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The Drupal development team has recently announced the release of Drupal 6.9 and 5.15. Those two aren’t new full versions but offer bug fixes and have some security vulnerabilities cleared. The new Drupal 6.9 and 5.15 are now available for download. Most of the bugs and security issues reported by users and members of the Drupal community are fixed in the new releases. This makes the new releases more stable and secure. The CMS development team strongly recommends Drupal users to upgrade their versions with the latest installation. As fans of Drupal and supporters of Drupal project we also advise you to do so.

Find some information about security issues and bug fixes.

Some major security issues solved with the new release are:

• Access Bypass – users with active “translate content” permission could bypass normal viewing permissions and gain access over unpublished or restricted content. This problem is fixed with version 6.9.
• Validation Bypass – users with enabled pictures in their profiles could possibly enter invalid e-mails or user names. Also cleared in the new release.
• Additional validation is added against possible SQL injection.

Here are and some of the major bug fixes:

• Look for the www.example.com page when a HTTP request seems to fail. Looking for the local page caused problems for people with interactive authentication, redirects, hosting added JavaScript code, and so on
• documentation clean-up
• language selection for domain should look at HTTP_HOST not SERVER_NAME
• check to not create global constraints twice in PostgreSQL
• comment_controls() form function lacks first form_state parameter, so passed values are incorrectly used
• more accurate checking for valid URLs in valid_url()

These are some of the most important bug fixes, for details you can check the official Drupal Project website.

We like Drupal and support this great CMS not only because it offers functionality and flexibility, but because it has a fantastic community of code committers that never stops to further develop the platform. When there is an issue, there is always someone who works to find a solution. The user community reports the issues and the development team releases the fixes regularly. This is another reason for Host Color to encourage our customers to use Drupal CMS web projects. Drupal is reliable and can be used for building any kind of contemporary website – blog or blogging network, media website, image gallery, video site, online community, collaboration network and many more. That is why say “Drupal-ize your website”.

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