page titles now follow more consistent rules (see Page Title Parameters for more information)
- Several OpenID improvements
Security
- LDAP security fix to prevent unauthorized access to administration
- Added security to file caching to prevent unauthorized access to cached pages
- User Redirect Spam fix
- htaccess global variable security fix when SEF is enabled (See .htaccess Security Fix)
Additions/Changes
- OnBeforeContentSave and onAfterContentSave Event Triggers added (See Content Trigger Additions for more information)
- Ability to abort a save by returning false in the onBeforeContentSave trigger
- Added JA_Purity template (See JA_Purity Template for more information)
- Help screens updated (See Help Screens for more information)
- Supports installing site and admin languages in one package (See Language Installation Improvements for more information)
- All line endings changed to \n instead of a mix of \r\n and \n
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