Joomla 3.8.12 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 3 security vulnerabilities and contains over 20 bug fixes and improvements.

What's in 3.8.12?

Joomla 3.8.12 includes three security vulnerability fixes, several bug fixes and improvements:

Security Issues Fixed

• Low Priority - Core -  Hardening the InputFilter for phar stubs (affecting Joomla 1.5.0 through 3.8.11) More information »
• Low Priority - Core - Stored XSS vulnerability in the frontend profile (affecting Joomla 1.5.0 through 3.8.11) More information »
• Low Priority - Core - ACL Violation in custom fields (affecting Joomla 3.7.0 through 3.8.11) More information »

Bug fixes and Improvements

• mod_articles_latest and mod_articles_news: fix to show featured articles #21336
• Tags in com_content: fix to display tags when other item info are set to hidden #21275
• com_tags: All Tags default layout #21031
• Allows filtering by the archived state in the redirect component #21673

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 3.8 releases!

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Joomla 3.9, 3.10 and 4.0 are in the works. If you would like to help improve them you can make a direct difference! You can find more information about these releases on GitHub:

• Joomla 3.9 milestone: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/milestone/20 - Please read this article to get information on how to test it
• Joomla 3.10 milestone: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/milestone/34
• Joomla 4.0 milestone: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/milestone/5

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