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Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by ooffick » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:33 pm

Here you can discuss about the release of Joomla! 2.5.0.

Please see announcement for details: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=690843
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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by Beat » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:56 pm

Congrats guys! well done, and on time!

@All: you should check that your extensions are compatible before rushing to upgrade.
CB team will check Community Builder compatibility and post news on joomlapolis.com and update post here with findings on the final 2.5.0 stable release.

EDIT: Saw Joomla 1.7.4 security release announcement too. Cool !

Are the vulnerabilities discussed also affecting Joomla 1.5.25 ?
If yes, is a Joomla 1.5.26 security release is needed too ?

(To avoid same discussion as for Joomla 1.7.0 security release to be redone, please see this post and replies to it and decisions made here:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p ... 0#p2565650
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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by Z9iT » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:13 pm

congrats guys... within moments after the release of 2.5 ..... it ws up n running on my website.. the update was lightning fast... will slowly shift all my clients on 2.5....

anywayz, i extend my heartiest wishes to the Joomla team... god bless you guys for keeping such a wonderful CMS up n running, going on forever ....
I am proud to be a part of such gigantic community....
god bless.....
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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by leolam » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:15 pm

Beat wrote:Congrats guys! well done, and on time!
Same congrats from me!
However, me thinks that a Joomla 1.7.4 security release is needed too asap, as Joomla 1.7 is under maintainance still!
And if security issue affects Joomla 1.5 too, a Joomla 1.5.26 security release is needed too.
Me thinks the same!

Edit: That is fast! Cool!

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by Beat » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:19 pm

I edited my post above regarding Joomla 1.7.4 release, as I saw the announcement posted on homepage here:
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/rel ... eased.html

But didn't see an announcement thread and a discussion thread for 1.7.4 yet. That's why i missed 1.7.4 at begin!! Sorry about that.

So: Well done for Joomla 1.7.4 maintenance release as well ! :-)

Question for 1.5.25 affected or not by this vulnerability ? stays.

The 4 security builtins say "1.7.3 and before", so is 1.5.25 included ?
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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by tschumler » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:30 pm

Congratulations for the new Joomla 2.5!! There are a lot of improvements again.
I have only just updated one of my test sites from Joomla 1.7.3 to 2.5 with the integrated one button update function and noticed that the version information in the control panel is not displayed where it used to be. A small thing but I always used to check there whether an update was successful.
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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by leolam » Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:41 pm

tschumler wrote:noticed that the version information in the control panel is not displayed where it used to be.
correct. The version is at present visible at "System Information" This will return most likely in Joomla 2.5.1 in some way (module?) and was removed due to a minor security issue related for the main release today

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by leolam » Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:44 pm

http://www.joomla.org/announcements/rel ... eased.html

on Joomla frontend gives blank page

Edit: Nicely restored! Back online

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by tschumler » Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:52 pm

I checked the version information in System Information after I noticed that it's missing at the usual place. It did not bother me but I am so used to check there after updates that I noticed it immediately.

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by ooffick » Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:58 pm

leolam wrote:http://www.joomla.org/announcements/rel ... eased.html
on Joomla frontend gives blank page
Thanks for the report, the team is working on it. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Edit: And it is back online!

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by leolam » Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:27 pm

tschumler wrote:I checked the version information in System Information after I noticed that it's missing at the usual place. It did not bother me but I am so used to check there after updates that I noticed it immediately.
It has been posted to the Bugsquad as inconvenient by several members of BS indeed

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by Wootah » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:07 pm

Is there a link to what a security release means? Can the general joomla user start upgrading to 2.5 from today?

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by tschumler » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:25 pm

There were quite a lot of fixes and improvements. :) http://www.joomla.org/announcements/rel ... eased.html

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by tschumler » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:42 pm

Just noticed that version, date and author informations are missing in Extension Manager for Smart Search Component, all Plugins and Module as well as for System Highlight.

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by aemiller » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:49 pm

Thank you for all the hard work. I think the new release is going to be a good one.

Some of us are getting a 1060 error on the upgrade (I did not have it on the beta 2). That discussion is here - http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 0#p2726770

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by tschumler » Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:25 pm

The Article Plugin, Image Plugin and Page Break always insert the link the image or the pagebreak at the beginning of the article and not where the cursor is located.
This is new in Joomla 2.5. In Joomla 1.7.3 it still worked or works as it should.
I tested in TinyMCE and JCE.

