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Demo Site Request for Proposals
Recently, Open Source Matters received an unsolicited proposal for the management of http://demo.joomla.org. After consideration and consultation with the Community Oversight Committee, the OSM board the Community Oversight Committee determined that, in the interest of fairness, others should also be invited to submit proposals.
Open Source Matters is requesting proposals for the management of the Joomla!® demo site (http://demo.joomla.org). The existing Joomla!® demo site has been highly successful, with an average of 25,000 registrations monthly. OSM reasonably expects the number of registrations to increase with more prominent displays of the links to the site on the joomla.org family of websites. The joomla.org sites now receive approximately 5 million visits per month.
This is an open and competitive process. Responses to this RFP ("proposals") received after December 9, 2009 will not be considered.
To learn more about the detailed requirements, please read the complete Request for Proposals.
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Joomla! Major Events
The Joomla! Project plans to have major multi-day conferences beginning as early as November 2010. Community members in a city or region who would like to consider hosting a major conference are encouraged to submit expressions of interest followed by formal proposals. The Request For Proposals gives instructions for putting together a proposal. The events team will work with interested groups to prepare proposals.
Up to four events will be planned in a 12 month period starting in November of 2010. There will be a maximum of one event per quarter and one per continent. The events will last 3 to 5 days. Local organizing committees will choose the theme of each conference and manage the program with the support of the events team and Open Source Matters. Community members and potential organizers are encouraged to use the events forum for discussion of ideas and proposals.
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Joomla! Developer Conference
The first ever Joomla! event specifically for third party developers will be in New York City on December 5 and 6.Focused on the transition to Joomla! 1.6, the Joomla! Developer conference will feature all four development coordinators (Louis Landry, Sam Moffatt, Ian MacLennan, Mark Dexter), master Joomla! developer Andrew Eddie, Hannes Papenberg from the 1.6 release team and MooTools team member Aaron Newton.
Joomla! 1.6 is currently at alpha 2 status, so this is the time for extension and custom developers to begin working with its new features such as Access Control Lists, JForm, nested sets and other enhancements. The conference is appropriate for developers who have experience working with Joomla! as extension developers, custom developers, and in house staff. Tickets are $100.
The Joomla! Project thanks Rochen Performance Hosting, Joomla! Showroom and the Joomla! User Group New York for their sponsorship of the event, which, among other things, is supporting the attendance of six student and young non commercial developers at the conference.
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Joomla! 1.5.15 Released
The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.15 [Wojmamni ama mamni]. It has been three months since Joomla 1.5.14 was released on July 30, 2009.
The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
Download
Instructions
Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is available for beginners.
Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.
Release Notes
Check the Joomla 1.5.15 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.
If you have modified core template overrides, please be sure to back them up before upgrading.
Security
Two security issues were fixed in this release:
For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.
Components
- Allowed search to use the Itemid of the current Menu Item (15780)
- Removed unnecessary quotes in search results (16919)
- Fixed problem when using relative URL's in editor with SEF enabled. (16445)
- Fixed formatting problem in Category List layout with Internet Explorer (17110)
- Fixed problem with entering HTML in user confirmation messages (17259)
- Fixed Media Manager issues in Windows (17337)
- Fixed problem with Archived Article filters when cache is enabled (17470)
- Fixed RSS feed problem with ampersand in page title (18343)
Modules
- Allowed underscore character in menu names (16086)
- Fixed problem with mod_newsflash and altenative read-more text (17231)
- Fixed problem with Alias Menu Item Type not opening in new window (18240)
- Fixed problem with UTF-8 characters in breadcrumbs (18493)
Plugins
- Fixed problem with email cloaking and non-ASCII characters (11578)
- Fixed TinyMCE configuration error (16982)
- Fixed problem with multiple editor instances on one page (17043)
- Fixed problem whereby TinyMCE stripped some image HTML (17057)
- Fixed TinyMCE Extended Valid Elements problem (17121)
- Fixed problem with TinyMCE blockquote (17215)
- Allowed Firefox inline spell check to work in TinyMCE (17356)
- Fixed problem saving changes in TinyMCE (17367)
- Fixed TinyMCE problem with caption.js and filtering (17379)
- Fixed TinyMCE bullet issue with Internet Explorer (17414)
- Made image title names consistent in front and back end (17430)
