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The Joomla community have announced the availability of Joomla! 1.5.2 [Woi]. The latest release is a maintenance update which addresses some minor bugs plus updates.

The updates include the following.

• Support for non-Gregorian date output
• Removed dependency on server locales for date output
• TCPDF Upgraded:
• Supports RTL languages
• Supports GIF images inline in generated PDF (if PHP extension GD2 is enabled)
• Fix for cache folder deletion with legacy mode enabled
• Disable page caching when debug is enabled
• Ability to disable Flash Uploader in Media Manager
• OpenID functionality fixes
• Advanced article filtering options now available using Article Preferences

API Changes:

• Addition of JFactory::getDate() to get a JDate object (supports overloading of JDate for non-Gregorian dates)
• Addition of JExit()
• JView::get() defers correctly to JObject::get()

For more information about the latest release read the offical announcement at the Joomla web site.