Today, the Joomla core team release Joomla 1.5.4, this is just a  normal maintainance release. This version will fix several issues including some minor security issues, bug fixes and add more echancements.

Joomla, if you're a big fan of open source CMS I'm sure you often heard that name. Joomla is (I think) the most popular open source CMS right now. With thousands of supporters on the official forum, and thousands of 3rd party add-ons making Joomla has the biggest open source CMS community in the world.

And some people realize that this could be a great market to sell something. That's why now we see so many sites offers what we call Joomla Template Club service.

Just a few weeks after the official release of Joomla 1.5, a few days ago the Joomla core team announced a new patch for Joomla 1.5.x and Joomla 1.0.x branch. There are several security issues and bug fixed in these release, so it is very recommended that you upgrade your Joomla powered site to using the latest version available.

Today mark a new day to all Joomla community. After a long delay the new Joomla 1.5 stable finally released. Joomla 1.5 is fully developed from stratch, this not a patch or security update version, this is the new begining for Joomla.

Today, the Joomla core team released Joomla 1.0.14 RC1 code name Daybreak. This release fixed several security issues in the previous Joomla 1.0.x version. The core team advice all site powered by Joomla 1.0.x to be upgraded with Joomla 1.0.14 RC1.

JA Purity templates from JoomlArt won Joomla 1.5 template contest. After a week of voting in the Joomla forum. JA Purity won with 55.6% votes beating four other  finalist.

I notice this several hours ago from one Indonesian forums. I thought this was a joke, but it's not. Hard to believe but it's true, Joomla.org was hacked and not just that several sub domains under Joomla.org was also hacked, I noticed three sub domains were also hacked, they are:

Joomla team announced two new products two their official online shop. The new products are a Joomla notebook bag and a Joomla cap.

You can show your support to Joomla by buying these official merchandise, because all profits from selling Joomla merchandise will be donated back to support Joomla's further development.

Couple days ago, the Joomla core team announced the released of Joomla 1.5 RC1 and Joomla 1.0.13. The team also said that they expect Joomla 1.5 RC2 will be released next August, so that means they are getting closer to Joomla 1.5 stable release.

Mean while Joomla 1.0.13 is released to fix some low level security vulnerability and some minor bug in the previous Joomla version. Among the fixed security are:

Joomla, the award winning Content Management System (CMS), currently One of the best open source CMS in the world. Joomla is known for its ease of use, even for those of you who doesn't understand programming at all.