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  • Joomla! Experiences Substantial CMS Growth in 2011

    38 Percent Year-Over-Year Download Increase Driven by Large Developer Community Support.

    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 that downloads have risen 38 percent from December 2010 to December 2011. To date, Joomla has been downloaded more than 27 million times*, making it one of the most downloaded content management systems in the world.

    In addition to download growth, Joomla also experienced double-digit growth in many other areas, including:

    • Joomla extensions developed by outside vendors increased by 41 percent annually to 8,475 as of October 31, 201.
    • The number of forum users jumped 23 percent annually as of October 31, 2011, meaning more and more people are interacting to help shape Joomla.

    "We've seen double and in some cases triple digit growth in Joomla's adoption since 2007," said Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, the not-for-profit created to provide organizational, legal and financial support to the Joomla project. "Part of what's driven this massive number of downloads is an explosion of community involvement in the project."

    More than 225,000 registered developers participate in the joomlacode.org site where open source developers work together to build extensions and the core codebase. More than 852 commercial development firms and individual developers support the more than 8,000 extensions available for Joomla. About 3,000 individuals have directly contributed to the development of the core codebase via project tools at joomlacode.org.

    Joomla recently received recognition for its continued growth when Packt Publishing honored Joomla with its "Top Open Source Content Management System" award. Joomla previously won the same award, the Packt Open Source CMS Award, in 2006 and also won the Packt Best PHP Open Source CMS Award 2007.

    Info-Tech Research also recently praised Joomla in October 2011 calling it the "market pillar" of the Web content management market in a report. In the report, Info-Tech confirmed Joomla powers more than 1.5 million websites. These include Citibank, eBay, General Electric and many more.

    *Joomla began tracking its CMS downloads in 2007, even though the system was launched in 2005. Furthermore, Joomla's open-source community only tracks English versions of downloads (Joomla is available in at least 64 languages). Considering these two factors alone, the real number of Joomla downloads is presumably much higher than 27 million.




  • Joomla Community Magazine | December 2011

    December Spotlight

    The December issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here:

    Editor's Introduction

    Joomla in the Spotlight, by Paul Orwig

    Feature Stories

    A Newbie Asks: What Mascot Best Represents Joomla!, by Sandra Ordonez

    Mia, Who gave Everything to Everybody, by Christer Gerhardsson

    Joomla Social Groups - Have you joined us yet?, by Huyen NT

    Building the Future Mobile Web with Joomla!, by Andrew J. Holden

    Leadership Connections

    Leadership Highlights - November 2011, by Alice Grevet

    Administrators Toolkit

    JomSocial & K2 integration (Joomla! 1.7) - Part 1, by Grigor Mihov

    Designers Studio

    Top 10 Joomla! Templates for 2011, by Peter Bui

    Developers Workbench

    Two Awesome Examples of Mapping with Joomla!, by Andrew J. Holden

    Write your own App using Joomla! Platform, by Hagen Graf

    Did you know...?

    The Joomla! Spanish speakers are one big family, by Willy Meléndez

    This site is down for maintenance! How can I see it?, by Marian TANASE

    Closed Source Complications, by John Hooley

    Joomla! Events and User Groups

    An Eventful Year!, by Jacques Rentzke

    Joomla User Group Roundup, by Liam Mandville

    Help Wanted

    The Joomla! Project Wants You - December 2011, by Paul Orwig

    Joomla! in the Press/Media

    Joomla! in the Press/Media - December 2011, by Mark W. Bender

    The Joomla! Haikus

    Post your haikus for December, by Paul Orwig

    In our next issue

    We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!




  • Joomla Wins the Packt Open Source CMS Award

    Joomla has won the Packt Publishing award for the top open source CMS.

    Now in its sixth year, many consider the Packt Open Source Award as a top honor for an open source project. Joomla won the award based on a combination of public voting and input by a panel of judges consisting of open source luminaries.

    Julian Copes of Packt Publishing said:

    “Although around since 2005, Joomla really reinvented itself this year with the introduction of Joomla 1.6 and 1.7, the first product releases for the CMS since 2008. Furthermore, Joomla realized dramatic growth this year as evidenced by its number of downloads and documented government sites powered by Joomla. We are proud to honor Joomla with its third Packt Open Source Award since we launched it six years ago.”

    Joomla previously won the same award, the Packt Open Source CMS Award, in 2006 and also won the Packt Best PHP Open Source CMS Award 2007. Some of the milestones the open source CMS reached this year that contributed to it winning the Packt award include:

    • Joomla surpassed 26 million downloads. Although it launched in 2005, this number is only from 2007 to the present since that is when Joomla began documenting downloads.
    • It documented more than 2,900 government sites worldwide powered by Joomla. These include the U.S. Central Command, U.K. Ministry of Defense and many more.
    • Info-Tech Research recently confirmed Joomla powers more than 1.5 million websites. These include Citibank, eBay, General Electric and many more.

    Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, the not-for-profit created to provide organizational, legal and financial support to the Joomla project, said:

    “Joomla’s documented growth over the past year is a bi-product of our broad, diverse community spanning hundreds of thousands of people around the world. The people and open source experts have spoken with this award and we are honored that they have acknowledged what all of these people in our community passionately believe — Joomla is the absolutely best platform to power websites, Intranets and blogs.”




  • Joomla 1.7.3 Released

    The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.7.3. This is a security release. The Production Leadership Team's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. Learn more about Joomla! developement at the Developer Site.

    If you are upgrading your existing 1.7 site, you should be aware that the method of upgrading has changed since Joomla 1.5 so we recommend you look at the instructions.

    Download

    Click here to download Joomla 1.7.3 (Full package) »

    Click here to download Joomla 1.7.3 (Upgrade packages) »

     

    Instructions

    Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is available for beginners.

    Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.

    Release Notes

    Check the Joomla 1.7.3 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.

    Security

    Features Added

    Issues Fixed

    Category Summary Link
    Administration Save as copy template style 26608
    Administration PHP Error Reporting Level cannot be set to "None";. 26724
    Administration view metadata.xml isn't considered for parameters 26910
    Administration Hathor missing notice images in rtl & some colors 26913
    Administration Bluestork tabs fix when more than one row of tabs 26937
    Administration Can't mass mail to SA group 26959
    Administration Missing menu ordering in edit 26980
    Administration *Patch #26980 breaks menu item saving 27129
    Authentication and Login User login problem with redirect 26329
    Code Style Code fixes for end of line inconsistencies 26640
    Code Style Remove batch process code from com_contact 26903
    Code Style Make sure there is a blank line at the end of every PHP file 27075
    Code Style Use elseif instead of else if 27090
    Code Style Use lowercase token 27115
    Components When Default-menuitem set to registerd homepage is 404 25782
    Components page break broke when 'Table of Contents' set to Hide 26226
    Components Please reopen bug 23915 (trashed Items showing up in frontend) 26600
    Components xreference in 1.6+ is inconsistent with 1.5 26830
    Components Small regression rev. 22054 skipping translation in <description> + BC 1.6.x issue 26972
    Components Weblinks entries do not delete correctly and display in the weblinks view 26993
    Components Show or hide the menu title does not exist for the type of menu alias 27010
    Components The Table in the Category List Layout Could Sort ONLY by Created Date Irrespective of What is Select 27018
    Components *Needed plural for a massmail message 27070
    Database JDatabasequery work in com_users front end 26896
    Database JDatabasequery work in com_plugins 26897
    Database JDatabasequery work in com_newsfeeds 26898
    Database JDatabasequery work in com_redirect and com_search 26904
    Database Apply the patch to fix the MySQL specific queries - com_installer 27038
    Front End *Ordering when editing in front-end 26979
    Installation Problem installing with another language than default 26872
    Installation upgrade from 1.6.3 and 1.6.4 to 1.7.2 26927
    Installation Update overwrite language override file 26994
    Installation Remove unused title_alias column 27119
    Languages Back-end language switching is working only when Default is selected 24664
    Languages Tooltip partly matches the related options in Latest News module 24697
    Languages Support Forum URL as language file option 25031
    Languages No option to remove the default language from the URL and links 25037
    Languages poor english grammar 26692
    Languages Misplaced Bracket on Language Titles in Multilingual Sites Using RTL Language 26813
    Languages Wrong English Grammar 26857
    Languages *Implementing default offline message per language 26868
    Languages *Unique alias & Unicode alias issue 26929
    Languages *Multilanguage: adding custom Site Name per Content Language 26977
    Languages Incongruous Language Implementation in Article List Header 26988
    Languages Change Modified date to Modified Date for Consistency in en-GB.com_content.ini in the Front End 27019
    Languages *Adding column language tag in Language Manager Installed languages 27029
    Languages *Fatal Error in multilangstatus module when languagefilter plugin disabled 27108
    Languages *Validation error in mod_languages 27128
    Modules *Adding to the multilanguage status module a check for contacts assigned languages 26995
    Modules *mod_articles_category missing option to sort by feature articles ordering system. 27007
    Platform JHTML select.options with html entities 24973
    Platform Problem with preg_quote in function utf8_ireplace 25199
    Platform "Language string failed to load" showing up when sending an email 25565
    Platform More strict php OOP 25728
    Platform e_strict error prevents log into backend: incompatible JDate::setTimezone() 26054
    Platform Editors have problems with quotes in content plugins syntax 26439
    Platform Date Icon "string untranslated" 26491
    Platform replacePrefix return a null string due to __call() function 26596
    Platform Add language field to batch widget 26788
    Platform manifest_cache entry not generated for file packages on install 26840
    Platform JText do not recognize "" no-string 26885
    Platform Merge some code style changes from platform 11.3 26911
    Platform Merge some code style changes from platform 11.3 26912
    Platform Merge some code style changes from platform 11.3 26914
    Platform Component updates not working in Joomla! 1.7.0 and later 27023
    Platform Merge more from the platform (images) 27127
    Plugins Allow ability to upload file (eg: profile picture) through com_users profile 26940
    Plugins System - Debug Not Allowed Any Groups to View when selected 27056
    RTL header items in the administrator panel are not in the right order on RTL template 26427
    RTL notices in RTL doesn't mirroring 26866
    Sample Data Inconsistent data type for access level 26761
    Sample Data Books module when installing without sample data 27072
    Search Engine Friendly JRouterSite or JURI fails not sure if it's a bug 26150
    Templates Some bluestork strings are no longer needed due to the commit of 25921 26853
    Templates Remove Specific Author Information from Bluestork 26915
    Templates Beez5 have image path link to beez_20 27061
    User Interface *Adding tip to batch function 26907


