Joomla 1.6 Beta 1

[rush_tech]

Available to download here, time to have a play:D

Key Features in Joomla 1.6:

New Access Control System - Allows site administrators control over who can view and manage content.

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.

[Duane_Dibbley]

AAhh sugar-butties - Only just stuck our site up on 1.5, and now i'm gonna have to figure out how to upgrade! Sounds like it will be worth it though - the categories thing was something I was annoyed with

[pwds]

I think I'll hold off hacking our new 1.5.17 site to replace the table layouts in some core modules* until the production release of 1.6 and see if I can upgrade to that.

 

I was wishing as I walked in only this morning that 1.6 would arrive soon and lo it has. Time to start thinking about chocolate cake methinks.

 

*Note: In case anyone else is thinking of doing this, hacking core is never a good idea.