Joomla1.6 Alpha 2 Released
Sunday, October 25, 2009 23:50
Good news and Congratulations to every Joomligans – The most awaited Joomla 1.6 is in its alpha 2. I personally believe this will be better joomla than ever. Better navigation, better organization of contents and better extension development environment and many more. The most important thing in this joomla for me is ACL management, still in its infancy but welcome abroad.
The content management has gone slimmer with no sections and hierarchical categories. I always wondered why do we need sections if we had multi level categories and I think Joomla developers heard my prayers. 
I see a update sub menu in extensions management, and I think this is a great feature to auto update the core and inspiration to component developers like me. I have personally developed an auto updating component and I will release it in public domain for testing.
The media manager is cool with multiple upload and that too with ajax but I could not get it running. Another inspiration for me
This is an opportunity and challenge for component developers like me to upgrade and update. I am getting my hands dirty on the new arrived code, better get yours too.
Download the latest release of joomla from here
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=3585
Happy coding with joomla.
