The Joomla team have released Joomla 2.5.4 and associated patch files. This is a pretty low priority security release patching an information disclosure issue and a potential xss vulnerability. It does add 3 new features however. Add option to show full CMS version number in generator tag  Implementing Access levels for Content Languages Make the auto-update process more reliable across different hosts details here http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5419-joomla-1526-released.html and here http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/9-security/10-core-security/396-20120305-core-password-change

The Joomla team have released Joomla 1.5.26 and associated patch files. It is highly recommended that you upgrade all Joomla 1.5x websites as this patch includes a high severity password reset vulnerability and a low priority information disclosure issue. details here http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5419-joomla-1526-released.html and here http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/9-security/10-core-security/396-20120305-core-password-change

Sometimes one needs to access Joomla’s functions and variables from an external script. Typically one should write a Joomla extension to do so but maybe you want something done quick, or you just need a little integration to another system, e.g. I’ve often had the need to grab the name or id of a user and write a record to another database to link them. Obviously just having the code in Joomla’s folder isn’t enough [...]

The Joomla team have released Joomla 2.5.2 and associated patch files. It is highly recommended that you upgrade all Joomla 2.5x websites as this patch includes a high severity security fix to protect against core SQL injection. details here http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/391-20120301-core-sql-injection and here http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/392-20120302-core-xss-vulnerability Announcement here: http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5415-joomla-252-released.html

755, 666, 777, What does it all mean? I don’t know what it is about this subject but many people are completely baffled by unix permissions, like 777, 666 and 755 particularly if one is used to using a PC or Mac but don’t have any unix or linux background. So why is it important for us? Well the vast majority of web servers run on Linux boxes. These servers assign a specific set of permissions [...]

Sometimes one needs to manage files on one’s Joomla installation but FTP isn’t up to the job because of hosting issues, e.g. many of us install Joomla with the apache (or other web server) as the owner and don’t want to open permissions for the FTP user as this often requires a 646, 664 or even 666 permissions. Remember that 666 really is the mark of the devil when it comes to file permissions – [...]

Upgrading / Migrating from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5 This post presents a step by step tutorial showing how to migrate your Joomla 1.5 website to Joomla 2.5 using two methods, i.e. using SP Upgrade or JUpgrade. Instructions for JUpgrade follow afterwards. SP Upgrade is simpler as it ignores 3rd party extensions. JUpgrade tends to fail more and has limited error reporting, however if you do need to port items like Kunena or Community Builder [...]

Joomla 2.5 has had an update in the form of Joomla 2.5.1, addressing two medium priority security issues relating to information disclosure and 30 tracker issues. It’s a recommended security fix so update by:

Do I need to upgrade to Joomla 2.5?   So do you need to upgrade to Joomla 2.5? That’s the first question you’ll be asking yourself. For those of you who remember the migration from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5 I can feel you cringing already. It’s slightly easier this time around though but it’s still not a one click upgrade as the differences between 1.5 and the 1.6 stream, to which Joomla 2.5 belongs are [...]

Joomla 2.5 Released Well the title says it all. The good folks at Joomla.org have relesed their next Long Term Support (LTS) version of their ever popular CMS with added features, functionality, improved language support and enhanced security features. Click on the post for a rundown of the main points.