Joomla! is a powerful Open Source Content Management System for building professional web sites easily. It is often the system of choice for small business or home users who want a professional looking site that's simple to deploy and use. It can deliver a robust enterprise-level Web site as well, empowered by endless extensibility for your bespoke publishing needs. Joomla! is different from the normal models for content management software. For a start, it's not complicated.

Joomla! has been developed for everybody, and anybody can develop it further. Similarly to the Firefox browser, the core system can be extended via easily installable add-ons authored by the developer community. The comprehensive internationalization of Joomla! 1.5 supports right to left languages (e.g. Hebrew or Arab) and extended character sets. Dozens of language packs can be separately downloaded.

Requirements:

· Apache
· PHP
· MySQL

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· ACL: access management for global permissions as well as content item specific permissions, variable usergroups, users member of more than one usergroup, permissions are inherited, really fast
· Extendable user profile, profile view in frontend, extendable user parameters
· Tableless com_content layouts
· Improved com_content modules (mod_articles_archive, mod_articles_latest, mod_articles_popular)
· Article linker plugin for editors
· New frontend template (atomic)
· New backend template (bluestork)
· New uploader for media manager