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.

Five Joomla related businesses have combined to launch a Joomla 2.5 upgrade contest. This contest is presented for Joomla website owners who would like to have their current website upgraded to version 2.5 for free.

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.

The Joomla Project is announcing the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.26, which is a security release update.

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 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.

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."

The Joomla! Project has announced a new security update release for Joomla 1.7 websites. This is only intended for users that for some reason are unable to update to version 2.5.0. Everyone who is able to update to 2.5.0 is strongly encouraged to do so.

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..

In keeping with the new schedule as planned, The Joomla! Project has made available the first release candidate version of Joomla! 2.5. This is leading up to the general availability release due out January 24, 2012. A release cadidate version is normally the last stage in the software development lifecycle prior to releasing a version that is suitable for public use on production systems.

The Joomla Project has released Joomla 2.5 Beta2 for download, making this next version available to developers and administrators for testing and for further polishing leading up to the stable release of version 2.5. The currently expected General Availability date is January 24, 2012. They want to make the community well aware that this new release is due out soon. With this release, the end of the development cycle is just about upon us, which means that version 1.7 is nearing end of life and will no longer be supported.