The second release candidate for WordPress 3.9 is now available for testing. If you haven’t tested 3.9 yet, you’re running out of time! We made about five dozen changes since the first release candidate, and those changes are all helpfully summarized in our weekly post on the development blog. Probably the biggest fixes are to live […]
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WordPress 3.8.3 is now available to fix a small but unfortunate bug in the WordPress 3.8.2 security release. The “Quick Draft” tool on the dashboard screen was broken in the 3.8.2 update. If you tried to use it, your draft would disappear and it wouldn’t save. While we doubt anyone was writing a novella using […]
The following issue was resolved:
[-] Integration with Key Administrator Partner Central did not work in Plesk 11.5. (PPPM-1552)
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The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla! 3.3 Beta 2. Community members are asked to download and install the package in order to provide quality assurance for the forthcoming 3.3 release, which is scheduled for release on or around April 22nd, 2014.
A big thank you goes out to everyone that contributed to the 3.3 release! Joomla! 3.3 will be our most stable release ever. Right now we’re at about 320 commits since 3.2.3’s release with 41 different people contributing to those commits (not including testers and other non-coding activities). Best of all is that the new features are awesome!
The 3.x release series is the latest major release of the Joomla! CMS, with 3.3 the fourth standard-term support release in this series. Please note that going from 3.2 to 3.3 is a one-click upgrade and is NOT a migration. The same is true is for any subsequent versions in the 3.x series. That being said, please do not upgrade any of your production sites to the beta version as beta is ONLY intended for testing and there is no upgrade path from Beta.
Multiple Parallels products are potentially affected by the ‘Heartbleed Bug’ because they are based or installed on operating systems impacted by the OpenSSL CVE-2014-0160 vulnerabilities.
The OpenSSL group has published a solution at http://heartbleed.com/.
Additionally, please review and take action outlined in these Knowledgebase articles:
- For Parallels Automation: http://kb.parallels.com/en/120984
- For Parallels Business Automation Standard: http://kb.parallels.com/en/120986
- For Parallels Plesk Panel: http://kb.parallels.com/en/120990
- For Virtualization products: http://kb.parallels.com/en/120989
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Yesterday a new vulnerability was announced in OpenSSL 1.0.1 that allows an attacker to reveal up to 64kb of memory to a connected server. Parallels is working to assess any product specific issues as a result of this OpenSSL vulnerability. We encourage everyone running a server that uses OpenSSL to upgrade to version 1.0.1g to be protected. For previous versions of OpenSSL, re-compiling with the OPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS flag enabled will protect against this vulnerability. We will provide any product-specific updates as they become available.
The following component was updated:
[+]Upgrade phpMyAdmin to version 4.1.12
The following issues were resolved:
[-] (Linux) Mail list creation failed if qmail is used after Microupdate #38 (PPPM-1542)
[-] (Windows) Panel sends notifications even if updates were not installed (PPPM-837)
[-] (Linux) phpMyAdmin redirects redirects browser to https://:8443/ after changing settings
As teased earlier, the first release candidate for WordPress 3.9 is now available for testing! We hope to ship WordPress 3.9 next week, but we need your help to get there. If you haven’t tested 3.9 yet, there’s no time like the present. (Please, not on a production site, unless you’re adventurous.) To test WordPress 3.9 […]
WordPress 3.8.2 is now available. This is an important security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. This releases fixes a weakness that could let an attacker force their way into your site by forging authentication cookies. This was discovered and fixed by Jon Cave of the WordPress […]
What’s Changed
[+] Service nodes can be deployed on CloudLinux.
[+] A new utility, called sync_resource_usage, is available for synchronizing information about resource usage between the Server Administration Panel and Hosting Panel.
[+] The hostname utility can update the host names of service nodes in PPA.
[+] During migration from Plesk or Plesk Expand to PPA 11.5, providers can keep their existing SmarterMail servers and connect them to PPA as service nodes.
[*] Migration of a large number of sites now takes less time.
[*] The stability of the migration tool was improved.
[*] The algorithm of service node selection for hosting Microsoft SQL Server databases was improved.
[*] Localization was updated for the following languages: German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Chinese simplified, and Chinese traditional.
[*] The calculation of hosted domains for licensing purposes was improved: now only physically hosted sites are counted.
