What's new in Joomla 1.6?

What's new in Joomla 1.6?A look towards Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2:

performances

ACL

Menu management

Articles management

Templates

Components

Extensions managerSpeaker: Nadalin Alessandro

Rome, 21st November 2009

Performances

A quick benchmark between 1.6 and 1.5.14: 22% lighter Similar just after the installation process extremely faster with lots of concurrent

requests ( 100 requests = 11% faster )

ACL: groups

It will be possible to create unlimited groups

ACL: access levels

It will be possible to create unlimited access levels

ACL: multi-group users

It will be possible to assign different gorups to a user

Menu: UI and layoutsA new user friendly menu interface:

Introduction of featured articles view

Menu: module management

The new menu inteface allow to edit module settings for a single menu item

Articoli Featured articles

Support for nested categories

TinyMCE 3.2

Easier article linking procedure

Articles: permissions

Possibility to set editing permissions to single articles

Components

Native components support nested categories ( ie. Weblinks )

A new ”Redirects” component Nested category integration, in 3rd party

developers extensions, will be easier

Templates Possibility to edit the 404 page on-the-

fly Possibility to save different parameters

cnfiguration of the same template

Extensions manager A new error reporting system

A new extension installer on-the-fly

Integrated updater

That's it!

Useful links: Joomla 1.6 releases

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=3585

State of development http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_1.6_Development_Status

SVN http://joomlacode.org/svn/joomla/development/trunk/

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