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We are ready for Joomla 2.5!

30 January 2012

Joomla 2.5

Joomla has announced the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5. This new major version comes with a host of new features including new search functionality, multi-database support, and update notifications.

Our extensions are ready

We are pleased to announce that DOCman 1.6.x and our upcoming FILEman 1.0 and LOGman 1.0 extensions are Joomla 2.5 ready!

Our team has been extensively testing the latest version of DOCman 1.6 since the early beta releases of Joomla 2.5. Results of the tests showed that DOCman is fully functional and compatible. Minor issues found have been reported to the Joomla development teams and fixed during the beta process.

If you are running DOCman on Joomla 1.7, you can upgrade right away. DOCman will continue working as expected.

Upgrading to Joomla 2.5

Joomla 2.5 is a long term stability release (LTS) and will be supported until December 2013 by the Joomla project. Joomla 1.6 and 1.7 are short term releases (STR) and their support ends immediately after the release of a new version. (release cycle infographic)

At Joomlatools, we will support both long and short term releases for 3 more months after their end of life. This means that we will offer support for Joomla 1.7 until the 30th of April 2012.

This gives you the needed time to upgrade your sites to the latest version. If you are running a Joomla site on 1.6 or 1.7, we advice you to upgrade to Joomla 2.5 in the coming weeks. Moving from 1.7 to 2.5 can be done with the one-click upgrade within Joomla.

DOCman on Joomla 2.5

Screenshot of DOCman 1.6.3 running on Joomla 2.5

Advising to NOT upgrade to Joomla 1.5.16/1.5.17

7 May 2010

We are officially advising all our users and customers to NOT upgrade to Joomla 1.5.16/1.5.17. The new Joomla release includes a auto-plugin disable feature which can lead to a site experiencing unexpected behavior or worst case the site could go down.

The auto-plugin disable feature was introduced to quote :

I’d like to try to write a patch to Joomla core so it doesn’t die with fatal error when it can’t include a plugin file (in other words: plugin exists in DB but filesystem entry is deleted).

Source : Graceful handling of missing plugins

The introduced solution for this problem is that Joomla 1.5.16 and 1.5.17 now disables any plugin that triggers an error during initialisation.

The behavior assumes that a plugin would always throw an error, being a missing file, however the error could be conditional and only thrown under certain circumstances. Depending on how the plugin works the conditions could be rare. Instead of throwing an error the plugin is disabled and prevented from executing under normal conditions. This can lead to a site visitor experiencing unexpected behavior or worse the site could go down.

We have requested the change in 1.5.17 to be rolled-back.(See Tracker #19859).
In the mean time we strongly advise you to not upgrade to Joomla 1.5.16/1.5.17.

If you are using 1.5.16/1.5.17 and you are experiencing problem with plugins magically disabling themselves please let us know.

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How People See Joomla

24 January 2010

Sometimes a simple diagram says it better than a thousand words:

Many people see Joomla as the core product, with various extensions surrounding it as 'small' addons. In reality, more and more sites rely primarily on the extensions, and use Joomla simply as the glue that holds them together.

Update: This picture triggered a little game on Twitter. People are making their own versions of ‘How people see Joomla’. Wanna play? Send your picture to @mathiasverraes or post in the comments.

The creations so far:

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