Joomla! 1.6 Available Now – Download the World’s Leading Open Source Content

M anagement System and Easily Build Websites and Online Applications

New York, New York, January 10, 2011 – Joomla (http://www.joomla.org), the world’s most popular
open source CMS (content management system), today announced the immediate availability of Joomla
1.6. Designed to offer enhanced site control and a more polished user experience, Joomla 1.6 delivers a
variety of new tools to improve website management and access, a more robust organizational structure
for content control, and various other user-experience improvements throughout the software.
“With new features and capabilities such as the hierarchical design of the access control system,
semantic XHTML layouts, one-click extension updates and multi-language functionality, Joomla 1.6 has
evolved to become the most user-friendly and powerful tool to develop a web presence yet,” said Ryan
Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, a not-for-profit created to provide organization, legal, and
financial support to the Joomla project. “ This has been accomplished through the tireless feedback and
work on 1.6 by the thousands of members of the Joomla community over the past year.”
Joomla’s ease-of-use and extensibility has made it the most popular and downloaded open source
website software in the industry today (it has been downloaded more than 22 million times). It is
used for everything from small personal websites to the backend management for some of the largest
enterprises and highest traffic sites on the Web, including sites operated by eBay, Citibank, IHOP,
Harvard University, Linux.com, Smart Car of America, The Guggenheim Museum, and many more.
Key Features in Joomla 1.6:

• New Access Control System - Allows site administrators control over who can view and manage
content.
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• Unlimited Depth Organizational Model - Gives site administrators and content creators user-defined
category levels that allow for the creation of a category tree with as many or as few levels for
organizing articles and other content as needed.
• One-Click Extension Updates - Allows users to keep sites secure and controlled by simplifying the
process of updating extensions.
• Semantic XHTML Layouts - Provides a better baseline for content presentation.
• Multi-language Functionality – Gives a basic way to implement a multi-language site.

In addition, developers and implementers will enjoy the new ability Joomla 1.6 provides in allowing
extensions to be built with granular control and permissions. This makes it easier to create more
advanced, enterprise-focused applications and extensions for Joomla. Furthermore, there are numerous
improvements in areas like code reuse, and considerable success in ensuring the stability of application
programming interfaces via unit testing.
“The current Joomla Platform provides developers the tools they need to rapidly build the Web of the
future,” said Ron Severdia, a member of the Joomla production leadership team. “Although 1.6 is being
released today, the Joomla production team is not resting on its laurels. We are hard at work developing
updated features to Joomla with even more powerful search capabilities and ways to leverage website
content.”
Visit www.joomla.org to download Joomla 1.6 today.

About Joomla!

Joomla is the world’ s most popular open source CMS (content management system). With 2.5 percent
of the web running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small and medium-sized business,
and large organizations worldwide to easily create and build a variety of websites and web-enabled
applications. Due to its power and elegance, it can be used by the most inexperienced user to the most
seasoned web developer. Since its inception in 2005, Joomla has been 100 percent community owned
and operated, and its software has been downloaded more than 22 million times. For more information,
visit www.joomla.org.

更新:2011年 1月 11日(火曜日) 12:54