Joomla! 1.0.14 RC1 Released - Fixes security issues

Following on from my blog post about security issues in Joomla 1.0.13 (and the forum thread) we are pleased to see/announce that Joomla 1.0.14 RC1 has been released by the Joomla Core Team.

Joomla 1.0.14 *is* stable as far as our professional opinion - stable to us means secure! While you may encounter some issues, those will only be minor compared to the greatly increased security your site will have by running Joomla 1.0.14RC1 instead of Joomla 1.0.13

If you are running Joomla 1.0.13 then we urge you to upgrade immediately to Joomla 1.0.14RC1

Remember that Joomla 1.0.14 is built on the stability of Joomla 1.0.13 and has only bug fixes and security changes to it - nothing new has been added. While we accept that a lot of files have been changed, we would rather our customers encounter smaller issues (maybe like session issues) than have their websites hacked/compromised. Joomla 1.0.14 RC1has been released to address specific security issues. Buried in a forum we find a commitment to other bug fixes in Joomla 1.0.15:

Please note that the main aim of this release is to address known security issues.
We will be trying to devote additional resources for a 1.0.15 to fix other bugs
and general annoyances over the next few months.  Don't have any timing on that -
it just depends on how it fits into everything else that's going on.

Upgrading from Joomla 1.0.14 RC1 to Joomla 1.0.14 will be a simple file replace just like the upgrade from Joomla 1.0.13 to Joomla 1.0.14

The announcement was:

 The Joomla! Project today announced the immediate release of
Joomla! 1.0.14 RC1 [Daybreak], the first and hopefully singular
release candidate for the 1.0.14 release cycle.  Several security
issues have been discovered and addressed for this release.
While the required changes are not significant, the number of
impacted files are significant and we need your help.
Before this release is declared stable we need to ensure that
it works as well for you as it does for us.

Official Announcement, Download Links and Upgrade Instructions