Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Joomla 1.5 Beta-2 Released

Joomla has announced Joomla 1.5 Beta 2. This release has switched on to turbo gears, an entirely re-factored core, internationalization, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) layering, Application Programming Interface (API) and framework .

They have dubbed Beta-2 as 'Red Barchetta'. You can use it by using the codebase — making your current extenstions and templates compatible, creating new extensions, new templates and making use of all the features in 1.5. This also happens to be the last beta prior to release candidate.

All templates for Joomla! 1.0.x can be used in Joomla! 1.5. A lot of features have been added to the templating system in Joomla! 1.5, but all 1.0.x templates can be used within Joomla! 1.5. There are several resources that describe the new template features, a great resource is the template tutorial and the BEEZ template that is included in Beta-2.

Download here.