The Joomla core team have a stand at Boton Linuxworld where they are meeting community members and running a number of presentations for the next release of the Joomla 1.5 beta. For more information about what is happening with Joomla at the Linuxworld meeting in Boston then click on the following blog links

Update 08/04 : Download the podcast from the Boston PHP User Group presentation here

Update 09/04 : Read Mitch’s summaries of each days activities: ‘Day One‘, ‘Day Two ‘ and the ‘Final Day‘.

Update 12/04 : Read the Ars Technica interview with the gang at Boston Expo.

The Joomla development team have being working on the latest release of the joomla 1.5 which will be released in Beta format by the end of the month.

The developers advise version 1.5 beta is a complete rework of the underlying codebase, yet it keeps a high level of backwards compatibility expected for a minor release. For more information visit the Joomla web site.

The J! Factory have released J!Login version 2Previously released as wwLogin, J!Login is an extremely simple to use module to display a login box for external sites such as osCommerce or cPanel. Its completely configured from within the module paramaters and suitable for most 2 feild logins. Its important to note that J!Login is not a bridge.
New features include…

• Validates xHTML
• New tableless layout.
• Improved accessability

The J!Login can be found in the downloads section of www.thejfactory.com