[-] In some cases, the screens of Hosting Panel were not shown in full in Internet Explorer. (PPA-159)
[-] Dr.Web license keys could not be renewed automatically. (PPA-474)
[-] Users could not back up their subscriptions. Scheduled backups also did not work. (PPA-753)
[-] The daily maintenance task stalled during the calculation of disk space usage statistics. (PPA-805)
[-] Migration from Plesk 8 to PPA failed with the error “Error: Table ‘psa.horde.turba_objects’ doesn’t exist”. (PPA-822)
[-] Changing resource limits on a subscription could cause undesirable changes to website hosting settings. (PPA-13)
[-] FTP users could not be restored from backups created on IIS service nodes. (PPA-36)
[-] Users could not see log files for add-on domains in the Hosting Panel. (PPA-501)
[-] Administrators could not manage Microsoft SQL Server databases through Infrastructure > Database Servers > DB Webadmin. Wrong database administration tool was opened.(PPA-594)
[-] Domain forwarding configured by customers on webspaces could be reset to web hosting service after administrators or resellers changed the resource limits in the corresponding service template. (PPA-636)
[-] After upgrading from PPA 11.1 to 11.5, custom ProFTPD configurations were discarded and the operation of FTP server was disrupted. (PPA-646)
[-] Terminated license keys for Dr.Web could not be unassigned from service nodes. (PPA-724)
[-] Enabling of Apache service on PPA backup nodes could disrupt the operation of ProFTPD. (PPA-795)
[-] Webspace provisioning failed on Windows nodes with the error “SIDClient error: Unable to release input thread stack”. (PPA-853)
[-] Migration from H-Sphere could fail if the migration tool was run with the “set-dns-forwarding” option. (PPA-790)
[-] Migration from H-Sphere could fail if the SSH key access was used and the H-Sphere node was missing from the list of known hosts. (PPA-777)
[-] Users could not migrate from Plesk for Windows to PPA 11.5 if the destination service node in PPA was running Windows 2012 R2 with German locale. (PPA-751)
[-] Users could not migrate to PPA 11.5 if PPA used an external Microsoft SQL Server (which was added through Infrastructure > Database Servers). (PPA-771)
[-] Users could not transfer the contents of databases from H-Sphere to PPA if the administrator’s password for the destination MySQL server contained a bracket symbol ({). (PPA-774)
[-] Users could not upgrade the migration tool by using the command installer.sh –upgrade. (PPA-749)
[-] During migration from H-Sphere, user names were incorrectly transferred to PPA. (PPA-814)
[-] The migration tool showed error messages while migrating suspended subscriptions in multiple-webspace mode (“transfer-domains-to-subscription: same” in config.ini). (PPA-779)
[-] Migration from Expand installations with centralized mail could produce warning messages about duplicate domain administrator roles. (PPA-848)
The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla! CMS 3.3 Beta 1. Community members are asked to download and install the package in order to provide quality assurance for the forthcoming 3.3 release, which is scheduled for release on or around April 22nd, 2014.
A big thank you goes out to everyone that contributed to the 3.3 release! Joomla! CMS 3.3 will be our most stable release ever. Right now we’re at about 290 commits since 3.2.3’s release with 39 different people contributing to those commits (not including testers and other non-coding activities). Best of all is that the new features are awesome!
The 3.x release series is the latest major release of the Joomla! CMS, with 3.3 the fourth standard-term support release in this series. Please note that going from 3.2 to 3.3 is a one-click upgrade and is NOT a migration. The same is true is for any subsequent versions in the 3.x series of the CMS. That being said, please do not upgrade any of your production sites to the beta version as beta is ONLY intended for testing and there is no upgrade path from Beta.
The following component was updated:
[+]Plesk is now available in the following additional languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Ukrainian. In Plesk for Linux, you need to activate them in Tools & Settings > Languages.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] (Windows only) Administrators were unable to use SmarterMail version earlier than 10.5 as a mail server. (PPPM-1521)
[-] (Linux only) Users could not see subscription backups if their usernames coincided with their domain names. (PPPM-1445)
[-] (Linux only) Subscriptions could not be migrated if the username of the customer who owned the subscription coincided with the domain name. (PPPM-1218)
The April issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month:
Editors Introduction
What’s New in the Joomla! Community Magazine?, by Alice Grevet
Project News
Leadership Highlights April 2014, by Marijke Stuivenberg
Roundup from JUG Corner – March 2014, by Ruth Cheesley
Developers
Practical Development 3: Project, by Marco Dings
Sitebuilders
10 Tips for a Fast Joomla Website, by Simon Kloostra
Core Features I want from the Components I Choose, by Randy Carey
Migration SEO Tips Series – Part 1 – Planning Your Link Migration Strategy, by Ruth Cheesley
Feature Stories
Case Study – CrimeSuspect.Net, by Alice Grevet
Events
Joomla! World Conference – 2014, by Dianne Henning
JoomlaDay Boston 2014, by Dianne Henning
Joomla! at CeBIT 2014 – Big Business!, by David Jardin
Help Wanted
Joomla! Q&A Site on Stack Exchange, by Craig Phillips
Extensions and Services Evaluations
JFBConnect: Let’s do more with Social Networks, by Mike Veeckmans
International Stories
Arabic
Français
Joomleur, je t’aime !
