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Migrating from 1.0.x to 1.5 Stable
Tuesday, 22 January 2008

From Joomla! Documentation

 

 

 

The migration from Joomla! 1.0 to 1.5 is handled for the most part automatically in two stages. The first stage is the export migration component for Joomla! 1.0 and the second stage is the import or migration phase of the Joomla! 1.5 installer. The system is automated due to a large number of changes that make data slightly incompatible between Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5, such as parameters for menus and content items. Whilst it is still possible to use a database dump to migrate, this is not advised as there will be data loss. This page aims to detail how to migrate from Joomla! 1.0 to Joomla! 1.5 with as much ease as possible.

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Ladies and Gentlemen... Joomla! 1.5 Stable is released
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Joomla! 1.5 Released

It is with great pride that the Joomla! community announces to the world the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5 Stable [Khepri].  As a community of contributors, we have been through celebrations and tribulations. We have had fun, and we have worked hard. We have learned from and helped one another. What started two and a half years ago with a letter to the community has grown into a great opportunity for both the Joomla! project and community to benefit from these efforts and to consider our future.

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Joomla! 1.0.14 RC1 Released
Friday, 18 January 2008

Help Test Joomla! 1.0.14The Joomla! Project today announced the immediate release of Joomla! 1.0.14 RC1 [Daybreak], the first and hopefully singular release candidate for the 1.0.14 release cycle.  Several security issues have been discovered and addressed for this release.  While the required changes are not significant, the number of impacted files are significant and we need your help.  Before this release is declared stable we need to ensure that it works as well for you as it does for us. 

Those of you that are able and willing please download a copy of 1.0.14 RC1 and test it on a backup copy of your live site.  Make sure that the system works as good or better than Joomla! 1.0.13, our current stable release.  Any issues that you find please report in the 1.0.x Bug Tracker.  If you have questions on how to report a bug you should read the how-to and then if you still have questions please feel free to ask them in our 1.0.x Quality and Testing forum.

 

Since this release fixes security vulnerabilities, once you have verified on a backup of your site that everything works as expected we suggest that you upgrade your live site to this release.

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Joomla! SA - January 2008 Jump Start
Wednesday, 09 January 2008

We're back after a rather short lived vacation. These momentous holidays are great for using up all that well earned cash, and then some - another reason the interest rates keep going up.

 

My suggestion, stop with the interest rate hikes and cancel Christmas, Valentines Day, Easter and all school holidays (children have developed their giftings in spending when they are not at school). There is always the pressure to perform under the premise that if you haven't delivered you are not worthy.

 

Of course these suggestions just crash against the walls of traditionalism and just the desire to splurge for a change instead of always saving and being so jolly careful. So who really cares?

 

We hope you had a great holiday, a special Christmas day with family and friends and a memorable New Year.
 

In the January 2007 Jump Start edition;

 

  • Joomla 1.5 - The future of content management
  • 3rd Joomla! Day in Cape Town Report Back
  • New sites in the search zone
  • www.Joomla.org.za dominates Google rankings
  • Classifieds
  • Joomla! Recommended Resources 
  • Wish list for 2008 Joomla! SA Portal Development

It's good to be back in the office, fingers are a little stiff but will most likely get into the swing of things soon.

 

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Joomla! 1.5 RC4 --- Introducing Karibu
Thursday, 03 January 2008
Joomla! 1.5 RC4 - KaribuJust a week and a half ago people from all over the globe gathered in various locations to do a little Bug Squashing... today the fruits of their labour can be revealed as we announce the release of Joomla! 1.5 RC4.  This release is code named Karibu which is Swahili for nearby, close,  close by,  at hand... all terms that we feel reflect the nature of this release.

Karibu marks an important milestone in 1.5's development, as barring any major issues we believe it will be the last release candidate, with the next release being the big one... Joomla! 1.5 stable. When that happens will in part be influenced by the Joomla! community...

More so than any previous, this release really has been one of unprecedented community involvement with people from all the various Working Groups as well as others banding together to help increase momentum as we head for a stable release.  There is an enormous amount of energy building up around the 1.5 release and it is inspirational being a part of the process. 

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Joomla! Day Cape Town - Joomla! Core Team Member
Thursday, 06 December 2007

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Joomla! Day South Africa returns to Cape Town
Friday, 23 November 2007

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Joomla! workshops 'tailored for the NGO/public sector'
Wednesday, 21 November 2007

Hooray for Joomla Training in South Africa If you are an NGO and you haven't heard of Joomla! or Open Source - then wise up. Joomla! allows NGOs to raise their online profile easily and cost effectively, giving them the power to manage their own kick ass websites.

PandP Content (www.pandpcontent.co.za) in collaboration with Joomla SA! (www.joomla.org.za) recently announced 2 workshops at reduced rates to assist with the growth and development of the NGO IT sector – The END USER workshop and the ADMINISTRATOR workshop.

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Joomla! Wins 'Best CMS Award' Again!
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Joomla wins best CMS award for 2007Packt Publishing today announced Joomla! as the winner of "Best PHP Open Source Content Management System" for 2007.

The award marks the second time Joomla! has won a prestigious Packt prize. Runners up were Drupal, followed by e107.

The judges indicated that Joomla! is 'possibly one of the biggest success stories in open source of late'. "Its first release came in only September 2005 and since then has grown to be one of the most downloaded Content Management Systems on the web.

The judges also noted a number of factors that helped Joomla! secure the Award. "Most notably its good front-end for administrators and end-users, which gives users a simple and traditional company website straight out of the box. Once again, judges commented on the size and responsiveness of the community, which translates to potential problems being dealt with quickly."

Joomla! Project Manager Johan Janssens said adding this latest award to Joomla's steadily growing collection of prizes was recognition of the project as a whole.

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Joomla! website maintenance : Security and Extensions
Friday, 19 October 2007

httpDo you have a Joomla! powered website that has not received any further maintenance since it greeted the Internet?

 

Does your website lack the latest version of Joomla 1.0.13?

 

Are some of your extensions not up to date, not fully functional and / or not optimised?

 

If you answered YES to any of the questions above, your site may be at risk.

 

We can help!   

 

 

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