Joomla! 3.8.6 Released

Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Joomla! 3.8.6, the latest releases of the 3.x release series is now available.

This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla addressing one security vulnerability and including over 60 bug fixes and improvements.

What's in Joomla 3.8.6?

Joomla 3.8.6 addresses one security vulnerability and several bugs, including:

Security Issues Fixed

Low Priority - Core - SQLi vulnerability in User Notes (affecting Joomla 3.5.0 through 3.8.5)

Bug fixes and Improvements

Various session management improvements #19548, #19687
Multilingual: Associated categories should display only when published #19551
Improve performance of the com_content category view with filter by tags #19284
[com_fields] Fields are not copied when batch duplicating an article #16958
Pass the configuration tmp_path to the archive package for extension installations #19608
Hide global configuration and system information from non super users #19697
Language overrides do not find plugin language files when files are in the plugin language folder #19740
reCAPTCHA V1 - Discontinued #19648
Delete existing user_keys, if password is changed #17827
PHP 7.2 compatibility fixes

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