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New Translation and Localization Policy Announced
divimg width="200" height="225" border="0" alt="Joomla Translations" src="http://www.joomla.org/images/stories/our_news/translations_big.jpg" //div br / pIn yet another step to lowering the barriers to contributing to the Joomla Project, we are pleased to announce our new a alt="Translation and Localization Policy" href="http://community.joomla.org/translations/translation-policy.html"Translation and Localization Policy/a. Our existing a href="http://community.joomla.org/translations.html"Translation Teams/a worked together with a target="_blank" href="http://www.opensourcematters.org/"OSM/a to refine and update to the process to encourage contributors, foster collaboration, and maintain the spirit of the open source community.#160;a href="http://forum.joomla.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofileamp;u=14amp;sid=46674cbc734d5ac73f66d2ea1f4c1470"Jean-Marie Simonet/a from the a alt="Translations Working Group" href="http://docs.joomla.org/Translations_Working_Group"Translations Working Group/a has a a href="http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/598-a-new-joomla-translation-and-localisation-policy.html"blog post/a detailing the changes in our translation and localization efforts./p pCurrently supporting over 60 world languages, the Joomla Project is looking forward bringing Joomla to even more users all over the globe. If you want to find out more about translations or find Joomla in your language, visit the a href="http://community.joomla.org/translations/about-translations.html"Translations section/a of the a href="http://community.joomla.org"Joomla Community Portal/a./p br / br /
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Joomla! Joins Another List of Winners
divimg alt="EContent Award" src="http://www.joomla.org/images/stories/our_news/ec100logo0809_award.jpg" //div pa title="Link to EContent Magazine" target="_blank" href="http://www.econtentmag.com"emEContent/em/a today published their a title="Go to the list" target="_blank" href="http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=51609"EContent 100 List of Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry/a. You can see us a title="Go to our listing's page" target="_blank" href="http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=51609amp;PageNum=3"right here/a#160;under Open Source Matters along with other notable open source friends like Drupal and Wordpress. The EContent 100 winners will be honored at the a title="Conference announcement" target="_blank" href="http://www.buy-sell-econtent.com/2009/"Buying amp; Selling eContent Conference/a next April 5-6 in Scottsdale, AZ./p pThere are a variety of categories: classification amp; taxonomy; collaboration; content commerce; content creation, production, amp; digital publishing; content delivery; content management; content security; fee-based info services; intranets amp; portals; mobile content; search engines amp; technologies; and social media./p pemEContent/em said, "We are proud of this list and of the companies on it. Members of the emEContent 100 List/em are the companies empowering the content that fuels business today. We hope that our readers find the list as valuable as we did the process of creating it." The Joomla Project is honored to be recognized as a high-calibre business solution./p p#160;/p
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Joomla 1.5.8 Released
img alt="Joomla 1.5.8 Released" src="http://www.joomla.org/images/stories/joomla/joomla_158_released.jpg" / pThe Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.8 [Wohnaiki].#160;This release contains a number of bug fixes and two moderate-level security fixes. It has been around two months since Joomla 1.5.7 was released on September 9, 2008. The a href="http://docs.joomla.org/Development_Working_Group"Development Working Group's/a goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.#160;/p br / br / br / br / br / br / br / br / h2Download/h2 h3a href="http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/8897/32884/Joomla_1.5.8-Stable-Full_Package.zip"Click here to download Joomla 1.5.8 (Full package) »/a/h3 h3a href="http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowseamp;frs_package_id=4136"Click here to find an update package. »/a/h3 br / h2Instructions/h2 ul lia href="http://help.joomla.org/content/category/48/268/302/"New installation/a and a href="http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla/technical-requirements.html"technical requirements/a/li lia href="http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrading_1.5_from_an_existing_1.5x_version"Upgrade from an existing Joomla 1.5 version/a/li lia