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The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 8 (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 7 release on August 9, we have fixed approximately 90 issues in the tracker. This progress is directly related to the continued 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 eighth in our series of continuous beta releases. Beta 9 will be released on September 6, 2010.

Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5378

Related Links:

Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5280-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 5 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5282-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 6 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5285-joomla-16-beta6-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 7 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5291-joomla-16-beta7-now-available.html

 

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 7 (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 6 release on July 26, we have fixed approximately 85 issues in the tracker. This progress is directly related to the continued 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 sixth in our series of continuous beta releases. Beta 8 will be released on August 23, 2010.

Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5364

Related Links:

Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5280-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 5 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5282-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 6 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5285-joomla-16-beta6-now-available.html

 

The Joomla! Project proudly announces the August 2010 Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine. The magazine is a collection of articles and illustrations highlighting events and accomplishments of the free software community behind Joomla!, an award-winning open source content management system.

Administrators, Developers and Designers

The Administrators Toolkit article, The prefix has nothing to do with telephony , includes a free program to enhance site security. In the Developers Workbench , instructions to synchronize a Joomla! website with MAMP and Dropbox and advice on creating end-user documentation is shared. The Joomla! Setup focuses this month on developer and designer Fotis Evangelou.

The Designers Studio calls for participants to Redesign Joomla! for version 1.7. The Administrator interface, largely unchanged since Mambo, is in need of renovation, a task that will require the diverse talents of the Joomla! community. This month's Website Case Study looks at the team, the planning, and extension choices behind the new Scottoiler Joomla! website .

Extensions and Evaluations

A key strength of Joomla! is template development. To help community learn about offerings, the Extensions and Evaluations section continues an examination of Joomla! Template Frameworks and Toolsets. Podcast interviews and comparative analysis of three leading template providers: JoomlArt, JoomlaPraise, and ProThemer are available, along with advice on how to select templates, improve site search engine optimization >and additional learning resources .

Events and User Groups

This month, the Joomla! Events and User Groups section features Joomla! Day West 2010 , a community event to be held October 1-3 in San Jose, California, and a story about the August 27-29th OpenCa.mp in Dallas, Texas, where members of the Joomla! community will present.

Features and Leadership

This month's Feature Stories include an in-depth interview with Elin Waring, former President of OSM and an invitation to community to submit non-English articles . In Leadership Connections , the magazine spotlights Mike Carson who supports Joomla! User Groups. Open Source Matters board member, Steve Burge, discusses July board activities and thanks outgoing members Elin Waring and Dave Huelsmann for their service.

For more information

For more information about the Joomla! Community Magazine , contact Paul Orwig , Lead Editor and Joomla! Community Leadership Team member. For more information about Joomla!, see the Joomla! in the Press and Media section. The Joomla! Community Magazine Team invites those interested to get involved and help tell the Joomla! story.

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 6 (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 5 release on Jun 12, we have fixed approximately 98 issues in the tracker. This progress is directly related to the continued 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 fifth in our series of continuous beta releases. Beta 7 will be released on August 9, 2010.

Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5346

Related Links:

Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 5 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html

 

The CB Team is very excited to announce the immediate grand opening of the Joomlapolis Incubator Area. The Incubator concept is our answer to share our development and proof-of-concept work with our members. You can now gain access to many internal projects and experiments that you will be able to test and provide feedback and inspire further development. Each project has its own dedicated forge area where members can download latest releases, post comments on dedicated forums and post new tracker items when forum discussions verify issues. Currently, there are 17 Incubator projects in the Incubator forge area and the CB Team has more in progress. Read the entire Incubator concept and available projects (content/view/8119/37/) and see our official Joomlapolis Incubator presentation: Joomlapolis Incubator (http://www.slideshare.net/cbteam/joomlapolis-incubator) View more presentations (http://www.slideshare.net/) from CB Team @ Joomlapolis (http://www.slideshare.net/cbteam). As a gift to our trusted CB Documentation subscribers we have granted all active subscribers access to the incubator. Just visit your Doc-Subs profile tab (component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/tab,Doc-Subs/Itemid,39/) to see access link. With the release of our new website (currently in last phase of construction), we will be introducing a new Joomlapolis premium membership status. This new status will be given support services at various levels (dedicated forum and ticketing system,...

 

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.20 [senu takaa]. This is a security release that addresses issues with the Joomla 1.5.19 packages.  We recommend users upgrade immediately.

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

   

Download Click here to download Joomla 1.5.20 (Full package) » Click here to download Joomla 1.5.20 (Upgrade packages) »

 

Instructions

• New installation and technical requirements
• Upgrade from an existing Joomla 1.5 version
• Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x

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

 

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, Bill Richardson, Elin Waring, Marijke Stuivenberg, Matt Thomas, and Omar Ramos, Team Leaders.

