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property|P577}}propertyP348}}property|P1324}}| programming language = {{#statements:P277}}| operating system = {{#statements:P306}}| genre = {{#statements:P31}}| license = {{#property:P275}}property|P856}}}}Joomla ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|uː|m|.|l|ɑː}}), also styled Joomla! (with an exclamation mark) and sometimes abbreviated as J!, is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content on websites. Web content applications include discussion forums, photo galleries, e-Commerce and user communities, and numerous other web-based applications. Joomla is developed by a community of volunteers supported with the legal, organisational and financial resources of Open Source Matters, Inc.Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming techniques, simple software design patterns, and stores data in a Structured Query Language (MySQL/MariaDB) database.WEB, Technical Requirements,weblink 14 April 2024, Joomla includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, blogs, search, and support for language internationalisation. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS.There are over 5,000 third-party extensions listed in the Joomla! Extensions Directory.WEB, Joomla! Extensions Directory,weblink 14 April 2024, extensions.joomla.org,

History

2005–2007

Joomla was the outcome of a fork of Mambo on August 17, 2005.WEB, 8 April 2006, Eddie, Andrew, Joomla! Developer Blog: So Really—What's the Difference,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060901125203weblink">weblink 30 November 2020, 1 September 2006, dead, At that time, the Mambo name was a trademark of Miro International Pvt. Ltd., which formed a non-profit foundation with the stated purpose of funding the project and protecting it from lawsuits. The Joomla development team claimed that many of the provisions of the foundation structure violated previous agreements made by the elected Mambo Steering Committee, lacked the necessary consultation with key stakeholders, and included provisions that violated core open source values.WEB, 7 May 2007, Joomla Forum Discussion by Development Team members and Community,weblink 7 May 2007, Joomla's original co-founders, Andrew Eddie, Brian Teeman, Johan Janssens, Jean-Marie Simonet, et al.,WEB, 17 August 2015, Teeman, Brian, Joomla is ten years old today,weblink 1 December 2020, established Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM) to distribute information to the software community. Project leader Eddie wrote a letter that appeared on the announcements section of the public forum at mamboserver.com.WEB, 17 August 2005, Eddie, Andrew, Mambo Open Source Development Team—Letter to the community,weblink 13 February 2014, Over a thousand people joined OpenSourceMatters.org within a day, most posting words of encouragement and support. Miro CEO Peter Lamont responded publicly to the development team in an article titled "The Mambo Open Source Controversy—20 Questions With Miro".WEB, 21 August 2005, Shreves, Ric, The Mambo Open Source Controversy—20 Questions With Miro,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070318035228weblink">weblink 18 March 2007, dead, 27 April 2010, Alt URL This event created controversy within the free software community about the definition of open source. Forums of other open-source projects were active with postings about the actions of both sides.In the two weeks following Eddie's announcement, teams were reorganised, and the community continued to grow. Eben Moglen and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) assisted the Joomla core team beginning in August 2005, as indicated by Moglen's blog entry from that date and a related OSM announcement.WEB,weblink Why I like Open Source Matters (was Why I Like Mambo), 8 October 2008, Moglen, Eben, August 2005, 21 February 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120221230944weblink">weblink dead, WEB,weblink Award-winning Development Team Welcomes New Arrival—Joomla!, Russell, Peter, 2005, 8 October 2008, The SFLC continues to provide legal guidance to the Joomla Project as one of OSM's partners.WEB,weblink Partners, 8 October 2008, Joomla.org, On August 18, Eddie called for community input to suggest a name for the project. The core team reserved the right to make the final naming decision and chose a name not suggested by the community. On September 22, the new name, Joomla!, was announced. It is the anglicised spelling of the Swahili word , meaning "all together" or "as a whole," which also has a similar meaning in at least Amharic, Arabic, Turkic languages and Urdu. On September 26, the development team called for logo submissions from the community and invited the community to vote on the logo; the team announced the community's decision on September 29. Beginning in October 2005, guidelines covering branding, licensing, and use of the registered trademark were published.WEB,weblink Logo Usage and Brand Guide, 8 October 2008, docs.joomla.org, {{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

