Upgrade to Joomla 1.5.14

Email received before 6 AM on July 31, 2009 (Friday):

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.14 [Wojmamni ama naiki]. This release contains fixes for two material bugs that were introduced in version 1.5.13 and one low level security issue. Instead of waiting for a normal 6 to 8-week release cycle, this release is being made available to users now. It has been eight days since Joomla 1.5.13 was released on July 22, 2009.

If you have modified core template overrides, make sure to back them up before upgrading.

Security

One low-level security issue was fixed in this release:

• Low Priority – Core – com_mailto Timeout. More information »

For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.

Components

• Fixed error message in Media Manager (17319)

Modules

• No modules issues were fixed for this release

Plugins

• Fixed callback error message in TinyMCE editor (17323)

Legacy

• No legacy issues were fixed for this release

Templates

• No template issues were fixed for this release

Language

• No language issues were fixed for this release

Administrator

• No administrator issues were fixed for this release

System

• No system issues were fixed for this release

Statistics

Statistics for the 1.5.14 release period:

• Joomla 1.5.14 contains:
  • 2 issues fixed in SVN
  • 2 commits
• Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 14 active issues:
  • 28 new reports
  • 12 closed
  • 2 fixed in SVN
• At the time the 1.5.14 release was packaged, the tracker had 202 active issues:
  • 99 open
  • 68 confirmed
  • 35 pending

This is a very minor upgrade and it takes just a few seconds to FTP the new files over for overwriting.