Encore sous Joomla 1.5, il devient urgent de migrer
Migration complexe d’un site Joomla! 1.5…
Un système de sécurité pour Joomla!
Le CMS, le Framework Joomla! et les licences
10 meilleures astuces pour un site Joomla! rapide
Pratique du développement (épisode 2) : l’environnement de travail
Spanish
Qué hacer cuando Joomla no encuentra las actualizaciones
Override del mes: Metamorfosis al mod_menu
Migración compleja de Joomla! 1.5 con tiempo de inactividad…
¿Por qué actualizar las extensiones de terceros?
Usando Joomla para hacer Joomla!. Empezando por JDatabase
In our next issue
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!
Plesk Service Team is pleased to introduce the Plesk PVC Containers Upgrade Tool.
Plesk PVC Containers Upgrade Tool is the utility that allows you to determine whether it would be possible and safe to upgrade containers with Plesk for Linux. The utility performs the upgrade in accordance with the Service Team best practices.
WordPress 3.9 Beta 3
Mar29
The third (and maybe last) beta of WordPress 3.9 is now available for download. Beta 3 includes more than 200 changes, including: New features like live widget previews and the new theme installer are now more ready for prime time, so check ‘em out. UI refinements when editing images and when working with media in the editor. We’ve also brought […]
The following components were updated:
[+]phpMyAdmin was updated to version 4.1.11.
[+]MailEnable was updated to version 8.04.
[+]Plesk now supports more languages. Danish, Greek, Turkish, and Portuguese languages were added.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] Plesk failed to send mail to mailing lists with email addresses specified using a domain alias name.
[-] Customer & Business Manager users were unable to log in to Plesk after Plesk was upgraded to 11.5.
Plesk 12 preview w/ Fail2Ban, ModSecurity, WordPress Toolkit & Outgoing Antispam available: https://sp.parallelsnetwork.com/plesk-12-preview Tell us what you think!
Besides these groundbreaking features you can also play with mobile-ready UI for Power User and Customer views, latest version of Web Presence Builder with great new website designs among other features, granular restoration of backup files, and many other improvements. Your feedback can make all the difference, so let your voice be heard!
The following component was updated:
[+](Windows) SmarterMail 12 version is now supported.
[*]Security improvements.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] Opening list of backups was too slow in case of using NFS backup repository. (PPPM-855)
[-] Web statistics was not calculated properly with nginx as proxy because records in access_log.processed are not in chronological order (PPPM-1174)
[-] Microsoft SQL Server database users were unable login to the copied database if original database has been removed. (PPPM-1447)
[-] “Use native MS SQL backup functionality for local database servers” option does not work for SQL Server databases if non-standard SQL Server port is used. (PPPM-1451)
WordPress 3.9 Beta 2
Mar20
WordPress 3.9 Beta 2 is now available for testing! We’ve made more than a hundred changes since Beta 1, but we still need your help if we’re going to hit our goal of an April release. For what to look out for, please head on over to the Beta 1 announcement post. Some of the changes in […]
The following issues were resolved:
[-] Users could not add a CNAME record of a subdomain to the DNS zone of the main domain. ( PPPM-1009)
[-] IIS sites remained inactive after completion of server backup with the option “Suspend domains until backup task is completed”. (PPPM-718, PPPM-46)
[-] Users could not create a subscription for a domain name that coincided with the Plesk server’s host name. (PPPM-1462)
WordPress 3.9 Beta 1
Mar11
I’m excited to announce that the first beta of WordPress 3.9 is now available for testing. WordPress 3.9 is due out next month — but in order to hit that goal, we need your help testing all of the goodies we’ve added: We updated TinyMCE, the software powering the visual editor, to the latest version. […]
What’s Changed
[+] Migration from Helm to Parallels Plesk Automation is now supported.
