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Joomla 1.6 Pre Release, Released

By: cmswire.com

The next major version of Joomla (news, site), Joomla 1.6, is available in pre-release. If you’re an extension maintainer, a site builder or just someone who really can’t wait to check out the next generation of tools, here’s a look at what this initial release has to offer.

Joomla 1.6 requires PHP 5.2 or above, and MySQL 5.0.4 or above. According to Ric Shreves, a partner at Water and Stone, “The new version addresses some of the system’s most serious limitations, in particular, limited user management and content hierarchies.”……….[read entire story]