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Is is a bird?

Is it a plane?

No... its an open source revolution, the birth of Joomla 1.5 beta finally arrives.

Rob Schley just posted some interesting news at the main Joomla dev blog:

"During what is called the “Deface Realtime Compo” Competition up to 150 Security Specialists, hackers, and crackers bomarded the CMS with attacks for 2 days straight without success. Both Joomla! and PHP-Nuke were evaluated during the competition and both systems received positive evaluations. Along with the positive evaluation, we received a certification from the WebSecure Group, declaring that Joomla! was reliable and recommended for use."

Its good to know that 150 hackers can't break into Joomla dev blog.

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Joomla! lead developer Johan Janssens announced the official Joomla! 1.5 Beta release date at the German Joomla! Day in Bonn. The announcement marks the most significant milestone in Joomla's short history. "We've decided to release on the 12th of October - exactly one year since we wrote our first line of Joomla! code"