Joomla 3.8.6
13 March 2018
Joomla version 3.8.6 is now available (security release).
Upgrading to Joomla 3.8.6
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What's New in Joomla 3.8.6
Security
- Low Priority - Core - SQLi vulnerability in User Notes (affecting Joomla 3.5.0 through 3.8.5) - The lack of type casting of a variable in SQL statement leads to a SQL injection vulnerability in the User Notes list view.
Bug Fixes
- Various session management improvements #19548, #19687
- Multilingual: Associated categories should display only when published #19551
- Improve performance of the com_content category view with filter by tags #19284
- [com_fields] Fields are not copied when batch duplicating an article #16958
- Pass the configuration tmp_path to the archive package for extension installations #19608
- Hide global configuration and system information from non super users #19697
- Language overrides do not find plugin language files when files are in the plugin language folder #19740
- reCAPTCHA V1 - Discontinued #19648
- Delete existing user_keys, if password is changed #17827
- PHP 7.2 compatibility fixes