href="http://docs.joomla.org/Migrating_from_1.0.x_to_1.5_Stable"Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x/a/li /ul pWant to test drive Joomla? Try the a href="http://demo.joomla.org/"online demo/a. a href="http://docs.joomla.org/Beginners"Documentation is available for beginners./a/p h2Release Notes/h2 Check the a href="http://docs.joomla.org/Category:Version_1.5.8_FAQ"Joomla 1.5.8 Post-Release Notes/a to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.br / br / pView past a href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5212-joomla-157-security-release-now-available.html"release notes for Joomla 1.5.7/a or a href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5199-joomla-156-released.html"release notes for Joomla 1.5.6/a./p h3Security/h3 ul liTwo moderate-level security issues were fixed in this release:br / ul lia href="http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/283-20081101-core-comcontent-xss-vulnerability.html"Default filtering for content/a/li lia href="http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/284-20081102-core-comweblinks-xss-vulnerability.html"Filtering for Web Link descriptions/a/li /ul/li /ul divFor additional information,#160;visit the a href="http://developer.joomla.org/security.html"Joomla Security Center/a./div h3Components/h3 ul liArticles: Remove brackets around Last Updated date and time, Start Publishing date corrections for other than UTC 00:00, hit counts correct for Articles, adding a space after a cloaked email address/li liE-mail addresses: Correctly cloaked when presented in Section and Category descriptions/li liCategories: Edit icon correctly shows for Articles without Title links, Print icon correct now on first page for Blog Layout/li lidivSections: Plural and singular form correction, Category link properly ended, Router changes reverted to version 1.5.6 so Article ID does not append to the Article slug/div/li liFrontpage: Article assignment correction, corrected number of Links/li liContacts: Image display correction when Image Directory is configured/li liRSS Feed: Corrected spelling of Category in Category feed/li liUser: Added isInternal checking on referer values/li liWeblinks: Language strings/li /ul h3Modules/h3 ul lidivFeed: Target attribute validation, language string correction/div/li liLogin: ItemID is preserved on redirect/li liMenu: Changing Menu Link Type now functions properly, Section Language string, Article Reset button working/li liRelated Items: Keyword matching functions correctly and filters characters appropriately/li liStats: Corrected Time/li liSections: No authorization parameter works correctly/li liSearch: Form validates correctly for Transitional xHTML/li /ul h3Legacy/h3 ul liReturn statement added for Legacy Menu Check/li /ul h3Templates/h3 ul liBeez: Lengthened E-mail Content Popup, Search button now works when pressed, password reset works correctly, corrections to Beez HTML folders, User details page corrected/li liJA_Purity: Added missing language strings/li /ul h3Administrator/h3 ul liConsole: Added "Welcome to Joomla!" information and Joomla Security RSS feeds to Administrator Console/li liInstallation: Proper deletion of component directories, default entries for Templates and Languages are now correct for uninstall/li liMedia Manager: Changed default for new sites to disable Flash multi-file uploader due to incompatibility with Flash 10/li liInstallation: Remove confusing error message about language files for extension installations, Administrator Modules now correctly uninstall INI files/li liSample data: Updated news feeds to point to free software community sites, extensive corrections and updates to sample content/li /ul h3System/h3 ul liAPI: JFolder::files and JFolder::folders corrections for Search, missing Method added to JRecordSet, Database Class correctly quotes names not using dot notation, JTableUser matches using the correct number of fields/li liCache: Correct undefined variable in Cache Class/li liLanguage file: Corrected wording, correct installation of PDF fonts independent of language choices, several language string corrections in en-GB.ini/li liMenu: Performance improvements for sites with many menu items/li liUsers: Temporary Users are now able to logout, secure protocol can now be used when editing account details/li liAdded PHP 4 compatibility for isInternal checking/li /ul h2Statistics/h2 pStatistics for the 1.5.8 release period:/p ul liJoomla 1.5.8 contains: ul li71 issues fixed in SVN/li li26 commits/li /ul/li liTracker activity resulted in a net decrease of 4 active issues: ul li65 new reports/li li130 closed/li li66 fixed in SVN/li /ul/li liAt the time the 1.5.8 release was packaged, the tracker had 114 active issues: ul li44 open/li li44 confirmed/li