What's new in Joomla! 3.3

North-Western Sydney Joomla! MeetupPresented by Tim Plummer

29/04/2014

New release strategy

• 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, …… 3.10• No more STS & LTS• Moving from Calendar based releases (every 6

months) to Feature based releases (when they are ready, possibly every month or so)

• Don’t wait until Joomla 3.5, upgrade now!

Advantages of new release strategy

• No more feature bombardment in the week prior to release

• Features can go in when they are ready (Google Summer of Code)

• No need to break everything and go to Joomla 4 just for the sake of it.

• Every major release resets support clock – (2 years)

What this means for you

• Longer lifespan of Joomla 3• Ongoing incremental improvements• New features better tested and documented• No more waiting, use Joomla 3 now!– Note EOL Joomla 2.5 is still December 2014

“Most stable Joomla! release, ever”

Current PHP Technical Requirements

New System Requirements

• 3.3+ requires PHP 5.3.10+• Due to this, Joomla 3.2 will

have extended support until October 2014

• 3.2.4 is targeted for users with PHP 5.3.1 – 5.3.9 and includes all bug fixes from 3.3.0

Release Dates for 3.3.0

• Beta 1 – 03/4/2014• Beta 2 – 9/4/2014• Beta 3 – 21/4/2014• Release candidate – 25/4/2014• Stable release due around 30/4/2014– Usually US date/time so maybe around 1/5/2014 for

Australia

Microdata

• Improved SEO• More accessible information

Microdata

• Turned on automatically (com_content and com_contact)

• Hard coded, only way to configure is by creating a template override for the view

• http://docs.joomla.org/Microdata

Cloud Storage APIs

• Amazon S3• Dropbox• Google• Rackspace

• Aimed at extension developers, none of core uses it yet

Router Performance

• Improved caching• OOP based router classes• Testing has shown a 10% increase in website

speed, and over 2.5 seconds faster page load times

Moving from MooTools to jQuery Javascript

• Less MooTools, more jQuery (started with 3.2)• GSoC 2013 Project• Over 25 script elements rewritten

Security

• PHP 5.3.10+ (every site can use Bcrypt)

• Improved ‘Remember Me’

• Flag users to reset passwords

Joomla 3.4

• Due around July 15, 2014• Continued Microdata Implementation• Front-End Module Editing• Composer Integration• Docouple com_weblinks

Joomla 3.5

• Decouple Banners, Contacts, Newsfeeds, Messaging, Redirect, Old Search

Questions?

Tim Plummerwww.timplummer.com.au

@bfsurvey