On April 23, 2010 joomla.org released the new version 1.5.16 - almost 5 months after the release of 1.5.15 - although the .15 version had no major security issues, there are some moderate security concerns.  Davlin Consulting will be performing updates to those clients with Joomla websites the first week of May, 2010.  All updates should be installed and configured no later than May 10, 2010.  Should you experience any trouble after this update, please open a ticket here.

Release Notes

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