Elgg (<a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/tag/elgg/">news</a>) 1.7.8 contains important security enhancements and bugfixes. All network owners are encouraged to upgrade.
Security Enhancements:
<ul>
<li>Properly encoding search queries (Thanks to lord epsylon (of Lorea) for the report!)</li>
</ul>
Bugfixes:
<ul>
<li>Blogs – Fixed disappearing blog draft issue.</li>
<li>Groups – Editing a topic from discussion list page works now.</li>
<li>Search – Group names used in titles.</li>
<li>InviteFriends – Invitation link no longer shows up when logged out.</li>
<li>Messages – Denormalized the message calculation for better performance.</li>
<li>Sorting by time_created in relationship functions supported.</li>
<li>Metadata and annotation names can now be updated.</li>
<li>Fixed error with deleting a user with disabled entities.</li>
<li>Removed unnecessary executable permissions on a number of files. (Thanks to pauloortiz for the report!)</li>
</ul>
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Elgg CMS 1.7.8 released

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Elgg (news) 1.7.8 contains important security enhancements and bugfixes. All network owners are encouraged to upgrade. 
 Security Enhancements: 
 
Properly encoding search queries (Thanks to lord epsylon (of Lorea) for the report!)
 
 Bugfixes: 
 
Blogs – Fixed disappearing blog draft issue.
Groups – Editing a topic from discussion list page works ...