[*] The stability of the migration tool was improved. In case of network connection problems, operations are repeated several times.
[*] Error reporting in the migration tool was improved.
[*] Now Parallels Plesk Automation performs the proper translation of IP addresses during migration.
[*] Now instructions on attaching service nodes running Windows 2012 R2 are available in the Deployment Guide.
[*] The Integration Guide was updated with information about how to use the API for creating subscriptions with multiple webspaces.
[*] The Integration Guide was updated with information about how to manage DNS zones by means of the API.
[-] Updating of Parallels Plesk Automation could be blocked if users were logged in to it. The following error occurred: “[Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/var/cache/ppa/uc_cache/tmpGJ_m8x'”.
[-] Instead of a PHP handler’s php.ini file, the system default php.ini file was used to generate a domain-level php.ini file. As a result, sometimes custom PHP for a domain did not work.
[-] After upgrading from Parallels Plesk Automation 11.1 to 11.5, web statistics stopped working on Apache nodes.
[-] Installation of Parallels Plesk Automation failed if the SELinux configuration file /selinux/enforce was empty or the SELinux utility failed to execute the command ‘/usr/sbin/setenforce’, ‘0’.
[-] Disabled DNS zones could become enabled after syncing settings between the Administration Panel with the Hosting Panel.
[-] The link to user documentation in the Administration Panel led to a wrong page.
[-] Users who used an email address as a username could not use the backup and restoration tools.
[-] Upgrade of Parallels Plesk Automation could fail if YUM was not installed or configured, or if repositories were not accessible.
[-] Upgrade of Parallels Plesk Automation could fail if the management node could not connect to service nodes.
[-] When customers changed or added DNS records by means of the API or the console utility /usr/local/psa/bin/dns, the domain zones were filled with duplicated entries.
[-] Administrators could not add more than 256 IP addresses. The following error occurred: “Internal error: Incorrect format of RTM_GETADDR request response.”
[-] Users could not change the IP addresses of the management node by means of the ppa.ip_address utility. The following error occurred: “APS resource for ‘/aps/2/application/dns-record-mx/f81a9762-6149-42fa-8689-4ac20fff61b1’ with id ‘4555’ hasn’t been deleted. Error code: 500.”
[-] Users could not view the web server access logs for add-on domains on Apache-based hosting.
[-] After suspending and unsuspending domains hosted on IIS, users could no longer manage files in File Manager. The following error occurred: “Internal error: Unable to logon user (<host name>sub6_83s): (1331) Logon failure: account currently disabled.
[-] Users could not transfer subscriptions that used Microsoft SQL Server databases to Parallels Plesk Automation.
[-] IIS-based subscriptions could not be completely removed. Some configuration files remained in the file system after removal.
[-] Administrators could not add service nodes when the root login on the nodes was disabled, and sudo was enabled for another user.
[-] Administrators could not log in to a customer’s Hosting Panel from Parallels Business Automation Standard. The following error occurred: “Error: Logged user has no access to the subscription”.
[-] IIS-based sites using MySQL were working very slowly.
[-] Users could not create a webspace on an already existing domain.
[-] The migration tool failed to update itself.
[-] Users could not migrate subscriptions from Plesk 11.5 to Parallels Plesk Automation 11.5. The following error occurred: “Line 177 error: Element ‘cron’, attribute ‘encoding’: The attribute ‘encoding’ is not allowed.”
[-] Users could not migrate subscriptions from Plesk for Linux to Parallels Plesk Automation, if the default Linux Shared Hosting service template was used. The following error occurred: “Mail content transfer from Qmail/Postfix to SmarterMail mail service is not supported. Assign this subscription to a service template which offers Postfix mail service.”
[-] Users could not migrate Microsoft SQL Server databases. The following error occurred: “Subscription is assigned to PPA service template <template name> that has no Microsoft SQL database service. Assign this subscription to a service template which offers Microsoft SQL database service.”
[-] Users could not migrate from Plesk for Windows to Parallels Plesk Automation. The following error occurred: [ERROR] check-infrastructure| Failed to check disk space requirements. Exception message: (u’Failed to detect Plesk virtual hosts directory, reg query output is incorrect: %s’, u’
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control Session Manager\Environment plesk_vhosts REG_EXPAND_SZ D:\vhosts ‘)
[-] Migration from H-Sphere could fail even if there was a single subscription with issues.