2008–2011

On January 28, 2008, the first major revision to Joomla was announced:Joomla 1.5 was popular but criticised for its inflexible and limited approach to access control.WEB, 7 June 2007,weblink Multi-Level User Access With Joomla, 30 November 2020, Independently of the project, Andrew Eddie and Louis Landry created a company called JXtendedWEB, December 2007, Newsletter—Welcome to JXtended,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080501153238weblink">weblink 30 November 2020, 1 May 2008, dead, JXtended Solutions, to continue the development of Control—an ACL component—that could integrate with Joomla 1.5. In July 2009, Eddie presented his ideasWEB, 7 June 2009, Lifting the lid on Joomla 1.6,weblink 30 November 2020, to the Joomla User Group Brisbane.In July 2009 of that year, the Joomla project announced a restructuring of its management: a new Joomla Leadership Team replacing the Core Team that had originally led the project. This redefined the role of the team leading the project and structured it more around community involvement in events, the Google Summer of Code projects, and other activities; the intention of the new approach to team-building was also an effort to increase community participation in the development process instead of relying upon a small group of coders to do most of the work.According to Google Trends, interest in Joomla peaked around the period 2009–2010.WEB,weblink Google Trends—Explore—joomla (search term), 5 March 2023, 5 March 2023,weblink dead, In January 2011—largely as the result of the collaboration between Eddie and Landry—a second major revision of Joomla was released: Joomla 1.6.WEB, 20 January 2011, The Path Forward: Migration and the Future,weblink 30 November 2020, Joomla.org, Prior to the stable release of Joomla 1.6, Eddie relinquished his roles on OSM's board and project leadership;WEB, 31 August 2010, Andrew Eddie resigns from the Joomla! project,weblink 30 November 2020, Joomlablogger, Louis Landry announced his retirement from the project the following year.WEB, 3 August 2011, Landry, Louis, My Retirement,weblink 30 November 2020, Following Eddie's departure in September 2011, OSM sought feedback from the community, including the possibility of constituting the governing body under a new name, to restructure the board's membership and project leadership.WEB,weblink Proposed leadership structure changes & request for community feedback, 2 December 2020, community.joomla.org, 28 March 2014,

Molajo

In 2010, with preparations for Joomla 1.6 nearly completed, Amy Stephen, Klas Berlic, Marco Barbosa, Matt Thomas, et al. started a project to refactor the Joomla code. Code-named Molajo (an anagram of Joomla), the group felt that the existing Joomla CMS hindered end-users and developers adopting Joomla because (a) the Joomla CMS did not offer a range of packages containing themed sets of web applications—like other CMS products had been doing for some time—and (b) the traditional MVC approach decreased developers' productivity in creating new components for Joomla.Community reaction to Molajo was mixed. Some commentators claimed that it was a fork of the Joomla CMS—a claim strongly rejected by Stephen—while others contended that its activities would undermine the future of the Joomla CMS.WEB, 22 January 2011, Joomla 1.6 upgrading FAQ - Discussion,weblink 7 May 2007, WEB, 1 February 2011, History repeating iself?,weblink 7 May 2007, Against these headwinds, Molajo made its public debut at the J and Beyond conference in the Netherlands in 2011.AV MEDIA, 6 May 2011, What is Molajo?,weblinkweblink 2021-12-21, live, 1 December 2020, Stephen, Amy, Molajo team, J and Beyond 2011 conference, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, {{cbignore}}Lacking support from OSM, an enthusiastic following from the Joomla community, and unable to progress beyond pre-Alpha status, Molajo collapsed around the middle of 2015.WEB, 31 August 2015, Stephen, Amy, Molajo (GitHub), GitHub,weblink 30 November 2020,

