Joomla! 3.9.7 Released

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Joomla 3.9.7 is now available.

This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses three security vulnerabilities and contains over 40 bug fixes and improvements.

What’s new in Joomla 3.9.7?

Joomla 3.9.7 includes three security vulnerability fixes and several bugs and improvements, including:

Security Issues Fixed

Low Priority - Core - CSV injection in com_actionlogs (affecting Joomla 3.9.0 through 3.9.6)
Low Priority - Core - XSS in subform field (affecting Joomla 3.6.0 through 3.9.6)
Low Priority - Core - ACL hardening of com_joomlaupdate (affecting Joomla 3.8.13 through 3.9.6)

Bug fixes and Improvements

Batch system: Copy permissions of modules and categories
Progessive cache improvements
Fix to avoid duplicated custom fields in com_content
Frontend editing: article category editable by Publishers and up
RTL improvements
Removal of the unofficial French Help Server
TinyMCE improvements
RSS: Fix to display the right category
Media Manager: Fix directory traversal for symlinked folders
User registration: Correct http schema used

Visit GitHub for the full list of bug fixes.

Click here for full release information.

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