The jump from 1.0.x to 1.5 was what the developers called a major re-write, in that significant parts of the Joomla! code was re-written, forcing 3PDs (Third Party Developers) to update and modernise their extensions to run in the latest version. I absolutely love 1.5. I just love using it. But what I don’t love is waiting for 3PD’s to update their extensions to function in the new version of Joomla.

I am not being critical of 3PDs, everyone knows how much hard work (most of it volunteered) it is to develop and maintain software for open source projects like Joomla. I simply would like to see a very long period of watching (and helping when I can) developers migrate to 1.5, and then refine and polish their 1.5 software.

Via Amy Stephen at OpenSourceCommunity.org

Update: You can check out a fascinating discussion on the J1.6 white papers at the Google Discussions page for Joomla here. 

Feel free to post some suggestions in the comments! Why are you still reading this, when you should be playing with Joomla RC4!

Link: http://www.joomla.org/content/view/4340/1/

Dev wg members, please check the internal forum area for an
announcement.

Ping/mail/skype/visit me when you have questions.

Wilco

Interesting… Is a public announcement coming soon?

It’s dizzy stuff, and it may point to RC4 being released before christmas, and possibly within days if not hours.

Could this be the official “final” Joomla 1.5? With an update to 1.5.0.1 to fix any bugs further down the road? Maybe, maybe not. We will see in the weeks to come.

Click on for a copy of the thread.

Willebil on Dec 13, 9:53 am
I hereby want to inform everyone that the trunk will be frozen (this time forced frozen, everything comitted without notice or agreement will be reverted) on the following moment: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=17&… More information will be posted in the private forum area, dev wg members please check that out if you have any questions, or just contact me. Wilco

Aristocrat on Dec 13, 9:58 am
Yay! are we going for RC4? Rastin

Willebil on Dec 12, 11:58 pm
See private forum

Willebil on Dec 13, 12:24 am
A short reminder to the upcoming freeze

Willebil on Dec 17, 3:21 pm
We have a very minor delay, but trunk will be closed 20 minutes from
now…

Andrew Eddie on Dec 18, 9:15 am

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php?topic=243324.new#new

Needs fixing (PHP4 incompat). Change line 95 to

foreach ($result as $row) {

Thanks.

Regards,
Andrew Eddie

This is dizzy stuff folks!

http://www.joomla.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,105/p,462/

The change will also be included in the upcoming RC4!

• Pizza
• Bugs
• Fun

There will be an ultra cool period of pizza, fun, and the squashing of Joomla 1.5 bugs! It was announced recenty on the official Joomla Blogs. It will be on December 8 – 9 in New York, Washington and California, in the US.

03-Nov-2007 Rob Schley
# Fixed user object not being reloaded in session save.

03-Nov-2007 Andrew Eddie
# Fixed missing /components/com_users/views/register/tmpl/default_message.php file

29-Oct-2007 Nur Aini Rakhmawati
# Fixed [#7474] Problem with cancelled web link submission
# Fixed [#7648] Minor problem with user registry namespace (thanks to Alex Stylianos)

Mmmm, changelog…

As written on the Joomla! News site, part of the reason for the award was the amazing progress made in Joomla! 1.5.

This is wonderful, as it really shows people that 1.5 is ready for people to start publishing on, and developing for.

I know that recently, I have begun to make the move to 1.5, it’s worth it! Perhaps especially because 1.5 is so different, that many things will not translate in the transition from 1.0.13. But the earlier you start work, the sooner you can find solutions, which will benefit all users.

Update: If you use digg.com, you might want to digg Joomla!

I will be posting updates about CHANGELOG.php over the next few months as we get closer to Joomla! 1.5 being released. Future updates will not include past Changelog updates.

Here is the a section from the CHANGELOG.php, it covers from RC3 onwards.