2012–2014

In January 2012, another major revision was announced: Joomla 2.5 (essentially bringing together the two previous minor releases from the preceding year). Joomla 2.5 brought much sought-after enhancements, a new API making it easier for novice users, additional multilanguage capability and the ability for users to update with "one-click".Shortly after the release of Joomla 2.5, work was under way on Joomla 3.x. Joomla 3.x was focused on mobile-friendly websites on the front-end as well as a more intuitive back-end. With greater ease in site navigation and a more user-friendly means of editing Joomla site content, Joomla 3.x became the most popular version of the CMS, eventually making all previous versions obsolete.BOOK, Severdia, Ron, Gress, Jennifer, 2014, Using Joomla: Efficiently build and manage custom websites, O'Reilly Media, 2, 978-1-449-34539-6, In March 2014, after seeking community feedback and a submission from the Production Leadership Team, a newly constituted OSM board approved changing the licensing for the framework from GPLv2 to LGPL.WEB, 21 February 2014, Feedback on potential Joomla! Framework LGPL license change,weblink 1 December 2020, WEB,weblink LGPL License Change Approved for the Joomla Framework, 1 December 2020, community.joomla.org, 28 March 2014, Although the proposal only affected the licensing of the framework and not the CMS, the decision sparked a fierce debate within the community.WEB, 28 March 2014, Joomla Framework changes to LGPL,weblink 1 December 2020, In the end, the framework did not adopt LGPL and is still licensed under GPLv2.WEB, What is the Joomla! Framework?,weblink 1 December 2020, framework.joomla.org, In August 2014, the Joomla CMS development team released a plan for new version releases.WEB, 9 August 2014, Roadmap,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060901125203weblink">weblink 2 December 2020, 1 September 2006, dead, developer.joomla.org, Towards the end of 2014—three years after calling for feedback about ways to reorganise the project and with Joomla 3.x into its fourth minor revision—the community discussed the leadership structure changes.WEB, 7 November 2014, Update on the proposed leadership structure changes,weblink 2 December 2020, Eddie, although no longer an active contributor to the project, argued that the code for Joomla 3.x was "too fat and heavy to maintain with the current level of contribution"; he recommended mothballing the current CMS series and developing a less cumbersome Joomla 4. Eddie went further to criticise OSM's vision, entrepreneurship, and management of the project. Other commentators also expressed their opinion that OSM had become dysfunctional.WEB, 2 November 2014, Dionysopoulos, Nicholas, Refactoring Joomla!,weblink 1 December 2020,

2015–2018

Criticism mounted about the plan for future development of the Joomla CMS. An opinion written in May 2015 by Nicholas Dionysopoulos (founder of Akeeba Ltd.) shared some of Eddie's earlier observations about OSM's lack of vision, entrepreneurship, and ability to manage the project.WEB, 15 May 2015, Dionysopoulos, Nicholas, The problem is the vision,weblink 1 December 2020, Dionysopoulos disagreed with Eddie about the major cause of problems with Joomla 3.x; it was Dionysopoulos' view that the cause of most problems with Joomla 3.x lay within "the processes of Joomla! the organisation".Dionysopoulos' views gathered momentum within the community and led to the formation of the Joomla 4 working group (which later became the Joomla X working group).WEB, 20 July 2015, Dings, Marco, Joomla! 4 working group,weblink 1 December 2020, developer.joomla.org, WEB, 28 April 2016, Braczek, Niels, Current State of Joomla!X,weblink 4 December 2020, volunteers.joomla.org, WEB, 8 December 2016, Nguyen, Henry, The future of Joomla: How Joomla will evolve in the next versions?,weblink 6 December 2020, Joomlashine, In March 2017, the project announced the retirement of Joomla 3 and unveiled its plans to develop Joomla 4.WEB, 31 March 2017, Joomla! 3 Retiring as Joomla! 4 Comes to Life, 1 December 2020,weblink developer.joomla.org, This effectively brought an end to the work of the Joomla X working group (although it would be another two years before that Joomla X working group's activity was placed in "archived" status).WEB,weblink 4 April 2019, OSM Board Meeting minutes, 1 December 2020, Open Source Matters, Inc., In an effort to improve the relationship with the community, the development team revised the 2014 plan and, in June 2018, produced a new roadmap with the expectation that Joomla 4.0 would be released in a stable form before the end of 2018.WEB, 7 June 2018, Joomla! Project Roadmap,weblinkweblink 3 December 2020, 23 June 2018, dead, developer.joomla.org, During the period 2017-2018, the developers created six alpha test releases for Joomla 4.WEB, 28 December 2018, Joomla 4 is on the horizon …,weblink 1 December 2020, developer.joomla.org,

