Joomla Announcements

Joomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Available

mark.dexter@community.joomla.org (Mark Dexter) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 4 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 3 release on Jun 14, we have fixed approximately 103 issues in the tracker. Much of this progress is directly related to the stepped up efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!

See the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release.

What's next?

This is the fourth in our series of continuous betas. Beta 5 will be released on July 12, 2010.

Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5300

Joomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Available

mark.dexter@community.joomla.org (Mark Dexter) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 3 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 2 release on May 31, we have fixed approximately 102 issues in the tracker. Much of this progress is directly related to the stepped up efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!

See the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release.

What's next?

This is the third in our series of continuous betas. Beta 4 will be released on June 28, 2010.

Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5276

Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available

joomla@ianmaclennan.org (Ian MacLennan) — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:24:06 +0000

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 2 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 1 we have fixed approximately 140 issues. Much of this progress is directly related to the stepped up efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!

See the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release.

What's next?

This is the second in our series of continuous betas. Beta 3 will be released on June 14, 2010.

Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5249

Joomla! 1.5.18 Released

mark.dexter@community.joomla.org (Mark Dexter) — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.18 [Wojmamni ama wojnaiki]. This is a security release and also corrects one priority issue in version 1.5.17.

The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Download

Click here to download Joomla 1.5.18 (Full package) »

Click here to download Joomla 1.5.18 (Upgrade packages) »

Instructions

Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is available for beginners.

Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.

Release Notes

Check the Joomla 1.5.18 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.

If you have modified core template overrides, please be sure to back them up before upgrading.

Security

High Priority - Core - XSS Vulnerabilities in back end. More information »

Components

No component issues were fixed for this release

Modules

No module issues were fixed for this release.

Plugins

Revert issue 19859 (Graceful handling of Apache plugin failures) (20424)

Legacy

No legacy issues were fixed for this release.

Templates

No Templates issues were fixed for this release.

Language

No Language issues were fixed for this release.

Administrator

No Administrator issues were fixed for this release.

System

No System issues were fixed for this release.

Statistics for the 1.5.18 release period:

Joomla 1.5.18 contains:
- 1 issues fixed in SVN
- 3 commits
Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 21 active issues:
- 29 new reports
- 7 closed
- 1 fixed in SVN
At the time the 1.5.18 release was packaged, the tracker had 337 active issues:
- 195 open
- 105 confirmed
- 37 pending

Joomla! Bug Squad

Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug in Joomla, please report it on the 1.5 Bug Tracker.

Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Andrew Eddie, Ian MacLennan, and Mark Dexter Coordinators; Airton Torres, Artyom Bisyarin, Elin Waring, Marijke Stuivenberg, Matt Thomas, and Omar Ramos, Team Leaders.
Alan Langford, Alessandro Nadalin, Andrea Tarr, Christophe Demko, Dennis Hermacki, Edvard Ananyan, Flavia Silveira, Gergo Erdosi, Hannes Papenberg, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jennifer Marriott, Joseph LeBlanc, Julio Pontes, Kevin Devine, Klas Berlič, Koen Kuipers, Mustaq Sheikh, Niels Braczek, Ole Bang Ottosen, Pete Nurse, Ron Severdia, Ronald J. de Vries, Sam Moffatt, and Will Mavis.

A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Alain Rivest, Amy Stephen, Anja Hage, Artyom Bisyarin, Babs Gösgens, Beat, Bill Richardson, Bo Astrup, Brian Sullivan, Brian Teeman, Cristina Solana, Detlef Volmer, Duane Brown, Eduardo Diaz, Gobezu Sewu, Henrik Hussfelt, Jeremy Wilken, Joe Sonne, Manoel J. Silva, Marius van Rijnsoever, Mark W Bender, Nate Bohn, Nicholas Antimisiaris, Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos, Pierre Gazzola, Radek Suski, Rob Joyce, Robert Vining, Steven Littrell, Steven Trullinger, Troy Thomas Hall, Ulas ALKAN, Vicki Payne, Viet Hoang Vu, Waseem Sadiq, and Yuval Maman.

Inaugural Joomla! World Conference Announced

elin.waring@opensourcematters.org (Elin Waring) — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:32:08 +0000

Update [16-6-2010] Note that the dates to the conference are being changed. Please watch this joomla.org site for further information.

The Joomla! project is pleased to announce that the inaugural Joomla! World Conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia on 3 - 7 November 2010.

