Finally Joomla’s developer community have got rid of the Mambo hangover. The latest release Joomla 1.5 Beta 2 has been completely rewritten from scratch. Tagged ‘Red Barchetta’ to be synonymous with freedom, power and flexibility, the widely popular content management system hopes to enable web developers to take the fast track to building powerful websites.
An expanding developer community coupled with an ease of use framework has made Joomla match wits with Drupal, another popular open source content management system. The latest release – a complete rework of the underlying codebase should augur well for Joomla. The previous version, Joomla 1.5 Beta released in Oct 2006 was a milestone in Joomla’s journey. In a short span the latest release signifies a massive coding commitment, a testimony to the developer community’s zeal to zero in on the ideal content management system that satisfies small websites as well as large social networked communities.
Well, a beta release is not a stable release, not really dependable in production environments. The latest stable release is Joomla 1.0.12. Just vroom across to the JoomlaSphere Download Pitstop to test drive the latest release.