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27-01-2012, 09:57
The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5.0. This is a security release. Version 2.5.0 is is the next update from version 1.7. (Note that we have skipped from version 1.7.x to 2.5.x.)
Version 2.5.0 is the second release made within the new six-month release cycle that started with the delivery of Joomla 1.6 in January 2011. Version 2.5 is also a long-term-support (LTS) release that will be supported for at least 18 months.
New Features Added
In addition to the new Joomla Platform, the following new features have been added, with links to the Feature tracker issue.
- Add ablility to turn off the email to user when an Admin creates a user (Andrea Tarr)
- Improvements for batch processing (Michael Babker)
- Menu item parameter "Note" (Marcell van Geest)
- No "new user notification" email sent to admin (Kenny Wickstrom)
- Implementing default text per language in syndicate module (Jean-Marie Simonet)
- Implementing image option for the offline.php default page (Jean-Marie Simonet)
- Joomla! update notification button in the quickicons module (Nicholas Dionysopoulos)
- Debug Plugin Reloaded (Nikolai Plath)
- *Option to set Joomla to Site Offline (YES) during installation (fade2grey)
- Patch to enable change of newsfeed display direction (Mathieu Cattin)
- Add a true autoloader to the CMS (Rouven Weßling)
- Database Version Check (Mark Dexter)
- "Select a Menu Item Type" in modal box in menu item edit page (Dennis Hermatski)
- Improving SEO: New system plugin: languagecode (Jean-Marie Simonet)
- Manager for Language Overrides (Patrick Alt)
- Easier workflow by linking Menu Manager: Add Menu to Module Manager: Module Menu (Andrew Eddie, Jacques Rentzke)
- Add an option to filter the mod_whosonline by groups of the connected user (Christophe Demko)
- Add a check for native ZIP support to the Installation (Rouven Weßling)
- Add ability to support other databases starting with Microsoft SQL Server / Windows Azure (Hooduku Team)
- mod_status optimization (Kyle Ledbetter)
- Category filtering on content doesn't including sub-categories (Ofer Cohen)
- User Notes (Andrew Eddie)
- Use the images and urls fields to create simple standardized layouts (Elin Waring)
- Custom Black List in Text Filters - Ready to test - Makes it possible to overwrite default blacklist - Joomla 1.7 (Tore B. Krudtaa, Denise McLaurin)
- Captcha in the core (Jonnathan S. Lima, Rouven Weßling, Nicola Galgano)
- Finder Integration (Rob Schley, Michael Babker, Elin Waring, Chris Davenport, Omar Ramos, Viet Hoang Vu, Jean Marie Simonet, Rouven Weßling, Louis Landry, Gabriele Pongelli)
Version 2.5.0 is the second release made within the new six-month release cycle that started with the delivery of Joomla 1.6 in January 2011. Version 2.5 is also a long-term-support (LTS) release that will be supported for at least 18 months.
New Features Added
In addition to the new Joomla Platform, the following new features have been added, with links to the Feature tracker issue.
- Add ablility to turn off the email to user when an Admin creates a user (Andrea Tarr)
- Improvements for batch processing (Michael Babker)
- Menu item parameter "Note" (Marcell van Geest)
- No "new user notification" email sent to admin (Kenny Wickstrom)
- Implementing default text per language in syndicate module (Jean-Marie Simonet)
- Implementing image option for the offline.php default page (Jean-Marie Simonet)
- Joomla! update notification button in the quickicons module (Nicholas Dionysopoulos)
- Debug Plugin Reloaded (Nikolai Plath)
- *Option to set Joomla to Site Offline (YES) during installation (fade2grey)
- Patch to enable change of newsfeed display direction (Mathieu Cattin)
- Add a true autoloader to the CMS (Rouven Weßling)
- Database Version Check (Mark Dexter)
- "Select a Menu Item Type" in modal box in menu item edit page (Dennis Hermatski)
- Improving SEO: New system plugin: languagecode (Jean-Marie Simonet)
- Manager for Language Overrides (Patrick Alt)
- Easier workflow by linking Menu Manager: Add Menu to Module Manager: Module Menu (Andrew Eddie, Jacques Rentzke)
- Add an option to filter the mod_whosonline by groups of the connected user (Christophe Demko)
- Add a check for native ZIP support to the Installation (Rouven Weßling)
- Add ability to support other databases starting with Microsoft SQL Server / Windows Azure (Hooduku Team)
- mod_status optimization (Kyle Ledbetter)
- Category filtering on content doesn't including sub-categories (Ofer Cohen)
- User Notes (Andrew Eddie)
- Use the images and urls fields to create simple standardized layouts (Elin Waring)
- Custom Black List in Text Filters - Ready to test - Makes it possible to overwrite default blacklist - Joomla 1.7 (Tore B. Krudtaa, Denise McLaurin)
- Captcha in the core (Jonnathan S. Lima, Rouven Weßling, Nicola Galgano)
- Finder Integration (Rob Schley, Michael Babker, Elin Waring, Chris Davenport, Omar Ramos, Viet Hoang Vu, Jean Marie Simonet, Rouven Weßling, Louis Landry, Gabriele Pongelli)