Joomla! 1.5.5 Released

By the date of 28th July 2008, The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.5 [Mamni]. This is a quick turnaround release to address the Duplicate Title error from 1.5.4 . This release also contains important SEF URL improvements and fixes for com_content in addition to a number of bug fixes and improvements. It has been nearly three weeks since Joomla! 1.5.4 was released on July 8, 2008. The Development Working Group ’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla! community.

Go check put and try the newest one from Joomla!

Joomla! 1.5.6 Goals
- Menu performance improvements
- Replacement of the Pear library
- Update of the OpenID library to v 2.0
- Consistency for 403 errors and “Register to Read More” functionality
- Identify and fix Form Redirects that do not have SEF URLs
- Expand Automated URL testing scenarios
- Recruit Bug Squad members who use Joomla! with non-English languages, especially those who use a RTL language
- Introduction of Unit Testing
- Continue working on the //TODO tags in source code

After Upgrading to Wordpress 2.6

After the official release of wordpress 2.6 that i wrote yesterday, i also doing major upgrade to this blog which was using wordpress 2.5.1 as the publishing system, and so what can i say about the newest wordpress release? whoaaa… awesome!!

The main novelties are heading for Wordpress 2.6 revisions, which allows a comparison of current and older versions of content; Press This is a bookmarklet which simplifies the process of creating content and links to other sites Google Gears support, which accelerates many publishing using a local cache for some pages, and the topic Overview support, which allows the administrator to preview their site will be with a new user interface, without pushing the life. These are all welcome additions, and they are based on the top of an already mature, feature-rich core.

Small improvements have been the icing on the cake for 2.6. What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editing is generally better with a better image, integrated word, and renewed TinyMCE. A number of improvements to security at their disposal, including improved support SSL, and a number of improvements cookies and a database of interaction.

Whenever a major upgrade to a software arises, backward compatibility is a concern. With nearly 2 million downloads of WordPress 2.5, it is an incumbent users to consider. Fortunately WordPress 2.6 is fully compatible, including plug-ins, so that the upgrade should be easy. Fresh also installs a breeze, as WordPress continues its tradition of a simple less minutes to install.

Wordpress 2.6 Released

WordPress 2.6 was officially released today. Matt surprised many of us to release the WordPress 2.6 nearly one month ahead of schedule. There are several new features of WordPress 2.6, some of them, we covered the period from the past. WordPress team also created a video which shows that the new features of the package with WordPress 2.6.

It is not never had no reason not to use the management interface, but said that the versatility and flexibility of WordPress, many people are using, and built the software, which is against you here.

WordPress 2.6 to use Google Gears, which is available on the acceleration is a cache of static images, which are established every time you visit your WordPress admin panel. Here is the embed media to show what’s new in Wordpress 2.6:

Don’t forget to download it as soon as possible, and so, this blog also proudly powered by Wordpress 2.6

Drupal 5.8 & Drupal 6.3 Released

Today, I got a Drupal Security Announcement email from the Drupal team. In the email, the team stated that they found multiple vulnerabitilies and weaknesses in Drupal. But neither of these vulnerabilities are readily exploitable.

Some of the vulnerabilities found includes XSS, Cross Site Request Forgeries, Session Fixation and SQL Injection.

These vulnerabilities and weakness affects all 5.x and 6.x Drupal branches, and it’s strongly advice that you update your Drupal powered site to the latest version.

Download Latest Drupal Versions (5.8 and 6.3)

• If you are running Drupal 5.x then upgrade to Drupal 5.8 (download now)
• If you are running Drupal 6.x then upgrade to Drupal 6.3 (download now)

Released Joomla 1.5.4

Today, the Joomla core team release Joomla 1.5.4, this is just a normal maintainance release. This version will fix several issues including some minor security issues, bug fixes and add more echancements.

Security Issues Fixed

• 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

List of All the Bug Fixed

• 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

If you’re using Joomla 1.5, it’s time for you to upgrade to Joomla 1.54. You can download it from here.

More infos are available on http://www.joomla.org