The XOOPS development team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.0.18 RC.

This is mainly a security fix release. Some main changes include:
- Added sanitizing to integer parameters before being used in DB query to avoid SQL injection
- Added sanitizing to XOOPS form elements to avoid XSS
- Added theme "zetagenesis"
- Improved permission check in comments

Read the release notes and full changelog for details.
Download the full package and update package from sourceforge.
Participate the organized QA and Testing.

Note:
You may notice some changes in themes. We have removed "phpkaox" and "x2t" from the official release package and added a new theme "zetagenesis" by Kris as an experimental step towards XOOPS 3.0 theme engine.
Meanwhile a XOOPS theme contest will be started to provide new XOOPS default theme.