The popular open source content management system (CMS) Joomla has released the newest version, i.e version 1.5. Overall, this is the latest stable version after they have recently organized the “Squash Bugs” events with the purpose to fix the priority 1 & 2 bugs in this version before it went public download. Since Joomla first inception in two and a half years ago, the version 1.5 represented a milestone for them, as several new enhancements can be found on it. Building extensions will be much easier and faster with the new API released by Joomla. Other than this, new user interface for site administrators, with several functional improvements ranging from single installer, media manager, core article manager to friendly search engine URLs. As stated by them, one of the most powerful features of the Joomla framework is the new component objects based on the Model-View-Controller programming pattern, in which Ruby on Rails, another Web development framework that heavily based on.

Until now, for existing Joomla sites that still using version 1.0, this version remains as a “caution” if they want to migrate their sites to this newest version. The main reason was that this upgraded version has nothing to do with any of the security problems found on the previous version 1.0 and the version 1.5 is still under refinement when refers to the migrating issue.