Joomla! 3.8.9 Released

Joomla! 3.8.9, the latest releases of the 3.x release series is now available.

This is a security release which addresses 2 security vulnerabilities and contains over 50 bug fixes and improvements.

What's in 3.8.9?

Joomla 3.8.9 addresses two security vulnerabilities and several bugs, including the fatal error in the random image module, the error on uploading images in child folder, and several other bugs and improvements, including:

Security Issues Fixed

Low Priority - Core - Local File Inclusion with PHP 5.3 (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.8.8)
Low Priority - Core - XSS vulnerability in language switcher module (affecting Joomla 1.6.0 through 3.8.8)

Bug fixes and Improvements

Correctly escape the random image module output #20533
Fix folder browsing and file upload that broke in 3.8.8 due to escaping #20586
com_mailto (mail to friend) allows the usage of a Captcha by using JForm #20265
Tag indexing improvement #13868
Fix use of hyphens in data attributes #20579
Updates to third party PHP libraries #20583
CodeMirror updated to 5.38.0 #20636

Visit GitHub for the full list of bug fixes.

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