Joomla Critical Update announcement

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

Joomla! 1.0.11 < Sunbird > is now available as of Monday 28th August 2006 24:00 UTC for download here. and is being designated a Critical Security Release.

All existing Joomla! users MUST UPGRADE to this version, due to several High Level vulnerabilities that affect ALL Previous versions of Joomla!

1.0.11 contains the following critical security fixes:

* 04 High Level Security Fixes
* 04 Medium Level Security Fixes
* 18 Low Level security
* 25 General bug fixes

If you are using ANY previous version of Joomla!, you need to upgrade to 1.0.11 as soon as possible.

* 1.0.11 Download
* 1.0.11 Version Information
* 1.0.11 Changelog
* 1.0.11 Package File MD5 checksums

Project Joomla! is and has always been fully committed to a Security First Principle and new intiatives have and will continue to be started to reinforce and continue this principle. Joomla! 1.0.11 highlights a redoubled effort to put Security at the forefront of everyones lexicon.

http://joomla.org

Please note: The update breaks the "Tags" tab in the editor window. It does not break the Tags component itself.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. I'm not familiar with Joomla! (yet)...

But after I just bought Studio 8... I'm beginning to cringe...

This looks like Macromedia's Contribute on steroids at first glance. I'm looking forward to playing with it. Any guidance or hints beforehand?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Yeah.

There is absolutely no earthly reason to buy any Website software. None. Everything you could possibly want and need is out there in Open Source and free.

Joomla is very good. It is not a good one for getting one's feet wet for the first time, unless you have technical skills from other computing areas. That said, the range of extensions and variety is staggering.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. I looked at it for a while last night and I'm glad I found it...

I'm going to have to put together a shopping cart for a very customer configurable industrial product and looking at some of the extensions available I think that this might be of great help.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. The other good thing about it:

LAMP. It is made to run best on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PhP. Lower server costs. It can run on IIS, but why?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. I'm hoping to use it on an Apache server with PhP and SQL...

A soon as I up my knowledge in both PhP and MySQL. Any recommended books or online tutorials you can recommend?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Lemme check around...

And if I find it, I will PM you. I remember a turotial I ran across a while back that was especially good. Gimme a bit. I am pretty busy right now.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Thanks, take your time, we're a bit understaffed at work at the moment

and I'm doing everything but my "job" and won't be able to attack this for weeks as it is.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. Well, one thing to remember:

With Joomla, Xoops or some of the other OSS website packages, you will not need, at first, to get down to the code level in either PhP or MySQL. They handle all of that for you, which makes the learning curve a lot easier.

There are also OSS packages that do one click installs of a lams server from CD. So getting that up and running is not pain and heartache.

It's a different world these days.