The new release of Joomla! will require many changes to existing extensions. The whole new framework and the refactored code base is basically a maijor release with some backwards capabilities. As the Joom!Fish is highly integrated into the core system it is basically a new development for us as well.

The project released the Release Candidate for all Club members in August 2008. The public Release Candidate is planed for the 9th of September 2008 with following the stable soon after. The release of the stable depends on the issues found in the release candidate.

The Version 1.8 is released as stable product and will be the last version for the Joomla! 1.0.x codebase. It will include several new feautres valuable for administrators and users as well some migration features for the developers and translators. The primary goal of this release is to build a stable base of features which can be used for a longer period and for all users requireing the old Joomla! version. For now on we are in the maintenance phase for this release and will only fix new bugs and security issues. This maintenance will last until 12 month after the release of Joom!Fish 2.0, which is not scheduled yet.

The Joom!Fish 1.8 release will not be compatible with Joomla! 1.5 at all. Not even with compability mode switched on!