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

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• Unpublished menu item issues, including fatal errors and allowing an unpublished menu item to be selected as default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

New Cool Features from phpBB 3

phpBB, one of the most pupolar forum software released its newest version phpBB 3 not so long ago. So, what’s new in phpBB 3? What makes it better than other competitors and what made Joomla.org official forum migrate from SMF to phpBB not so long after phpBB 3 was released?

phpBB3 is full-packed with lots of new features compared to the previous version. According to it’s developer phpBB 3 represents over 5 years of hard work on development process from some of the most talented web developers in the world.

Many improvements and new features have been made to phpBB 3, some of them are:
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Alternative method of installing themes on Joomla!

Joomla! Resources

It just struck in my mind about writing a post about the very popular CMS called Joomla!. If you are new to Joomla, don’t forget to visit its homepage.

So here is the collection of its resources:
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