SEF core Upgraded in Joomla 1.5.5

Many agree, one of the most important features of Joomla! 1.5 is improved SEF URLs. A number of bugs with SEF Content URLs were fixed in this release, including issues related to Section List links, Breadcrumbs, Article Archives, Page Titles, and Article links in various Modules. A goal for the Joomla! 1.5.5 release was to correct those errors. In addition to the bug fixes, an improvement to Category Blog SEF URLs is now available in Joomla! 1.5.5.

Prior to Joomla! 1.5.5, Category Blog Article SEF URLs followed this pattern: http://example.com/menu-item-alias/nn-category-alias/nn-article-alias.html

With Joomla! 1.5.5, the URL no longer includes the nn-category-alias node, as this pattern shows: http://example.com/menu-item-alias/nn-article-alias.html

Existing Joomla! 1.5 Web sites should experience no problem due to this SEF URL enhancement. The Joomla! Bug Squad tested to ensure existing SEF URLs for Category Blog Articles continue to navigate to the correct page. No problems were discovered during this testing.

To help ensure all SEF URL fixes produced intended results, the Bug Squad introduced automated testing for SEF URLs. While this initial testing is far from exhaustive, it has proven to be valuable. Expanded automated URL testing will be an integral part of ensuring SEF URLs continue to provide consistent results for future releases.

The Bug Squad would like to thank Louis Landry for developing the SEF URL Content patch. With these fixes, many errors on the Joomla! 1.5 Tracker were corrected and the SEF URLs for Content are now working, as intended.