Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 45: 

• A Closer Look at LOGman
• Framework, Security and Unified Extension Updates
• Premium stock photo resources for your Joomla website (Part 2)

Packt Publishing has just announced that Joomla has been voted best open source CMS for 2011.

The Packt Open Source Awards is a yearly event, which is presented to various open source projects. There are several categories of awards, and the Open Source CMS is perhaps the major one.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 44:

• Hiring a Writer
• Meet FILEman and LOGman
• Joomla SaaS – A Good Start for Joomla Newbie
• Top 10 most popular Joomla FAQs from newbies
• Languages: 1.7.3 improvements
• The Busiest Year Ever for Joomla!Days
• Proposed 2012 CLT Goals
• Proposed PLT 2012 Goals
• Community feedback requested on OSM's top 2012 goal ideas
• Important Security Vulnerability Fixed
• Premium stock photo resources for your Joomla website (Part 1)

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 43:

• Hidden Joomla 1.7 Secrets - Live in your living room
• No Upgrades? You'll Scare Your Users Away
• 2011 Joomla Day New York Recap
• 2012 Goal setting and budget planning proposed process
• Forms for Joomla 1.7 – Just released!
• Six free must-have Joomla extensions – Have you installed them all?
• The Joomla 1.7 extensions native: Round 2
• Simon Says Get K2 Important News

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 42:

• Roadmap Meeting Recap
• FAQs About the Recent Updates
• Introducing Zen Grid Framework 2
• Excellent Joomla 1.7 Extensions Native: Round 1
• Product Version View - A convenient tool for compare Joomla templates
• K2 v2.5.1 (maintenance release) now available 

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 41:

• Roadmap Meeting Streaming Live
• Shhhh something amazing is getting ready!
• The write stuff
• Introducing the Responsive Joomla Template

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 40:

• Search and Joomla! CMS 2.5
• 27 days count down to a new start
• JJ Tweets Module Updated For Joomla 1.7
• A Great Joomlatools Summer
• How To Package Joomla Libraries
• The Feisty Empire Apostrophe Rules

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 39:

• Seven Steps to Successful Joomla! Platform Evangelism
• Some thoughts about Transifex and Open Translators
• What are the security implications of NOT upgrading from Joomla 1.5?
• Joomla! forks you may have never heard of
• Team JoeJoomla Introduces Brian Peat
• JJ Tweets Module Updated For Joomla 1.7
• Joomla Site Developer's Pledge
• Join us in Milwaukee on November 12 for Joomla Day Midwest

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 38:

• Development Excitement Coming at Joomla! Day New York
• Seven Steps to Successful Joomla! Platform Evangelism
• Roadmap Meeting Call for Lightning Talks
• Proposed leadership structure changes & request for community feedback
• Confession from an Ex PC User
• Team JoeJoomla Introduces Brian Peat
• Implementing a fix for menu item id's in Joomla
• Add javascript to your joomla site automatically
• A new interface for our Joomla Template Framework

Today, the Joomla Production Leadership Team released Joomla version 1.7.1. This is the first patch upgrade of Joomla 1.7 and is recommended for all users. In addition to 3 security fixes, it also includes 96 tracker issues fixed in SVN.

Most of this release is about fixes, although there are some new features as well.