[-] During migration from Expand, users failed to run the ppa-transfer check.
Joomla! 3.2.3 Released
Mar06
The Joomla! Project and the Production Leadership Team are proud to announce the release of Joomla! 3.2.3 which is a security release and also resolves a significant number of issues and bugs.
If you are currently running Joomla! 3.2, we urge you to apply this update immediately via either the one-click update or the update downloads available at http://www.joomla.org/download.html. For other versions of the 3.x series, applying the update is recommended as soon as possible.
Joomla! 2.5.19 Released
Mar06
The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5.19.
Joomla 2.5.19 is a security release addressing two medium level vulnerabilities.
The update process is very simple, and complete instructions are available here. Note that there are now easier and better ways of updating than copying the files with FTP.
Download
New Installations: Click here to download Joomla 2.5.19 (Full package) »
Update Package: Click here to download Joomla 2.5.19 (Update package) »
Note: Please read the update instructions before updating.
Instructions
*Please clear your browser’s cache after upgrading
Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo. Documentation is available for beginners.
Release Notes
Check the Joomla 2.5.19 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.
Statistics for the 2.5.19 release period
- 6 tracker issues fixed
See http://developer.joomla.org/version-2-5-19-release-notes.html for details of the tracker items fixed.
Security Issues Fixed
- Medium Priority – Core XSS Vulnerability More information »
- Medium Priority – Core XSS Vulnerability More information »
How can you help Joomla! development?
There are a variety of ways in which you can get actively involved with Joomla! It doesn’t matter if you are a coder, an integrator, or merely a user of Joomla!. You can contact the Joomla! Community Development Manager, David Hurley, to get more information, or if you are ready you can jump right into the Joomla! Bug Squad.
The Joomla! Bug Squad is one of the most active teams in the Joomla! development process and is always looking for people (not just developers) that can help with sorting bug reports, coding patches and testing solutions. It’s a great way for increasing your working knowledge of Joomla!, and also a great way to meet new people from all around the world.
If you are interested, please read about us on the Joomla! Documentation Wiki and, if you wish to join, email Mark Dexter or Nick Savov, our Bug Squad co-coordinators.
You can also help Joomla! development by thanking those involved in the many areas of the process. In the past year, for example, over 1,100 bugs have been fixed by the Bug Squad.
Contributors
Thank you to the code contributors and active Bug Squad members that created and tested this release:
Ben Charlton, Benjamin Trenkle, Brian Teeman, Carsten Wirtz, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Cyril Rezé, Denise McLaurin, Eino Mäkitalo, Fedik Zinchuk, George Wilson, Gunjan Patel, Hannes Papenberg, Ionut Lupu, Javier Gomez, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jonathan Cameron, Leo Lammerink, Marc Antoine Thevenet, Marco Richter, Marko Đedović, Matt Thomas, Michael Babker, Nikolai Plath, Peter van Westen, Piotr Mocko, Roberto Segura, Sander Potjer, Simon Asika, Thomas Hunziker, Tobias Zulauf, Toivo Talikka, Valentin Despa, Yannick Gaultier.
Joomla! Bug Squad
Thank you to the Joomla! Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug in Joomla!, please report it on the Joomla! CMS Issue Tracker.
Active members of the Joomla! Bug Squad during past 3 months include: Achal Aggarwal, Anderson Martins, Anibal Sanchez, Ben Charlton, Ben Griffin, Brian Teeman, Camden Narzt, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Cyril Rezé, Daniel Dimitrov, Denise McLaurin, Dennis Hermacki, easteregg easteregg, Edwin Cheront, Elijah Madden, Fedik Zinchuk, Gary Mort, George Wilson, Hannes Papenberg, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jozsef Tamas Herczeg, Jurian Even, Kevin Griffiths, Kunal Bajpai, Lao Neo, Leo Lammerink, Marc Antoine Thevenet, Marcel van Beelen, Marco Richter, Marko Đedović, Matt Thomas, Max Sarte, Melih Tas, Michael Babker, Mohammad Hasani Eghtedar, Nicholas Dionysopoulos, Nikolai Plath, Parth Lawate, Peter van Westen, Piotr Gasiorowski, Piotr Mocko, Robert Gastaud, Roberto Segura, Samuel Moffatt, Sander Potjer, Serge Litvinov, Simon Asika, Stefania Gaianigo, Thomas Hunziker, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Kuschel, Tino Brackebusch, Tobias Zulauf, Toivo Talikka, Valentin Despa, Yannick Gaultier.
