2. Joomla Release Dates
Joomla Version Release Type Release Date End of Life
Joomla 1.0 Long Term Sep-05 Jul-09
Joomla 1.5 Long Term Jan-08 Apr-12
Joomla 1.6 Short Term Jan-11 Aug-11
Joomla 1.7 Short Term Jul-11 Feb-12
Joomla 2.5 Long Term Jan-12 Aug-13
Joomla 3.0 Short Term Jul-12 Feb-13
Joomla 3.1 Short Term Jan-13 Aug-13
Joomla 3.5 Long Term Jul-13 Feb-15
4. • The base of the CMS is the Joomla Platform
has been updated to version 11.3
• New image manipulation class JImage
• Generation of HTML tables with the JGrid
class
• New version of MooTools (1.4)
6. SQL Server
• Load driver in php.ini
– actual dll will depend on php version and whether your server supports non-thread-safe
or thread-safe
• extension=php_sqlsrv_53_ts_vc9.dll
• Need to restart PHP for change to take effect
• phpinfo should show sqlsrv section
7. Step 2 shows which databases are
available on your server
11. Smart Search (finder)
• Smart Search is destined to be the
replacement for com_search
• Disabled by default
• Extensions->plugin manager
– Enable Conent - Smart Search plugin
12. Smart Search (cont.)
• Assign a module position to your smart search
module (extensions->module manager)
• And choose which pages it should appear on
13. Smart Search (cont.)
• It does smart things like suggest what you
should be searching for if you do a typo
37. Menu manager linked to module
manager
• When you create a new menu, if there is no
module to display it yet, there is now a link to
create one.
38. New language code plugin to improve
SEO
• Allows search engines to see the language and
country code they expect in cases where the
Joomla language pack uses a different code.
42. Other improvements
• Beez core template comes with mobile
enhancements
• Ability to indicate a default language for News
Feeds
• Right to Left language direction setting for
New Feeds
• Improvements for batch processing
43. Should I upgrade to 2.5?
• http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-feb-
2012/item/676-Help-With-1-7-Out-and-2-5-
Just-In,-What-Should-I-Do-Upgrade-or-
Upgrade-me-not
• http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-Aug-
2011/item/530-Nine-Questions-When-
Preparing-Clients-for-Joomla-1-8
44. Should I upgrade to 2.5?
• I’ll make it easy, here is my 2 cents
I’m currently Should I upgrade
using
Joomla 1.6 YES
Joomla 1.7 YES
Joomla 1.5 Eventually YES, but no rush
Joomla 1.0 LOL, why bother?
48. Alternate upgrade method using
Admin Tools
• Use Admin Tools instead
– http://www.akeebabackup.com/
49. How do I upgrade from Joomla 1.5?
• Get new versions of all your extensions
• Get a new site template
• Take a full backup
• Use either JUpgrade (free) or SP Upgrade
(commercial) or J2XML Importer (free)
50. How do I upgrade from Joomla 1.5?
• Tutorials
– http://www.jomsocial.com/blog/migrating-
joomla-15-to-joomla-25-a-guided-tutorial.html
– http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/upgrade-
joomla-16-to-25/
54. I’m missing the new modules and
plugins
• Extensions->extension manager->discover
55. I’m missing new database tables
• Extensions->extension manager->database
56. Article into image not showing
• You probably have a template overrides that
needs to be updated
• /templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/article/default.php
• Compare to
/components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/default.php and see
what is missing
• Another one
/templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category/blog_item.php
57. Disappearing articles after 2.5 upgrade
• articles that a specific user wrote are not
being published. They still show up in the
backend but not in the frontend.
• Cause: If you have a user linked to a contact
that is unpublished, the articles written by this
user don't show up in the front.
• The solution would be to publish the contact
or to completely remove them, including
empty the trash.