2019–2020

In January 2019, the developers released an updated plan revising previously announced estimated time frames;WEB, 15 January 2019, Joomla! Project Roadmap,weblinkweblink 4 December 2020, 28 January 2019, dead, developer.joomla.org, the roadmap was revised several times during 2020.WEB, 24 November 2020, Joomla! Project Roadmap,weblink 4 December 2020, developer.joomla.org, Community concerns intensified about the handling of the Joomla project—two years after announcing plans to retire Joomla 3 (but having already released two minor versions with plans for a third)—and by the end of 2019, a further six alpha test releases of Joomla 4 were produced for public discussion.WEB, 14 January 2020, What's holding back the release of Joomla 4 Beta now?,weblink 10 December 2020, forum.joomla.org, On one hand, some people questioned whether the community had lost its influence in driving the project, while, from the developers' viewpoint, the other side defended the project by observing that things would be more productive if the community had been more actively engaged in testing, rather than criticising, the alpha releases. These discussions revealed a growing sense of division between developers on one side and end users on the other.A lengthy debate that started in March 2019 and initially focused on the aesthetics and usability of the Joomla 4 backend interface highlighted an overall sense of disappointment with management and progress of the project.WEB, 17 March 2019, About the design of the administration?,weblink 10 December 2020, forum.joomla.org, Although the debate was weighted heavily on criticising the backend aesthetics, people on all sides of the discussion aired their dissenting opinions about why the Joomla 4 project had become distracted by feature creep, software bloat, eventual cost overrun and lack of trust.Against a background of unrelenting criticism from within the community and declining popular interest in Joomla at the time a conference was held in January 2020 to develop a strategy for the future.WEB, 15 January 2020, Towards a Product Led Future—Forum for the Future,weblink 9 December 2020, Marbella, Spain, community.joomla.org, The conference identified several key areas for further work but basically accepted the premise that faults related mainly to the project's organisational framework rather than the quality of the product.WEB, 20 October 2020, Forum for the Future: where are we now?,weblink 9 December 2020, community.joomla.org, On May 28, 2020, the Joomla team disclosed that a data breach had occurred that potentially affected 2,700 users by exposing their personal details.WEB, 1 June 2020, Joomla team discloses data breach,weblink 16 April 2021, ZDnet, The incident was discovered by an internal audit of the website that also highlighted the presence of superuser accounts owned by individuals outside OSM. Although no evidence was found of any unauthorised access to personal information, action was immediately taken to mitigate the risk, including a requirement for all users to change their passwords.WEB, 28 May 2020, JRD Security Incident Notification,weblink 16 April 2021, community.joomla.org, The COVID-19 pandemic impacted Joomla's planned events, resulting in the cancellation of the main world-wide conferences.AV MEDIA, 30 May 2020, Essential Joomla,weblinkweblink 2021-12-21, live, 10 December 2020, Mitchell, Brian, J and Beyond 2020 conference, Cologne, Germany, {{cbignore}}On 21 June 2020 OSM President Rowan Hoskyns Abrahall resigned citing personal difficulties.WEB, 21 June 2020, Resignation: Rowan Hoskyns-Abrahall,weblink 16 April 2024, opensourcematters.org, It later transpired that OSM Board had not been publicly forthcoming about matters relating to the several claims for reimbursement of Abrahall's expenses that were deemed to be outside OSM's financial policyWEB, 19 May 2021, Expenses Determined To Be Outside OSM Financial Policy,weblink 16 April 2024, community.joomla.org, and, further, that Abrahall now owed money to OSM; the matter received some independent coverage and analysis.WEB, 21 May 2021, Joomla scandal: OSM claims $37,000 was embezzled by former President,weblink 16 April 2024, poweruserguide.com, This matter caused a chain of events: Abrahall declared bankruptcy in order to forfend her debt to OSM; Abrahall commenced defamation proceedings against OSM; OSM Board was reorganised; Abrahall's successor, Brian Mitchell, was dismissed.On 17 August 2021, Joomla version 4.0 was releasedWEB, Joomla 4.0 and Joomla 3.10 are here!,weblink Joomla.org, 17 August 2021, 17 August 2021, en, (some six years after work had begun). This was a major milestone release for the Joomla project.

