Interesting FACTS about Joomla 1.5

Till now we have been talking about Joomla being very easy to use, extremely user friendly and a great content management system. However let’s move to some technical aspects and concrete facts about Joomla 1.5 you may not have known till now. To begin with let’s say something about upgrading. Joomla 1.5 has no path to get upgraded from earlier versions. Yes direct upgrading is not possible. That is why I asked to make a copy of your live website in my Upgrading article. The only way to upgrade to Joomla 1.5 is to create a new website with Joomla 1.5 and enable the facility that will allow you to migrate your all existing content into you new website. This is how Upgrading is done is Joomla 1.5.

The Joomla 1.5 interface was actually frozen in July. However the experts worked day and night on it and managed to solve the problem in time so that on bad reputation was caused to the Joomla 1.5 version.

The best amendment done to Joomla 1.0 in Joomla 1.5 is that the security issues were addressed and implemented more strongly in Joomla 1.5 than 1.0. That’s the success key behind Joomla 1.5 being stable in comparison to the 1.0x versions. The bug tracker in Joomla 1.5 is quiet large and thus covers alls security aspects.

An interesting piece of news is that the Beta version of Joomla 1.5 was released in quiet a rush. Changes were being made even one hour prior to the release of 1.5. After the beta release there have been large code changes which forced the third party developers to make changes in their components as well in order to stay compatible with Joomla 1.5. Despite the fact that the Joomla 1.5 was still being changed and components being added, it was stated to be complete in July. Mew features are still being added to the Joomla 1.5.

The third party developers are now thing of coding new API’s to be in the race along with Joomla. This news has not been finalized yet but there has been a lot of hearing to it lately.

Do let me know how you found these facts. I am in search of more such interesting pieces of news and will post them in form of articles sooner though.