At the recent Leadership Team summit in San Jose, CA, the Production Leadership Team discussed the best ways to outline the path forward for Joomla Development. The outcome was a vision statement as part of the strategy for focusing efforts as part of our new iterative approach to development.

The vision statement defines the desired goals with the next release and provides an inspiration point for potential additional related goals. It also helps the team and community in making better decisions. This doesn’t mean that features outside the scope of the vision statement won’t be considered and/or included, but they may have a reduced chance since they deviate from the vision. The vision for the next release is "Rediscover Content" and outlined below.

Rediscover Content

The next release of Joomla, codenamed Bowerbird, is focused on making the content you already have more connected and accessible. With Bowerbird, your website becomes a “content powerhouse” of valuable information in any language. The following features are the primary focus of Bowerbird:

1. Super Search: Experience the power of high-performance searching, term indexing, filters, language stemming, alternative phrasing, and an extensible plug-in API for third-party developers.
2. Tag, You’re It: Break through the limitations of categories by tagging content with relevant keywords. Too many articles? Use the built-in batch tagger to create hundreds—even thousands—of tags in just a few minutes.
3. Lost and Found: Help search engines find and classify your content in the most optimum way by managing metadata, titles, and content descriptions. Boost your overall search ranking and you’ll never be lost in search results.

If you want to be discovered by new users or rediscover your own content, the next version of Joomla is exactly what you’re looking for.

Note: The bowerbird is known for its instinctual behavior to collect/organize as many blue items as possible, meticulously organizing them in its nest, in order to attract a mate. It’s native to Australia.

The Production Leadership Team is excited to share this new approach for shaping the future of development Joomla. For more information regarding the process, read How New Features are Added to Joomla and Where Next for Joomla Development.

The Joomla Project is proud to announce 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, we have fixed approximately 69 issues in the tracker. We have closed an additional 45 tracker issues. At the present time, we 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 for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!

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

What's next?

This is the 14th in our series of continuous beta releases. Beta 15 (or possibly 1.6 Release Candidate 1) will be released on November 29, 2010.

Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5523

Related Links:

Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5280-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 5 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5282-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 6 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5285-joomla-16-beta6-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 7 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5291-joomla-16-beta7-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 8 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5292-joomla-16-beta8-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 9 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5294-joomla-16-beta9-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 10 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5295-joomla-16-beta10-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 11 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5295-joomla-16-beta11-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 12 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta12-now-available.html

Joomla 1.6 Beta 13 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta13-now-available.html

water&stone announced recently that the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Survey is now open for all to participate in.

"The Open Source CMS Market Share Report was launched in 2008 by digital agency water&stone. The Report is non-commercial and released under an open license. Since its inception, the Open Source CMS Market Share Report has become the industry standard for purpose of defining market share and adoption rates in the open source content management system market. The final 2010 Report is expected to be published in early December, 2010."

We saw Joomla! pull ahead in 2009 from the previous year's report and given the growth we've experienced in the past year it would be great to see further advancement in the 2010 results.

Reports like this help to increase Joomla's brand awareness and market share in the Open Source CMS world. You can help with this by participating in the survey.  To have your answers be part of the 2010 results, and receive an advance copy of the report, then take the survey today at

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/oscms2010

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.22 [senu takaa ama woi]. This is a security release, and we recommend users upgrade immediately.

The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Download

Click here to download Joomla 1.5.22 (Full package) »

Click here to download Joomla 1.5.22 (Upgrade packages) »

Instructions

• New installation and technical requirements
• Upgrade from an existing Joomla 1.5 version
• Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x

Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo or the Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is available for beginners.

Please note that you should always backup your site before upgrading.

Release Notes

Check the Joomla 1.5.22 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.

Security

• Low Priority - Core - SQL Injection Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities. More information »

Joomla! Bug Squad

Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug in Joomla, please report it on the 1.5 Bug Tracker.

Joomla! Security Strike Team

Thanks to the Joomla Security Strike Team for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, and fixing security issues in Joomla. Current active members of the Joomla! Security Strike Team are: Alan Langford, Claire Mandville, Ian MacLennan, Jason Kendall, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mark Dexter, Omar Ramos, Pierre Gazzola and Sam Moffatt.

The November issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here with news about exciting volunteer opportunities, along with inspirational Joomla! success stories, invaluable how-to articles, and so much more.

In this Issue:

Editorial

Joomla! Rising!, written by Dianne Henning

Feature stories

• The Joomla! project is proud to announce How you can help change the world!, a unique opportunity for you and other members of the Joomla! community to work hand-in-hand with the United Nations to help change the world!
• Buzz words defined as only Arlen Walker can! Small Talk is a must read!
• Matt Lipscomb brings us Insights From: The Official Joomla! Book (Part 1)
• Lars Eggert reads our mind and assists us with Converting a client's thoughts - or how to analyse, plan and project.

The Joomla! Haiku: Share yours!

• Prolific poets,
• punsters and word masters too,
• spread the Joomla! love...
• Post your November 2010 Haiku here!

International stories

• Community members have submitted two articles in two different languages for this issue.
• Opportunities are now open for community members to submit articles in 17 different languages.
• Shizzle my nizzle, crocodizzle! Marcus Tullius Cicero is back, gangsta style!

Leadership Connections

• Community Leadership Team: Paul Orwig introduces us to Global Forum Moderator Olaf Offick.
• OSM board member Steve Burge shares some of the work that OSM has been doing during October on behalf of the Joomla! project.
• Matt Lipscomb takes us behind the scenes at Joomla! Day West 2010: The 2010 Video Interviews - Part 1

Website Case Studies

• Robert Vining brings us to Zuno Studios' Maribel Lackey, Director of New Media & Client Services to ask her about a recent site build they just completed: Women's Refugee Commission.
• Keeping it on the African continent, and welcoming Joomla! community contributor,Phehello Mofokeng, we learn how the Dihlabeng Local Municipality embraces the positive and strong traits of Joomla! and rebrands their website.

Extensions and Services Evaluations

• Team EaSE takes a look at five easy-to-use options that will help you quickly offer eCommerce on your Joomla! web site.
• Miljan Vujosevic demonstrates methods for boosting your image SEO.

Developers Workbench

• In this month's The Joomla! Setup, Arlen Walker takes us to the Big Easy with an interview of art and renaissance progeny, Louis Landry.

Did you know…?

• Nicholas G. Antimisiaris explains field logic and giving your users the ability to show/embed their YouTube playlist in their user profile.
• More video know-how from Milena Mitova who shows us How to add a video library to your site in 6 easy steps.

Designer's studio

• Joomla! Site Showcase volunteer moderator, Mike Hamanaka writes about Culture, Community, and Design.
• Michael Babker shares his thoughts on Planning and Doing a Site Redesign.

Administrator's toolkit

• Community contributor Theophanis Mastakas gives us some sound advice on website security.

Joomla! in the Press/Media

• Mark Bender bring us Joomla! in the Press/Media — November 2010

On the lighter side...

• Yepr has contributed another Jane Beyond and friends cartoon

A special thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month's issue: Michael Babker, Lars Eggert, Mike Hamanaka, Theophanis Mastakas and Phehello Mofokeng.
In our next issue
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!