There’s been a lot of activity over the last few week on Joomla 1.6 and I’m
pleased to say that we’ve made a lot of progress in that time but there is
still much to be done. We’ve made significant progress on the ACL system,
nested categories, and countless other improvements.
The new ACL system is well on its way. You can now create new user groups,
assign users to groups, assign groups to access levels, and assign content
viewing permissions to access levels. We are still working out the details
of the user interface and business logic for the advanced access
permissions. The upgrade to MooTools 1.2 is complete and we’ve begun
cleaning up core JavaScript code to make it more compact and efficient. The
menu system and menu manager have been completely rewritten and now feature
a number of major improvements that should make them more powerful,
efficient, and easier to customize.
We’ve refactored a number of other components including com_content,
com_users, and com_weblinks to make them easier to maintain, customize, and
extend. We’ve trimmed a lot of legacy code and media from the core which
reduced the package size by about 30% or so. We’ve also made a number of
performance improvements to the plugin system and the menu system that
should create a visible improvement on larger websites.
So, in light of all of that, we’ve put together an alpha build to give
people an opportunity to see what we’ve been working on and have a peek at
what’s coming in 1.6. It is important to understand that this is a
technology preview, not a final product. There are many issues, rough
corners, dripping faucets, and outright broken pipes. We know this and you
should too. Many features are still broken or extremely buggy so don’t panic
if something doesn’t work as you might expect it to. As I said before, there
is still much to be done.
You can download a copy of the alpha at
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&...
Lastly, I’d like to thank Hannes, Gergo, Ercan, Louis, Andrew, and Sam for
all of their hard work.
Enjoy,
Rob Schley
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