It's been 2 weeks since we released the Joom!Fish 2.0 RC in public. On our default download location more than 10.000 downloads have been provided since. The feedback we get is pretty cool and already several sites use the system in a pre productive phase.

What is even more positive is the fact that we have less than 10 bugs reported. Most of the issues are related to the caching system of Joomla! that still has some general issues which are reported for Joomla! 1.5 as well. In order to take care of these issues we decided to integrate a new logic caching the translations in the database and not in the file system. Most of the other issues are easily fixed.

Saying so, we are very close to the stable version of Joom!Fish and we expect the release in time. The preparation phase for the Club Members will start soon and short after we will release the stable version to the public. We like to thank all our users, contributors and donors for the help and confidence in the project.

Dear friends of the Joom!Fish project,
It is our pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the public release of Joom!Fish 2.0 Release Candidate. A big thank goes to everyone interested in the project, from contributors, supporters, end users, third party developers and of course our families and friends for their patience when we were giving our time to the project.

Joom!Fish 2.0 is the full featured release of Joomla's free multilingual extension. It is considered stable for productive use after a long phase of Beta testing. All features are implemented and depending on the community feedback we will look forward releasing the stable version soon.

The Joom!Fish team likes to announce the availibility of the Release Candidate Joom!Fish 2.0 for all Club members starting from today. We will provide the package including dedicated support and installation help for all Club members. For everybody else the package is available in the SVN trunk. Starting 9th of September 2008 we will provide the RC package for the public including support in our forums.

With this package we have completed the full set of features and required integration for all Joom!Fish core components, modules and plugins. The status of the package is considered feature complete and so far pretty stable. As we implemented several new features within the last development cycle this release candidate is dedicated to do the final testing and offer all our supporters some time for the final translations, documentations and other required localisations.

The team is pretty confident that after a short peroid of the final testing the stable version from Joom!Fish 2.0 can be released as well. The current release already includes the feature to upgrade your work from the RC to a later stable version without a transition period. With Joom!Fish very close to be stable a quite long development phase ended. Joom!Fish now uses most of the new Joomla! framework architectures and it should be easy to be integrated in your sites. We are looking forward seeing your new sites soon and like to invite all of you writing about your projects within our forum.

The Joom!Fish development team is pleased to announce the official and public release of the Joom!Fish 2.0 Beta today.

The new version can be found in our download area and allows native integration of multilingual solutions into Joomla! 1.5. Joom!Fish 2.0 is an enhanced and native implemented extension using the Joomla! 1.5 framework. It incorporates with the Joomla! 1.5 legacy mode for other extensions as well as the native integration.

The current implementation is 95% feature completed and already once tested by all our contributors and donators. However we recommend not using this version for a productive website yet. After this Beta the Joom!Fish team will release an Release Candidate and then the stable version. Depending on the feedback the RC is expected to be published soon.

The open issues related to this release is a final cleanup of code, the finishing of language files together with the translators and the integration of bugs found in the system. For the feedback towards these topics we opened a free support forum . This forum is open and does not include priority support. If you require priority support and you can subscribe to our support forum including direct access to our development team.

Last but not least thank's to all our supporters, contributors, translators and many, many more that supported the project in the past month. Your feedback and encouraging comments are a very valuable source of energy and motivation for our team.

Kind regards

Alex, Geraint, Ivo and Robin 

We are proud to announce that the Joom!Fish 1.8 manual was published for all contributors to the Joom!Fish project.

Contributors are considered the translators, people who donated more at least 10 EUR and other people supporting the project.

The documentation can be find in the specific forum. 

After the first release of Joom!Fish 1.8 several smaller bugs and improvements had been found by our community. Most of those smaller issues had been implemented in the 1.8.1 or 1.8.2 releases which are available at the moment.

As we consider the version 1.8 the latest version for Joomla! 1.0.x series we like to inform you that we will maintain the 1.8.x releases ongoing. We plan to review every month if important changes are found and what we can do about those issues. We always will collect some issues for one patch and will make sure that the patches do not affect your already used data and translations. Our goal is to create a very stable and reliable solution based on the feature set of Joom!Fish 1.8 for all Joomla! 1.0.x installations.

The next update and patch is planed for mid January 2008. If you still have some ideas and suggestions please feel free to report them either on our tracker or in the forum. 

Since the release of Joom!Fish 1.8 and 1.8.1 we got several donations to the project. We are very thankful for those donations and like to thank all those of you. Special thanks goes to Rolf Fey from webpublicity.com for a very generous donation which made him to the donor of the month :).

The new support forum dedicated to all the contributors and donors is picking up slowly as we are now getting a good group of people there. We are looking forward reading your questions and solving the related issues.

Thanks for all your support 

With a big THANK you we like to announce that the Joom!Fish version 1.8 is about to be completed. The Release Candidate is available on our download page and open for productive testing.

After a three month internal Beta period with several testers on our SVN and technical mailing list we have completed all open tasks and fixed the known bugs in the system. Joom!Fish 1.8 is a feature release which provides several requested features and new ideas which have been discussed in the last time. We would like to thank all of you for your feedback, suggestions and bug fixes. 

We have split the presentation of the new features in various documents available on our site. This is because otherwise it is just to much.

Ivo wrote already a nice article about his first impressions explaining the new features in an brief overview.

Geraint wrote an article about the new features in explaination. This article describes the whole new fallback language, the preview mode and the side by side preview which is now implemented. Not to forget the alternative language bot which allows you to present your articles with an easy accessible translation for your users.

A second article talks about the possibilities to manage regional content with the Joom!Fish and explains how you could manage various contents which are related to several countries in your company. How to use the Joom!Fish to manage those sites and the related content is described in detail.