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by ChiefGoFor » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:41 am

Great work everyone!
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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by leolam » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:58 am

tschumler wrote:Just noticed that version, date and author informations are missing in Extension Manager for Smart Search Component, all Plugins and Module as well as for System Highlight.
Confirm this and posted in BS

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Post by leolam » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:04 am

tschumler wrote:The Article Plugin, Image Plugin and Page Break always insert the link the image or the pagebreak at the beginning of the article
I cannot replicate the issue. I inserted image and page break in Tiny and in JCE and get (correct)

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<p>dasdasd</p>
<p>asasdasd</p>
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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by tarotray » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:29 pm

After upgrade to 2.5, the Profile Editor now fails to show all the items selected as optional or required, in the User - Profile plug-in. It only shows basic stuff, such as Editor, Time-zone, Front-end Language etc.

Does anyone know anything about this?

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by leolam » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:35 pm

Re. Missing Version: See the module outlined in http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=625&t=691155

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by ahenriod » Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:20 am

I'm so angry!!!! after running Joomla's updater my admin's login page is accessible.
While running the installer, I've got kicked out of my site to the login page.
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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by Formanda » Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:15 am

I've just had to back out of the upgrade after a few hours trying to figure out whether the auto upgrade worked okay (from 1.7.3). Looking at the posts on the forum I think it did, but that there are a lot of bugs.

I have the problem on Safari of not being able to use the checkboxes to select articles or to select columns in article manager. I finally got Chrome working okay on this but despite clearing cache its broken on Safari.

Worse though is fact that images are getting stripped out on save in article editor. I switched to JCE bit it happened there too.

I'm retreating to 1.7.3 until 2.5.x is stable. Lots of lost Zzzzss tonight :-(

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by ahenriod » Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:51 am

ahenriod wrote:I'm so angry!!!! after running Joomla's updater my admin's login page is accessible.
While running the installer, I've got kicked out of my site to the login page.
A miracle!!!!! now it's running OK. Thanks to the unknown Elf !!!!
BUT I still have the same warning to install the same upgrade AND many COM_INSTALLER_MSG_DATABASE_ISSUES. I've been forced to execute the COM_INSTALLER_MSG_DATABASE_ command to fix many errors.
I'm not going to reinstall the update untill it is mature :)

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by leolam » Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:57 am

ahenriod wrote:I'm so angry!!!! . I'm not going to reinstall the update untill it is mature :)
What about calming down, not getting upset but doing a little, only a little research on the Upgrade forum and you will find exactly what to do in your case? http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=625&t=691030

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by Formanda » Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:01 am

Apologies for sleep deprived grump last night.

Okay the issue about not being able to use column filtering and check boxes in Article Manager went away in Safari - I had flushed the browser cache several times but anyhow finally whatever was hanging onto the old code finally gave up.

And now I have found a solution to all HTML tags getting stripped on Article save whether JCE / Tiny MCE used - in Global Configuration >> Text Filters I reset to Custom blacklist, saved, then reset again to default blacklist. This seems to have reset the blacklist properly and HTML tags are being saved now.

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by chadgarber » Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:22 pm

Congrats on the new release.

I think the upgrade breaks tinymce. On two sites I upgraded to 2.5 from the previous latest version and when I went to an article and saved it, all formatting was lost and it put all the text together like a text page. I installed JCE editor on both sites and reformatted the article and it fixed it.
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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by metuza » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:31 pm

Great release, was up and running in two minutes.. Firefox 9.0.1 and Safai seems to mess with .css in controlpanel, Chrome and IE9 works perfect.

May main issue is that i can not delete users or deaktivate plugins because system does not register that i have checked the checkboxes, i always get "Please make a selection from the list"..

EDIT: All issues solved after several browser cache deletion and computer restart, Joomla 2.5 works 100% all over :)

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by dropdeadfred » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:45 pm

Nice! My only issue is with default templates - I usually modify Beez_20 to suite my needs and updates always revert changes to the template index.php and css files.
I always back up and swap the templates folder.

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Re: Discuss Joomla! 2.5.0 Released

Post by wshealy » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:32 am

Hey guys great job!

One question, I thought I had read somewhere that the Updater was going to be changed to not require PHP allow_url_fopen. I still end up manually updating. My WordPress sites do not require PHP allow_url_fopen to update.

The database update is great.

Just curious!

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