The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.20 [senu takaa]. This is a security release that addresses issues with the Joomla 1.5.19 packages.  We recommend users upgrade immediately.

The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

After many months of hard work by a very dedicated group of volunteers, today we proudly announce that the new Joomla! Community Magazine has launched! You can get to the JCM by clicking on the new Magazine link in the horizontal navigation for the Joomla! community site, or by going directly to http://magazine.joomla.org.

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 4 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 3 release on Jun 14, we have fixed approximately 103 issues in the tracker. Much of this progress is directly related to the stepped up efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!

See the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release.

More than two years after it's last major version was released, the Web CMS project Joomla!  has announced the beta version of its next major release (1.6).

For an open source project, that's a lot of time between two versions. There have also been concerns raised about transparency and governance within Open Source Matters (OSM), the not-for-profit that manages the Joomla! project. However, with a new leadership team and much awaited release of Joomla 1.6, things seem to be back on track for the project.

A lot of people getting old versions of #joomla 1.5 hacked today - been fixing sites all day for customers... UPGRADE NOW to #Joomla 1.5.10

I couldn't say it better myself. It's crucial that you upgrade to the latest version of Joomla.

When you've done that, there are several other actions you can and should take to avoid being hacked:

Have you ever notice that your module position does not appear for selection from the module position option in your joomla administrator backend? Do not panic here is a way out to get your module position working.