2009 Open Source CMS Award
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- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joomla!
All votes were counted and the envelopes had been opened. All the results of 2009 Open Source CMS Award sponsored by Packt Publishing are out.
While Joomla! is still quite popular among site developer, this year's award results show Drupal has rooted deeper as the top player of open source CMS and WordPress has gained large followers as a CMS solution. Other open source CMS projects also mature rapidly and is aiming to catch up with the top ranked players.
Joomla! this year entered two award competitions, one is the Hall of Fame Award and the other is the Best Open Source PHP CMS. The Hall of Fame Award at the end went to Drupal. For the Best Open Source PHP CMS, Joomla! claimed the 2nd runner up losing to Drupal and WordPress.
With Joomla! 1.6 is on the horizon, let's hope Joomla! will not only keep the competitors at bay, but also once again win the top award.
The complete results of 2009 Open Source CMS Award can be viewed at Packt's Open Source CMS Award page.
Joomla! 1.5.15 Released
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- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joomla!
After weeks of testing, Joomla! Team yesterday announced the release of Joomla! 1.5.15. This version has taken 3 months to mature and finalize since Joomla! 1.5.14. It contains one moderate and one low priority security fixes as well as numerous bug and features patches.
Those two security issues are:
- Moderate Priority - Core - Front-End Editing: When logged into the front end with Author access, it was possible to replace an article written by another user.
- Low Priority - Core - XML File View: It is possible to read the contents of an extension's XML file and find the version number of the installed extension. This could allow people to exploit a known security flaws for a specific version of an extension.
For the full list of other patches please see Joomla! 1.5.15 announcement. You can find download links there. If any issues come up after its release, you will be able to read about them at Joomla 1.5.15 Post-Release FAQs.
Another step toward Joomla! 1.6 Beta
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- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joomla!
Many current Joomla! users are eager to experience all the new features promised for Joomla! 1.6. Yet that won't happen until Joomla! 1.6 is in beta. And, in order to get to the beta status, there is one more Alpha release for us to test.
Last Sunday (10/25) Joomla! Development Team put Joomla! 1.6 Alpha 2 on the Web for everyone willing to assist in testing or familiarize herself/himself with all the new and improved functionalities. If you are interested in trying out this Alpha 2 release, please be warned that it is only for testing purpose and you shouldn't use it on a production system.
Learn about Joomla! 1.6 Access Control
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- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joomla!
It is now well known that the single most important improvement in Joomla! 1.6 is the newly designed and implemented Access Control. This is also the most discussed and expected feature for everyone using Joomla!
With Joomla! 1.6 Alpha available for people to conduct tests and get familiar with, there come a couple of good introduction articles on this much anticipated ACL feature. The first one, ACL Tutorial for Joomla! 1.6, was written by a Joomla! user and forum moderator, Mark Dexter. In the article he sort of establish some conventions how to describe the ACL mechanism in diagrams. These conventions were picked up by Andrew Eddie, a Joomla! Master Developer in the Core Team, when he wrote his Introducing the new permissions in Joomla! 1.6.
Mark's article focuses more on how the Access Control is presented in the system, while Andrew tries to explain how it is in action. They are both very helpful read in understanding this new Access Control in Joomla! 1.6.
Have you voted yet?
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- Written by: Kochin
- Category: Joomla!
Voting for the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards has started. Don't forget to cast your votes for your favorite open source CMS. Joomla! is competing in two categories:
Please click on those links and cast your votes!