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Joomla! 1.5.12 Release Candidate Now Available

Written by Ian MacLennan

The Joomla Project needs your help in testing our next release—Joomla 1.5.12 RC. This release has 22 bug fixes and two updates are significant enough to warrant community testing. This includes an upgrade to TinyMCE and changes to the framework PHPMailer class.

To Help with Testing

Download and install Joomla 1.5.12 RC in a testing environment. This is a Release Candidate and should not be used in a live production environment.

To test TinyMCE: Simply use the TinyMCE editor as you normally would and confirm it continues to work as expected. Note that this upgrade will not impact the JCE editor.

To test PHPMailer: To help with PHPMailer testing, first verify e-mail services are working with normal Global Configuration settings.

Changes were made to the framework PHPMailer class in order to allow secure connections (SSL/TLS) to SMTP servers. Given these changes, Joomla is now able to use services such as Gmail to handle e-mail from the application. If you have access to a Gmail account, consider testing this new functionality.

In the Administrator Panel, navigate to Global Configuration > Server and set the following options:

Mailer: SMTP Server
SMTP Security: SSL
SMTP Port: 465
SMTP Authentication: Yes
SMTP Username: Your Gmail username
SMTP Password: Your Gmail password
SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com

Then retest to ensure e-mail services continue to work.

When you have finished testing, please give us your feedback in the comments below. We would appreciate knowing if problems were identified and if your testing shows the updates work properly.

Download

Click here to download Joomla 1.5.12 RC

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Flavia Tarzwell makes this comment

2009-06-25 02:41:30

Installed on both local server (wamp) and on my live host. Both installs went through fine.
Edited the sample data items using Tiny without problems. The only thing is that since tiny is using advanced layout by default most buttons are not available unless people go and set it to extended which I think will confuse some folks.
PHP Mailer went though fine using smtp both with my regular smtp server and Gmail.
Let me know if you want to have access to the live RC site for testing purposes.

Flavia
David-Andrew makes this comment

2009-06-25 08:06:14

Hi Ian

Great!

When does the test period close?

Regards
David
ahmed makes this comment

2009-06-25 10:03:24

hello,
thanks for this new version its fantastic and i try it
i try to use TinyMCE and see its new func , i try to test PHPMailer and i think its very good thanks
rzama makes this comment

2009-06-25 11:46:04

$:\$ Evidence of the TinyMCE editor, never achieves align the image in the center, top with the text and read more, the image always looking left, we never found any source, it seems that they removed all of the source editor?
googler makes this comment

2009-06-25 14:44:51

Help me understand this. I have version 1.1.3 and in order to upgrade to 1.5.12, I have to build a whole new site?

I can just download and upgrade from 1.1.3 to 1.5.12?

Thanks!
Matt makes this comment

2009-06-25 18:27:57

Hi Ian,

TinyMCE works fine both locally (WAMP) and live on 1and1's Linux server. I tend to agree with Flavia about advanced versus extended. This is TinyMCE 3, right? If so, should the plugin name (I know, nit picking) be 3.0 instead of 2.0?

I had no luck with SMTP on 1and1's servers. I tried using gmail with a variety of settings and different accounts with no luck. I'd be happy to investigate further with some guidance. Feel free to contact me.

Thanks for all of the hard work!

Matt
Valc makes this comment

2009-06-25 19:31:17

Hi,
I have been testing the new email feature and works fine over a local server (Ubuntu).
In my case i needs configure parameters as follow:
* Mailer: SMTP Server
* SMTP Authentication: Yes
* SMTP Security: SSL
* SMTP Port: 465
* SMTP Username: miusername@gmail.com
* SMTP Password: my_password
* SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com

Because if i use "tls://smtp.gmail.com:465" or "ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465" return me an error:

* SMTP Error! Could not connect to SMTP host.
* SMTP Error! Could not connect to SMTP host.

(two times the same message)
thank you for your excelent job
Regards, Valc
spacepyrit makes this comment

2009-06-25 20:14:05

@googler
There is no upgrade package yet since 1.5.12 really shouldn't be installed on a live site. The package given is for testing purposes. Once it reaches a stable version there will be both the full package and the upgrade patch.

