The latest news affecting Joomla website owners and website developers.
The Joomla! Project has announced the immediate availability of Joomla version 2.5.6, one day after the previous release 2.5.5. Twelve issues were discovered and fixed in 2.5.5 including several that resulted in fatal errors of some kind.
The Joomla! Project has announced the availability of the security release version 2.5.5. While this is classified as a security release, there are also 11 new features added and 113 tracker issues fixed.
We've been hearing about Joomla 3.0 for some time already. In fact, we've already written about the updated UI plans here on Joomlanews.net. In a recent Joomla! Community Portal blog post, Mark Dexter reiterates the fact that "Version 3.0 is coming!"
In a Joomla! Community Portal blog post, Paul Orwig reported on the Joint Leadership Summit held in San Jose, California. In the post he commented that, "it was widely felt that making some changes to our project's leadership structure can strengthen communication and collaboration between teams, as well as improve oversight and accountability for all contributors and teams."
The latest Joomla property to be released is called The Joomla! Events Site. This new website will be used to announce and report on Joomla events around the world. With this addition, the Joomla community will be able to more easily get information about Joomla!Day events, User Group meetings, conferences and more.
A new section of Joomla.org dedicated to presenting local and worldwide events to the Joomla community has been launched. The new site will be used to convey information such as Joomla! Days, Joomla! Conferences and Joomla! User Group meetings.
The Joomla! Events Site
Many Joomla administrators who have already been installing and using Akeeba Admin Tools in their websites will be able to skip that installation from version 2.5.4 onwards.
Last week an announcement on Joomla.org stated that the core Joomla files had been downloaded from its site more than 30 million times. It was also stated that, "Joomla now averages around 1 million downloads every month."
The Joomla Project is announcing the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.26, which is a security release update.
Even after a very late start, the Joomla! Project managed to push through their application and be approved for the 2012 Google Summer of Code program. Out of 406 applications submitted, Joomla! was one of 180 open source projects chosen to participate this year.
The Joomla! Project has announced the immediate availability of a new security update, Joomla 2.5.3. This update comes somewhat quickly on the heels of the release of 2.5.2, which was only ten days ago.
The Joomla! Project issued a thank you to the Joomla community last week for its participation in the Joomla Pizza, Bugs and Fun global party. The event is designed to dig deeply into the Joomla Core code in order to find bugs, report them and find fixes.
The Joomla! Project has posted an official call for contributors for their push to be a part of the GSoC, or Google Summer of Code.
Google describes the Summer of Code as, "a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects." The Joomla! Project is hoping to be included in this list.
The Joomla! Project has announced the immediate availability of a new version update, Joomla 2.5.2. This update comes roughly six weeks after the release of 2.5.0, and over one month after 2.5.1.
While the full package is available for download, the one click update procedure from the back end Administrator is the recommended method for updating your Joomla website.
On September 28 of last year, Kyle Ledbetter, self described "creator of interface stuff for eBay & Joomla!," posted a blog entry on the Joomla! User Experience Portal stating simply this:
We are embarking on a massive effort, a Joomla frontier.
Never before has a group of industry professionals banded together in the Joomla world to collaborate with the community on a common goal.
For Joomla users who are still running websites on version 1.7 and are not planning to upgrade to 2.5, the Joomla! Project has released version 1.7.5 in order to patch an Information Disclosure exploit.
Users are urged to upgrade to version 2.5 as soon as possible as Joomla 1.7 will reach end of life on February 24, 2012.
The Joomla! Project has announced the immediate availability of a new version update, Joomla 2.5.1. This update comes just a little over one week after the release of 2.5.0.
While the full package is available for download, the one click update procedure from the back end Administrator is the recommended method for updating your Joomla website.
The Joomla! Project announced the immediate availability of Joomla version 2.5 today. This release was accompanied by much anticipation by the Joomla community as well as some confusion over the new release schedule. The important point to note is that the Joomla! Project is stressing that version 2.5 "is a long-term-support (LTS) release that will be supported for at least 18 months."
In order to provide those in the Joomla community easier ways to promote and market all things Joomla, a few important pieces of marketing material have been released to help with blogging, promoting, selling and informing. Here's what they've listed on their community portal site..
Beginning with Joomla 1.6, the Joomla! Project decided to separate the CMS, which is what most end users of Joomla have come to know, from the platform it's built on. Developers can now use this platform to build their own web applications. This should be an exciting development for the community; however, many Joomla! users and followers remain confused on a couple of issues.