29-Oct-2007 Andrew Eddie
# Fixed bug in editor buttons if control name contained []‘s
26-Oct-2007 Toby Patterson
+ Fixed [topic,226818] Added various _MOS codes for input filtering

26-Oct-2007 Enno Klasing
^ Task [#364] MYSQL optimizations proposals submission for Joomla 1.5 (indexes optimizations)

25-Oct-2007 Nur Aini Rakhmawati
+ Added published input in WebLink Front-End

21-Oct-2007 Mickael Maison
# Fixed [#7578] “Deleted” confirmation but Menu Item is still there

18-Oct-2007 Mickael Maison
# Fixed [#7431] Untranslated string in User Manager
# Fixed [#7633] Untranslated Administrator template parameters

18-Oct-2007 Sam Moffatt
# Fixed unpublished parent error for menus [topic,218742]
# Fixed [#7659] “Remove Installation Directory” warning needs link to main page.
# Fixed [#7494] error in /modules/mod_mainmenu/helper.php when no items published to a menu
# Fixed [#7487] error in /modules/mod_mainmenu/legacy.php when no items published in menu
+ Added INSTALLATIONREMOVED, MAXIMUM MENU DEPTH and PARAMMENUMAXDEPTH translation strings

16-Oct-2007 Louis Landry
# Fixed cannot insert text into multiple editors
# Libraries not in the Joomla namespace cannot be reliably autoloaded so the files are now loaded at import time.

13-Oct-2007 Mateusz Krzeszowiec
# Fixed [#6087] Copying or moving Menu Items, Sections and Categories generates error.
! “NOTE: IF NO SECTION” changed to “NOTE: IF SAME SECTION” in en-GB.com_categories.ini to reflect component behaviour

11-Oct-2007 Johan Janssens
! Performance improvements : The following changes allow autoloading of framework files using JLoader and jimport. They create forwards compatibilty with PHP 5.x and prpvide significant performance improvements.
! Possible breakages are expected to occur, please take this into account
^ Moved JMail into it’s own package
^ Moved JMailHelper into it’s own file
^ Moved JPlugin and JPluginHelper into their own package
^ Renamed JEventDispatcher to JDispatcher
^ Renamed JEventHandler to JEvent
^ Renamed JBufferStream to JBuffer
^ Renamed joomla.utilities.array to joomla.utilities.arrayhelper
^ Renamed i18n package to language package
^ Moved archive.tar to pear.archive_tar.Archive_Tar
- Removed joomla.utilities.compat.phputf8env
+ Added import file that imports all the needed framework classes
^ Optimised the legacy plugin to use autoload, this reduces memory usage with +/- 1 MB
# Fixed [#7561] Legacy extensions fail on mosMainFrame

11-Oct-2007 Louis Landry
# Fixed broken installation application

11-Oct-2007 Nur Aini Rakhmawati
# Fixed [#6111] poll manager new button for multiple selection

10-Oct-2007 Louis Landry
# Fixed document issue attaching stylesheets as scripts – Thanks Jonah!

09-Oct-2007 Johan Janssens
+ Implemented basic autoload support in JLoader
# Fixed memory consumption problems in legacy mode

09-Oct-2007 Rob Schley
# Reworked JRegistryFormatINI to correctly handle arrays of data

08-Oct-2007 Mickael Maison
# Fixed [#7466] Untranslated string in components

06-Oct-2007 Johan Janssens
^ Depcrecated JTable::setErrorNum and getErrorNum, use JTable::setError and getError instead.
^ Reworked all JTable classes to use setError functions instead of directly setting the _error variable

I was just reading Leo Laporte’s blog about his experience in upgrading his computers, and it got me thinking. Leo was writing about how all of his non-Apple app’s where unaffected by installing Leopard. And if this is so, what is to stop me upgrading my MacBookPro (I still prefer the name PowerBook) to 10.5?

My main apps would be unharmed, and I do like the look of the new Finder touches.

Finally, it does seem to go hand in hand with upgrading to Joomla 1.5 at the same time. New Joomla upgrade … new Mac OS upgrade? Makes sense to me, but maybe I just want to use Spaces a bit too much.