Joomla! 1.7.0 - stable version released Joomla! 1.7 line which was officially released July 19, 2011 a team of Joomla Project. The main factor for the release of version 1.7 and the termination of the development of version 1.6 has become a critical vulnerability in the security of the latter. At the request of Aung Khanta XSS-kernel vulnerability affects all versions of Joomla 1.6.x.

It should be noted that Joomla 1.7.0 has been placed in a separate product based on Joomla Platform, based on the new core. That is, he freyvork Joomla will exist separately from the system, based on this, the version of Joomla 1.7.0 you can use to develop their own content management systems (CMS) and scripts, as well as to make the integration of extensions issued under Joomla with other scripts, platforms or CMS! Version 1.6.5 users can safely upgrade to 1.7.0 by downloading and installing the update package from our website, for those who want to move from version 1.5 to 1.7 must still use the component migration jUpgrade.

New features in Joomla 1.7:

• added support for input old API;
• appeared JToolBarHelper function to save, create copies of materials;
• mod_custom module supports background images;
• added function to check the rules JFormRuleOptions parameters;
• TinyMCE editor updated version 3.4;
• an opportunity to save the search results in the menu;
• editor CodeMirror modes has PHP and HTML;
• supports OpenSearch search (com_search);
• Automatic updating of databases;
• of association between menus using multilanguage;
• etc.