Joomla 1.6 second Alpha version released

Joomla 1.6 second Alpha version released

The second Joomla 1.6 alpha version brings us one step closer to the official Joomla 1.6 Beta release which we expect to be released in the beginning of 2010 if the development process keeps at this pace.

This release contains many new features requested by the community. The features are listed below as well as what you can expect in the future for Joomla 1.6.



This is an alpha release. It is intended to be a developer/hobbyist preview and is not intended to be used on a production web site.

New improvements/features since alpha 1 include:

* ACL: access management for global permissions as well as content item specific permissions, variable usergroups, users member of more than one usergroup, permissions are inherited, really fast
* Extendable user profile, profile view in frontend, extendable user parameters
* Tableless com_content layouts
* Improved com_content modules (mod_articles_archive, mod_articles_latest, mod_articles_popular)
* Article linker plugin for editors
* New frontend template (atomic)
* New backend template (bluestork)
* New uploader for media manager


Other Joomla 1.6 improvements that existed in alpha 1:

* Mootools 1.2
* Refactored backend
* JForm
* Nested Categories and category parameters
* New views in frontend: categories, category
* Lots of small code improvements, almost cut the code size in half while adding to the functionality
* PHP 5.2 required, huge performance improvements, partially eaten up by new features => 1.6 will be faster than 1.5


For the Beta version you can expect improvements on:

* Commenting solution is going to be added
* Additional DB drivers
* Lots of small performance/UI/code improvements

Download Joomla 1.6 second Alpha version here.