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Joomla! 1.6 Access Control Design Concepts

Written by Amy Stephen

Your review and feedback is appreciated on Design Concepts for the Joomla! 1.6 Access Control Improvements. Please review this video that overviews those ideas, review presentation material and leave your comments, questions and concerns, below. If you have specific application requirements that you want to ensure are met, take time to share those Use Cases for review. Thanks!

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Welcome Pashto, Dari, Tagalog and Khmer

Written by Ole Bang Ottosen

Its only been two weeks since we welcomed Indonesian and Azeri Translation Teams, and now we have the pleasure of welcoming four new teams.

The last two weeks we have added the following languages and teams:

1. Dari (Afghanistan) Translation Team
2. Pashto (Afghanistan) Translation Team
3. Tagalog (Philippines) Translation Team
4. Khmer (Cambodia) Translation Team

With the addition of the latest teams we are now closing in on having support from 60 languages for Joomla! 1.5
Amazing, really.

New teams join in each month and help joomla! grow.

Here is the full list of current teams:
http://community.joomla.org/translations.html

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Happy 4th Birthday to Joomla!

Written by Joomla!

Image by Baked Creation

Today, we have great cause to celebrate because Joomla! is four years old!

It takes many of us participating in many different ways to ensure the Joomla! project moves forward and people are successful using Joomla!.

Thanks you to each of you who share Extensions, Joomla! 1.6 Feature Patches, and Bug Patches that strengthen the Joomla! code base.

Thank you for helping in the Joomla! Forums and on social networks, like Twitter. Those who take time to write documentation and blog about Joomla! provide useful resources for learning.

We thank those working in local communities for helping organize Joomla! Users Groups and Joomla! Day Events. Your efforts translating Joomla! make it possible for others to take advantage of the environment in their language.

Thanks to those who help oversee the Joomla! Shop, the Community Web site, forums, Resource Directory, Site Showcase, Extensions Directory, and JoomlaCode repository. The Joomla! Leadership Team, Production Working Group, Community Working Group, and Open Source Matters organization provide necessary foundation for this project to thrive.

It is because of our collective efforts that Joomla! is made available for anyone in the world to use to create Web sites so that they might communicate more effectively with others. Happy 4th Birthday, Joomla!, and thanks to each of you who helped make this possible.

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Being "The Vendor" for Security Issues

Written by Elin Waring

Every six months IBM's x-Force security team releases a report about what software has had what vulnerabilities. Joomla! usually ranks pretty high, not because of vulnerabilities in the core, but because there are thousands of third party extensions (some not actively developed since Joomla! 1.0.1) that exist out in the world. Every six months I explain to the folks at IBM that the Joomla! Project isn't the vendor for third party extensions. They listen, but they don't change.

The new report is out, and as usual it's both interesting and frustrating. When reading it, keep in mind that IBM doesn't evaluate the reports for accuracy at all, they just count any reports that come from anywhere mildly authoritative (even a security account in Twitter has an entry). They use the same sources we all do to monitor security reports. They do a pretty good (but not perfect) job of merging duplicates. The big deal in the new report is that it claims that 80% of Joomla vulnerabilities are unpatched. How they decide that something is patched is not described in their report. 

Read more: Being "The Vendor" for Security Issues

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Webinar: Introducing Joomla! Magento Integration

Written by Mark Dexter

Magento is a powerful e-commerce solution but is lacking in general CMS functionality. For his GSoC 2009 project, Anh Nguyen created an extension that allows you to use Joomla! for your regular website and Magento for your e-commerce site. Best of all, to the user, it looks and feels like one integrated site. Click here to view Anh's 48-minute webinar where he demonstrates how this works and what it looks like. Great work, Anh!

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