As for testing the new version, TinyMCE worked fine for me. The toggle editor button works beautifully.

The new SMTP worked fine for me. No problems there. I will keep testing it, so if I find any problems I will let you know.
Muhammad Shoaib Ali makes this comment

2009-06-25 23:01:34

Hey guys,

Installed the 1.5.12 RC..Looking good on the TinyMCE..and the PHPMailer works great on go-daddy with the g-mail SMTP.

Maybe I dint look hard enough but needs an add javascript button without the need to go into the user manager and create a user that uses No Editor.
Chad Windnagle makes this comment

2009-06-26 03:00:00

@Googler

You do not have version 1.1.3, because that version does not exist. at all. You MIGHT have version 1.0.13. In which case you are running very old and very insecure code. (You SHOULD immediately upgrade to 1.0.15 so that you are running the most secure code)

Now, the difference between 1.5.x and 1.0.x is that 1.5.x is a COMPLETE rewrite of Joomla! You CANNOT upgrade to 1.5.x code. You have to migrate. There is a plethora of information on this available on....google! So go check it out.
geeth makes this comment

2009-06-26 04:29:05

if we can update the JCE editor also that's better..

anyway thanks..
geeth
Anja Hage makes this comment

2009-06-26 08:32:00

Hi!

I installed Joomla 1.5.12 RC on my local server without problems I test the upgrade to TinyMCE, and i like that by default most buttons are not available and especially the toggle editor!
I have test the PHPMailer but several times get the message 'SMTP Error! Could not connect to SMTP host'
My settings:
Mailer: SMTP Server
SMTP Authentication: Yes
SMTP Security: TLS (?)
SMTP Port: 465 (?)
SMTP Username: My Gmail username
SMTP Password: My Gmail password
SMTP Host: tls://smtp.gmail.com:465

Regards, Anja
Philip Locke makes this comment

2009-06-26 09:20:13

Downloaded & tested locally on WAMP...

All seems fine with SMTP...

Suggest to take away Tiny 'advanced' option - not client friendly.

Phil

Dennis Hermatski makes this comment

2009-06-26 13:40:53

Bugs with multiply instances of editor on same page (it was always in all previous Joomla versions).
Get and set content functions are applied not on edtior from php parameter, but from current active editor in the browser:

function onGetContent( $editor ) {
	return "tinyMCE.activeEditor.getContent();";
}
function onSetContent( $editor, $html ) {
	return "tinyMCE.activeEditor.setContent(".$html.";";
}

Imagine, we have 2 editors: 'editor1' and 'editor2':

echo $editor->display( 'editor1',  $row->editor1, '550', '300', '60', '20', array('pagebreak', 'readmore') ) ;
echo $editor->display( 'editor2',  $row->editor2, '550', '300', '60', '20', array('pagebreak', 'readmore') ) ;

if we will try to get the contents of editor2 but cursor is in editor1 - we will get the contents of editor1:

var text = getContent( 'editor2' );

This code will return contents of the current active editor!!! Not 'editor2' if cursor is in editor1 field

So these functions should be:

function onGetContent( $editor ) {
	return 'tinyMCE.get(\''.$editor.\\').getContent()';
}
function onSetContent( $editor, $html ) {
	return 'tinyMCE.get(\''.$editor.\\').setContent('.$html.');';
}

Lyle makes this comment

2009-06-26 17:56:30

Bonjour,

Tested locally on a LAMP setup in Ubuntu 9.04

1) install went fine; installed Sample Data, no FTP layer, default Milky Way template
2) SMTP mail with Gmail went perfectly
- from the Contact omponent
- from Mass Mail
- from New User notification
3) Timy MCE functions as expected, however there remains the display issues in the Frontend Editing:
- Advanced Mode (default) crowds the Right Column
- Extended Mode pushes the Right column almost completely off the screen (to the right)
- there remains no parameter setting in the plugin where the Editor size (width especially) can be set; only for the HTML popup

Other than that, looks and works great!

