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Note that Symlinks have always been disabled by default on new Magento installations admin YES/NO config values default to 'NO'. The update now explicitly disables symlinks in config.xml and as an extra precaution also removes it from the admin->developer section.

This will not affect your current symlink settings, if you manually enabled symlinks prior to 1.9.3.2 they will stay enabled, although you cannot see the setting anymore in admin.

Users using modman to manage Magento 1.x modules should ensure that they do not disable symlinks as this will disable the modman modules.

Here is the diff file for magento1933 and magento1932 to assist with identifying changes in the default theme which may affect your custom/extended themes.

diff -r magento1933 magento1932 > https://pastebin.com/ADzMBLhr

Note that Symlinks have always been disabled by default on new Magento installations admin YES/NO config values default to 'NO'. The update now explicitly disables symlinks in config.xml and as an extra precaution also removes the template section from admin->developer which contained the configuration option.

This will not affect your current symlink settings, if you manually enabled symlinks prior to 1.9.3.2 they will stay enabled, although you cannot see the setting anymore in admin.

Users using modman to manage Magento 1.x modules should ensure that they do not disable symlinks as this will disable the modman modules.

Responsible admins can enable the symlink admin section again by looking for the diff changes to the template section in app/code/core/Mage/Core/etc/system.xml and adding the section to your system.xml at around line 600. Or double check symlinks are still enabled with

n98-magerun.phar config:dump | grep symlink

Here is the diff file for magento1933 and magento1932 to assist with identifying changes in the default theme which may affect your custom/extended themes.

diff -r magento1933 magento1932 > https://pastebin.com/ADzMBLhr

Note that Symlinks have always been disabled in Magento as admin YES/NO options default to 'no'. The update now explicitly disables symlinks in config.xml and as an extra precaution also removes it from the admin->developer section.

Users using modman to manage Magento 1.x modules should ensure that they do not disable symlinks as this will disable the modman modules.

Here is the diff file for magento1933 and magento1932 to assist with identifying changes in the default theme which may affect your custom/extended themes.

diff -r magento1933 magento1932 > https://pastebin.com/ADzMBLhr

Note that Symlinks have always been disabled by default on new Magento installations admin YES/NO config values default to 'NO'. The update now explicitly disables symlinks in config.xml and as an extra precaution also removes it from the admin->developer section.

This will not affect your current symlink settings, if you manually enabled symlinks prior to 1.9.3.2 they will stay enabled, although you cannot see the setting anymore in admin.

Users using modman to manage Magento 1.x modules should ensure that they do not disable symlinks as this will disable the modman modules.

Here is the diff file for magento1933 and magento1932 to assist with identifying changes in the default theme which may affect your custom/extended themes.

diff -r magento1933 magento1932 > https://pastebin.com/ADzMBLhr

Here is the diff file for magento1933 and magento1932 to assist with identifying changes in the default theme which may affect your custom/extended themes.

diff -r magento1933 magento1932 > https://pastebin.com/ADzMBLhr

Note that Symlinks have always been disabled in Magento as admin YES/NO options default to 'no'. The update now explicitly disables symlinks in config.xml and as an extra precaution also removes it from the admin->developer section.

Users using modman to manage Magento 1.x modules should ensure that they do not disable symlinks as this will disable the modman modules.

Here is the diff file for magento1933 and magento1932 to assist with identifying changes in the default theme which may affect your custom/extended themes.

diff -r magento1933 magento1932 > https://pastebin.com/ADzMBLhr