Yesterday, the Joomla Project announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.16 [Wojmamni ama busani]. It has been about six months since Joomla 1.5.15 was released on November 4, 2009.
The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
Read on for more info about the changes in Joomla 1.5.16, and precautions before upgrading.
Precautions before upgrading to Joomla 1.5.16
- Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.
- Check the Joomla 1.5.16 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.
- Read about the technical requirements for Joomla 1.5.16
Unable to log into the Joomla admin after upgrading to 1.5.16?
In Global Configuration->System->Session Settings, if you have Session Handler set to
Read more about the problem here and more Post-Release FAQs here
In Global Configuration->System->Session Settings, if you have Session Handler set to
None you will be unable to log into the back end of your site with version 1.5.16.Read more about the problem here and more Post-Release FAQs here
Statistics for the 1.5.16 release period:
- Joomla 1.5.16 contains:
- 48 issues fixed in SVN
- 52 commits
- Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 83 active issues:
- 224 new reports
- 94 closed
- 48 fixed in SVN
- At the time the 1.5.16 release was packaged, the tracker had 303 active issues:
- 169 open
- 103 confirmed
- 31 pending
Click to read the full release notes and download Joomla 1.5.16