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.

What will be new on Joom!Fish 2.0?

The primary changes will be to the extension source coding and internal features. We will change the whole backend to fit to the new MVC pattern and use as many of the new features provided by the Joomla! 1.5 framework. The primary goal for 2.0 is to build a stable version which works for Joomla! 1.5 as soon as possible.

Will be integrated in the release

The features listed below are integrated in the release candidate of Joom!Fish 2.0

• MVC pattern integration for backend and frontend
• Complete usage of Joomla! 1.5 framework features
• First version of refactored XML library - usage of content element files
• Optimized installer for content element files
• Optimized installer for Joom!Fish including all related extensions
• Joom!Fish integrated plugin system
• Separated statistics and management functions
• Extended offline and online help using the Joomla! functionallity
• Integrated Administrator module to translate from other parts of the Administrator interface
• Integrated updates for SEO Router (basic integration)
• Integrated updates for searching within Joomla! core extensions
• Updated language selection module, including support for overwriting within templates