The following outlines the highlights of second major release of Joomla.
NOTE: JOOMLA 1.5 IS NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION SITES!
There are several important changes in Joomla 1.5 that you should be aware of. These include:
Several crucial fixes have been applied to this version:
Check the CHANGELOG.php file for more information.
Several important vulnerabilities have been patched in this version:
The first thing you will notice about Joomla 1.5 are the fresh new Installation, Frontend and Backend Templates.
bannergroup
and banneritem
css classes.
A number of major changes have been made to facilitate the localisation of Joomla.
Several changes have been made in the area of table support and schema. These include:
The following developer libraries have been upgraded:
Joomla continues to strive to be compliant with web standards for useability and accessibility. The following steps have been taken to achieve this goal:
This is the release that Developers' have been waiting for. A massive effort has been made to refactor and reorganise the core of Joomla into a true extensible framework. The new features in the framework are too many to give justice here, but include:
We have made every effort to make this version backwardly compatible with Joomla 1.0 but there are a few changes that may affect a small selection of existing addons.
Please note that addons written for Mambo 4.5.3 and above are probably not compatible with Joomla 1.5.
If you are a developer of Joomla extensions then your attention should be drawn to the following points:
More information is available at the Joomla Developer Portal