It didn't happened with a big bang, nor did I heard a lot of people screaming about it recently. The Joomla 1.0.x series served a lot of people for a huge number of websites. Some of these websites are already migrated to Joomla 1.5.x series but I assume many of them are not yet. So what are we going to do with them?

With the definition of the end of life the Joomla development team will no longer support this code. This means that security issues or other fixes are not being released anymore. In general this doesn't affect an existing site as long as there is no new issue - but who knows? Actually this means you need to upgrade now! There is no excuse that the migration costs time and effort, or that the extension you like to use doesn't exist yet. All major extensions are meanwhile converted to Joomla 1.5 and they run either in legacy or even in native mode within the new framework. The migration path is possible even for quite complex and big sites. Yes it takes time and effort, but this is less than any hack or security related issue.

For the Joom!Fish project the Joomla 1.0.x EOL means we are no longer supporting our Joom!Fish 1.x versions. We will keep these files available on joomlacode but we highly recommend everybody using the Joom!Fish 2.x series. Within our forum we have moved the 1.x related forums and will close them for read only access pretty soon. Joom!Fish 1.8 was a great extension and it also serves a lot of people on a lot of websites. The latest 1.8 package was downloaded nearly 124.185 times which is an impressive number.

We like to take this opportunity to thank all our contributors, customers, users and friends for their commitment to the project and the ongoing support. The whole Joom!Fish team is focusing at the moment on the release of the up-coming version 2.1 which will may be sometimes reach these high numbers of downloads of one single file.