Joomla 1.6 has just been released and has been labelled as the "next generation" of the most popular content management system. With almost a full year of Beta releases floating around on the web, the final build has been compiled and launched to the public.

Some of the main features in version 1.6 include:

As you may know, these are some of the new functions of Joomla 1.6:

  • Faster processing of Joomla pages
    • The complete Joomla system has been overhauled, which can mean as much as 25% speed increase as the server load is much lower.
  • Nested categories
    • No multi-map (you need to use a tagging system if you want this)
    • Sections disappear in Joomla 1.6
  • Consistent functionality and UI
    • Save and New; Save as Copy
    • Integrated trash function
  • Template styles
    • Link a template style to an individual menu item
    • This means you can have different template parameters on each menu item
  • Exclude modules from menu page
    • Show on everything except page X, Y Z etc
    • Timing for modules (like articles)
  • Three new frontend templates
    • Trainer - simple template
    • Blog template
    • Corporate look, business template (possibly made by RocketTheme)
  • Redirection component
    • Collects 404 pages for you to approve and enter the new url.
    • Creates a 301 redirect.

Atomix, as usual will be keeping up to date with the latest software and once in-house testing of version 1.6 meet our requirements, we will be switching over and rolling out version 1.6 on all our new projects.

Version 1.6.0 was released on the 10th January 2011.

You can download and demo it here