Joomla OpenSEF is Still Alive

"I'm glad this is still ongoing. Since I'm using it for our multi-site feature, it's very important that this component should be useful to other joomla version upgrades, most especially to the awaited joomla 1.5 stable version release"

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Submitted by geektips on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 19:29.

After several weeks without any words about OpenSEF continuity. Several days ago, Predator a.k.a Marko (OpenSEF developer) has posted a message in OpenSEF forum regarding OpenSEF project continuity.

Marko clearly stated that he will continue developing the OpenSEF component, he also wrote that the main reason he didn't post any message in the forum for so long is because he had just moved from Berlin to Bavaria in south Germany and he still haven't got a steady internet connection in his new place.

Good luck in your new home, Marko!

Beside this i have move now from Berlin to Bavaria (South German) and waiting since 5 weeks for my new internet connection which i will get on the 10. of April which makes a total of 8 week for a Internet connection in germany i feel myself back in the stoneage by this unbelieveable service in Germany.

So a lot has change in my private life, but if i'm able after i got full Internet connection to work again for the community and i will continue this project.

When all this probs are sorted out i sure will release a new version.

A hint for you: a lot open source projects dies because people only want want want but didn't want to give something back thats why a lot developers start asking themself is that the spirit of open source? I guess not, but i will continue the project - otherwise i would say right away now that i stop it or i had done this weeks ago.

Beside i'm also in the Coreteam of Joomla! so there goes also a lot free time november and december where gone for the 1.0.12 Release, just check the changelog.

I write this from a friend with Internet connection to give you an answer and what is the current status quo, hope this is explains a bit to you.

Predator

Joomla 1.5 Stable to be released soon - maybe!

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January 6th, 2008

It has been announced that there has been a trunk freeze on the Joomla 1.5 SVN server, this means that a release of Joomla 1.5 stable might only be days away (I guess they have to do all the marketing, packaging and preparation - as well as testing before the big release)

There are still a considerable amount of “normal priority” open bugs on the support tracker, so I dont see how the svn can be considered stable in its present state - I just logged another bug report just now (Unable to send Mass Mails to Super Admins.

But no matter what I think - it appears that the long awaited release of Joomla 1.5 is going to happen soon - well in the next few days or weeks!

However, do not fret! Joomla 1.0.x will be supported for a short while by the Joomla core team (they have said so) and there is also a community team gearing up to provide Long Term Support for the Joomla 1.0.x development track (as a fork if needed). So don’t be in any rush to (upgrade) migrate your sites to Joomla 1.5. Remember there is no upgrade path!

Joomla! 1.0.14 RC1 Released

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Monday, 14 January 2008

The Joomla! Project today announced the immediate release of Joomla! 1.0.14 RC1 [Daybreak], the first and hopefully singular release candidate for the 1.0.14 release cycle. Several security issues have been discovered and addressed for this release. While the required changes are not significant, the number of impacted files are significant and we need your help. Before this release is declared stable we need to ensure that it works as well for you as it does for us.

Those of you that are able and willing please download a copy of 1.0.14 RC1 and test it on a backup copy of your live site. Make sure that the system works as good or better than Joomla! 1.0.13, our current stable release. Any issues that you find please report in the 1.0.x Bug Tracker. If you have questions on how to report a bug you should read the how-to and then if you still have questions please feel free to ask them in our 1.0.x Quality and Testing forum.

Since this release fixes security vulnerabilities, once you have verified on a backup of your site that everything works as expected we suggest that you upgrade your live site to this release.

RELEASE NOTES

Joomla! 1.0.14 RC1 is a release candidate that addresses several security issues that have been discovered since our last stable release, Joomla! 1.0.13 . It is regarded as a mostly stable release and after adequate testing on a backup or sandbox version of your live site you should upgrade your live site to 1.0.14 RC1. As soon as we are comfortable that the required security changes for this release have not broken any functionality from version 1.0.13 we will package and release a 1.0.14 Stable release.

Along with the security fixes listed below there were several other issues fixed in this release. Ranging from fixing administrator session log out problems to media manager, pagination and web links all the way to improper search word highlighting in the search component this release looks to be our most secure and stable one yet.