Joomla! lead developer Johan Janssens has announced the official Joomla! 1.5 Beta release date at the German Joomla! Day, in Bonn.
The release of the Joomla! beta is planned for the 12th of October —  The new beta release  represents 127,000 lines of code. “Joomla! 1.5 means freedom of choice … you choose how it operates, you choose how it integrates … you choose what the output is, you choose how users are authenticated,” he said.  “It’s a simplified but more powerful system.  As a developer, it gives me the freedom and flexibility to build anything I want.”

Joomla! is competing against co-nominees e107, Drupal, Plone and Xoops, for the award.  Packt Publishing announced the final phase of this competition earlier this month and has today opened up a page on its website where you can show your support VOTE NOW!!!

 

Joomla is celebrating its 1 year Bithday With more than 2.5 million downloads, over 50 thousand members and fast approaching half a million posts Joomla has grown up pretty quick over the past year.

The core team wants to take this opportunity to thank the many who have supported the project with their skills, support and donations.

“There is no doubt the project, born from difficult times with the Mambo split, has both matured and grown,” said ‘interim’ project lead Johan Janssens.  “The milestones we have created this year include a more robust set of systems; hosting supported by Rochen, the Simple Machines Forums, Developer support through VA Software and, of course the amazingly successful Extension site.”