Over the past three years, Joomla! development has evolved. During the split from the Mambo project the Joomla! Core Team was fully responsible for overall development. As the project grew, the Core Team realized that additional structures where required to organize everything around the Joomla! project. Mid-2006, the Joomla! Core Team changed from a “developers [...]

If you were unfortunate enough to be impacted by the exploit discovered yesterday, you may need to recover your admin password. Of course, you can do this in the user manager if you had another super admin account and nothing was changed in the user table. But assuming that’s not the case, here are [...]

Version 1.5.7 introduced a number of security improvements. Because of the nature of the issues, the patches were not introduced into SVN until shortly before release so they only had a few hours of JBS testing. Introducing them earlier would have given the bad guys information about the vulnerabilities and the time gap between introduction [...]

Last Saturday while lots of people were working on issues in the tracker as part of PBF, I [...]

A List Apart is calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide.
I encourage all Joomla! professionals to take the survey.  The results [...]

For a long time the oldest unresolved issue in the tracker was # 8369 "Issues with Page Title and Menu Item Layouts." It went into the tracker on December 12, 2007 and  and was actually based on a forum report from June 2007.  I look at the oldest issues in the tracker pretty regularly and [...]

So close to the holiday season, and so many people helped out during the second Pizza Bug and Fun event. Let me start by thanking all contributers that helped out during both weekends, we solved numerous issues and also some documentation was written. Best of  all is that Airton Torres, Arno Zijlstra, Ben Cessa, Esban [...]

As most of you know, a critical security vulnerability affecting all Joomla versions below (and including) 1.5.5 was discovered on Tuesday, August 12th 2008.  What most of you don’t know, is what went on behind the scenes that day.  A whole mass of people came together and immediately worked on all the tasks necessary to [...]

Last week I was lucky enough to spend some time at the Googleplex with Tomasz
 Dobrzy?ski bug squad member and Joomla! grand prize winner in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, his mother, and the students,
parents and mentors from the nine other open source projects that participated in GHOP.
Thursday we had a fun day starting with [...]

Many community members have pointed out an error in 1.5.4 with duplicate titles. This issue affects both content and contact views (article layout, and contact detail layout to be specific). We are aware of the problem and are working on a clean, simple way to rectify it. The plan is to fix [...]