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If you want to play with it, and get yourself acquainted with the way it works and the new overhauled admin cp:

There’s been a lot of activity over the last few week on Joomla 1.6 and I’m pleased to say that we’ve made a lot of progress in that time but there is still much to be done. We’ve made significant progress on the ACL system, nested categories, and countless other improvements.

The new ACL system is well on its way. You can now create new user groups, assign users to groups, assign groups to access levels, and assign content viewing permissions to access levels. We are still working out the details of the user interface and business logic for the advanced access permissions. The upgrade to MooTools 1.2 is complete and we’ve begun cleaning up core JavaScript code to make it more compact and efficient. The menu system and menu manager have been completely rewritten and now feature a number of major improvements that should make them more powerful, efficient, and easier to customize.

We’ve refactored a number of other components including com_content, com_users, and com_weblinks to make them easier to maintain, customize, and extend. We’ve trimmed a lot of legacy code and media from the core which reduced the package size by about 30% or so. We’ve also made a number of performance improvements to the plugin system and the menu system that should create a visible improvement on larger websites.

So, in light of all of that, we’ve put together an alpha build to give people an opportunity to see what we’ve been working on and have a peek at what’s coming in 1.6. It is important to understand that this is a technology preview, not a final product. There are many issues, rough corners, dripping faucets, and outright broken pipes. We know this and you should too. Many features are still broken or extremely buggy so don’t panic if something doesn’t work as you might expect it to. As I said before, there is still much to be done.

Lastly, I’d like to thank Hannes, Gergo, Ercan, Louis, Andrew, and Sam for all of their hard work.

Enjoy,
Rob Schley

You can get it from here;

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=3585

More information about the release here:

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/

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#309010

Thanks for sharing,

I have just got one copy. Let’s trying it out! 🙂

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#309113

I’ve been having a play with it. Some nice new features added. I like the way you have module control now through the menu manager (as well as the old way). I also like that they got rid of ‘Sections’ and have multi-tiered Categories instead – this is a much better system.

You can now create new user groups and configure exactly what they can do both in the front and back-end. I tried installing a JA template and it almost works. Doesn’t look too bad in the front and causes a few errors in the back.

Of course all 1.5 templates are going to have to be rewritten to 1.6. Hopefully not too much.

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