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What is Joomla?

Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. Joomla is designed to be easy to install and set up even if you’re not an advanced user. Many Web hosting services offer a single-click install, getting your new site up and running in just a few minutes.

Joomla 3.4.8

Joomla 3.4.8 fixes some issues found in the 3.4.7 release on Monday to do with browser sessions. All reported bugs from the 3.4.7 update have been fixed in this release:

• Users were unable to edit or create items after the 3.4.7 update
• Fatal error about connection->stat() not existing on external database connections
• After session timeout users could still navigate the backend but without being able to create/edit items or use pagination/filters

Joomla Features

Goodbye to Weblinks

The Joomla team want to create a lighter core. The first step in this process is by removing extensions that aren’t widely used, such as Weblinks, and making them optional.

Weblinks has been removed from the core and moved to the Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED) as official extensions. If you already have Weblinks installed, it won’t be removed. But, if you want to use Weblinks in the future, install it from the JED.

Here’s the Github link for more details. You can expect more extensions (Newsfeed and Banners are prime candidates) to move to the JED with future releases.

Front-end module editing

For users, the most popular new feature in Joomla 3.4 will be front-end editing.

You can click on any module and edit it easily – no more hunting around in the admin area.

Composer integration

This is a feature that developers will love. Composer is a package manager for PHP. What does that mean in plain English? It means that Composer makes it easier to integrate external code libraries into Joomla.

Composer is a really popular product that’s widely used in the PHP community. You can find a list of all the libraries that Composer supports at Packagist.org.

No Captcha

People love to hate Captchas which are often clunky and hard to use. Plus, traditional captchas failed to protect you against spam.

So, in 2014, Google introduced what it called no CAPTCHA. This makes captchas much easier to use – a significant number of users now only have to check a box, rather than solving a puzzle. No Captcha is now available in Joomla 3.4.

More secure file uploads

Malicious file uploads are one of the most common ways to hack a site. Joomla 3.4 now has “UploadShield” code which can detect most malicious uploads by examining their filenames and file contents. This feature is an adaptation and improvement on work done in the popular Admin Tools extension.

Release beta or stable versions to different users

The Joomla core has long allowed users to choose whether they want to update to Beta versions (for testing) or just to stable versions. Now extension developers can do the same for their extensions by adding a tags attribute to their update server manifest.

Then they can ask their power users to test upcoming releases by using these steps:

• Go to Extensions > Extension Manager > Update
• Click on Options
• Under the Preferences tab set the Minimum stability to Alpha
• Click on Save & Close
• Click on Purge > Find Updates.

Hiding the admin sidebar

You can now make many Joomla 3 admin screens full-width by hiding the sidebar.