- Fixed issue with email cloaking and images (17692)
- Fixed problem in email cloaking syntax (17964)
- Fixed caption alignment when image alignment is not set (18010)
- Fixed JavaScript error in TinyMCE (18192)
- Added option to create templates in TinyMCE editor (18245)
- Fixed problem with TinyMCE Sql (18246)
- Fixed problem when using email cloaking and JavaScript (18310)
- Fixed problem with email cloaking when using images (18481)
Legacy
- No legacy issues were fixed for this release
Templates
- Fixed problem with missing template CSS files (16609)
- Fixed problem with linked images in Beez template (16804)
- Added default text color for backend error messages (16914)
- Added missing spinner.gif (17432)
- Fixed problem when copying Beez template to new name (17559)
- Fixed error in JA_Purity template with Internet Explorer 8 (18070)
Language
- Added TinyMCE Language file for Toggle Editor button (17332)
- Added Ulaanbaatar in timezones (17577)
- Fixed problem with localisation of pagination strings (17618)
- Added missing Display # language string (18124)
- Added missing com_media language strings (18349)
- Improved tooltip text for mod_search (18518)
- Fixed problem with version information for core languages (18522)
Administrator
- Fixed problem with FTP fields auto-completing (18297)
System
- Don't show password in configuration.php file (16484)
- Fixed problem when Itemid does not exist (16927)
- Fixed PHP 5.3 compatibility issues (17150)
- Fixed problem with caching for com_weblinks and com_contact (17475)
- Fixed additional PHP 5.3 compatibility issues (18008)
- Fixed problem with warnings in system_config.php file (18054)
- Added missing JEXEC checks in code (18080)
- Fixed problem converting UTF-8 characters to ASCII (18142)
- Added option to disallow users to view extension XML files (18353)
- Fixed problem with onAfterDisplayTitle event and PHP 5.3 (18430)
- Fixed problem with displaying error messages with right-to-left languages (18537)
Statistics
Statistics for the 1.5.15 release period:
- Joomla 1.5.15 contains:
- 60 issues fixed in SVN
- 59 commits
- Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 15 active issues:
- 185 new reports
- 110 closed
- 60 fixed in SVN
- At the time the 1.5.15 release was packaged, the tracker had 220 active issues:
- 103 open
- 92 confirmed
- 25 pending
Joomla! Bug Squad
Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug in Joomla, please report it on the 1.5 Bug Tracker.
Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-coordinators; Airton Torres, Alan Langford, Amy Stephen, Andras Debreczeni, Andrea Tarr, Ankit Ahuja, Christophe Demko, Dennis Hermacki, Elin Waring, Ercan Ozkaya, Flavia Silveira, Gerg? Erd?si, Hannes Papenberg, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jennifer Marriott, Johnathan Cheung, Joseph LeBlanc, Julio Pontes, Kevin Devine, Klas Berli?, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mati Kochen, Ole Bang Ottosen, Pete Nurse, Peter van Westen, Ron Severdia, Samuel Moffatt, Vicki Payne, and Will Mavis.
A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Andras Debreczeni, Andrea Tarr, Ankit Ahuja, Christopher Raymond, Geo Hern, Naveen Gavini, Peter van Westen, Ron Severdia, Vicki Payne, and Will Mavis.
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Vote for Joomla!
Joomla! is a finalist in the "Hall of Fame" and "Best Open Source PHP CMS" Awards sponsored by Packt Publishing. We'd encourage all Joomla! fans to vote for Joomla for both awards. With the exciting news about the implementation of Access Control Lists (ACL) in Joomla 1.6 and the incredible growth of all parts of the Joomla Project, now is a time to celebrate the great successes of this community. Over 1000 sites in the Site Showcase, 3500 extensions in the JED, 150 Resources in the JRD and almost 13 million downloads, what a great set of accomplishments by everyone in the Joomla community.
Remember that you can also vote for best extension and best template and nominate someone who you think is a Joomla MVP. There are so many great contributors who could be nominated. Think of all those people who make the JED, JRD, Showcase, Forums, JoomlaCode and Joomla itself possible.
Thanks to everyone who nominated Joomla for the Best Open Source PHP CMS Award and for all you do to support Joomla.
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Nominate Joomla!
The 4th Annual Open Source CMS Awards sponsored by Packt Publishing is open for nominations Joomla is eligible for Best PHP Open Source CMS and you can also nominate project contributors such as Open Source MVPs. The nominations are open until September 11. Voting among the top five nominees will begin on September 18.
Joomla, along with Drupal, is already a nominee in the new Hall of Fame category. This category will have sub-category awards for Best Extensions and Themes. These will be nominated by the CMS's representatives. Watch the community blogs for more information.
This has been a great year for Joomla. The Production Working Group released the alpha of Joomla 1.6 and the beta is coming soon. Joomla passed 11 million downloads. The Site Showcase and Joomla Resource Directory sites were launched. There are over 3000 extensions for Joomla 1.5 in the Joomla Extensions Directory. Over 20 Joomla Days took place and more than 80 Joomla User Groups met around the world. Let's celebrate by nominating Joomla for Best PHP Open Source CMS!
