Joomla CMS 1.5 Released!

It is with great pride that the Joomla! community announces to the world the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5 Stable. It started two and a half years ago with developers collaborating over long distances, around the clock, enthusiastically contributing to Joomla. Hours of writing code, combined with intense discussions on everything from usability to extensibility, have defined many developers' lives over the last two and a half years. Countless others have identified and fixed bugs along the way.

As an application, Joomla 1.5 boasts remarkable advances over Joomla 1.0 in the areas of extensibility, useability and internationalization. Building extensions is vastly easier and faster because of the comprehensive new API. The simplified user interface eliminates unnecessary clicks and context changes for site administrators and managers. New options for use of layout overrides and template parameters give designers total control over the look and feel of Joomla 1.5 websites.

While this release marks a major milestone in our history, it also marks a new beginning. The next phase offers the opportunity to bring together the code created, lessons learned, and momentum gained, to build something truly great. It took us tens of thousands of hours, thousands of revisions, and hundreds of people to get to this point. It has been a remarkable journey filled with fun, discovery, and enlightenment where everyone has something to offer and anyone can contribute. Come join in.

The number one factor in reading the above statement needs to be, that all of this is done freely, at no charge, with no compensation other than the satisfaction of knowing they are building something great. Joomla is released under the GNU/GPL Open Source Software Liscense, meaning it's free to use and distribute.

Joomla 1.5 Overview