The development team have announced an important release called Joomla! 1.0.11 [ Sunbird ] which is  now available for download. The release is a Critical Security update & you MUST UPGRADE your CMS today due to a number High Level vulnerabilities that affect ALL Previous versions of Joomla!

1.0.11 contains the following critical security fixes:

04 High Level Security Fixes
04 Medium Level Security Fixes
18 Low Level security
25 General bug fixes
To find out more and to get the latest upgrade use the following links noted below.

Joomla! will be participating at its first San Francisco LinuxWorld.

The exhibition doors open to the public on Tuesday, August 15, and Joomla! can be found at the DOT.org Pavillion at Booth 18. Johan will be joined by core developer Louis Landry and they will be supported by a number of community members, many of whom are well known.  Visit the LinuxWorld San Francisco website for an overview of what’s on and the opportunity to pre-register (it is free for exhibit only access).

EXHIBITION HOURS
Tuesday August 15, 2006 10:00 AM 5:00 PM
Wednesday August 16, 2006 10:00 AM 5:00 PM
Thursday August 17, 2006 10:00 AM 4:00 PM

* Please note the LinuxWorld has no public exhibition on August 14.

ON-SITE REGISTRATION HOURS
Registration is located in the upper north lobby of the Moscone Center

LOCATION
The Moscone Center
747 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-974-4000
http://www.moscone.com/

PacktPub.com this week launched its inaugural Content Management System Award with a prize of US$5000 to the winning project, second prize $3000 and third prize $2000.The award demonstrates Packt’s commitment to the open source community and its users.  Packt has a long and successful history of publishing user-friendly technical books for software users.  They were one of the first, if not the first, publishers to create an English version Joomla! web tutorial and guide.

The award process involves Packt taking nominations from users and the top five “most nominated” or voted CMS’ will be then considered by three independent experts.  You can nominate Joomla! here.