The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla! CMS 3 Beta5 .?Community members are asked to download and install the package in order to provide quality assurance for Joomla 3.1. Joomla 3.1 is scheduled for release on April 24th, 2013. Joomla 3 is the latest major release of the Joomla CMS, with Joomla 3.1 the second short term support release in this series.

The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla! CMS 3 Beta4 .?Community members are asked to download and install the package in order to provide quality assurance for Joomla 3.1. Joomla 3.1 is scheduled for release on April 15th, 2013

Following are the meeting notes from the Production Leadership Team meeting held in April 2013. 

Over the last few months, the Platform team of maintainers and developers have been talking about future directions. One of our goals for this year is to introduce namespacing

The April issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month: Editors Introduction Listen Up! , by Alice Grevet Feature Stories Interview with Community Development Manager David Hurley , by John Rampton Joomla! is the People , by Helvecio da Silva Interview with CMSExpo Founder John Coonen , by John Rampton The X Factor and Women in Tech , by Dianne Henning Events JoomlaDay Boston, No Blarney! , by Dianne Henning Project News Leadership Highlights – April 2013 , by Marijke Stuivenberg Designers Progressive Enhancement: Flip the Script on Your Responsive Ways , by Ryan Boog Sitebuilders Tips to Find a Joomla Developer , by Johans Empuerto Business Matters Creating Call-to-Actions that Will Actually Get Action , by Hannah Kaufman Easy To Use Joomla Search Operator Commands , by John Rampton Developers Head in the Tag Clouds , by Elin Waring 4 Ways Joomla Developers Can Monetize Free Extensions , by Pravin Daryani Joomla! 3.0 Extension Development Series: More Functionality , by David Hurley Joomla! 3.1.0 Tag Field , by Roberto Segura Administrators CDNs for Joomla – A Beginners Guide , by Steven Johnson Community Choice Extensions Community Choice Extensions – UPDATE , by Dianne Henning The Joomla! Haikus Post your Haikus for April , by Dianne Henning International Stories Browse the international articles submitted this month. In our next issue We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!

The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla! CMS 3 Beta3 .?Community members are asked to download and install the package in order to provide quality assurance for Joomla 3.1. Joomla 3.1 is scheduled for release on April 15th, 2013.

As part of the normal budgeting process, the Production Leadership Team has come up with six goals for 2013. Those goals concern releases of the Joomla Platform and the Joomla CMS, continuing maintenance updates, and outreach and promotion to a technical audience.    Goal #1: Complete Three Iterations of the Joomla Platform Project.

Here you can see different snapshots of Joomla! Bug Squad activity. Click here to see tracker act ivity by contributor.

The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla! CMS 3 Beta2 .?Community members are asked to download and install the package in order to provide quality assurance for Joomla 3.1. Joomla 3.1 is scheduled for release on or around March 25th, 2013

The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla! CMS 3 Beta1 .?Community members are asked to download and install the package in order to provide quality assurance for Joomla 3.1. Joomla 3.1 is scheduled for release on or around March 25th, 2013

Following are the meeting notes from the Production Leadership Team meeting held in February 2013. 

Version 12.3 (“Curiosity”) of the Joomla Platform  was tagged and released on 20 December 2012. It is the third release of the 12.x series.

The Joomla Platform Maintainers would like your  feedback  about whether, as a community, we want to change the license under which the Joomla Platform is released to the LGPL. It is felt that in moving to the LGPL, we will be able to allow more people to integrate the Joomla Platform with their software solutions, and that will translate to an increase in support for the Joomla project overall. Please give your feedback via the  Joomla Platform LGPL Survey . This survey will remain open until the 2 January 2013.

Version 12.2 (“Neil Armstrong”) of the Joomla Platform  was tagged and released on 21 September 2012. It is the second release of the 12.x series

Version 12.1 (“Louis Landry”) of the Joomla Platform  was tagged and released on 9 May 2012. It is the first release of the 12.x serie. In addition to numerous bug fixes, it also brings new features, the main ones:  Simplified foundational classes for Model, View and Controller Database iterator PostgreSQL driver New Crypt package File patcher The full list of commits is available here  https://github.com/joomla/joomla-platform/commits/12.1  and the api doc here  http://api.joomla.org Project size Classes: 309 (270 in platform 11.4) Methods: 2122 (2000 in platform 11.4) Lines: 28540 (25970 in platform 11.4) Comments: 56837 (62155 in platform 11.4) Blank lines: 10472 (11877 in platform 11.4) Summary of code quality Check style: 142 warnings (199 in platform 11.4) Duplicate code: 27 warnings (26 in platform 11.4) Programming Mess Detector (PMD): 702 warnings (1002 in platform 11.4) Test Coverage : 39.70% (41% in platform 11.4)

Project: Joomla! SubProject: All Severity:  Low Versions: 3.0.2 and earlier 3.0.x versions. Exploit type: Information disclosure Reported Date: 2013-January-16 Fixed Date: 2013-February-4 CVE Number:  CVE-2013-1455 Description Undefined variable caused information disclosure in some situations. Affected Installs Joomla! version 3.0.2 and earlier 3.0.x versions

Project: Joomla! SubProject: All Severity:  Low Versions: 3.0.2 and earlier 3.0.x versions. Exploit type: Information disclosure Reported Date: 2013-January-13 Fixed Date: 2013-February-4 CVE Number:  CVE-2013-1454 Description Coding errors led to information disclosure in some situations

Project: Joomla! SubProject: All Severity:  Low Versions:  3.0.0 Exploit type: XSS Vulnerability Reported Date: 2012-October-01 Fixed Date: 2012-October-09 Description Typographical error leads to XSS vulnerability in language search component. Affected Installs Joomla! version 3.0.0