Bug Squad Leadership: Mark Dexter and Nick Savov, Co-Coordinators.
Joomla! Security Strike Team
A big thanks to the Joomla! Security Strike Team for their ongoing work to keep Joomla! secure. Members include: Airton Torres, Alan Langford, Beat, Bill Richardson, Claire Mandville, David Hurley, Don Gilbert, Gary Brooks, Jason Kendall, Javier Gomez, Jean-Marie Simonet, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mark Boos, Mark Dexter, Matias Griese, Michael Babker, Nick Savov, Pushapraj Sharma, Roberto Segura, Rouven Weßling, Thomas Hunziker.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] nginx-serve-static property in API request is not accepted with error “Setting nginx-serve-static does not supported” if nginx server is stopped (PPPM-807)
[-] Mail messages do not have DomainKeys signature after running mchk utility (PPPM-1014)
[-] User cannot restore MSSQL databases after upgrade from older Plesk version if he had Windows x64 and MSSQL server x86 (PPPM-1188)
[-] (Customer & Business Manager) Upgrade from 11.0.9 to 11.5.30 failed with error message “1054 Unknown column ‘allow_multiply'”. (PPPM-1220)
Parallels Presence Builder 11.5.12
[+] Support for Internet Explorer 11. Presence Builder now fully supports Internet Explorer 11.
[*] Website layout on mobile site versions was improved. Now site menu is shown after clicking an icon.
[-] When users added hyperlinks containing a question mark, Presence Builder added unnecessary characters to such links.
[-] In some cases, users of mobile devices could not switch between a mobile and a regular site version.
[-] In some cases, comments left by users in a blog were duplicated in different posts.
[-] Flash files uploaded via Text and Video module could not be played in Internet Explorer 10 and earlier.
[-] The Search module showed an incorrect hint if Presence Builder’s interface was shown in a language other than English.
The March issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month:
Editors Introduction
Joomla! CMS, Joomla! Framework, and Licenses, by Guillermo Bravo
Project News
Leadership Highlights March 2014, by Marijke Stuivenberg
Joomla Certification – We Keep On Moving!, by Irene López
Developers
Practical Development 2: Working Environment, by Marco Dings
Sitebuilders
Building Joomla! Web-Help Systems – Part 2, by Matt Majeske
Using Hidden Menus, by Duke Speer
Joomla! in Education
Why Universities Should Consider Joomla, by Randy Carey
Administrators
Explaining Joomla! to Non-Technologists (Part III), by Pedro F. Vidal Lopez
RTL Administrator Template, and More!, by Shirat Goldstein
Complex Joomla! 1.5 Migration With Minimal Downtime, by Sander Potjer
Events
Joomla! Winter Weekend Podlasie (Poland), by Marek Dylewicz
JoomlaDay Boston 2014, by Dianne Henning
Joomla’s Got Talent – Have you got the J Factor?, by Brian Teeman
International Stories
Browse the international articles submitted this month.
In our next issue
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!
The following issues were resolved:
[-] (Windows) The installation of Plesk Migration and Transfer Agent 11.5 by using plesk-migration-agent.exe failed because an expired certificate was used to sign binary files.
[-] The date of the last update was not displayed for Plesk in Power User Mode.
[-] (Windows) Scheduled tasks of subscriptions hung after start. (PPPM-1349)
[-] (Windows) Parallels Customer & Business manager could not be installed on Windows with the Japanese display language. (PPPM-1373)
[-] Resellers received the error “Permission denied” when attempting to perform DNS, mail and database operations via API-RPC. (PPPM-973)
[-] Installation of Plesk updates through Parallels Installer failed on Debian 7.1 and later. (PPPM-1392)
[+] Support for Microsoft Windows 2012. Now Windows-based service nodes can be deployed on Microsoft Windows 2012.
[+] Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Now users can deploy database servers with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 by means of a newly added service node role.
[+] Mail service on branded domains. Now users can set up mail accounts and use other mail services under their branded domains.
[*] The diagnostics of Parallels Plesk Automation installation issues on Parallels Virtuozzo Containers were improved.
[-] Users could not install PPA if a node’s host name did not resolve to the “communication IP address” specified in the first installation step.
[-] PPA installation and upgrade failed if the installer was executed from an SSH session with a locale other than en-US.
