What's new in Joomla 1.6?
A look towards Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2:
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performances
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ACL
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Menu management
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Articles management
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Templates
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Components
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Extensions manager
Speaker: Nadalin Alessandro
Rome, 21st November 2009

Performances
A quick benchmark between 1.6 and
1.5.14:
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22% lighter
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Similar just after the installation process
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extremely faster with lots of concurrent
requests ( 100 requests = 11% faster )

ACL: groups
It will be possible to create unlimited
groups

ACL: access levels
It will be possible to
create unlimited access
levels

ACL: multi-group users
It will be possible to assign
different gorups to a user

Menu: UI and layouts
A new user friendly menu interface:
Introduction of featured articles view

Menu: module management
The new menu inteface allow to edit
module settings for a single menu item

Articoli
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Featured articles
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Support for nested categories
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TinyMCE 3.2
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Easier article linking procedure

Articles: permissions
Possibility to set
editing permissions to
single articles

Components
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Native components support nested
categories ( ie. Weblinks )
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A new ”Redirects” component
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Nested category integration, in 3 party
rd
developers extensions, will be easier

Templates
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Possibility to edit the 404 page on-the-
fly
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Possibility to save different parameters
cnfiguration of the same template

Extensions manager
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A new error reporting system
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A new extension installer on-the-
fly
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Integrated updater

That's it!
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Useful links:
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Joomla 1.6 releases
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http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=3585
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State of development
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http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_1.6_Development_Status
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SVN
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http://joomlacode.org/svn/joomla/development/trunk/
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Username / password: 'anonymous'