Development and support

Developers

Joomla is maintained as an open-source project by a community of volunteers and licensed under the GNU General Public License on an "as is" basis, without any warranty of any kind, including implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The source code of Joomla is maintained on GitHub. The top three most popular public forums for discussing Joomla and seeking technical advice are The Joomla Forum, Joomla on Stack Exchange, and Mattermost.Overall responsibility for planning and release of new software is vested in OSM.It has a software dependency on some Symfony components and other open source libraries including the Joomla Framework components.WEB, joomla-cms/composer.json at 45adb61f8306b945f43b4326305fafe87c154aa2 · joomla/joomla-cms,weblink 2024-04-14, GitHub, en,

Development lifecycle

Joomla adopted a new development strategy with the introduction of 1.6. The basic idea was to facilitate a continuous publication of Standard Support Release (SSR) intended to ensure that user requests were incorporated into the Joomla core more quickly and stabilised for the benefit of future releases. Many users were critical{{citation needed|reason=Relevance|date=April 2024}} of the rapid change between major releases, especially when complex applications had been independently developed for a Joomla website and the website owner had to update the core in order to receive current security updates.In April 2014 the developers announced that the previous system consisting of different LTR (Long Term Release) and STR (Short Term Release) version rails would be abandoned in favour of a linear version cycle. The first release after this change was version 3.3.1.

Security

Joomla installations are repeatedly the target of attacks, especially in the form of so-called defacements, but probably no more so when compared to other websites on the internet. Third-party extensions can add additional security risks that may be exploited by malicious actors: a list of vulnerable extensionsWEB, Vulnerable Extensions,weblink 17 April 2024, extensions.joomla.org, is maintained on an ad hoc basis. While programming-related security flaws occur, the majority of security issues arise from people failing to perform regular maintenance as opposed to the intentional exploitation by the malicious actions of others. Joomla addresses reported security concerns through its Security Strike Team.

