Let’s see if I can hit all the replies in one:
@leeaston - though we did a forum release, it was only one bug fix and two new hooks. There’s a feature branch that’s waiting on some live testing before it will be ready for release, which is why it’s not ready now. Which I realize is vague. But basically- while an forum update was released, it didn’t include feature additions beyond the hooks.
@stinhambo - There were fixes related to publish layouts. From my recollection, existing issues were actually related to third party add-ons and how they handle updating? In other words- the direct problem was coming from third party code we can’t fix. But I know Kevin put in a fix so that if ‘leftover’ references are left by an update (or otherwise) it shouldn’t cause a PHP error and failure of the layout. This is the one I’m specifically thinking of https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/17609. But Kevin did hit all outstanding bugs related to layouts and they’re all showing as fixed. I know Marcus ran some tests as well, and he couldn’t duplicate a problem under 2.5, while he COULD using 2.4. So all outstanding issues are resolved. Let me know if there’s evidence otherwise.
@FinPete - 😉 Though, I wouldn’t say it beats beer!
@HilversumJim - EL doesn’t actually create the language packs, just the mechanism for creating them and then will make them available when they exist. That said- how that’s distributed is being improved as I speak. So I can’t really say when or if 2.x versions of those packs will be available soon.
@bgarrant- I honestly can’t think why the server would be affecting the RTE- aside from your guess on \/ type issue. And even that… it shouldn’t be. You’ve definitely created an RTE field and it shows in publish and just… no toolbar? Any JS errors? What I’d do for now- start a thread in technical support. It’s going to get lost/confused in here. If it’s not something tech support spots being wrong off the bat, we can go in and take a closer look. Weird, though.
@moogaloo - yep, the cookie module requires 2.5 because some hooks were added that it needs to work. The big one being a hook in EE’s cookie setting function. But there’s at least one other- and then for anyone needing it in a forum, there were a couple of hooks added there as well.