Today, the Joomla project announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 RC1 (download).

According to the press release at joomla.org, the team hopes this will be the only release candidate before a stable version. That remains to be seen.

There remains a lot of work before Joomla 1.6 is stable enough for a production site. Read on for more.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is still an evaluation version and is not intended for running a production site.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 48.

Not that many posts this week, but there are still some interesting articles to read.

Brian Teeman talks about Molajo (the upcoming Joomla 1.6 distribution), and Alexred over at ATAAW has discovered the excistence of a military general called Meer Joomla, to mention some of this week's posts.

I'm still waiting for the release of Joomla 1.6 RC1. It was due yesterday, but hasn't been announced yet. I guess the dev team encountered "serious and unanticipated difficulties" ;)

Have a great week!

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 47.

Read on for some info on the upcoming board group of external advisors for Joomla, a lush Virtuemart webshop, some DOCMan secrets, details on the new and enhanced JED approval process, and finally, some videos featuring well-known people from the Joomla leadership.

Enjoy the read and have a great week!

Today, the Joomla Project announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 15 (download).

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 14 release on November 1, the team has fixed approximately 84 issues in the tracker. They have closed an additional 33 tracker issues. At the present time, there are 4 issues that are blocking the release 1.6 Release Candidate 1. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad.

This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks to everyone involved for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to a stable release of Joomla 1.6!

See the CHANGELOG below for details of what has been changed in this release.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 46.

In a personal post, Brian Teeman talks about why he's involved in Joomla. Steve Burge has discovered some more large sites using Joomla, Weever is a mobile webapp system for your Joomla site. Lastly, Anthony from Joomla Bamboo talks about his upcoming template release, a tumblr inspired blogging template.

Enjoy and have a great week!

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

Brian Teeman wrote an interesting post about a search project aimed at finding out the use of different CMS types in Europe. Guess which system is no. 1?

Fotis Evangelou has written a post on how to redirect your site RSS feed to FeedBurner, Chris Davenport has a post on what will happen with Joomla development post Joomla 1.6, and as usual there are some posts from Joomla.org.

Enjoy the read and have a great week!

Today, the Joomla Project announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 14 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 13 release on November 1, the team has fixed approximately 69 issues in the tracker. They have closed an additional 45 tracker issues. At the present time, they have 5 issues that are blocking the release 1.6 Release Candidate 1.

This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks to everyone involved for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to a stable release of Joomla 1.6!

See the CHANGELOG below for details of what has been changed in this release.

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

Brian Teeman asks "Why Joomla", Brian features a guest post by Philip Locke about a migration project from Mambo to Joomla, Matt Lipscomb has a write-up on the community aspect of Joomla, and there is a reminder about feedback for the Joomla.org redesign.

Enjoy your week!

This week, some of my friends and I are going to Denmark. We’re travelling from Oslo by ferry on Wednesday, spending the night on the boat. Thursday is spent in the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen. Thursday evening will be spent in Helsingør, which is a smaller city a bit north of Copenhagen. On Friday, we'll go back to Copenhagen and stay over until Saturday when we go back to Oslo by plane.

Denmark is a lovely country to spend some relaxing days in. Good food, good beer, nice atmosphere and friendly people. And, most of the time, they understand at least a little bit of what we Norwegians are saying ;)

So why am I telling you this? Well, if you’re a Danish Joomla addict living in Copenhagen, I have a gift for you. It's in celebration of the first Danisk JoomlaDay, and the amazing event they presented.

The first person who contacts me and is able to meet me somewhere centrally located in Copenhagen during Thursday, will get a free Joomla book.

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

Joomla 1.5.22 was released last week, JoomlaWorks released a CDN plugin for Joomla, I found a great blog post from nonumber.nl about plugin order, and there are some posts about the growth of Joomla.org and the branding of the Joomla project, to mention some of this week's top stories.

Enjoy the read and have a great week!