Version history

{| class="wikitable sortable"|+Joomla versionsSee Joomla! CMS versions for additional information about version status.! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Series! scope="col" | Released as! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Release date! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Supported until! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Main feature(s) 1.x! scope="row" {{Version |o |1.0}}abbr=on17-09-2005}}HTTPS://DOWNLOADS.JOOMLA.ORG/CMS/JOOMLA10 >TITLE= JOOMLA! 1.0 ACCESS-DATE=28 JANUARY 2023 LANGUAGE=EN, abbr=on22-07-2009}}HTTPS://WWW.CMSWIRE.COM/CMS/WEB-CMS/PROCRASTINATORS-JOOMLA-10-END-OF-LIFE-IS-HERE-005071.PHP >TITLE=PROCRASTINATORS: JOOMLA 1.0 END OF LIFE IS HERE FIRST= KRISTOFFER WEBSITE=CMS CRITIC LANGUAGE=EN, Mambo (software)>Mambo 4.5.2.3 that combined other bug and moderate-level security fixes. Written for PHP 4.! scope="row" {{Version |o |1.5}}abbr=on21-01-2008}}HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/4488-LADIES-AND-GENTLEMEN.HTML >TITLE= LADIES AND GENTLEMEN... ACCESS-DATE=28 JANUARY 2023 LANGUAGE=EN, abbr=on30-09-2012}}HTTPS://DOCS.JOOMLA.ORG/JOOMLA_1.5_VERSION_HISTORY >TITLE=JOOMLA 1.5 VERSION HISTORY ACCESS-DATE=28 JANUARY 2023 QUOTE=JOOMLA! 1.5 EOL (END OF LIFE) NOTICE - SEPT 2012., en, Graphical user interface, templates, limited "legacy mode" support.HTTPS://DOCS.JOOMLA.ORG/J1.5:WHAT_IS_%22LEGACY_MODE%22%3F ACCESS-DATE=28 NOVEMBER 2020 LANGUAGE=EN, Written for PHP 5.Joomla! 1.5 version historyNotes: First long-term support (LTS) version although not backwardly-compatible with its predecessor. Such LTS versions were to have been released every three major or minor releases and supported until three months after the next LTS version is released; this approach was not followed in practice.WEB, Development Strategy,weblink Joomla.org, 13 August 2011, en, ! scope="row" {{Version |o |1.6}}abbr=on10-01-2011}}HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/GENERAL-NEWS/5348-JOOMLAR-16-HAS-ARRIVED.HTML >TITLE=JOOMLA! 1.6 HAS ARRIVED! DATE=10 JANUARY 2011 LANGUAGE=EN, abbr=on19-08-2011}}HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/5383-JOOMLA-166-RELEASED.HTML >TITLE=JOOMLA! 1.6.6 RELEASED DATE=26 JULY 2011 QUOTE=VERSION 1.6 WILL REACH END OF LIFE ON 19 AUGUST 2011., en, access control list functionality, a user-defined category hierarchy and admin interface improvements.JOOMLA! 1.6 REVIEWLAST=JOHNSTON DATE=19 JANUARY 2011 LANGUAGE=EN, ! scope="row" {{Version |o |1.7}}abbr=on19-07-2011}}JOOMLA! 1.7 RELEASED >URL=HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/5380-JOOMLA-170-RELEASED.HTML DATE=19 JULY 2011 LANGUAGE=EN, abbr=on24-02-2012}}HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/5411-JOOMLA-175-RELEASED.HTML >TITLE=JOOMLA! 1.7.5 RELEASED DATE=2 FEBRUARY 2012 QUOTE=VERSION 1.7 WILL REACH END OF LIFE ON 24 FEBRUARY 2012., en, LAST=JOHNSTON DATE=19 JULY 2011 LANGUAGE=EN, | 2.x! scope="row" {{Version |o |2.5}}abbr=on24-01-2012}}JOOMLA 2.5.0 RELEASED >URL=HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/5403-JOOMLA-250-RELEASED.HTML DATE=24 JANUARY 2012 LANGUAGE=EN, abbr=on31-12-2014}}HTTPS://WWW.HOSTAWAY.NET.AU/NEWS/JOOMLA-2-5-END-OF-LIFE/ >TITLE=JOOMLA 2.5 END OF LIFE ACCESS-DATE=5 DECEMBER 2020, en, | New "Smart Search" component, added support for using Microsoft SQL Server as a database backend, added user notes, additional enhancements and security improvements.Notes: Second LTS release. Originally this release was to be named 1.8.0, however the developers announced August 9 that they would rename it to fit into a new version number scheme in which every LTS release is an x.5 release.WEB, Vote for the Version,weblink Joomla.org, 30 July 2011, en, WEB, The Version Votes are In,weblink Joomla.org, 24 August 2011, en, 3.x! scope="row" {{Version |o |3.0}}abbr=on27-09-2012}}JOOMLA 3.0.0 RELEASED >URL=HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/5464-JOOMLA-3-0-0-RELEASED.HTML DATE=27 SEPTEMBER 2012 LANGUAGE=EN, abbr=on31-05-2013}}JOOMLA! CMS VERSIONS >URL=HTTPS://DOCS.JOOMLA.ORG/JOOMLA!