Today, the Joomla Project announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 14 (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 13 release on November 1, the team has fixed approximately 69 issues in the tracker. They have closed an additional 45 tracker issues. At the present time, they have 5 issues that are blocking the release 1.6 Release Candidate 1.
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.
Release candidate before Christmas?
Mark Dexter wrote a message in the Joomla! Bug Squad Google Group earlier today:
As you know, we will release beta14 later today (15 November). At present we have 11 RC blockers in the tracker, but 3 of those are RTC and one is Pending. Also, several others are being worked on and we believe solutions for them are close. Given this, we have a fighting chance of having beta 14 be the last
beta version and having RC1 out in 2 weeks.
I really hope they'll manage to pull this off. However, there has been several attempts in the past to get a release ready before Christmas. History tells us it's not an easy thing to do. Christmas is normally a down-time with people being busy in other areas.
So, I guess it's more realistic to believe we'll see a release candidate of Joomla 1.6 early in 2011.
What's next?
This is the 14th in the series of continuous beta releases. Beta 15 (or possibly 1.6 Release Candidate 1) will be released on November 29, 2010.
Change log
15-Nov-2010 Mark Dexter
# Sample data fixes (thanks Elin Waring)
# [#23184] Need to handle content, modules, menu items when a viewing permission level is deleted
# [#23319] Can't install Joomla or choose the accessible admin template without a mouse (thanks Andrea Tarr)
# Fix About Parks module assignment in sample data
# [#23324] PATCH: Modeladmin using wrong key while loading (thanks Harald Leithner)
15-Nov-2010 Andrew Eddie
# Fixed issue [#23247] behavior.keepalive with long session lifetime is causing firefox to freeze/crash (Markus Bopp, Ian MacLennan).
# Fixed issue [#23007] locked categories still available (Adrian Louter, Elin Waring).
# Fixed issue [#23069] Theoretical com_config exploit (Matt Thomas).
15-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
$ Adding missing string
# [#23318] Remove hardcoded style so that RTL will work. Thanks Andrea.
$ Moving and consolidated some strings
14-Nov-2010 Mark Dexter
# [#21571] category blog view drill down does not maintain layout style
14-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#23217] Move rules strings to library language file and rename keys for consistency. Consolidated some strings.
# [#21264] RTL issues with media manager. Thanks Andrea.
14-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#23167] Remove align and valign attributes from the site (Rouven We?üling)
# [#23126] Missing images in hathor template (Andrea Tarr)
$ Fix a language key in com_newsfeeds
13-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#23292] Unicode slugs lets Upper case in url, which can cause issues when SEF is on
# [#23299] calendar css don't display week-end days
$ [#23199] Database Error: JLIB_DATABASE_ERROR_CONNECT_DATABASE
# [#23284] Make tabs accessible for keyboard/screen readers. Thanks Andrea.
# [#23294] Allow archiving of category when parent category is published. Thanks Mark.
# [#23285] Incorrect markup in com_media. Thanks Rouven.
# [#23277] JToolbarHelper has wrong variable in generated URL. Thanks Michael and Bill.
12-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
$ Deleted some redundant ini string
12-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
# Sort modules by name when selecting a new one
+ Add missing file [#23160]
# [#23280] User can block himself in the admin
# Fix a bad named param in mod_search
11-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#23205] Untranslated COM_CONFIG_ACTION_ADMIN_GLOBAL_DESC. Thanks Bill
$ Updated some xx-XX.ini files
11-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#23242] Component Layout fields shows an error if frontend view does not exist (Andrew Eddie)
11-Nov-2010 Mark Dexter
# Temporary fix for category save bug introduced with [#23068] commit
10-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
# Removing an extra div + some formatting while testing [#23068]
# [#23206] Improving permissions rules output (Dennis Hermacki)
# [#23068] Add admin rights to article security exploit (Louis Landry)
10-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
$ Updating admin lang xmls
# [#23195] Prevent defacement of sites by specifying ?tmpl=offline. Thanks Rouven.
# [#23161] Improve the markup of the Pagenavigation plugin. Thanks Rouven.
$ [#23198] Remove unnecessary keys in X.plg_system_p3p.sys.ini. Thanks Rouven.
$ Applying JText::alt to JALL_LANGUAGE see [#23132]
10-Nov-2010 Andrew Eddie
# Fixed issue [#23175] modal dialog not displaying drop shadows on all sides (Al Kent).
# Fixed issue [#23168] Category Blog view: Articles get edit permission from the category with its same id number (Juan Felix Mateos, Elin Waring).
