2. Kendall Cabe
Times Two Technology
Email: kendall.cabe@timestwotechnology.com
Direct: 312.376.8288
3. All about Joomla 2.5
What’s New
A look under the hood…
The Path Ahead – Joomla 3.x and Beyond
TheRelease Cycle
Joomla! Roadmap
4.
5. End of the latest development cycle – Joomla
1.6, 1.7, 2.5
Most stable release of this cycle
Next “Long Term Support (LTS)” Release
Supported until December 2013
Current Version – 2.5.2*
* as of 03/05/2012
6. Joomla Platform 11.3 Mobile Enhancements
Smart Finder – New site Language Overrides
search replacement Update Notification
Multi-database support Module
MySQL, MS SQL Server Captcha Support
with Oracle and
PostgreSQL coming soon
Article Images
10. Releases every 6 months*
Start of next release cycle has been moved to September
2012
Joomla 1.5 –
EOS April 2012; End of Security Updates – September 2012
Joomla 2.5 –
Security and major bug fixes only;
EOL - December 2013
Joomla 3.x series –
3.0 (STS) – Sept 2012, 3.1 (STS) – Mar 2013,
3.5 (LTS) – Sept 2013; EOL – Jun 2015
11. Project releases a “Vision” for the upcoming version
Joomla 3.0
Vision – Rediscover Content
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/general-
news/5321-rediscover-content-the-vision-for-next-
years-release.html
UX Roadmap
http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-
feb-2012/item/673-roadmap-for-a-great-Joomla-3-UX
http://ux.joomla.org