The open source project claims that roughly three percent of the web is run on Joomla services and that Joomla serves as the web content backbone for large enterprises including Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea, McDonald’s and Sony. It competes with other open source CMS offerings such as WordPress and Drupal.
Joomla! 3.0 offers a total of 15 new features including a new PostgreSQL driver and a new user interface for administrators. As it is already integrated with MySQL and SQL Server, the addition of the PostgreSQL driver makes Joomla database independent for the first time, the statement indicated.
It also incorporates the the "ability to copy a template, the option to disable the ability to change the Username in Profile and the installation of language packages directly from the extension manager, which makes it easier to manage other languages," the statement added.
The last Joomla upgrade, version 2.5, was introduced last January. The project issued a security fix, 3.0.1, on Tuesday, October 9, 2012.
If you are wondering whether to migrate to a new Joomla 3.0 version, please read this article: Should I stay with Joomla 2.5 or should I migrate to Joomla 3.0?