[-] Users could not upgrade to PPA 11.5 on CentOS 5. They encountered the following error: “[ERROR]: Failed to download file: http://autoinstall.plesk.com//PPA_11.5.0/Plesk/Autoinstaller_latest/CentOS-5-x86_64: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 400: Bad Request.”
[-] Users failed to upgrade to PPA 11.5 if a PPA mirror repository was reconfigured and a wrong IP address was used.
[-] Users on CentOS 5 could not upgrade to PPA 11.5 if there were 4 GB of RAM on the server.
[-] Users on CentOS 6 failed to upgrade to PPA 11.5 because of stalled task “Service state changed”.
[-] Users failed to upgrade BIND on service nodes with CentOS 6 and RHEL 6.
[-] Upgrade from PPA 11.1 to 11.5 failed if the system host name of a service nodes was set to localhost.localdomain.
[-] The upgrade utility did not check if there was enough free disk space before starting an upgrade.
[-] Administrators failed to add Linux-based service nodes if logging in under the user root was disabled, and sudo login was enabled for another user.
[-] Users could not add PostgreSQL service nodes if the database server administrator’s password contained special characters.
[-] Users could not add Windows-based service nodes with Adobe ColdFusion.
[-] Users could not properly deactivate resource records in the DNS zones of their domains. After switching off those domains, the previously deactivated records became active again.
[-] Users could not set up branded domains.
[-] Users could not properly rebrand the Panel logo.
[-] Branded domains were suspended because of disk space overuse. This happened because the logs of branded domains were not rotated.
[-] WHMCS could not provision subscriptions for domain names containing hyphens.
[-] On removal of customer accounts from WHMCS, an error message was recorded in log files.
[-] Users could not remove a customer account from WHMCS if the customer’s subscription was not provisioned to PPA and the order was flagged as fraudulent.
[-] Additional Apache directives specified by users (in Hosting Panel > Websites tab > Web Server Settings) were not applied.
[-] Users were unable to receive notifications related to scheduled tasks from crontab.
[-] After renaming the main FTP account user, users were unable to edit files in File Manager if there was an additional FTP account.
[-] Users could not open the Presence Builder editor from the Hosting Panel.
[-] Users could see two Mail tabs in the Hosting Panel.
[-] Users could not schedule tasks in the Hosting Panel.
[-] NAT IP address was shown in the Hosting Panel.
[-] After changing resource limits or settings in a service template, users could not apply the changes to existing subscriptions.
[-] After restarting a management node, the node’s IP address was removed from the network interface.
Parallels Presence Builder 11.5.11
[-] The Search module was redesigned to address the issue with the deprecated Google API.[-] To resolve issues in the Text & Images module and to better support Internet Explorer 11, the TinyMCE component was upgraded to version 3.5.10.
[-] Users of mobile devices could experience issues with viewing the contents of Online Store modules on published websites.
[-] Images uploaded to the Image Slider module were shown in the wrong order.
[-] The layout of a webpage could be disrupted if the Text & Images module contained lengthy text.
Parallels Plesk Automation Billing 11.5.2
[-] An error occurred on the Renew Order Confirmation screen after attempting to reorder the columns.[-] Special symbols in the Purchase Scenario title could prevent users from editing service plan publication settings.
[-] Parallels Plesk Automation Billing could not be installed on CentOS 6.5.
[-] Upgrades of Parallels Plesk Automation Billing failed if the database password was not set.
Joomla! 2.5.18 Released
Feb06
The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5.18.
Joomla 2.5.18 is a maintenance release. Most notably this release fixes errors that have been reported including:
- Articles missing for admins in front end
- Modules disappear at frontpage after clicking the article title
Also with this release, the enhanced password hashing via PHPass, available in Joomla 3.2.1, is now used with the 2.5 series.
The update process is very simple, and complete instructions are available here. Note that there are now easier and better ways of updating than copying the files with FTP.
Download
New Installations: Click here to download Joomla 2.5.18 (Full package) »
Update Package: Click here to download Joomla 2.5.18 (Update package) »
Note: Please read the update instructions before updating.
Instructions
*Please clear your browser’s cache after upgrading
Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo. Documentation is available for beginners.
Release Notes
Check the Joomla 2.5.18 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.
Statistics for the 2.5.18 release period
- 7 tracker issues fixed
See http://developer.joomla.org/version-2-5-18-release-notes.html for details of the tracker items fixed.