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Joomla! 1.5.14 Released
The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.14 [Wojmamni ama naiki]. This release contains fixes for two material bugs that were introduced in version 1.5.13 and one low level security issue. Instead of waiting for a normal 6 to 8-week release cycle, this release is being made available to users now. It has been eight days since Joomla 1.5.13 was released on July 22, 2009.
The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
Download
Instructions
Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is available for beginners.
Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.
Release Notes
Check the Joomla 1.5.14 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.
If you have modified core template overrides, please be sure to back them up before upgrading.
Security
One low-level security issue was fixed in this release:
For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.
Components
- Fixed error message in Media Manager (17319)
Modules
- No modules issues were fixed for this release
Plugins
- Fixed callback error message in TinyMCE editor (17323)
Legacy
- No legacy issues were fixed for this release
Templates
- No template issues were fixed for this release
Language
- No language issues were fixed for this release
Administrator
- No administrator issues were fixed for this release
System
- No system issues were fixed for this release
Statistics
Statistics for the 1.5.14 release period:
- Joomla 1.5.14 contains:
- 2 issues fixed in SVN
- 2 commits
- Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 14 active issues:
- 28 new reports
- 12 closed
- 2 fixed in SVN
- At the time the 1.5.14 release was packaged, the tracker had 202 active issues:
- 99 open
- 68 confirmed
- 35 pending
Joomla! Bug Squad
Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug in Joomla, please report it on the 1.5 Bug Tracker.
Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-coordinators; Airton Torres, Amy Stephen, Dennis Hermacki, Elin Waring, Ercan Ozkaya, Flavia Tarzwell, Gerg? Erd?si, Hannes Papenberg, Jennifer Nodwell, Joe Palmer, Kevin Devine, Klas Berli?, Marieke van der Tuin, Marijke Stuivenberg, Marius van Rijnsoever, Mark Smeed, Mati Kochen, Ole Bang Ottosen, Pete Nurse, Rajesh Dhanusu, Samuel Moffatt, Shantanu Bala, Jean-Marie Simonet, and Andrew Rose.
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Joomla! 1.5.13 Security Release Now Available
The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.13 [Wojmamni ama baji]. This is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.
This release contains 26 bug fixes, one high-level security fix and one moderate-level security fix. It has been 3 weeks since Joomla 1.5.12 was released on July 1, 2009. The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
Download
Instructions
Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is available for beginners.
Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.
Release Notes
Check the Joomla 1.5.13 Post-Release Notes to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.
If you have modified core template overrides, please be sure to back them up before upgrading.
Security
One high-level and one moderate-level security issues were fixed in this release:
For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.
Components
- Edit icon now appears in correct location (16726)
- "usertype" column is now saved correctly in the database during front-end account creation (16073)
Modules
- No modules issues were fixed for this release
Plugins
- Typographical error fixed in PHPdoc comment (15548)
- TinyMCE editor now works when using compressed mode (17058)
- Media Manager now shows correct message after a successful upload (17053)
- Image button can be used by users who don't have upload permission (17101)
Legacy
- No legacy issues were fixed for this release
Templates
- No template issues were fixed for this release
Language
- Error message in Media Manager is now translated (17008)
Administrator
- No administrator issues were fixed for this release
System
- No system issues were fixed for this release
Statistics
Statistics for the 1.5.13 release period:
- Joomla 1.5.13 contains:
- 7 issues fixed in SVN
- 7 commits
- Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 42 active issues:
- 68 new reports
- 19 closed
- 7 fixed in SVN
- At the time the 1.5.13 release was packaged, the tracker had 188 active issues:
- 89 open
- 68 confirmed
- 31 pending
Joomla! Bug Squad
Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug with Joomla, please report it on the 1.5 Bug Tracker.
Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-coordinators; Airton Torres, Amy Stephen, Dennis Hermacki, Elin Waring, Ercan Ozkaya, Flavia Tarzwell, Gerg? Erd?si, Hannes Papenberg, Jennifer Nodwell, Joe Palmer, Kevin Devine, Klas Berli?, Marieke van der Tuin, Marijke Stuivenberg, Marius van Rijnsoever, Mark Smeed, Mati Kochen, Ole Bang Ottosen, Pete Nurse, Rajesh Dhanusu, Samuel Moffatt, and Shantanu Bala.
A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Christophe Demko, Jean-Marie Simonet, and Andrew Rose.
