Drupal 5.16

The sixteenth maintenance and security release of the Drupal 5 series. Only fixes for security vulnerabilities and other bugs have been committed. New features are only being added to the forthcoming Drupal 7.0 release.

This release fixes security vulnerabilities. Sites are urged to upgrade immediately after reading the security announcement:

• SA-CORE-2009-004 Drupal core - Local file inclusion on Windows

In addition to this security vulnerability, the following bugs have been fixed since the 5.15 release:

• #124492 by m3avrck, mfer: more accurate checking for valid URLs in valid_url()
• #360038 by sun. Documentation improvement.
• #179244 by tangent: line break filter operates on object element.
• #62926 by karschsp: increase the free tagging field maximum length to 1024; the database limits are per-tag.