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The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of "bv850">Joomla! 1.5.4 [Naiki]. This is a normal maintenance release which includes a few
low to moderate security issues, many bug fixes, and several very nice improvements. It has
been a little over ten weeks since "Joomla! 1.5.3 was released" name="flc4">Joomla! 1.5.3 was released on April 24, 2008. The
"Development Working Group" id="vm-b" name="vm-b">Development Working Group's goal is to
continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla! community containing the latest
bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Instructions 

• New
  installation
• name="bv856">Upgrade from an existing Joomla! 1.5 version
• "bv858">Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x

"http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=3786"
title="Download Joomla! 1.5.4 and update packages" id="bv8510" target="_blank" name=
"bv8510">Download Joomla! 1.5.4 and update packages

Want to test drive Joomla!? Try the online demo.
Documentation is available for beginners.

Release Notes

Bug 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• Unpublished menu item issues, including fatal errors and allowing an unpublished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 "content/view/5180/1/1/2/" target="_self" title="Page Title Parameters" id="mw8r" name="mw8r">
  Page Title Parameters for more information)
• Several OpenID improvements

Security Fixes

• 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 "content/view/5180/1/1/1/#htaccess" target="_self" title="Content Trigger Additions" id="k2qe"
  name="k2qe">.htaccess Security Fix)

Additions/Changes

• OnBeforeContentSave and onAfterContentSave Event Triggers added (See
  "Content Trigger Additions" id="k2qe" name="k2qe">Content Trigger Additions for more
  information)
  • Ability to abort a save by returning false in the onBeforeContentSave
    trigger
• Added JA_Purity template (See "content/view/5180/1/1/1/#JA_Purity_Template" target="_self" title="JA_Purity Template" id=
  "nn76" name="nn76">JA_Purity Template for more information)
• Help screens updated (See target="_self" title="Help Screens" id="cog4" name="cog4">Help Screens for more
  information)
• Supports installing site and admin languages in one package (See "content/view/5180/1/1/1/#Language_Installation_Improvemen" target="_self" title=
  "Language Installation Improvements" id="omua" name="omua">Language Installation
  Improvements for more information)
• All line endings changed to \n instead of a mix of \r\n and \n