Joomla! 1.0.11 [ Sunbird ] is now available as of Monday 28th August 2006 24:00 UTC for download here. and is being designated a Critical Security Release.

All existing Joomla! users MUST UPGRADE to this version, due to several High Level vulnerabilities that affect ALL Previous versions of Joomla! 

1.0.11 contains the following critical security fixes:

• 04 High Level Security Fixes
• 04 Medium Level Security Fixes
• 18 Low Level security
  
• 25 General bug fixes

If you are using ANY previous version of Joomla!, you need to upgrade to 1.0.11 as soon as possible.

• 1.0.11 Download
• 1.0.11 Version Information
• 1.0.11 Changelog
  
• 1.0.11 Package File MD5 checksums

Project Joomla! is and has always been fully committed to a Security First Principle and new intiatives have and will continue to be started to reinforce and continue this principle.  Joomla! 1.0.11 highlights a redoubled effort to put Security at the forefront of everyones lexicon.

PacktPub.com this week launched its inaugural Content Management System Award with a prize of US$5000 to the winning project, second prize $3000 and third prize $2000.

The award demonstrates Packt's commitment to the open source community and its users.  Packt has a long and successful history of publishing user-friendly technical books for software users.  They were one of the first, if not the first, publishers to create an English version Joomla! web tutorial and guide.

The award process involves Packt taking nominations from users and the top five "most nominated" or voted CMS' will be then considered by three independent experts.  You can nominate Joomla! here.

Packt's timeline for the award sees nominations close on 01 Sept, the final five announced on 04 Sept, the judges voting work starts on 12 Sept and ends 7 Nov.  The judges decisions and the announcement of the top three is scheduled for 14 November.

So for Joomla pros, users and fans, we need you to click here, type over there and then cross our fingers and wait.  We may be only a click of your mouse button away from a successful nomination.

Joomla! 1.0.9 [ Sunshine ] is now available as of Monday 05th June 2006 18:00 UTC for download here.

We suggest that all Joomla! users upgrade to this version. 

1.0.9 contains the following changes:

• 12 Low Level Security Fixes
• 160+ General bug fixes
• Several Performance enhancements

Although this release contains 12 security fixes, as they are of a low level nature, this release is being characterized as a Stabiility/General release.  If you are running 1.0.8, you are advised to upgrade to 1.0.9 as it fixes several annoying non-critical errors in 1.0.8

1.0.9 is available as a Full Package, which contains all Joomla! files and Patch Packages which contain only the files that have been changed by the Stability work conducted from previous Joomla! 1.0.x versions.

• 1.0.9 Download
• 1.0.9 Version Information
• 1.0.9 Changelog
  
• 1.0.9 Package File MD5 checksums

1.0.8 contains the following work:

• 37 Security Fixes
• 70+ General bug fixes
• Several Performance enhancements

1.0.8 is available as a Full Package, which contains all Joomla! files and Patch Packages which contain only the files that have been changed by the Stability work conducted.

• 1.0.8 Version Information
• 1.0.8 Changelog
  
• 1.0.8 Package File MD5 checksums