On Tuesday, 27 April 2010, Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.17 [Wojmamni ama woobusani]. This is a priority release to correct two issues in version
The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
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Instructions
Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox . Documentation is available for beginners.
Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.
Release Notes
Check the Joomla 1.5.17 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.
If you have modified core template overrides, please be sure to back them up before upgrading.
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
1.5.16. Although there are no security issues fixed in this release, we consider it a security release because a security-related bug has been fixed and because many sites may be upgraded directly from 1.5.15 to 1.5.17.
