| 2008-01-23 | Posted By: Lynne Pope
Release of Mambo 4.5.6 - the end of an era
The Mambo Team announces the final release of the Mambo 4.5.x series of releases. This marks the end of an era for one of the web's most popular Free Open Source Software (FOSS) Content Management Systems (CMS). The enormous success of Mambo 4.5.x led to many forks, some successful, some less so. "Mambo 4.5 has been a great CMS, a good framework, and a great school to many of us", says Ozgur Cem Sen, Core Team Leader of Mambo.
"We have been overwhelmed with the positive feedback we've received for the Mambo 4.6.x series, initialy released over 16 months ago", continues Mr. Sen. "We encourage all Mambo users to upgrade to the latest stable release of Mambo 4.6."
During the last several months, the Mambo Team has been working very hard on the upcoming Mambo 4.7, as well as maintaining and doing minor development on Mambo 4.6.x. The Mambo Team also has been discussing Mambo 5. "It is time to look forward, and focus our efforts towards growth", says Nicolas Steenhout, Secretary of the Mambo Foundation, Inc.
Project Leader, Chad Auld says that this is both a sad and an exciting time for Mambo.
"It is always sad to see software reaching the end of development," Chad says, "Mambo 4.5 has been with us for many years". He adds, "Mambo 4.5's time has passed and Mambo is moving forward to an even better future. With 4.7 getting closer to release and planning underway for Mambo 5.0, we have exciting things coming."
Team Mambo supports those sentiments and wishes to thank everyone who contributed to Mambo 4.5. This is an exciting step forward for Mambo and one which the Team hopes will be supported by the community.
Farewell Mambo 4.5!
What's Changed?
1) Hardened security.
2) Updated mod_templatechooser to improve security.
3) Fixed a small issue with the PDF code.
4) Fixed a PHPMailer issue
5) Fixed login and logout redirection issue.
Mambo 4.5.6 is code named "Sunset".
You can get it here:
http://mambo-code.org/gf/project/mambo/frs/?action=FrsReleaseView&release_id=304
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| 2008-01-10 | Posted By: Lynne Pope
Security Vulnerability Quick Patch
Earlier today, Team Mambo was alerted to a security vulnerability in the search component and module that generates a large number of queries if certain strings are input. This creates a major impact on the server's available resources and can lead to the site going down. While we intend to have two new releases out within this next week, the search vulnerability is of enough concern that we have just released a patch.
This vulnerability affects all versions of Mambo. It may also affect other CMS that are based on the Mambo code.
If you are using Mambo 4.5.5, please go here and download the patch file:
http://mambo-code.org/gf/download/frsrelease/298/542/20080110-Mambo45x-SearchPatch.zip
For all versions of Mambo 4.6, please download this file:
http://mambo-code.org/gf/download/frsrelease/298/544/20080110-Mambo46x-SearchPatch.zip
This is not an upgrade. The files contained in the release will overwrite and replace existing files. To install, either unzip locally and upload via ftp, or upload the patch and unzip on your server through your server control panel, such as cPanel.
We urge all Mambo users to apply this patch as soon as possible. |
| 2007-12-24 | Posted By: Lynne Pope
Mambo 4.6.3 has been released!
This minor version release contains a number of security improvements, bug fixes, and feature and performance enhancements.
All 4.6.3 downloads are available here: http://mambo-code.org/gf/project/mambo/frs/
The full announcement is on The Source, at http://source.mambo-foundation.org. |
| 2007-09-08 | Posted By: Chad Auld
Our new home
As you've probably noticed Mambo now has it's own official Mambo Foundation sanctioned Software Forge. This is now the location for official Mambo releases and related downloads. All files have been migrated from the old SourceForge.net project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mambo/). |
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