I don't think I can say it any better, so here it is strait from the Joomla! web site:
It
is with great pride that the Joomla! community announces to the world
the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5 Stable [Khepri]. As a
community of contributors, we have been through celebrations and
tribulations. We have had fun, and we have worked hard. We have learned
from and helped one another. What started two and a half years ago with
a letter to the community
has grown into a great opportunity for both the Joomla! project and
community to benefit from these efforts and to consider our future.
People have contributed enormous amounts of time and energy to make Joomla! 1.5 what it is today. Developers
collaborated over long distances, around the clock, enthusiastically
contributing to Joomla!. Hours writing code combined with intense
discussions on everything from usability to extensibility have defined
many developers' lives over the last two and a half years. Countless
others have identified and fixed bugs along the way. DocumentersTranslators
for dozens of languages have prepared language packs. Huge amounts of
time and energy have gone into event organization, team management, and
infrastructure upkeep. Our forums
are overflowing with those asking and answering questions about Joomla!
1.5, helping overcome problems and reaching out to newcomers in a
concerted effort to be helpful.
Our growing and vibrant open
source community is innovating in many ways. The response from
community members in both development [Pizza Bugs and Fun] and documentation [Doc Camp] has been both overwhelming and warming. The Google Highly Open Participation Contest
energized and excited mentors and students alike, while helping
solidify Joomla!'s future by involving talented young people in
producing and supporting open source software.
As an
application, Joomla! 1.5 boasts remarkable advances over Joomla! 1.0 in
the areas of extensibility, usability and internationalization.
Building extensions is vastly easier and faster because of the
comprehensive new API.
The simplified user interface eliminates unnecessary clicks and context
changes for site administrators and managers. Support for extended
character sets, right to left languages, and translation of all static
text in the front end and the administrator allows enhanced
internationalization and worldwide use. New options for use of layout
overrides and template parameters give designers total control over the
look and feel of sites.
While this release marks a major
milestone in our history, it also marks a new beginning. The next phase
offers the opportunity to bring together the code created, lessons
learned, and momentum gained, to build something truly great. It took
us tens of thousands of hours, thousands of revisions, and hundreds of
people to get to this point. It has been a remarkable journey filled
with fun, discovery, and enlightenment where everyone has something to
offer and anyone can contribute. Come join in.
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