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Joomla 1.6 RC1 Now Available
The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 RC1 (download). This is our first -- and we hope only -- release candidate. IMPORTANT NOTE: This is still an evaluation version and is not intended for running a production site.
Before the release of 1.6.0, we will be performing a security audit of version 1.6. It is anticipated that there will be additional security fixes applied to version 1.6 RC1 before the release of 1.6.0.
Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 15 release on 29 November, we have fixed approximately 121 issues in the tracker. We have closed an additional 46 tracker issues.
At the present time, we have no High or Medium High issues in the tracker, which is why we are able to release 1.6 Release Candidate 1. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work!
See the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release.
What's next?
This is the first -- and we hope -- only release candidate release. We plan to release version 1.6.0 on 10 January 2011, assuming we don't find any High or Medium High issues that we are unable to fix before then.
Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5560
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
Joomla 1.6 Beta 8 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5292-joomla-16-beta8-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 9 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5294-joomla-16-beta9-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 10 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5295-joomla-16-beta10-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 11 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5295-joomla-16-beta11-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 12 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta12-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 13 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta13-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 14 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta14-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 15 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5324-joomla-16-beta15-now-available.html
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Joomla Ranks Strongly in CMS Market Share Studies
As the year 2010 draws to a close, we are pleased to share two recent reports comparing numerous CMS solutions where Joomla! proves to be a top contender:
Idealware (www.idealware.org) is a non-profit organization in the US that provides software research for the non-profit community. This report, titled “2010 Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal and Plone” not only gives high rankings to the Joomla project, but also reports, “The final tally showed Joomla as the market leader, followed by WordPress, then Drupal, then Plone.” Download the Idealware report.
Additionally, Joomla! does very well as a community-driven project alongside corporate-supported Wordpress and Drupal in the "2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report" published by Water & Stone (www.waterandstone.com). Referred to as "The Big Three", the report concludes that Wordpress, Joomla! and Drupal remain firmly in command of the market. The report assesses 20 Open Source Content Management Systems on a variety of metrics related to Rate of Adoption and Brand Strength. Download the Water & Stone report.
Together may all who contribute to Joomla! celebrate and take pride in these findings!
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Joomla! Community Magazine - December 2010 Issue Released
The December issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!
In this issue:
We have made some usability improvements based on recommendations offered by Merav Knafo in her Joomla.org Magazine Usability Testing Report. Thank you Merav and Steve Bickel for your willingness to take a look at the JCM and point out some areas where we can improve!
Also, we give our special thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month's issue: Lukas Polak, Parth Lawate, Jarrod Nettles, and Merav Knafo.
Editorial
A Great Year for Joomla by Paul Orwig, Lead editor
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Joomla 1.6 Beta 15 Now Available
The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 15 (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 14 release on November 1, we have fixed approximately 84 issues in the tracker. We have closed an additional 33 tracker issues. At the present time, we have 4 issues that are blocking the release 1.6 Release Candidate 1. 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 15th in our series of continuous beta releases. We expect to release version 1.6 Release Candidate 1 on December 13, 2010 (unless we encounter serious and unanticipated difficulties).
Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5539
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
Joomla 1.6 Beta 8 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5292-joomla-16-beta8-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 9 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5294-joomla-16-beta9-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 10 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5295-joomla-16-beta10-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 11 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5295-joomla-16-beta11-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 12 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta12-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 13 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta13-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 14 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta14-now-available.html
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Rediscover Content: Vision for Next Year's Release
At the recent Leadership Team summit in San Jose, CA, the Production Leadership Team discussed the best ways to outline the path forward for Joomla Development. The outcome was a vision statement as part of the strategy for focusing efforts as part of our new iterative approach to development.
The vision statement defines the desired goals with the next release and provides an inspiration point for potential additional related goals. It also helps the team and community in making better decisions. This doesn’t mean that features outside the scope of the vision statement won’t be considered and/or included, but they may have a reduced chance since they deviate from the vision. The vision for the next release is "Rediscover Content" and outlined below.
Rediscover Content
The next release of Joomla, codenamed Bowerbird, is focused on making the content you already have more connected and accessible. With Bowerbird, your website becomes a “content powerhouse” of valuable information in any language. The following features are the primary focus of Bowerbird:
- Super Search: Experience the power of high-performance searching, term indexing, filters, language stemming, alternative phrasing, and an extensible plug-in API for third-party developers.
- Tag, You’re It: Break through the limitations of categories by tagging content with relevant keywords. Too many articles? Use the built-in batch tagger to create hundreds—even thousands—of tags in just a few minutes.
- Lost and Found: Help search engines find and classify your content in the most optimum way by managing metadata, titles, and content descriptions. Boost your overall search ranking and you’ll never be lost in search results.
If you want to be discovered by new users or rediscover your own content, the next version of Joomla is exactly what you’re looking for.
Note: The bowerbird is known for its instinctual behavior to collect/organize as many blue items as possible, meticulously organizing them in its nest, in order to attract a mate. It’s native to Australia.
The Production Leadership Team is excited to share this new approach for shaping the future of development Joomla. For more information regarding the process, read How New Features are Added to Joomla and Where Next for Joomla Development.