News/Articles Latest Company News One Giant Step for the Joomlasphere — Joomla! 1.5 Beta Released | One Giant Step for the Joomlasphere — Joomla! 1.5 Beta Released |
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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. Here are some basic facts about the Joomlasphere:
Joomla! has been on the 'radar' of many centres of influence for some time. That Joomla!'s popularity continues to increase is evident from the size of its user and development community. "Joomla! provides functionality that is recognised by industry pundits and commercial software vendors," Johan said. Joomla! continues to focus on bringing simplicity to content management and allows anyone to quickly deploy a content management system that satisfies the needs of general brochure websites to large online communities. We've seen hundreds of businesses use Joomla! for both public, private, non-profit and open source projects so we'll continue to expand the platform with features that satisfy our community. We could easily be the most successful content management offer in 2007, and with the availability of our new application framework, we hope to inspire more developers to adopt and build applications that satisfy both open source and commercial needs." As with previous releases, Joomla! 1.5 will provide a unified and easy-to-use framework for delivering content for websites of all kinds. To support the changing nature of the Internet and emerging web technologies, Joomla! required substantial restructuring of its core functionality and we also used this effort to simplify many challenges within the current user interface. In coming weeks, there will be new and expanded developer blogs, based on feedback from the community about the beta. Keep an eye on the developer portal to stay up to speed with suggestions, fixes and progress, as we move towards the release candidate. Development Working Group coordinator Wilco Jansen said the rollout of the beta release was supported by all the workgroups putting in long hours. "Everybody put in an incredible effort — all the working groups got stuck into 'making good things happen' and they should be proud of their contribution," he said. Moreover, many community members were making significant donations of time and knowledge to make 1.5 beta happen today." What can people expect from the beta? "The most important thing to realise is as good as this release is, this is not a stable release and should not be used for production purposes. Importantly, the beta release provides third party developers with the basis to test their extensions, and equally importantly, it is now time for the community to feedback bugs or issues as they find them. Please don't ask for functionality that is not included ... test the beta thoroughly and communicate your experiences so we can make the release candidate version the best Joomla! ever." Joomla! 1.5 beta represents a massive coding effort. Congratulations to all the coders, planners, document writers, and designers. Now the fun begins for the community — now it's your turn to test, test and test some more. Tags: Joomla! 1.5 Beta Released |
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