The Joomla! Community announced the release of 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 improvements.

Release Notes

Big 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• Unpublished menu item issues, including fatal errors and allowing an unpublished menu item to be selected as default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
• 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

Additions/Changes:

• OnBeforeContentSave and onAfterContentSave Event Triggers added.
• Ability to abort a save by returning false in the onBeforeContentSave trigger
• Added JA_Purity template (See JA_Purity Template for more information)
• Help screens updated
• Supports installing site and admin languages in one package
• All line endings changed to \n instead of a mix of \r\n and \n