_CMS_VERSIONS DATE=4 FEBRUARY 2013 LANGUAGE=EN, Bootstrap (front-end framework)>Bootstrap; added support for PostgreSQL as a database backend; remove support for PHP 5.2.Notes: The original plan was to release this version in July 2012; however, the January/July release schedule was uncomfortable for volunteers, and the schedule was changed to September/March releases.WEB, Joomla discussion—release cycle status,weblink groups.google.com, 18 February 2012, en, On 24 December 2012 it was decided to include an unforeseen addition to the 3.x series to improve the development life cycle and extend the support of LTS versions.WEB, It's Official—Joomla! CMS to add 3.2 release,weblink joomla.org, 24 December 2012, 4 December 2020, en, ! scope="row" {{Version |o |3.1}}abbr=on23-04-2013}}JOOMLA! 3.1.0 STABLE RELEASED >URL=HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/5494-JOOMLA-3-1-0-STABLE-RELEASED.HTML DATE=24 APRIL 2013 LANGUAGE=EN, abbr=on31-12-2013}}JOOMLA! CMS VERSIONS >URL=HTTPS://DOCS.JOOMLA.ORG/JOOMLA!_CMS_VERSIONS DATE=6 NOVEMBER 2013 LANGUAGE=EN, Folksonomy#Elements and types>tagging.TAG—YOU'RE IT >URL=HTTPS://COMMUNITY.JOOMLA.ORG/BLOGS/COMMUNITY/TAG-YOU-ARE-IT.HTML DATE=6 MARCH 2013 LANGUAGE=EN, ! scope="row" {{Version |o |3.2}}abbr=on06-11-2013}}JOOMLA! 3.2.0 STABLE RELEASED >URL=HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/5516-JOOMLA-3-2-0-STABLE-RELEASED.HTML DATE=6 NOVEMBER 2013, en, abbr=on20-10-2014}}JOOMLA! CMS VERSIONS >URL=HTTPS://DOCS.JOOMLA.ORG/JOOMLA!_CMS_VERSIONS DATE=30 APRIL 2014 LANGUAGE=EN, Version control>versioning for articles.Notes: Because of a PHP requirement change in Joomla 3.3, extended security support was provided for 3.2 for six months after 3.3's release.WEB, Raising The Bar On Security,weblink Joomla.org, 29 January 2014, 29 November 2020, en, ! scope="row" {{Version |o |3.3}}abbr=on20-04-2014}}JOOMLA! 3.3.0 RELEASED >URL=HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/5546-JOOMLA-3-3-0-RELEASED.HTML DATE=30 APRIL 2014 LANGUAGE=EN, abbr=on25-02-2015}}JOOMLA! CMS VERSIONS >URL=HTTPS://DOCS.JOOMLA.ORG/JOOMLA!_CMS_VERSIONS ACCESS-DATE=28 JANUARY 2023 QUOTE=END OF LIFE: 3.4 RELEASE, en, Password#Hash-based challenge–response methods>password hashing; microdata support; removed MooTools dependencies.Notes: On 25 April 2014, the Joomla Production Leadership Team announced that it started following 'Semantic Versioning Scheme' for new Joomla builds. The earlier Long-term support and Short-term support lifecycle policy was cancelled.WEB, Release and support cycle,weblink Joomla.org, 8 March 2015, en, WEB, Joomla Development Strategy,weblink Joomla.org, en, Joomla version 3.3.1 was the first version released under the new development strategy.WEB, Past release and support cycle,weblink Joomla.org, en, ! scope="row" {{Version |o |3.4}}abbr=on25-02-2015}}JOOMLA! 3.4 IS HERE >URL=HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/5586-JOOMLA-3-4-IS-HERE.HTML DATE=24 FEBRUARY 2015 LANGUAGE=EN, abbr=on21-03-2016}}JOOMLA! CMS VERSIONS >URL=HTTPS://DOCS.JOOMLA.ORG/JOOMLA!_CMS_VERSIONS ACCESS-DATE=28 JANUARY 2023 QUOTE=END OF LIFE: 3.5 RELEASE, en, Composer (software)>Composer integration; and Google's No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA.Notes: Extensive security revisions were rolled out in October 2015 with the release of Version 3.4.5.! scope="row" {{Version |o |3.5}}abbr=on21-03-2016}}JOOMLA! 3.5 IS HERE >URL=HTTPS://WWW.JOOMLA.ORG/ANNOUNCEMENTS/RELEASE-NEWS/5654-JOOMLA-3-5-IS-HERE.HTML DATE=21 MARCH 2016 LANGUAGE=EN, abbr=on12-07-2016}}JOOMLA! CMS VERSIONS >URL=HTTPS://DOCS.JOOMLA.ORG/JOOMLA!_CMS_VERSIONS ACCESS-DATE=28 JANUARY 2023 QUOTE=END OF LIFE: 3.6 RELEASE, en, | Changes to admin interface (including some ability for drag and drop images).Notes: Added PHP 7 support. 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Community

