J and Beyond, an International Joomla! Conference, is back for the third year. For 3 days in May (18th -20th) Joomla! developers and site builders from over 30 countries will gather in Bad Nauheim, near Frankfurt, right in the heart of Europe.

This useful ContentBuilder plugin lets you define custom readmore links to your content templates. Depending on the context, the links will open the full native Joomla! article or the full record (useful for readmore links in list views). The links can be opened in modal windows, same window or in a new window (following the “target” attribute in HTML).

Joomla today announces that its core files have been downloaded more than 30 million times from Joomla.org. Joomla now averages around 1 million downloads every month. The Joomla community attributes the continued growth in the number of individuals, companies and organizations using the CMS to an aggressive development road map that included the release of Joomla 1.7 in July 2011.

  The April issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!   Our stories this month: Editor’s Introduction The Reel Deal , by Alice Grevet Feature Stories Worksy Makes Joomla User-Friendly for Non-Techies , by Ronni K. G

We introduced the one-click update in Joomla! 1.7. When it worked, it was marvelous. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as robust when it came up against all the various hosting situations and differently configured systems

Project: Joomla! SubProject: All Severity: Low Versions: 2.5.3 and all earlier 2.5.x versions Exploit type: Information Disclosure Reported Date: 2012-January-7 Fixed Date: 2012-April-2 Description Inadequate permission checking allows unauthorised viewing of some administrative back end information.

Project: Joomla! SubProject: All Severity: Low Versions: 2.5.3 and all earlier 2.5.x versions Exploit type: XSS Vulnerability Reported Date: 2012-February-3 Fixed Date: 2012-April-2 Description Inadequate filtering in update manager leads to XSS vulnerability.

This Community Builder plugin assumes that a user should have a category associated with their account. In other words, in the Categories area of Phoca Gallery, edit a category and set it to have some user as an “owner”

Widgetkit K2 pulls together K2 and Widgetkit displaying K2 content with Widgetkit anywhere on your site. You don’t need any additional knowledge to get this going: 1. install and activate the plugin located in the system folder 2

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5.4. This is a security release. The Production Leadership Team’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community

Project: Joomla! SubProject: All Severity: High Versions: 1.5.25 and all earlier 1.5.x versions Exploit type: Password Change Reported Date: 2012-March-8 Fixed Date: 2012-March-27 Description Insufficient randomness leads to password reset vulnerability. Affected Installs Joomla! versions 1.5.25 and all earlier 1.5.x versions Solution Upgrade to version 1.5.26 Reported by George Argyros and Aggelos Kiayias Contact The JSST at the Joomla! Security Center.

Project: Joomla! SubProject: All Severity: Low Versions: 1.5.25 and all earlier 1.5.x versions Exploit type: Information Disclosure Reported Date: 2012-January-7 Fixed Date: 2012-March-27 Description Inadequate permission checking allows unauthorised viewing of administrative back end information.

Joomla! 2.5 was released in January of this year and the stable version is now available to download at joomla.org . New features including automatic notifications of core Joomla! and extension updates and a powerful internal indexer and search function have brought a new realm of usability and functionality for both site administrators and users.

Do you know how to easily present your job, clients and successful projects you have done? Corelio plugin does this work for you simply and also in catchy way

? The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.26 [senu takaa ama busani]. This is a security release. The Production Leadership Team’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Skyline Virtuemart Nested Accordion is a module of Joomla! that displays Virtuemart categories as multilevel accordion menu. The accordion effect is written in native mootools javascript which is supported by Joomla! core so that there will be no javascript conflict when you use this module

SLIDESHOW FEATURES Fully configurable and easy to setup module having 49 different features. 24 animation effects to define 32 Skin types to set.

If you have a store on eBay, you can use this html widget on your joomla website.