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Joomla! 1.5.12 Released
The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.12 [Wojmamni Ama Woi]. This release contains a number of bug fixes and three moderate-level security fixes. It has been less than a month since Joomla 1.5.11 was released on June 3, 2009.
This release marks an important milestone for the Joomla Project due to the upgrade of the PEAR library to the new BSD licensed version, which brings the codebase into full compliance with the GPL. In addition, this release contains an important upgrade to TinyMCE v 3.2.4.1.
The Production Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
Download
Instructions
Want to test drive Joomla?
Release Notes
Before upgrading, read the Release Notes and review the Post-Release Notes to see if there is important supplemental information or helpful hints discovered after the release. Also, do a backup your site before performing the upgrade.
Security
Components
- Category List Layout sorts correctly (15541)
- Category List Layout HTML error resolved (16595 )
- Minimum User Level for Media Manager works correctly for Editors submitting Articles (16597)
- Article Manager shows non-duplicated Page Titles with Page Breaks (16686)
- Section Filter for Content Component correctly lists only Article Categories (16601)
- Reverted escaping of miscellaneous information field in com_contact (17006)
Modules
- No modules were fixed for this release.
Plugins
- Update to TinyMCE 3.2.4.1 (12376)
- Updated installer SQL to correspond with TinyMCE upgrade (17005)
- Added missing language strings for TinyMCE after initial upgrade (16977)
Legacy
- No legacy issues were fixed in this release.
Templates
- Beez Template fix for Contact Component Layout (14540)
- Beez Template fix for Article Published Date in the Form Layout (15673)
- Beez Template Newsflash Module now has correct Read More link (16607)
- Beez Template and User Component print the correct Page Title on Login Page (16890)
- System Template CSS correctly links to OpenID login-bg.gif file (14540)
- JA Purity Template now has anchor tag ending for Category Title on Frontpage Blog Layout (16896)
- JA Purity Template shows Modified Date in Article Layout (15740)
Language
- Feed Module Tip wording changed to correctly state "time in minutes" (15740)
- en-GB Language File Date Format displays correctly with Frontend Components using Calendar Date Selection (16779)
- Missing language strings available for Beez Templates (16820)
- Additional language strings added for Tiny MCE (16950)
- Added mk-MK installer language pack (no tracker item)
Administrator
- CSS files save correctly when edited using Template Manager (16753)
System
- Upgraded PEAR with a newer version that has BSD licensing (12746)
- PHPMailer allows secure connections to SMTP Servers (12886)
- File::upload() uses chmod 644 in FTP mode (16593)
- Tooltips correctly encoded (16719)
- Reverted detailed module caching fix (15727)
Statistics
Statistics for the 1.5.12 release period:
- Joomla 1.5.12 contains:
- 25 issues fixed in SVN
- 14 commits
- Tracker activity resulted in a net decrease of 11 active issues:
- 54 new reports
- 74 closed
- 25 fixed in SVN
- At the time the 1.5.12 release was packaged, the tracker had 146 active issues:
- 59 open
- 60 confirmed
- 27 pending
Joomla! Bug Squad
Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug in Joomla, please report it on the Joomla 1.5 Bug Tracker.
Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-coordinators; Airton Torres, Alan Langford, Ashwin Date, Dennis Hermacki, Elin Waring, Flavia Tarzwell, Gerg? Erd?si, Hannes Papenberg, Jennifer Marriott, Johnathan Cheung, Kevin Devine, Klas Berli?, Marieke van der Tuin, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mati Kochen, Ole Bang Ottosen, Sajid Ahmed, Samuel Moffatt, and Tibor Tóth.
A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Johnathan Cheung, Sajid Ahmed, and Shaun Janssens.
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Joomla! Project Leadership
Today we are proud to announce an important shift in the organisation and governance of the Joomla Project. This change is focused on making it easier to fulfill our mission, achieve our vision and remain true to our values.
Firstly, we are simplifying the current Working Group structure. Secondly, we are changing the leadership and management of the project in a way that provides a more open and flexible structure. Thirdly, we are shifting the governance of the project to a model that reflects the increased maturity of the organisation and provides a solid foundation for sustainable growth.
These changes will bring the organisation of the Joomla Project in line with its mission to "provide a flexible platform for digital publishing and collaboration." The vision statement for the Joomla Project describes "People publishing and collaborating in their communities and around the world" and the goal of these changes is to facilitate this within the Joomla Project as well as for communities built using Joomla software. These changes developed from discussions at the Joomla Leadership Summit held in June of 2008. At that summit the core team and the board of Open Source Matters worked to clarify the mission of the project and to develop more flexible structures to carry out the work of the project.