General

The Joomla project manages its activities (e.g. trademarking, licensing, marketing, software development, documentation, media releases, etc.) through dedicated teams under the umbrella of Open Source Matters, Inc. Membership of these teams is voluntary but admission is tightly controlled. Only approved team members are allowed to elect team leaders and the members of OSM Board.In a broad sense, the Joomla project is aligned with WordPress, Drupal and Typo3 to address their concerns with the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Conferences

J and Beyond was an annual conference primarily catering to Joomla developers and site integrators. Hosted in Europe typically around May, it served as a key gathering for professionals involved in Joomla-related projects. The 2024 conference was cancelledWEB, 26 August 2019, J and Beyond Conference, 17 - 19 May 2024 in Potsdam, Germany,weblink 14 April 2024, owing to poor ticket sales.

Financial support

Joomla is primarily funded by private sponsorships that offset OSM's operational costs; these costs include taxes, accounting, presence at ground events, operation of domains, and so forth.WEB, 26 February 2021, Joomla! Sponsorships Opportunities,weblink 16 April 2021, joomla.org, The project receives the rest of its revenue from website advertising, commissions, examination fees, and Google Summer of Code.WEB, 26 August 2019, 2019/2020 Budget Overview,weblink 16 April 2021, community.joomla.org,

Extensions

Independently of the Joomla development team, other people have created additional software—collectively called extensions—to extend the range of applications that Joomla website owners may require. As with all third-party software products—some of which may be offered free-of-charge or licensed under conditions that may vary from the core Joomla CMS—there can be further complications (e.g incompatibility with higher versions of Joomla). Extensions that were developed for older versions of the Joomla CMS are often a reason why website owners are unable to upgrade their existing CMS to a higher version. The Joomla project does not endorse or recommend extensions created independently of the CMS development team nor does it offer any support for problems that may arise through the use of these products.

Joomla User Groups (JUGs)

The so-called JUGs are local groups of Joomla users and developers who meet regularly to exchange information about Joomla and plan projects (e.g. workshops){{citation needed|date=April 2024}}.

See also

• Comparison of web frameworks
• List of content management systems

Notes

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References

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External links

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