The Joomla! Project has announced the release of the latest BETA version of the Joomla 3 series. Joomla 3.1 was released yesterday on the 24th April 2013. This version is the second short term support release after version 3.0.
If you’re still using Joomla 2.5.x site you do not have to upgrade if you don’t wish to as version 2.5 will still be supported into 2014.
New features of Joomla 3.1
- Added note form field
- Showing logs in debug console
- JPlugin autoloadLanguage property
- Media wiki package
- OpenStreetMap package
- Added triggers on save for com_config
- Added pagination in COM_SEARCH component
The Joomla CMS application is developing very fast as you can see by the milestones reached in such a short time. The Joomla 3.x series developers have set themselves some tough goals and reached t new in application development for Content Management Development.
Joomla 3.x includes these features
- Twitter's Bootstrap is embedded
- Use of JFeed for feed management
- Saving blank articles is now allwed
- Unit testing is now possible
- Administrator statistics module
- New responsive Admin template
- Tool for Language Installation
- Installation of language packages directly from the extension manager.
Get a full list of features from the Joomla Website.
Updating from Joomla 2.5
As version 2.5 is a Long Term Support release, support will be continued until Spring 2014. You as a Joomla 2.5 user will not have to migrate to Joomla 3.0 or 3.1. Once version 3.5 is released a migration to the new version is recommended.
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