Akarawuth Tamrareang, Alain Rivest, Amy Stephen, Andrea Tarr, Anja Hage, Ashwin Date, Bo Astrup, Brian "Sully" Sullivan, Brian Teeman, Chistopher Garvis, Christophe Demko, Cristina Solana, Dan Chay, Dennis Hermacki, Detlef Volmer, Gobezu Sewu, Hannes Papenberg, Henrik Hussfelt, Janich Rasmussen, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jeremy Wilken, Joe LeBlanc, Klas Berlic, Marius van Rijnsoever, Mark W Bender, Martin Blodau, Michael Babker, Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos, Nikolai Plath, Ole Ottosen, Pete Nurse, Phil Snell, Pierre Gazzola, Radek Suski, Rob Joyce, Ronald J. de Vries, Rune Sjøen, Sam Moffatt, Selene Feigl, Steven Littrell, Steven Trullinger, Tim Plummer, Troy Thomas Hall, Vicki Payne, and Viet Hoang Vu.

A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Alex Wai, Babs Gösgens, Cassiano Faria, Dan Chay, E.Karnika Yashwant, Janich Rasmussen, Jason Sponaugle, John Kouvakis, Jonathan Chang, Melissa Wetherby, Michael Babker, Nikolai Plath, Olivier Nolbert, Pablo Centurión, Phil Snell, Rick Stubblebine, Rune V. Sjøen, Sam Carecho, Sandino Nuñez, Selene Feigl, Steve Hanlon, and Tim Plummer.

 

Joomla! Security Strike Team

Thanks to the Joomla Security Strike Team for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, and fixing security issues in Joomla. Current active members of the Joomla! Security Strike Team are: Alan Langford, Claire Mandville, Ian MacLenn, Jason Kendall, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mark Dexter, Omar Ramos, Pierre Gazzola and Sam Moffatt.

 

 

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.19 [Wojmamni ama batani]. This is a security release.

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

   

Download Click here to download Joomla 1.5.19 (Full package) » Click here to download Joomla 1.5.19 (Upgrade packages) »

 

Instructions

• New installation and technical requirements
• Upgrade from an existing Joomla 1.5 version
• Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x

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

Security

• Low Priority - Core - SQL Injection / Interal Path Exposure. More information »
• Medium Priority - Core - XSS Vulnerabilities in back end. More information »
• Medium Priority - Core - XSS Vulnerabilities in back end. More information »
• Medium 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

•  Mootools 1.2.4 Upgrade Plugin (21416). Note that this change does not have any impact on existing sites unless you choose to enable the new plugin. See the wiki article What is the Mootools 1.2.4 plugin?  for more information.

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 1.5.19 release period:

• Joomla 1.5.19 contains:
  • 4 issues fixed in SVN
  • 9 commits
• Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 40 active issues:
  • 48 new reports
  • 4 closed
  • 4 fixed in SVN
• At the time the 1.5.19 release was packaged, the tracker had 376 active issues:
  • 229 open
  • 105 confirmed
  • 42 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, Bill Richardson, Elin Waring, Marijke Stuivenberg, Matt Thomas, and Omar Ramos, Team Leaders.

Akarawuth Tamrareang, Alain Rivest, Amy Stephen, Andrea Tarr, Anja Hage, Ashwin Date, Bo Astrup, Brian "Sully" Sullivan, Brian Teeman, Chistopher Garvis, Christophe Demko, Cristina Solana, Dan Chay, Dennis Hermacki, Detlef Volmer, Gobezu Sewu, Hannes Papenberg, Henrik Hussfelt, Janich Rasmussen, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jeremy Wilken, Joe LeBlanc, Klas Berlic, Marius van Rijnsoever, Mark W Bender, Martin Blodau, Michael Babker, Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos, Nikolai Plath, Ole Ottosen, Pete Nurse, Phil Snell, Pierre Gazzola, Radek Suski, Rob Joyce, Ronald J. de Vries, Rune Sjøen, Sam Moffatt, Selene Feigl, Steven Littrell, Steven Trullinger, Tim Plummer, Troy Thomas Hall, Vicki Payne, and Viet Hoang Vu.

A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Alex Wai, Babs Gösgens, Cassiano Faria, Dan Chay, E.Karnika Yashwant, Janich Rasmussen, Jason Sponaugle, John Kouvakis, Jonathan Chang, Melissa Wetherby, Michael Babker, Nikolai Plath, Olivier Nolbert, Pablo Centurión, Phil Snell, Rick Stubblebine, Rune V. Sjøen, Sam Carecho, Sandino Nuñez, Selene Feigl, Steve Hanlon, and Tim Plummer.