The five-day conference features a series of program tracks to suit everyone from end-users to enterprise-level business leaders, and will bring together Joomla! leadership team members, developers, designers, and users. During the conference, there will be a number of different sessions going on, including:

Joomla! Development Team and Community Team presentations
Seminars by popular extension developers
Flexible workshop sessions
Hands-on training

Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available

ron.severdia@community.joomla.org (Ron Severdia) — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:08:51 +0000

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

The following is the press release.

Joomla! 1.6 Beta Released – Download the World’s Leading PHP-based Content Management System and Easily Build Websites and Online Applications

New York, New York, May 17, 2010 – The Joomla Project, a free, award-winning PHP-based content management system that enables users to build websites and powerful online applications, today announced the beta release of Joomla 1.6. Designed to offer enhanced site control and a more polished user experience, Joomla 1.6 will deliver a variety of new tools to improve website management and access, a more robust organizational structure for content control, and various other user-experience improvements throughout the software.

“The release of Joomla 1.6 will raise the bar of success for our community’s users, and enable our developer community to build even more exciting and compelling solutions,” said Ryan Ozimek, President of Open Source Matters, the not-for-profit organization that supports The Joomla Project. “New features and capabilities – such as the hierarchical design of the access control system, semantic XHTML layouts and one-click extension updates – usher in a new set of tools that open doors for more effective online engagements. Whether building a personal website or a next-generation Web application for an enterprise environment, Joomla 1.6 offers the most compelling solution for easily building and managing powerful online solutions.”

Joomla’s ease-of-use and extensibility has made it the most popular and downloaded open source website software in the industry today (it has been downloaded more than 16 million times). It is used for everything from small personal websites to the backend management for some of the largest enterprises and highest traffic sites on the Web, including sites operated by Citibank, IHOP, Harvard University, the Baltimore Police Department, Linux.com, Smart Car of America, The Guggenheim Museum, and many more.

Key Features in Joomla 1.6:
New Access Control System - Allows site administrators control over who can view and manage content.
Unlimited Depth Organizational Model - Gives site administrators and content creators user-defined category levels that allow for the creation of a category tree with as many or as few levels for organizing articles and other content as needed.
One-Click Extension Updates - Allows users to keep sites secure and controlled by simplifying the process of updating extensions.
Semantic XHTML Layouts - Provides a better baseline for content presentation.

In addition, developers and implementers will enjoy the new ability Joomla 1.6 provides in allowing extensions to be built with granular control and permissions. This will make it easier to create more advanced, enterprise-focused applications and extensions for Joomla. Furthermore, there are numerous improvements in areas like code reuse, and considerable success in ensuring the stability of application programming interfaces via unit testing.

“With the release of 1.6, The Joomla Project is transitioning the development process to a more iterative, time-based release cycle,” said Louis Landry, a lead developer and community member of The Joomla Project. “This new approach will help streamline the production of new code and better ensure timely releases around product updates. I’m very excited about the beta release and look forward to working with the entire community as we continue to refine the system.”

Visit www.joomla.org and download Joomla 1.6 beta today!

About The Joomla! Project and Open Source Matters, Inc. 

Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM) is a not-for-profit organization that helps to manage and support the Joomla Project. Joomla is one of the industry’s leading open source content management systems (CMS). For more information, visit www.joomla.org or www.OpenSourceMatters.org.

Download Joomla! 1.6 beta1.

Joomla! 1.6 Promotional Shirts Now Available

wendy.robinson@community.joomla.org (Wendy Robinson) — Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

For quite some time, the community has clamored for ACL. The drumbeat of demands swelled to a feverish, percussive pitch that has finally exploded in a resounding cry: LET THERE BE ACL!

Newly available in the Joomla! shop is a limited-edition t-shirt that celebrates the inclusion of Access Control Levels in the upcoming Joomla! 1.6 release. Perhaps the most asked-for addition to Joomla! since the project's inception, ACL has finally arrived and it's time to strut the good news!

With the Joomla! logo and a key code line running down the front of the shirt, and the back of the shirt trumpeting the delivery of ACL, this is a garment that proclaims ACL's arrival in all its glory. Only 500 of this very special shirt exist, so take advantage of the opportunity to mark this important moment in Joomla! history.

On sale now in the Joomla! shop is your chance to not only celebrate the highlight of 1.6, but to support all the hard work that has gone into the new release. Here, here!

Mens' Shirts are HERE

Ladies' Shirts are HERE

Demo Site Launches

elin.waring@opensourcematters.org (Elin Waring) — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:32:06 +0000

The new Joomla! demo site (demo.joomla.org) correction: will be up and running today [is now up and running}! The site leverages a cloud-based solution to give each user a separate installation of the Joomla! CMS for 30 days.

