New Joomla! 2.5 Released; Open Source Content Management System Now More Scalable Than Ever

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Joomla, one of the world’s most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announced the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5. Along with new features such as advanced search and automatic notification of Joomla core and extension updates, the Joomla CMS for the first time includes [...]

In Depth Analysis of Open Source CMS Security

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Recently, I was contacted by the author of an incredibly detailed analysis of the security of a number of popular Open Source content management systems. As part of this breakdown, the analysis goes into detail about which systems have had the most vulnerabilities and the severity of them, coming up with a number of rather [...]

Joomla 1.7.3 now available

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A new release of the popular open source CMS, Joomla, has been made available. Version 1.7.3 brings with it two significant security fixes and a couple of new improvements. For a full list of the items that have changed in this release, please read the changelog: http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5392-joomla-173-released.html In addition to the usual bug fixes, some changes [...]

One of Joomla’s most memorable leaders, Louis Landry, retires from Joomla Leadership

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There are plenty of people who contribute to the amazing success of the popular open source content management system, Joomla!, but none have managed to capture as much admiration as long time contributor and member of the Joomla Leadership team, Louis Landry. Without intentionally trying, Louis’ name has been synonymous with Joomla! and everything the [...]

Joomla! CMS 1.7 released with focus on enhanced security

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Today marks the official release of Joomla! 1.7. One of the world’s most popular open source content management systems, Joomla! has continued to grow in popularity since first branching from Mambo many years ago. One of the most common criticisms people make when speaking about Joomla! are jabs at its security model, which some consider [...]

How developers can leverage Joomla 1.6

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In this series, Andrew Eddie presents what Joomla 1.6 has in store for developers and how developers can leverage the new features of the platform that powers more than 2.6% of the entire web! Visit http://www.joomla.org/ for more or to download today!

Learn the new features of Joomla! 1.6 using Packt’s new book

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Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.6 First Look, a new book, which is a concise guide to everything that’s the latest in Joomla! 1.6. Written by Eric Tiggeler, this book contains ample screenshots and clear explanations of all the new features of Joomla! 1.6 and their usage, whilst covering changes in all aspects of [...]

Joomla showing heavy growth in 2011

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Over the last week Joomla (see our joomla review), the enormously popular open source CMS, was downloaded for the 22 millionth time. 22 million. That’s an incredible number to achieve, but that’s not the only impressive number they’ve been able to boast about. Here are some others: The number of extensions (essentially applications for Joomla) [...]

Joomla 1.6.1 available

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A new security release of the Joomla 1.6 series has been made available. Version 1.6.1 incorporates the following security updates: Moderate Priority – Core – SQL Injection / Interal Path Disclosure. Moderate Priority – Core – Path Disclosure. Moderate Priority – Core – XSS Vulnerabilities. Moderate Priority – Core – XSS Vulnerabilities. Low Priority – [...]

Joomla Review: Contributed by a user

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Joomla has been one of my favourite CMS’s for a while but I left it behind when WordPress answered the last questions I had with version 3. Secretly however, I have been waiting for J1.6 to come out in the hope that it also answered some of the questions I had about the last versions. [...]

Joomla 1.6 Review

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With the release of Joomla 1.6, we decided now would be a good time to do a followup to our previous review. Installation hasn’t changed and is the same number of steps so we won’t cover this during our review. One thing that would be nice to see in future versions and that we would [...]

Joomla! 1.6 Available Now – Download the World’s Leading Open Source Content Management System and Easily Build Websites and Online Applications

Joomla (http://www.joomla.org), the world’s most popular open source CMS (content management system), today announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6. Users will be able to download the latest version effective this evening from the Joomla website. Designed to offer enhanced site control and a more polished user experience, Joomla 1.6 delivers a variety of new tools [...]