Joomla! 3.9.27 Released

Thursday, 27 May 2021

Joomla 3.9.27 is now available.

This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 3 security vulnerabilities and contains more than 15 bug fixes and improvements.

What's in 3.9.27?

Joomla 3.9.27 includes 3 security vulnerability fixes and addresses several bugs, including:

Security Issues Fixed

[20210501] Low Severity - Low Impact - Adding HTML to the executable block list of MediaHelper::canUpload (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.26)
[20210502] Low Severity - Low Impact - CSRF in AJAX reordering endpoint (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.26)
[20210503] Low Severity - Low Impact - CSRF in data download endpoints (affecting Joomla! 3.0.0 through 3.9.26)

Bug fixes and Improvements

Disable FLoC by default #33212
Postgres compatibility fixes for smart search #31809
Allow objects stored in tables as json #33633
Improve indexing performance of Smart Search #33720
Addional PHP 8 improvment #33113

Visit GitHub for the full list of bug fixes.

Click here for full release information.

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