End of May 2010 a real international conference about the CMS Joomla takes place in Wiesbaden, Germany. With J and Beyond Joomfish supports the second event as sponsor and will bring our whole team to Wiesbaden. Our idea is to have a 1 hour slot somewhen beside the normal conference to discuss the future of Joomfish. Get your feedback, wishes and ideas.

The whole Joomfish team is quite excited about the opportunity to meet again during such an awesome conference. This year having speakers such as Andrew Eddie, Hannes Papenberg, Steve Burge, Matthias Verraes, Sandro Groganz just to name a few, is quite impressive. I also know that Matthew Philogene will present a JoomFish based project from South Africa and many more Joomfish users, agencies and others will be on site.

So the big question is: Are you coming to the event? If yes please add a short comment here and may be tell us what is important for you during the event, related to Joomfish and in general. With these information we can may be prepare a bit and make sure that you get the answers you are looking for.

We are looking forward to meeting you in less than 2 weeks @ J and Beyond 2010, Wiesbaden, Germany #jab10

Did you realized that Joomfish is one of the top 5 downloaded extensions of Joomla? A couple of days ago the Joomfish project had reached the magic number of 1.000.000 downloads on Joomlacode. As Joomlacode is not that old it counts only the downloads sine its release in 2006. In 2008 the Joomfish forum was released and today it has already more than 10.000 registered users and about 25.000 threads. All these numbers are impressive and a really good reason to celebrate a bit.

In March 2010 the Joomfish project will celebrate you, the users, supporters, contributors and all others that use Joomfish or help us to make it such a great success. End of the month we will visit the JoomlaDay Bordeaux and during the event we will release Joom!Fish 2.1 to the general public.

As it is our goal to celebrate you we start a JoomFish website contest today. Please submit your Joomfish based website in our Forum until the 15th of March 2010. After this date we will start a community voting for the best website and the winner will be announced end of March 2010. Beside a front-page article about your website more prices will be awarded. Do not miss this unique opportunity to present your work or projects of your customers, friends and organizations.

The year 2009 was a quite exciting year with presentations of JoomFish on various events, JoomlaDays and many, many talks in our forum and other places. It was our great wish to make sure the overlay map doesn't show any white spots anymore. And actually there are no more white posts on it.

The top ten list of our visitors reads quite interesting too. With Germany, Italy and France on the first places we have quite known countries. Many people and friends reach us from there. Next year I will visit the JoomlaDay France in Bordeaux (21st of March 2010) and I will definitely talk to the team from Italy about visiting them as well. In Germany we are supporting the event "J and Beyond" which is going to start on May, 30th 2010 and I'm sure this will be really exciting. The group after these top three countries includes the USA, Spain, Netherlands, Russia, Poland, Greece and Canada. I have to say this is awesome as specially Russia, Poland and Greece are countries Joomfish was never presented from one of our team yet. Something that might need to change next year - let's see if there is an event we can visit.

With in total about 3.5 Million page impressions and about 500.000 unique visitors the site has reached quite some impressive figures and we really like to thank all those of you that support us in many ways. Meanwhile we have contributions for new videos, documentation, translation and a lot of feedback for the extension itself. It is great to see how the whole JoomFish community increases and it gives us quite some responsibility to improve JoomFish even more.

For 2010 we have quite some goals to achieve. The very first priority is the public release of JoomFish 2.1 and the improvements of our documentation. We are also working on a new website design and some more additional features which are planed very soon. Stay tuned for more news, releases and events we support. And one thing will be for sure in 2010 as well. JoomFish Core will stay free and open.

The release 2.0.4 of JoomFish targets several minor issues related handling and usability as well as one important security issue that was reported recently. This is why it is highly recommended to update all your Joomfish powered websites with this latest release.

For your upgrade process you can easily install the full distribution package of JoomFish over your existing installation. Alternatively we provide several patch packages which allow an easy upgrade using FTP or other file access methods. You can find all files as well as further information to the new release on your download page.

With the release of 2.0.4 the Joomfish team will set the support for PHP4 to a deprecated status. The next release 2.1 will only support PHP5 based servers and adds the capabilities to support PHP 5.3. The next release, which is already available as pre-release for JoomFish Club members, will include several changes for the optimization of your translation process as well as better in-component documentation.