The new demo site allows users to maintain the integrity of their content, and continue to build and learn over an extended trial period. Each demo site user will get a free, complete, dedicated installation of the Joomla! CMS. Users sign up, verify their email, and start building with complete customization capabilities. After 30 days, a user can easily migrate the site to another host or sign up with CloudAccess.net for an ongoing account.

The previous demo site attracted 3,000 to 6,000 new visitors per day, with close to 800 per day logging in to evaluate Joomla! using a version that was modified to work in a shared environment. The new site, created in partnership with CloudAccess.net, has all the standard features of Joomla! and gives each user a completely dedicated space to experience Joomla! without having content lost or overwritten. They can install extensions, add users and experience the full power of the Joomla! CMS.

The Joomla! Demo Site uses CloudAccess.net’s custom cloud environment. Designed with the latest cloud technology, CloudAccess.net uses an object-based, distributed file system called Lustre (SAN), Nginx Load Balancers, and Apache web servers. The setup was custom built for the Joomla! CMS with a custom control panel built to measure each site's usage on the clusters. The infrastructure gives users the ability to scale a Joomla! build without touching a server. To date, CloudAccess.net has built one of the largest shared clustered environments for the Joomla! CMS. Its technology has the ability to scale to thousands of nodes with petabytes (equivalent to 1 million GB) of storage capacity without compromising speed, security, or availability.

Demo site users have the option to continue to be hosted at CloudAccess.net at the end of the 30 day period. The Joomla! Project will receive a percentage of the fees paid by demo site users who stay with CloudAccess.net.

Joomla! 1.5.17 Released

mark.dexter@community.joomla.org (Mark Dexter) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.17 [Wojmamni ama woobusani]. This is a priority release to correct two issues in version 1.5.16. Although there are no security issues fixed in this release, we consider it a security release because a security-related bug has been fixed and because many sites may be upgraded directly from 1.5.15 to 1.5.17.

The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Download

Click here to download Joomla 1.5.17 (Full package) »

Click here to download Joomla 1.5.17 (Upgrade packages) »

Instructions

Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is available for beginners.

Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.

Release Notes

Check the Joomla 1.5.17 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.

If you have modified core template overrides, please be sure to back them up before upgrading.

Security

No security issues were fixed in this release. For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.

Components

No component issues were fixed for this release

Modules

No moduleissues were fixed for this release.

Plugins

No plugin issues were fixed for this release.

Legacy

No legacy issues were fixed for this release.

Templates

No Templates issues were fixed for this release.

Language

Updated ru-RU installation language (20239)
Added en-AU installation language (20220)
Updated help sites list (20238)

Administrator

No administrator issues were fixed for this release.

System

Fixed problem logging in when Session Handler is set to None (20221)
Fixed error message when running Joomla! in a PHP version prior to version 5.2 (20219)
Reverted change to JFolder::makesafe method that introduced a bug (16506)

Statistics for the 1.5.17 release period:

Joomla 1.5.17 contains:
- 6 issues fixed in SVN
- 6 commits
Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 4 active issues:
- 10 new reports
- 0 closed
- 6 fixed in SVN
At the time the 1.5.17 release was packaged, the tracker had 307 active issues:
- 171 open
- 105 confirmed
- 31 pending

Joomla! Bug Squad

Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-coordinators; Airton Torres, Alan Langford, Alessandro Nadalin, Andrea Tarr, Christophe Demko, Dennis Hermacki, Edvard Ananyan, Elin Waring, Flavia Silveira, Gergo Erdosi, Hannes Papenberg, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jennifer Marriott, Joseph LeBlanc, Julio Pontes, Kevin Devine, Klas Berlič, Koen Kuipers, Marijke Stuivenberg, Matt Thomas, Mustaq Sheikh, Niels Braczek, Ole Bang Ottosen, Omar Ramos, Pete Nurse, Ron Severdia, Ronald J. de Vries, Sam Moffatt, and Will Mavis.

A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Alessandro Nadalin, Koen Kuipers, Matt Thomas, Michael McGinn, Mustaq Sheikh, and Ronald de Vries.

Joomla! 1.5.16 Released

mark.dexter@community.joomla.org (Mark Dexter) — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.16 [Wojmamni ama busani]. It has been about six months since Joomla 1.5.15 was released on November 4, 2009.

