The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 12 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.
Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 11 release on October 4th, the team has fixed approximately 52 issues in the tracker. We have closed an additional 27 tracker issues. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks to everyone involved for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to a stable release of Joomla 1.6!
See the CHANGELOG below for details of what has been changed in this release.
What's next?
This is the 12th in the series of continuous beta releases. Joomla 1.6 beta 13 will be released on November 1, 2010.
Change log
1.6.0 Beta12 Release [18-Oct-2010]
18-Oct-2010 Andrew Eddie
# Reverting changes in [#22659] (causing very annoying screen flicker).
18-Oct-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#22802] Contact category feed is blank (Elin Waring)
# [#22918] install file not working when using method "update" (marius van rijnsoever)
# [#21345] Form field Select list does not handle <optgroup>
# Fix JHtmlSelect class
# [#22843] Enable the capacity to use specific help url when editing a plugin or a template style
# [#22833] The com_modules component cannot redirect help to specific international help site
# [#21946] Redirect component produces error (Joseph LeBlanc, bill richardson)
16-Oct-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#21635] fail to copy menu item. Thanks Mathavan and Louis
$ [#22914] COM_SEARCH_EXACT_PHRASE doesn't need the colon at end. Thanks Bill.
# Reverting [#21635] as it breaks re-save article when debug on.
15-Oct-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# Making core site templates installable/uninstallable. Changed protected template from milkyway to beez2.
14-Oct-2010 Louis Landry
^ Decoupled JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR from JApplication::initialise() method call when loading framework language file.
# [#22825] Duplicated queries in global configuration. (Thanks to Dennis Hermacki)
# [#22553] Switcher function for submenu uses incompatible function for IE7 and chrome. (Thanks to Angie Radtke)
# [#21541] When trying to delete a folder which contains images, the error message only displays for < 1 second. (Thanks to Mathavan Jeyadev)
# [#21225] Copy and Move missing from each Manager - Categories & Menus. (Thanks to Michael Babker)
# [#21842] Update GeSHI to current version. (Thanks to Michael Babker)
14-Oct-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#22659] Debug plugin doesn't show 'afterRender' profiler mark and can't gather statistics of other system plugins. Thanks Dennis.
$ Updating language xml files.
# Changing Algerian flag to Arab League flag in langswitcher for ar.gif.
14-Oct-2010 Ian MacLennan
# [#21189] vcard not working in contact, needs a vcard class in JView
14-Oct-2010 Mark Dexter
# [#21661] Article access check is only using the current category, not checking further up the branch
14-Oct-2010 Christophe Demko
^ Fix loading .ini files instead of .sys.ini files for #22710
# [#21780] JHtmlTabs not compatible with JHtmlRules
13-Oct-2010 Mark Dexter
+ [#22848] Debug User Group View
13-Oct-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#22846] Joomla.submitform does not act exactly as submitform
! Respecting coding convention
# [#20830] missing error messages when fields empty when installing
# [#22820] The css style label#jform_params_subslider-lbl cannot be applied on nested groups
13-Oct-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# Loading new lib_joomla.ini file through includes/application.php breaks langswitcher. Correcting until final decision is taken to separate Framework.
# [#22835] Enabling browser lang sniffing in langfilter system plugin.
# [#22858] news feed - 2 level subcategory feed name link causes error. Thanks Bill.
# [#22535] Missing always fulltext value in com_content article view. Thanks Angie and Christophe.
13-Oct-2010 Andrew Eddie
# Fixed issue [#21343] Email is not spamprotected in search (Janich Rasmussen, Joseph LeBlanc, Hannes Papenberg).
# Fixed issue [#22809] [patch] loadmodule plugin incorrectly handles positions with the same name (Artyom Bisyarin).
12-Oct-2010 Mark Dexter
# [#22837] Commit of #22710 leads to display errors when trashing, deleting or archiving category
12-Oct-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#22755] Backend module menu assignment improvements and fixes. Thanks Dennis.
# [#21792] Alternate Page Title does not show. Thanks Bill.
$# Separating joomla libraries ini strings from main ini. Temporary load via application.php. TBD: load through library to prepare for framework separation.
11-Oct-2010 Mark Dexter
# [#22819] Clean up errors in new ACL UI
11-Oct-2010 Christophe Demko
# Fix language filter plugin for routing
# [#22038] PHP information (Dennis Hermacki)
# [#22813] Installation language file - missing entry for STEPS (Serge Litvinov)
10-Oct-2010 Mark Dexter
# Fix invalid lft,rgt values in jos_menus in sample data
10-Oct-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#22794] XML self closing tag syntax used on li in com_media (Rouven We?üling)
9-Oct-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#22057] [patch] Broken unit tests for some form fields (Artyom Bisyarin)
# [#21644] [patch] Unable to get group of a form field (Artyom Bisyarin)
# [#22770] System - Language filter plugin is buggy if the link is comes from the home page menu
# [#22769] Some language filtering missing
# [#22777] Module breadcrumbs does not deal correctly with language filter plugin
# [#22557] Remove all occurrences name attribute on the a element (Rouven We?üling, Andrea Tarr)
# [#22168] patch for [#21804] "Your Profile" has too narrow a focus (Tomasz Narloch)
# [#21804] "Your Profile" has too narrow a focus (Mathavan Jeyadev, Boris Baddenoff)
# [#22555] Use Joomla.submitbutton() instead of submitbutton() (Rouven We?üling)
# [#22775] Router does not redirect correctly
# [#22621] Boolean validation in JForm (Rune Sj??en)
# [#22775] Router does not redirect correctly (removing accidently one line)
8-Oct-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#22759] Add version, date, author to Hathor (from Tracker # 22482) (thanks Andrea Tarr)
# [#22734] Add Hathor support for tracker #21614 (thanks Andrea Tarr, Ole Bang Ottosen, bill richardson)
# [#22754] Global values not used as default in blog and featured (thanks Elin Waring, bill richardson)
6-Oct-2010 Ron Severdia
^ Updated Blueprint to 1.0 in Atomic (Thanks Christian Montoya)
6-Oct-2010 Andrew Eddie
# Partially Fixed [#21260] ACL Permissions for Authors to Edit Own Content Items Missing.
# Partially Fixed [#22529] Permissions UI patch backend (Angie Radtke, Michael Babker, Elin Waring, Christophe Demko).
5-Oct-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#22438] Wrong value before the search input box (I think) (thanks Ronald de Vries, bill richardson, Rouven We?üling, Elin Waring)
# [#22675] Com_Categories mistake in xml (thanks Elin)
# [#22595] Users with Edit permission assigned at category level in com_content cannot edit (thanks Michael Babker)
# [#22711] Fixes to example content plugin (thanks Matt Thomas)
# [#22269] JModelAdmin uses hard coded "id" field (Thanks Sam)
# [#21656] Ability to limit System Info access (thanks Mathavan Jeyadev)
# [#22335] Random "HTTP 500 Internal Server Error" on Contact (single) page (thanks Artyom Bisyarin)
# [#22710] com_categories component does not manage well help url
# [#22679] Files installer uses name not element to find unique instances
5-Oct-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
$ Normalizing some strings.
4-oct-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#22049] Site Maintenance Menu (thanks bill richardson, Mathavan Jeyadev)