| Administrator Manager |
| Extension manager to unified installer and ability to disable components (security) |
| Article Manager |
| content items are now called articles |
| only uses one editor to save screen realestate |
| new image manager that allows u to insert images on the fly |
| simplified interface |
| on the fly-preview (u don’t need to save first before u can preview your changes) |
| archive functionality has been moved into the article manager |
| improved pagebreak and readmore handling |
| Menu Manager |
| set a default menu item |
| three-click process to add a new menu item |
| easily edit a menu item without the need to remove it |
| u can link to anything |
| vastely simplified interface |
| Media manager |
| Improved user interface, thumbnail and detail views |
| Easily upload multiple files at once |
| Added configuration settings |
| Template manager |
| Improved template preview, show module positions and names |
| Support to edit multiple css files |
| Site |
| Full support for feeds (atom 1.0 and rss 2.0); In Joomla! 1.5 feeds are generated for all article categories and sections, weblinks and contacts. |
| Improved error handling; Joomla! 1.5 outputs correct 404, 403 and 500 error messages. These messages can be customised by the template designer. |
| Improved lost password handling; Joomla! 1.5 makes it easier for users to retrieve their lost pasword based on username or email address. |
| A. Designer features |
| All html output has been moved into extension templates. These templates can be overridden in your own site template, allowing a designer to completely change the generated html markup to his liking. He can change css classes, remove tables, make the template compliant to accessibility standards etc |
| A designer can define his own module wrappers in his site template. In 1.0 there were only 3 hardcoded options, in 1.5 a designer can define his own option to wrap his modules. |
| The menu module in 1.5 now renders as unordered lists by default, the old menutypes are still supported for backwards compatability reasons. |
| The pagination output can be overriden in the site template by a designer. |
| The whole SEF system has been revamped. The core SEF support has been improved and can easily be extended by plugins. No core hacking is needed. |
| B. Developer features |
| 1. Internationalisation |
| Full UTF-8; It is able to represent any universal character in the Unicode standard, yet the initial encoding of byte codes and character assignments for UTF-8 is coincident with ASCII (requiring little or no change for software that handles ASCII but preserves other values). For these reasons, it is steadily becoming the preferred encoding for email, web pages, and other places where characters are stored or streamed. |
| RTL support; This option stands for Right To Left support, simple making it possible to reverse rendering order of content. This is option is valuable for languages where right to left is used, like Arabic. |
| Translation using INI files; Translations of extensions is now fully supported within the core framework by INI files. |
| Very easy to add new languages because of INI structure. |
| 2. Application framework |
| FTP filesystem; Allows admins/users to maintain their site without having an ftp server/client around, ease of use and maximum flexibilty |
| LDAP support; with this you can connect Joomla! to an enterprise directory like Microsoft’s Active Directory or Novell’s e-directory; move credentials maintenance outside the Joomla! environment. |
| New PDF library |
| XML-RPC support; this enables us to make the Joomla! CMS webservice aware and is opening up all kind of new functionality that can be incorporated into Joomla! |
| 3rd party extensions |
| Component framework; adding MVC pattern support offering a basic approach to develop full OO based extensions to Joomla! All classes to support easy, quick and almost out-of-the-box extensions development are around. |
| Standard separation from logic and representation. |
| Pathway support. |
| Improved SEF |
| Improved caching |
| Database drivers |