09-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#23170] Itemid is lost when browsing from content which is not linked to a menu item
# [#22298] Renaming JUser method (Dennis Hermacki)
# [#22488] set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated as of PHP 5.3.0
# [#23163] Remove closing tags for empty elements (Rouven We?üling)
# [#23162] Remove the last occurrence of the <font> element (Rouven We?üling)
09-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#23177] Ability to set a default template style per language when System - Language Filter plugin is on. Thanks Christophe.
# [#23132] Some language have issues when translating global strings such as JALL. Thanks Christophe.
# [#22839] author link redirects to login form and not to profile of author. Thanks Elin and Bill.
$ [#23149] COM_USERS_ACTIVATION_TOKEN_NOT_FOUND message has no translation. Thanks Ronald
09-Nov-2010 Mark Dexter
# [#23054] Follow up on Issue 22932 - Alternate Layouts for Components
# Fix PHP notice problem with [#23054]
08-Nov-2010 Ian MacLennan
# [21571] Reverting commit to examine closer
08-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#23160] Give each manager the possibility to choose its own admin template style
07-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#22757] Wrong urls being produced for drill downs. Thanks Christophe.
# [#23159] Improving display of back-end mod_latest module
$ Added ® to Joomla! instances in footers
$ Deleted some redundant or obsolete ini strings
07-Nov-2010 Mark Dexter
# [#22776] Incorrect path field and child item path fields not being changed on save.
07-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#21789] Category Manger save alias as date instead of category name when renaming a category (Elin Waring)
# [#21571] category blog view drill down does not maintain layout style
# [#22515] P3P tags are hardcoded in JSession (Nicholas Dionysopoulos)
^ Fix some issues relative to #21571
06-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#21577] Pagebreak Plugin called via JHtml::_('content.prepare') issue
06-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#23134] Template description is only displayed at installation, no where else
# [#23141] Module Position Fixes for Hathor. Thanks Andrea.
# [#23028] Install Sample Data button reactivated when there is error on Main Configuration Page. Thanks Nicolai.
06-Nov-2010 Andrew Eddie
# Fixed issue [#22628] Module Assignment in Module Manager changes to No pages incorrectly (Zachary Draper, Mathavan Jeyadev, Elin Waring).
05-Nov-2010 Mark Dexter
# [#22444] JRegistry fails when binding an object which contains a JRegistry object
05-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
$ Storing the default style name without ** when language debug is on while installing template
# [#23128] Incorrect Calendar field width (Dennis Hermacki)
# [#22949] Custom error types are always shown as 'Message' (Dennis Hermacki)
05-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#21798] Saving Profile Plugin configuration disables Profile, Thanks Mathavan and Elin.
#$ Enabling dashes in template ini keys for positions. Adding these strings for admin templates. + some.
04-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#23096] Clarification & Simplification of ACL UI (Andrew Eddie, Andrew Tarr)
04-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#23113] Clean up extraneous plus sign in user group edit screen. Thanks Andrea.
# [#22860] Invalid icon paths in com_media/models/list.php. Thanks Christophe.
03-Nov-2010 Andrew Eddie
! Updated Beta 13 SQL upgrade diff.
02-Nov-2010 Christophe Demko
# [#23092] Save and New menu item displays error
# [#22562] Uninstalling core templates triggers multiple errors
# [#21512] mod_login does not redirect to menu item with access level greater than current
# [#23082] Help system does not work correctly when debug language is ON
# [#23095] Missing author_email in components/com_content/views/featured
# [#23029] JHtml::stylesheet not backward compatible and broken (Andrew, Mark)
# [#22188] Optimize beez font loading for IE (Rouven We?üling)
02-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#23071] Provide template_preview.png for both Beez templates. Thanks Michael and Ramindu.
# [#23090] Acl - edit own - message "edit not permitted" in categories. Thanks Christophe.
# [#23094] Double translation in JHtmlJGrid. Thanks Christophe.
# [#23097] Contact edit screen is not consistent with the other compnents. Thanks Elin and Christophe.
# [#23106] Globally define commonly used module position names. Thanks Matt.
01-Nov-2010 Jean-Marie Simonet
# [#23085] Improved UI for Article/Category permissions. Thanks Andrea.