This is an alpha release. It is intended to be a developer/hobbyist preview and is not intended to be used on a production web site.
New improvements/features since alpha 1 include:
- ACL: access management for global permissions as well as content item specific permissions, variable usergroups, users member of more than one usergroup, permissions are inherited, really fast. ACL Tutorial: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=454212
- Extendable user profile, profile view in frontend, extendable user parameters
- Tableless com_content layouts
- Improved com_content modules (mod_articles_archive, mod_articles_latest, mod_articles_popular)
- Article linker plugin for editors
- New frontend template (atomic)
- New backend template (bluestork)
- New uploader for media manager
- Mootools 1.2
- Refactored backend
- JForm
- Nested Categories and category parameters
- New views in frontend: categories, category
- Lots of small code improvements, almost cut the code size in half while adding to the functionality
- PHP 5.2 required, huge performance improvements, partially eaten up by new features => 1.6 will be faster than 1.5
After alpha 2, the Joomla community can expect a beta release. There are no intentions for a 3rd alpha release.
You can also expect to see the following future improvements:
- Commenting solution is going to be added
- Additional DB drivers
- Lots of small performance/UI/code improvements
Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... ge_id=3585
Discuss here: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=454211