Security audit remains
Before the release of 1.6.0, the team will be performing a security audit of version 1.6. It is anticipated that there will be additional security fixes applied to version 1.6 RC1 before the release of 1.6.0.
For instance, there is an unresolved XSS security issue in the template manager which will need to be sorted out and fixed before the stable version is released.
Changes made to the SEF URLs this week
As far as I know, changes were made to important parts of the Joomla 1.6 package as late as this week. According to the tracker for Joomla 1.6 issues, the way SEF URLs work was changed on Dec 13th. Simply put, this relates to how Joomla builds URLs when you have a lot of nested categories.
From what I can understand, the new version of SEF URLs in Joomla 1.6 will include the last category only:
Before patch: http://localhost/jbs/1-6/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/article-category-list/14-sample-data-articles/19-joomla/8-beginners
After patch: http://localhost/jbs/1-6/index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/content-component/article-category-list/8-beginners
I can't see that this change has been implemented into the RC1, though. I did some tests, and in the site I tested on, the category wasn't inserted into the URL at all. Don't have the time to do more tests. If you download and test RC1, please let me know your results in the comments below.
Number of files has increased compared to Joomla 1.5
An interesting thing: The actual number of files in the RC1 package has increased, when compared to Joomla 1.5.22. I was under the impression that Joomla 1.6 would have fewer files than 1.5, but this doesn't seem to be the case.
The total number of files (excluding the installation folder) have increased with 672.
See the below chart for more info:
'My profile' page
I haven't seen this before, but I noticed there is now a "My profile" page which allows the logged in user to edit his or her login details, language and even their preferred Backend Template Style. There are two different Backend Template Styles in the current version: BlueStork (default) and Hathor.
The button for this view is found in the administrator control panel, as well as under the administrator 'Site' menu (Edit profile)
Bug fixes
Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 15 release on 29 November, the team has fixed approximately 121 issues in the tracker. They have closed an additional 46 tracker issues.
At the present time, there are no High or Medium High issues in the tracker, which they claim is the reason why they are able to release 1.6 Release Candidate 1.
It will be interesting to see how this version performs, and if it's really a Release Candidate. Perhaps it should have been another beta? It remains to be seen.
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