Joomla! 1.6 ready for practical use

Finally, after a long beta testing phase, as well as a prolonged release candidate stage, the Joomla! 1.6, ready for practical use.

Among the features of the new version:

• more flexible access level management system
• multi-level system of material categories
• extended multilingual support
• new design templates
• semantic markup
• the ability to create individual templates for the administration section

Installing and updating extensions has been improved: “one-click installation” is available, batch installation is possible. Expanded options for setting the time frame and output pages of modules .

Russian version of Joomla! 1.6, which will now carry the RU suffix, the administration of the Joomla! promised to release on Monday. The delay in the appearance of the Russian release of Joomla! 1.6 RE, arose due to official disagreements over the name. Now there will be Joomla! RU, since the consonant domain is someone else's.