what's new in joomla 1.6?
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Some anticipations of Joomla 1.6 at the 2nd italian JoomlaDayTRANSCRIPT
What's new in Joomla 1.6?A look towards Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2:
performances
ACL
Menu management
Articles management
Templates
Components
Extensions managerSpeaker: Nadalin Alessandro
Rome, 21st November 2009
Performances
A quick benchmark between 1.6 and 1.5.14: 22% lighter Similar just after the installation process extremely faster with lots of concurrent
requests ( 100 requests = 11% faster )
ACL: groups
It will be possible to create unlimited groups
ACL: access levels
It will be possible to create unlimited access levels
ACL: multi-group users
It will be possible to assign different gorups to a user
Menu: UI and layoutsA new user friendly menu interface:
Introduction of featured articles view
Menu: module management
The new menu inteface allow to edit module settings for a single menu item
Articoli Featured articles
Support for nested categories
TinyMCE 3.2
Easier article linking procedure
Articles: permissions
Possibility to set editing permissions to single articles
Components
Native components support nested categories ( ie. Weblinks )
A new ”Redirects” component Nested category integration, in 3rd party
developers extensions, will be easier
Templates Possibility to edit the 404 page on-the-
fly Possibility to save different parameters
cnfiguration of the same template
Extensions manager A new error reporting system
A new extension installer on-the-fly
Integrated updater
That's it!
Useful links: Joomla 1.6 releases
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=3585
State of development http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_1.6_Development_Status
SVN http://joomlacode.org/svn/joomla/development/trunk/
Username / password: 'anonymous'