How can you help Joomla! development?
There are a variety of ways in which you can get actively involved with Joomla! It doesn’t matter if you are a coder, an integrator, or merely a user of Joomla!. You can contact the Joomla! Community Development Manager, David Hurley, to get more information, or if you are ready you can jump right into the Joomla! Bug Squad.
The Joomla! Bug Squad is one of the most active teams in the Joomla! development process and is always looking for people (not just developers) that can help with sorting bug reports, coding patches and testing solutions. It’s a great way for increasing your working knowledge of Joomla!, and also a great way to meet new people from all around the world.
If you are interested, please read about us on the Joomla! Documentation Wiki and, if you wish to join, email Mark Dexter or Nick Savov, our Bug Squad co-coordinators.
You can also help Joomla! development by thanking those involved in the many areas of the process. In the past year, for example, over 1,100 bugs have been fixed by the Bug Squad.
Contributors
Thank you to the code contributors and active Bug Squad members that created and tested this release:
Achal Aggarwal, Amy Stephen, Brian Teeman, Camden Narzt, Chris Davenport, Cyril Rezé, Daniel Dimitrov, David Hurley, Dennis Hermacki, Don Gilbert, Edwin Cheront, Elijah Madden, Gary Mort, George Wilson, Gunjan Patel, Hannes Papenberg, Javier Gómez, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jozsef Tamas Herczeg, Kevin Griffiths, Kunal Bajpai, leo lammerink, Marc Antoine Thevenet, Matt Thomas, Max Sarte, Melih Tas, Michael Babker, Mohammad Hasani Eghtedar, Parth Lawate, Peter van Westen, Piotr Mocko, Puneet Kala, Robert Gastaud, Roberto Segura, Samuel Moffatt, Sander Potjer, Serge Litvinov, Simon Asika, Thomas Hunziker, Thomas Kuschel, Tino Brackebusch, Tobias Zulauf, Valentin Despa, Yannick Gaultier.
Joomla! Bug Squad
Thank you to the Joomla! Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug in Joomla!, please report it on the Joomla! CMS Issue Tracker.
Active members of the Joomla! Bug Squad during past 3 months include: Achal Aggarwal, Anderson Martins, Artur StÄpieÅ, Ashan Fernando, Beat, Brian Teeman, Bruno Batista, Buddhima Wijeweera, Camden Narzt, Christelle Olivier, Constantin Romankiewicz, Cyril Rezé, Daniel Dimitrov, David Beuving, David Jardin, Demis Palma, Dennis Hermacki, easteregg easteregg, Edwin Cheront, Elijah Madden, Florian DAL FITTO, Gary Mort, George Wilson, Gunjan Patel, Hannes Papenberg, irbian irbian, Isabelle eff, Jérôme GLATIGNY, Jean-Marie Simonet, jelle kok, Jisse Reitsma, Jozsef Tamas Herczeg, Jurian Even, Kevin Griffiths, Kunal Bajpai, Lao Neo, leo lammerink, Marc Antoine Thevenet, Marcel van Beelen, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mark Dexter, Marko Đedović, Matias Aguirre, Matt Thomas, Max Sarte, Melih Tas, Michael Babker, Michael Dunkle, MIG Manickam, Mohammad Hasani Eghtedar, Nicholas Dionysopoulos, Ofer Cohen, Parth Lawate, patrick kohl, Peter van Westen, Piotr Gasiorowski, Piotr Mocko, Ray Lawlor, Robert Gastaud, Roberto Segura, Samuel Moffatt, Sander Potjer, Serge Litvinov, Simon Asika, Skullbock Skullbock, Stefania Gaianigo, Steve Binkowski, Thomas Hunziker, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Kuschel, Tino Brackebusch, Tobias Zulauf, Tom Hutchison, Valentin Despa, Yannick Gaultier.
Bug Squad Leadership: Mark Dexter and Nick Savov, Co-Coordinators.
Joomla! Security Strike Team
A big thanks to the Joomla! Security Strike Team for their ongoing work to keep Joomla! secure. Members include: Airton Torres, Alan Langford, Beat, Bill Richardson, Claire Mandville, David Hurley, Don Gilbert, Gary Brooks, Jason Kendall, Javier Gomez, Jean-Marie Simonet, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mark Boos, Mark Dexter, Matias Griese, Michael Babker, Nick Savov, Pushapraj Sharma, Rouven Weßling.