    Statistics for the 1.7.3 release period:

    • Joomla 1.7.3 contains:
      • 77 tracker issues fixed in SVN
      • 2 security issues fixed

    Joomla! Bug Squad

    Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug in Joomla, please report it on the CMS Issue Tracker.

    Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Akarawuth Tamrareang, Andrea Tarr, Andrew Eddie, Bill Richardson, Brian Teeman, Christophe Demko, Denise McLaurin, Dennis Hermacki, Elin Waring, Ian Galpin, Jacob Waisner, James Brice, Jan Pavelka, Janich Rasmussen, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jennifer Marriott, Jon Neubauer, Juan Antonio Ruzafa, Kevin Griffiths, Matt Thomas, Michael Babker, Moe Samji, Nicholas Dionysopoulos, Nick Savov, Nikolai Plath, Ole Bang Ottosen, Prasit Gebsaap, Radek Suski, Rob Clayburn, Roland Dalmulder, Rouven Weßling, Rune Sjøen, Samuel Moffatt, Sudhi Seshachala, Troy Hall.

    Bug Squad Leadership: Mark Dexter Coordinator; Elin Waring, Marijke Stuivenberg, and Omar Ramos, Team Leaders.

    Joomla! Security Strike Team

    A big thanks to the Joomla! Security Swat Team for fixing all reported security issues with this release. Members include: Airton Torres, Alan Langford, Andrew Eddie, Bill Richardson, Elin Waring, Jason Kendall, Louis Landry, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mark Dexter, Omar Ramos, Rouven Weßling, Samuel Moffatt.




  • Joomla! 1.5.25 Released

    Joomla 1.5.15 Released

     

    The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.25 [senu takaa ama mamni]. This is a security release. The Production Leadership Team's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. Learn more about Joomla! developement at the Developer Site.

       

     

     

    Download

    Click here to download Joomla 1.5.25 (Full package) »

    Click here to download Joomla 1.5.25 (Upgrade packages) »

     

    Instructions

    Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is available for beginners.

    Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.

    Release Notes

    Check the Joomla 1.5.25 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.

    Security

     

    Issues Fixed

     None.

    Joomla! Bug Squad

    Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug in Joomla, please report it on the CMS Issue Tracker.

    Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Akarawuth Tamrareang, Andrea Tarr, Andrew Eddie, Bill Richardson, Brian Teeman, Christophe Demko, Denise McLaurin, Dennis Hermacki, Elin Waring, Ian Galpin, Jacob Waisner, James Brice, Jan Pavelka, Janich Rasmussen, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jennifer Marriott, Jon Neubauer, Juan Antonio Ruzafa, Kevin Griffiths, Matt Thomas, Michael Babker, Moe Samji, Nicholas Dionysopoulos, Nick Savov, Nikolai Plath, Ole Bang Ottosen, Prasit Gebsaap, Radek Suski, Rob Clayburn, Roland Dalmulder, Rouven Weßling, Rune Sjøen, Samuel Moffatt, Sudhi Seshachala, Troy Hall.

    Bug Squad Leadership: Mark Dexter Coordinator; Elin Waring, Marijke Stuivenberg, and Omar Ramos, Team Leaders.

    Joomla! Security Strike Team

    A big thanks to the Joomla! Security Swat Team for fixing all reported security issues with this release. Members include: Airton Torres, Alan Langford, Andrew Eddie, Bill Richardson, Elin Waring, Jason Kendall, Louis Landry, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mark Dexter, Omar Ramos, Rouven Weßling, Samuel Moffatt.




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