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 5 (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 4 release on Jun 28, we have fixed approximately 65 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 fifth in our series of continuous beta releases. Beta 6 will be released on July 26, 2010.

Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5314

Related Links:

Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html

 

The CB Team has just released CB 1.2.3 which can be downloaded by all logged in users (component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,197/Itemid,36/) of Joomlapolis. CB 1.2.3 is mainly a bug fixes release with a few new features and also experimental support for Joomla 1.6 beta 4. The CB 1.2.3 package also has an updated installation document which should be read and followed. For Joomla 1.5.X websites upgrading to CB 1.2.3 is just a matter of installing the CB component and the CB modules right over the old ones (without uninstalling) - please read the installation guide included in the package for instructions. Also CB 1.2.3 now has Mass Emailing and Advanced filtering embedded in the CB User Manager backend. You can now filter based on any CB field value and use the resulting query set as email address recipients for the Mass Email feature. You can also use any CB field substitutions in the HTML email body to create rich and personalized email content. A full change log will be given by Beat in the forum discussion that follows this announcement. Special thanks must be given to our fellow Joomlapolitan who are on the CB Testing WorkGroup for their assistance in getting this out. This release now...

After many months of hard work by a very dedicated group of volunteers, today we proudly announce that the new Joomla! Community Magazine has launched! You can get to the JCM by clicking on the new Magazine link in the horizontal navigation for the Joomla! community site, or by going directly to http://magazine.joomla.org.

In each monthly JCM issue you will find stories that will educate, inform, challenge, and inspire you. And because we encourage community members to submit articles to the JCM, we also hope you will think about what makes Joomla! special to you, and then come back here to share your story with the rest of the community. And that is really what the JCM is all about: Helping members of the Joomla! community connect with each other and share their stories. We would love to publish yours!

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

Related Links:

Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html

 

The CB Team has just released version 1.1 of its CB Ajax Text Field plugin. See 1.0 stable announcement (content/view/8111/37/). Version 1.1 fixes some minor bugs discovered during our CB 1.2.3 regression testing rounds. This CB plugin update is available free of charge to all our CB Documentation subscribers (content/view/2542/37/) from their Doc-Subs tab (component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/tab,Doc-Subs/Itemid,39/) in their profile. Questions regarding the CB Ajax Text Field plugin can be posted in the dedicated forum (component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,38/func,showcat/catid,127/) area.

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

Related Links:

Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html

 

Beat and I are back from the J and Beyond 2010 (http://jandbeyond.org/) International conference. It was a fantastic experience and a great opportunity to put a 3-D moving image to our skype and forum avatars. Some people were actually taller than anticipated and some shorter. Meeting people face-to-face was a great experience and this is something that technology (thank God) has not been able to replicate. The Community Builder beyond social sites: Community Builder beyond social sites (http://www.slideshare.net/cbteam/community-builder-beyond-social-sites) The CBSubs beyond Memberships and ACL: CBSubs™ beyond Memberships and ACL (http://www.slideshare.net/cbteam/cbsubs-beyond-memberships-and-acl) You see all the presentations given at J B10 from the J B10 Slideshare event (http://www.slideshare.net/event/j-and-beyond) area. The J B10 website also has video material from the event. As you can see by looking at the presentations, we made some important announcements during the J B10 conference. We will be following up these announcements with front page articles within the next couple of days, so stay tuned.

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

Related Link:

Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html

 

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

• New installation and technical requirements
• Upgrade from an existing Joomla 1.5 version
• Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x

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.

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
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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.

The CB Team has just released 1.0 stable of its CB Ajax Text Field plugin. The CB Ajax Text Field plugin enables you to give a web 2.0 look and feel to user profiles and allows in-place editing by just clicking on the field. This new field type has many style-related parameters and can be used to create as many CB Ajax text fields as you wish. This CB plugin is available free of charge to all our CB Documentation subscribers (content/view/2542/37/) from their Doc-Subs tab (component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/tab,Doc-Subs/Itemid,39/) in their profile. Questions regarding the CB Ajax Text Field plugin can be posted in the dedicated forum (component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,38/func,showcat/catid,127/) area.

The CB Team has just released 1.2 stable of its CB AutoWelcome plugin. CB Documentation subscribers (content/view/2542/37/) can download this by accessing the quick-link posted in their Doc-Subs tab (component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/tab,Doc-Subs/Itemid,39/) in their profile. The CB AutoWelcome plugin integrates with compatible private messaging components (see uddeIM) to automatically send a personalized (any CB substitution method may be used) message. The plugin can also send the same welcoming message via email and can be used to initiate CB Connection requests for this newly registered member. Questions regarding the CB AutoWelcome plugin can be posted in the dedicated forum (index.php?option=com_joomlaboard Itemid=38 func=view catid=120 id=133075) area.