The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Download

Click here to download Joomla 1.5.16 (Full package) »

IMPORTANT UPDATE EFFECTIVE 25 APRIL 2010: Version 1.5.16 contains two serious bugs that will affect your site if you use a version of PHP prior to 5.2 or if you have the Session Handler parameter set to None in Global Configuration. To correct these issues, version 1.5.17 is scheduled to be released on 27 April 2010. If you haven't already upgraded to version 1.5.16, you may wish to wait for version 1.5.17 instead.

Instructions

Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is available for beginners.

Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.

Release Notes

Check the Joomla 1.5.16 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.

If you have modified core template overrides, please be sure to back them up before upgrading.

Security

Four security issues were fixed in this release:

Moderate Priority - Core - Negative Values for Limit and Offset. More information »
Low Priority - Core - Installer Migration Script. More information »
Moderate Priority - Core - Sessation Fixation. More information »
Low Priority - Core - Password Reset Tokens. More information »

For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.

Components

Fixed error in contacts with SEF enabled (17235)
Fixed SQL error when sorting news feeds by section. (18648)
Fixed problem showing URL for image files in Atom news feeds. (18936)
Fixed problem where author alias was not escaped correctly. (19009)
Fixed bug in pagination of category blog menu item. (19245)
Fixed display of image captions in some situations. (19405)
Fixed caching problem with com_contact. (19435)
Added framework validation to com_media file. (19763)
Fixed PHP notice when enabling or disabling a user. (19798)

Modules

Fixed caching for related articles module (17000)
Fixed notification error in login module (17762)
Fixed problems with upgrade method in module installation (17878)
Fixed typo in mod_latestnews. (18403)
Fixed HTML validation problem with mod_search. (18619)
Fixed problem with some news feeds not showing. (18672)
Fixed problem in mod_login where trashed menu items show in redirect list. (19831)

Plugins

Fixed problem saving content in TinyMCE when editor is toggled (17936)
Fixed bug in email cloaking that added an extra space (17986)
Fixed problem saving valid attributes for some HTML tags. (19055)

Legacy

No legacy issues were fixed for this release

Templates

Fixed problem loading template files for RTL languages. (18614)
Fixed beez template to show correct Itemid after a search. (18683)

Language

Added missing translation strings in installation. (19604)
Added sr-YU language for installation. (19627)
Added Phnom-Penh to timezone files. (19715)
Added missing language strings in installation files. (19816)
Added Arabic Unitag installation language ar_AA (19836)
Added missing language strings for is-IS language in installation. (19864)
Added missing strings in installation ini files. (19871)
Added new hi-IN install language (19966)
Added updates on installation ini files (20024)
Fixed language bug in Menus (20055)
Added language credits update (20195)

Administrator

Fixed display problem in back end with RTL languages. (18570)
Fixed problem where Menu Item types for disabled components still showed when adding menu items. (18617)
Fixed problem with display of module position in Module Manager. (18848)

System

Fixed JFolder::makeSafe method to not remove dots in path (16506)
Fixed problem that prevented using a cache in some cases (16974)
Remove PHP warning message on some versions (18612)
Fixed problem installing modules in update mode. (18987)
Fixed problem with Yagoon and Norfolk timezones. (19555)
Fixed problem with return value when saving polling components. (19655)
Fixed problem in JToolbarHelper class media_manager method. (19680)
Fixed incorrect URI for IIS platforms (18046)
Improved handling of failing Apache plugins (19859)
Added Reykjavik in timezone (20025)
Fixed JApplication::redirect() to not use 301 code (20043)
Fixed SEF search URL's for cross-platform compatibility (20184)

Statistics for the 1.5.16 release period:

Joomla 1.5.16 contains:
- 48 issues fixed in SVN
- 52 commits
Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 83 active issues:
- 224 new reports
- 94 closed
- 48 fixed in SVN
At the time the 1.5.16 release was packaged, the tracker had 303 active issues:
- 169 open
- 103 confirmed
- 31 pending

Joomla! Bug Squad

Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-coordinators; Airton Torres, Alan Langford, Alessandro Nadalin, Andrea Tarr, Christophe Demko, Dennis Hermacki, Edvard Ananyan, Elin Waring, Flavia Silveira, Hannes Papenberg, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jennifer Marriott, Joseph LeBlanc, Julio Pontes, Kevin Devine, Klas Berlič, Koen Kuipers, Matt Thomas, Mustaq Sheikh, Niels Braczek, Ole Bang Ottosen, Omar Ramos, Pete Nurse, Ron Severdia, Sam Moffatt, and Will Mavis.

A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Alessandro Nadalin, Koen Kuipers, Matt Thomas, Michael McGinn, Mustaq Sheikh, and Ronald de Vries.