Joomla! - 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award Winner Tuesday, 14 November 2006 Packt Publishing today (14 November) announced Joomla! as the the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award. With 16,000 votes for more than 70 different Open Source Content Management Systems nominated for the award, Joomla! was judged winner of the final. After eight weeks of voting from visitors to www.PacktPub.com and judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and CMSPros, Joomla! triumphed with the most votes, winning $5,000. Read more...

Joomla! Wins Again at UK LinuxWorld Saturday, 28 October 2006 Joomla! won Best Linux / Open Source Project at UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, in London tonight. This is the second year running, the Joomla! team has won the prestigious award.  Louis Landry, Johan Janssens and Peter Russell accepted the award from LinuxUser and Developer magazine publisher Maggie Meer. Read more...   Joomla! 1.5 is on the Horizon ... Thursday, 15 June 2006 Just when you thought it was time for a Joomla! release increment, we've decided to take FIVE in one go! During the past few months, we've been discussing the versioning of the forthcoming Joomla! release. We have decided to call the upcoming beta release "Joomla! 1.5 Beta", not Joomla! 1.1 Beta. ImageThe sheer volume of changes in the Joomla! core (Joomla! framework) made a minor point (.1) increment inconsistent with the amount of work undertaken. While it may not be obvious by simply looking at release dates, today's Joomla! core has mutiple technology shifts under the engine. Much of the work reflects meeting the expectations from requests by the international community, to make Joomla! fully internationalised — and this was given the highest priority. Lead developer of 1.5 Johan Janssens said the development issues involved in implementing internationalisation required "significantly more developer muscle compared to what shipped in Joomla! 1.0". Read more...   Joomla! — Goes Nuclear! Wednesday, 03 May 2006 Joomla! is software; that we all know.  But if its popularity was rated in radioactivity, it would well-and-truly be considered as having reached critical mass.  The world's most-popular, award-winning, Open Source CMS (Content Management System) has topped One Terabyte (1024 Gigabytes) of data transfer for the month of April (excluding the Forge).  This is enormous, and it reflects the exponential growth the project has been enjoying in recent times. Read more...