Automatic Updates Coming to Joomla 1.6

Wednesday, 03 September 2008 21:47

It was just announced over at the Core Team Blog that Joomla 1.6 will feature a mechanism that will allow extensions to be updated from within Joomla itself--this is really great news if they can pull it off with a notification system. As I talk about in episode 5, I believe that automatic updates would be a great new feature for Joomla. What do you think? Could it be a security issue in itself?

UPDATE: I wondered how this would affect Intellispire, makers of The Joomla Podcast Extension of Week Joomla Updater. Luckily, Nick Temple from Intellispire was kind enough to answer this questions:

"Mike, I'd like to tell you how pleased I am to hear from you that updates will be in the Joomla! core where they belong - sooner rather than later. Joomla! has needed this for a long time.
While I can't claim any credit, I do hope that our innovative technology has helped fuel this decision to add update capability to the roadmap now.
The Intellispire Software Installer for Joomla!, is, at its heart, a software delivery platform and will continue to function as one through 1.6 and beyond, adapting to and embracing core technology changes as they become available."

I'm happy to see that Intellispire is pleased to see Joomla moving toward this direction of automatic updates.

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written by Marty , October 11, 2008

What is the release date for Joomla 1.6?

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written by Mike B. , October 13, 2008

Hi Marty,

There isn't an official date set yet. Hopefully it will be soon!

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