Cheers!
Lyle
ste makes this comment

2009-06-27 09:15:10

Hi, testing the 1.5.12 RC version I've seen a file called tiny_mce_eb2ed42b04062d52245fad7ac2425219.gz in plugins\editors\tinymce\jscripts\tiny_mce.
Is it correct?
vince makes this comment

2009-06-27 12:24:54

Hello when you thnk to release the definitive version of 1.5.12? many thanks
Wolfgang makes this comment

2009-06-27 14:30:40

There are some people who have problems with gmail using tls. Is somebody out there who can explain how to configure (Seurity = TLS or SLS) host = tls://.. or whatelse??
ste makes this comment

2009-06-27 17:20:57

The new version of TinyMCE have a new function, Tinybrowser, that is very useful, but is "in conflict" with the new function introduced in Joomla 1.5.11, the Minimum User Level for Media Manager.
Creating a new article from frontend with a user that have no permissions to see the Image button, correctly the button is not displayed. However, in the editor (set to extended functionality) if I click on the Insert/edit image button, I can see in the dialog the Browse button, that let me insert/delete/rename/edit all images and folders.
I think this function is very very useful, but it has to be combined with the permissions set in Global configuration.
Jason Wong makes this comment

2009-06-28 13:53:32

nice
Theo makes this comment

2009-06-28 18:29:38

If we have move the mailservers from the host emailservers to Gmail mailservers what we have to put in the fields?

Thanks
SFGolfer makes this comment

2009-06-29 15:52:20

I'm having an issue with TinyBrowser. The window opens with this message at the top:

Unable to create the 'C:/Inetpub/joomla/images/stories/' directory - please check your permissions.

This is a default folder under the images directory. I set full permissions for the images folder and am allowing anonymous access to the joomla directory on IIS.

All of the controls/tabs appear but do not function because of the error.
casting makes this comment

2009-06-30 06:07:28

Maybe I dint look hard enough but needs an add javascript button without the need to go into the user manager and create a user that uses No Editor.

SFGolfer makes this comment

2009-06-30 23:30:47

Follow up to my June 29 post...

Turns out the issue is related to the path to the image directory in tinybrowser's config_tinybrowser.php file around 54-56.

$tinybrowser['path']['image'] = str_replace($tinybrowser['docroot'],'', preg_replace('[\\\]', '/', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../../../../../../images/stories'))) . '/';
$tinybrowser['path']['media'] = str_replace($tinybrowser['docroot'],'', preg_replace('[\\\]', '/', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../../../../../../images/stories'))) . '/';
$tinybrowser['path']['file']  = str_replace($tinybrowser['docroot'],'', preg_replace('[\\\]', '/', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../../../../../../images/stories'))) . '/';

I had to comment out the three lines and hard code in the root directory to my images/stories folder.

$tinybrowser['path']['image'] = '/joomla/images/stories/';
$tinybrowser['path']['media'] = '/joomla/images/stories/';
$tinybrowser['path']['file']  = '/joomla/images/stories/';

Possibly related to my installation being in a subdirectory and not directly off the root?

nauman makes this comment

2009-07-05 00:31:22

I am using SMTP settings,, same as described, but it is not working for me

Thanx
Gordon makes this comment

2009-07-06 01:09:29

The "edit HTML source code" button doesn't seem to work for me in Joomla 1.5.12 WYSIWYG article editor.
Dimadav makes this comment

2009-07-09 08:43:07

bag sendmail

Sends mail on mail boxes with domains: .org .com .ru .net ....etc. (mail@galaxy.org)
Successfully sends

Not to send mail on a mail box with the domain.info (mail@galaxy.info)
As I have understood if the domain of more than 3 letters sending does not send
Hemant Gaikwad makes this comment

2009-07-22 09:54:40

Can someone provide me the disadvantage of Joomla?
zilmeier makes this comment

2009-07-23 03:36:25

smtp setting doesn't work for me.
please help.