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Joomla, Open Source Content Management System, Version 1.6 Alpha 2 Released

Oct 27, 2009 by Srikanth ADcloseAuthor: Srikanth AD Name: Srikanth AD
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The Joomla project has recently announced the immediate availability of its new release, Joomla 1.6 alpha 2. This release contains many new features requested by the community. Other features are listed below as well as what you can expect in the future for Joomla 1.6.

This is an alpha release. It is intended to be a developer/hobbyist preview and is not intended to be used on a production web site.

New improvements/features since alpha 1 include:

• ACL: access management for global permissions as well as content item specific permissions, variable user-groups, users member of more than one user-group, permissions are inherited, really fast
• Extendable user profile, profile view in frontend, extendable user parameters
• Improved com_content modules (mod_articles_archive, mod_articles_latest, mod_articles_popular)
• Article linker plugin for editors
• New frontend template (atomic)
• Tableless com_content layouts
• New backend template (bluestork)
• New uploader for media manager

Other Joomla 1.6 improvements that existed in alpha 1:

• Mootools 1.2
• Refactored back-end
• JForm
• Nested Categories and category parameters
• New views in front-end: categories, category
• Lots of small code improvements, almost cut the code size in half while adding to the functionality
• PHP 5.2 required, huge performance improvements, partially eaten up by new features => 1.6 will be faster than 1.5

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