Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2 Released
Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2 was recently released. Joomla is an open source content management system. Since the release of Joomla 1.5 more than a year ago, Joomla has become increasingly more popular. Joomla 1.6 will contain many new features and improvements over Joomla 1.5. One of the major changes in Joomla 1.6 is an improved ACL (Access Control List). The new ACL will provide the ability for administrators to assign specific permissions to individual content items.
There are many other improvements planned for Joomla 1.6 including
- Extenable user profile
- New back-end and front-end Templates
- Improved content Modules
- New uploader for the Media Manager
- Nested Categories and category parameters
- New views in front-end: categories, category
- and many more
There are plans to add more database drivers. Currently Joomla uses MySQL. Official support for other databases such as Microsoft SQL is important. The Joomla development team has been very committed to releasing Joomla 1.6 on schedule. An official release date for Joomla 1.6 has not been announced at this time.