li24 pending/li /ul/li /ul h2Joomla! Bug Squad/h2 pThanks to the a href="http://docs.joomla.org/Bug_Squad"Joomla Bug Squad/a for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug with Joomla, a href="http://docs.joomla.org/Filing_bugs_and_issues"find out more information here/a on how to report the bug./p pstrongActive members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include:/strong Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-leads; Airton Torres, Arno Zijlstra, Akarawuth Tamrareang, Alan Langford, Anthony Ferrara, Amy Stephen, Andrew Eddie, Elin Waring, Ercan Ozkaya, Charl van Niekerk, Gergo Erdosi, Hannes Papenberg, Jennifer Marriott, Jens-Christian Skibakk, Jonah Braun, Joseph LeBlanc, Kevin Devine, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mati Kochen, Mickael Maison, Robin Muilwijk, Samuel Moffatt, Shantanu Bala, Toby Patterson, and Wilco Jansen./p pstrongA warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad:/strong Dan Walker, Eduardo Diaz, and Tibor Toth./p
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Packt Award Roundup: Joomla! Takes Runner-up
divimg alt="" src="http://www.joomla.org/images/stories/our_news/08logo-114x60.gif" //div pEach year a target="_blank" href="http://www.packtpub.com"Packt Publishing/a opens the voting booths for users everywhere to cast votes for the best content management system. There are a number of very qualified contenders in each of the categories including a target="_blank" href="http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/"CMS Made Simple/a, a target="_blank" href="http://plone.org/"Plone/a, and a target="_blank" href="http://drupal.org/"Drupal/a. This year, Joomla took the runner-up prize in the categories of Best Overall Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS (tied with CMS Made Simple). This results in a total prize winnings of $3500 to the Joomla Project./p pEven though Joomla has taken home several Packt Awards a target="_blank" href="http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners"in the past/a, Joomla Core Team member Andrew Eddie asserted, "This has made me more determined to do better next year."/p pAlso, Joomla developer Johan Janssens was awarded the a target="_blank" href="http://www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-cms-most-valued-people-announced"Open Source MVP 2008 prize/a, a new category in this year's awards, for his outstanding contributions to Joomla./p pWe at the Joomla Project would like to thank all of our wonderful users to voting for us and a big congratulations goes to Drupal for taking first place in the a target="_blank" href="http://www.packtpub.com/article/2008-open-source-cms-award-winner-announced"Best Overall Open Source CMS Award/a category. We also want to congratulate all the other winners./p pJoomla Core Team member Brad Baker summed it up, "The future is bright for open source content management systems like Drupal and Joomla, whichever you use."/p
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Look Smart with New Joomla! Products
img alt="Womens fleece" src="http://www.joomla.org/images/stories/shop_womensfleece.jpg" /
pYou may have noticed the a href="http://shop.joomla.org/"Joomla Shop/a recently got a facelift to match the new Joomla.org front page design. Now, to really perk it up we've added new items too./p
pWhen your house doesn't seem to have enough official Joomla merchandise, the a href="http://shop.joomla.org/"Joomla Shop/a has you covered. Expanding the offerings of the shop are three cool new products, guaranteed to make you the envy of open source enthusiasts everywhere./p
pAutumn is coming, and with it the brisk weather and need for an awesome Joomla-embroidered lightweight jacket. The a href="http://shop.joomla.org/mens-recycled-rtek-fleece-jacket.html"Men's R-Tek Fleece Jacket/a is made from recycled material so it's both stylish and eco-friendly./p
pFor those Joomla supporters who need to lug books, a computer, files, and more around, look no further than the new urban backpack. The a href="http://shop.joomla.org/urban-backpack.html"Joomla Urban Backpack/a has a padded computer case, MP3 player pouch and chest/waist straps to make it useful on hikes. And, of course, it also has the beautiful Joomla logo embroidered on the front./p
pWomen do Joomla too, and the shop hasn't forgotten that. Adding to the fall outerwear options is the a href="http://shop.joomla.org/womens-soft-touch-hoodie.html"Women's Soft Touch Hoodie/a. This hoodie is made from Pima cotton, and due to its infusion of Modal fibers it's luxuriously soft./p
pSupport Joomla by a href="http://shop.joomla.org/"patronizing the shop/a, and get some great stuff in return./p
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