Heads up for any Joomla site owners / developers. There is a new bug fix release available from Joomla. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla addressing four security vulnerabilities and including over 100 bug fixes and improvements.
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This release fixes a few XSS vulnerabilities, an SQLi vulnerability as well as a few bug fixes. Here are some of the ones that have been handed:
<ul>
<li>Contact form loses data after submission with error <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/17743">#17743</a></li>
<li>Smart Search performance improvement for common words <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/12450">#12450</a></li>
<li>Performance improvement in Smart Search indexing process <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/17390">#17390</a></li>
<li>Update jQuery Autocomplete to 1.4.7 <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/18113">#18113</a></li>
<li>Update CodeMirror to 5.33.0 <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/18880">#18880</a></li>
<li>Update srcset url conversion to handle commas and spaces <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/18327">#18327</a></li>
<li>Custom Fields: Handle tag items properly <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/19006">#19006</a></li>
<li>Fix filepath to PHPMailer language file <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/19072">#19072</a></li>
<li>Display category title as page heading and page title when no menu item for com_content category <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/19195">#19195</a></li>
<li>Respect access level in com_content <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/18417">#18417</a></li>
<li>Miscellaneous PHP 7.2 compatibility fixes</li>
</ul>
Visit GitHub for the full list of <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/milestone/29?closed=1" target="_blank">bug fixes</a>.
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Heads up for any Joomla site owners / developers. There is a new bug fix release available from Joomla. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla addressing four security vulnerabilities and including over 100 bug fixes and improvements. 
 
 This release fixes a few XSS vulnerabilities, an SQLi vulnerability as well as a few bug fixes...