Joomla 3.9.17 Release

Joomla 3.9.17 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses three security vulnerabilities and contains over 40 bug fixes and improvements.

What's in 3.9.17?

Joomla 3.9.17 includes 3 security vulnerability fixes and addresses several bugs, including:

Security Issues Fixed

• Low Priority - Core - Incorrect access control in com_users access level editing function (affecting Joomla 3.8.8 through 3.9.16) More information »
• Low Priority - Core - Missing checks for the root usergroup in usergroup table (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.16) More information »
• Low Priority - Core - Incorrect access control in com_users access level deletion function (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.16)More information »

Bug fixes and Improvements

• Removal of an unneeded file added to 3.9.16 #28307
• Multilingual Associations: Fix for the Edit Associations buttons in Menu Items #28339 and in Category #28678
• PHPMailer upgraded to its latest version #28398
• 'New' MVC classes depreciation notice for 4.0 instead of 5.0 #28366
• Facilitate the usage of help system by third parties #13286
• PostgreSQL: Fix for module loading #28278

Visit GitHub for the full list of bug fixes.

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A Huge Thank You to Our Volunteers!

A big thank you goes out to everyone that contributed to the 3.9 releases!

Make the next Joomla release even better

Download the upcoming releases from the nightly build page (for testing purposes only - do not use on production sites).
Want an even easier option? Get yourself over to launch.joomla.org - where you can also test Joomla 4.0 with just one click - no testing environment needed, nothing to install or set up (at all).

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