Joomla! 1.5.5 Released

By the date of 28th July 2008, The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.5 [Mamni]. This is a quick turnaround release to address the Duplicate Title error from 1.5.4 . This release also contains important SEF URL improvements and fixes for com_content in addition to a number of bug fixes and improvements. It has been nearly three weeks since Joomla! 1.5.4 was released on July 8, 2008. The Development Working Group ’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla! community.

Go check put and try the newest one from Joomla!

Joomla! 1.5.6 Goals
- Menu performance improvements
- Replacement of the Pear library
- Update of the OpenID library to v 2.0
- Consistency for 403 errors and “Register to Read More” functionality
- Identify and fix Form Redirects that do not have SEF URLs
- Expand Automated URL testing scenarios
- Recruit Bug Squad members who use Joomla! with non-English languages, especially those who use a RTL language
- Introduction of Unit Testing
- Continue working on the //TODO tags in source code

Basic Tips for the site to reduce the load time

When the collection of some pages load times, and the effective bandwidth for real users from around the world, you can try out changes that will improve their times. The measure the difference and keep all of which offer significant improvements. Try some of the following:

Use HTTP keepalives external objects. Otherwise, you can add another back and forth to make a second TCP three-Way Handshake for each HTTP request. If you have a concern worldwide server connection with the limits, set a timeout keepalive something short as 5-10 seconds. In addition, we expect you to serve static content other than the dynamic Web content. Thousands of links to open to moving a static image, a web server can be done 10 megs of RAM the total, while your main web server can easily eat 10 megs of RAM.

Load fewer external objects. Taking into account the requirement of management, bigger picture, only to load faster than the two smaller half its size. Figure how to combine the world the same one or two of the javascript files, and one or two external styles instead of many people, even if you have more, try the assessment, as far as their publication. If the user interface used in dozens of small GIFs the whole place, to consider the transition from the much cleaner CSS-proposals, which probably do not need so many photos. Or, download all of your common UI photos one application using a technique known as the “CSS sprites.”

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After Upgrading to Wordpress 2.6

After the official release of wordpress 2.6 that i wrote yesterday, i also doing major upgrade to this blog which was using wordpress 2.5.1 as the publishing system, and so what can i say about the newest wordpress release? whoaaa… awesome!!

The main novelties are heading for Wordpress 2.6 revisions, which allows a comparison of current and older versions of content; Press This is a bookmarklet which simplifies the process of creating content and links to other sites Google Gears support, which accelerates many publishing using a local cache for some pages, and the topic Overview support, which allows the administrator to preview their site will be with a new user interface, without pushing the life. These are all welcome additions, and they are based on the top of an already mature, feature-rich core.

Small improvements have been the icing on the cake for 2.6. What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editing is generally better with a better image, integrated word, and renewed TinyMCE. A number of improvements to security at their disposal, including improved support SSL, and a number of improvements cookies and a database of interaction.

Whenever a major upgrade to a software arises, backward compatibility is a concern. With nearly 2 million downloads of WordPress 2.5, it is an incumbent users to consider. Fortunately WordPress 2.6 is fully compatible, including plug-ins, so that the upgrade should be easy. Fresh also installs a breeze, as WordPress continues its tradition of a simple less minutes to install.

WikyBlog - another new cms system

Here I found a new impressive opensource blogging or cms system that combining a blog with wiki, what a nice hybrid function. The good thing i like in this opensource cms is the ajax feature that comes in it, with ajax-based cms, you could improve user’s experience without messing with bandwith and another general database query issues, that’s my opinion. anyway try this cool one!

From the website:

WikyBlog Groupware is a platform that fuses collaborative editing functions wikis with a user-friendly features of the publication of blogs.
Wiki / blog software.

Designed for speed and ease of use, WikyBlog is a unique AJAX Improvements tabs user interface that allows users to view and edit a number of files to the same side. Custom models, file attachments, a flexible user privilege system, Google Maps and the number is among the many possibilities.

Released Joomla 1.5.4

Today, the Joomla core team release Joomla 1.5.4, this is just a normal maintainance release. This version will fix several issues including some minor security issues, bug fixes and add more echancements.

Security Issues Fixed

• Added security to file caching to prevent unauthorized access to cached pages
• User Redirect Spam fix
• htaccess global variable security fix when SEF is enabled

List of All the Bug Fixed

• Major Cache overhaul, including unit testing for quality assurance
• Router issues related to extending the router
• Menu ordering issues when nested menus were used
• Several Search component fixes, including the removal of HTML tags as possible search results
• Menu permissions issues
• Unpublished menu item issues, including fatal errors and allowing an unpublished menu item to be selected as default
• Banners can handle Flash items
• Polls and Latest and Most Popular articles listed in the Administrator now support GMT dates
• Page titles now follow more consistent rules (see Page Title Parameters for more information)
• Several OpenID improvements

If you’re using Joomla 1.5, it’s time for you to upgrade to Joomla 1.54. You can download it from here.

More infos are available on http://www.joomla.org