Joomla 1.6 - Joomla!Days NL 2009 #jd09nl

Joomla! 1.6 KeynoteBy Hannes Papenberg

Joomla! Development Workinggroup

Joomla! Release Team

What are we covering in this presentation?

• Changes in the development process• Strategies behind Joomla! development• Features of Joomla! 1.6

Changes in the development process

• Forming of the Joomla! 1.6 Release Team• Opening up the mailinglists• Implementing the patch process

How to participate• Join the mailinglists:– General Joomla! development:

http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-general– Development of the CMS:

http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-cms– Development of the Framework:

http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-framework• Provide patches to fix issues• Write your own feature and provide a patch for this!

Features of Joomla! 1.6

• ACL• Nested Categories• Mootools 1.2• lots of small things

ACL: New granular Access System for Joomla!

• Flexible usergroups• New Access levels for viewing content• Granular editing permissions

Nested Categories

• Bye, bye Sections!• Unlimited depth of categories• Simplification of content layouts• Potential for native support of multi-language

sites

Mootools and more features

• Upgrade to Mootools 1.2• Performance improvements:– Conversion from INI format to JSON– Usage of PHP5 access modifiers– Usage of PHP5 native libraries (SimpleXML)

• Move to JContent as a first step to a unified content model

Even more features

• Extensible parameter sets• Properly refactored backend components to

the MVC principle• New controller dispatchers• Menu item specific template parameters• The PDF feature and the legacy mode have

been removed

And still more

• New member management with extensible user profiles

• Change of com_contact to the ContactDirectory

• A commenting system• Implementation of the JForm library

Don't forget:Joomla is not made by little fairies.

Help out! :-)

Questions?