for those not in the knows - [[joomla!]] 1.5 beta is now out! although not marked for production use, it should attribute to reams of unslept hours for those who have caught the bug. read on, or visit www.joomla.org for more info.
Exactly one year ago, Joomla! 1.0 was released. Today, Joomla!
releases the next generation framework built from the ground up. Joomla! 1.5 beta
delivers more simplicity for the user and much more power for
developers. The innovation and skill of our development team is
clearly setting higher and higher standards.
But before we get
into reams of detail about just how good Joomla! 1.5 beta is, remember
this is a beta and is not yet ready for use on a production website.
We need the community to roll up its sleeves and seek out bugs (and
feed this back to the development working group), before we enter the
release candidate phase.
Joomla! 1.5 means freedom of choice:
you choose how it operates, you choose how it integrates, you choose
what the output is ... you choose how users are authenticated. For
both the user and the developer, Joomla! 1.5 beta is a simplified yet
more powerful system, and from the developer's perspective, provides
them with the freedom and flexibilty to build anything they want.
Lead developer Johan Janssens said 12 October is a giant step for the
Joomlasphere! "Open source projects are delivering incredible power
and features to end users — we've taken things a step further by
building an opportunity for unlimited extendibility for developers," he
said. "Once developers get to see how easily 1.5 can leverage their
own ideas as plugins, they will certainly be a big part of continuing
Joomla's incredible growth. You only need to take a look at the
Joomlasphere to understand how amazing the future can be."
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