Η παγκόσμια κοινότητα του Joomla! με χαρά ανακοινώνει την δημοσίευση της έκδοσης 4.1 που προσφέρει νέες δυνατότητες και βελτιώσεις.

Η έκδοση θέτει νέα standards στην προσβασιμότητα κατά των σχεδιασμό ιστοσελίδων και φέρνει νέες δυνατότητες, τονίζοντας τις αξίες του Joomla για τη συνοχή, την απλότητα και την ασφάλεια σε μια ακόμη πιο ισχυρή πλατφόρμα ανοιχτού κώδικα.

Με την έκδοση 4.1, έχουμε μια έκδοση με νέες δυνατότητες για bloggers και and αρθριγράφους, σχεδιαστές ιστοσελίδων, κατασκευαστές επεκτάσεων και web agencies. Τα κυριότερα χαρακτηριστικά της έκδοσης είναι:

Προγραμματισμένες Εργασίες

Do you have tasks you do time and time again? Or tasks for the future which you must not forget to do? Now you can automate them with the new Task Scheduler.
Joomla extensions will be able to take advantage of the new feature, giving you the power to time work and run it on a regular basis. Even if your website host does not allow cron jobs, we have got you covered by letting your visitor trigger the execution in the background.
And, of course, developers will be able to take advantage of the core scheduler to automate their extensions, taking their applications to a new level of productivity.
The new Task Scheduler comes in addition to the existing Workflows Manager and Web Services introduced in Joomla 4.0. This unique combination adds a tremendous potential to Joomla as a Web applications and automation framework.

Taking overrides onto the next level with Child Templates

With child templates, you can create different instances of a template with one click, changing only the lines of code you need to, it is simple and effective. In the past, personalizing template parts for specific pages involved several technical steps, which are now integrated.
A child template works exactly the same as any other template except that it uses all the code, PHP, CSS and JavaScript of its parent template.
At its most basic level, it only contains a single file, templateDetails.xml, as everything else is inherited from the parent.
Now with a child template, you can customize an override or CSS and keep the parent template as clean as the day your template provider supplied it. This also simplifies your maintenance by allowing you to keep your template up to date, while preserving your changes.
There is no limit on the number of child templates that you can create so each one could have different layouts and styles.

Ελεγχος Προσβασιμότητας

Jooa11y - The Joomla accessibility and quality assurance tool

Every visitor unable to view your page is potentially a lost customer. Joomla 4's main focus is accessibility, and now we enable authors to create great accessible content with Jooa11y: It visually highlights common accessibility and usability issues.
Ideal for busy content creators, Jooa11y identifies many errors and warnings, providing help and advice on how to fix them.
Jooa11y highlights content issues and is integrated into the content authoring experience.
It has never been so easy to create an accessible website.

Syntax Highlighting in the integrated editor

Sometimes the “What you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) is not enough and you have to switch to the HTML code view.
Now with Joomla! 4.1 all the code is syntax highlighted in the built-in TinyMCE editor. This will make it so much easier to read all of your HTML tags and CSS classes. Markup is clearly displayed.
Additionally, you can search and replace directly in the HTML code view.

Inline Help

After we cleaned up a lot of redundant descriptions In Joomla 4.0 we now implement the ability to toggle on/off detailed inline help when needed. So far, this feature is only available for the global configuration settings but can now be extended to any area and also used by Joomla extensions developers.
You can decide if you need support and toggle the extra help on and off. When you are comfortable with how a particular area works, you can turn inline help off and get that minimalist look back. Joomla4All!

Μάθε πως το Joomla 4.1 θα σε οφελήσει;

Επισκεφτείτε το joomla.org/4

Που μπορώ να κατεβάσω το Joomla 4.1 και την τελευταία έκδοση της σειράς 3.10, Joomla 3.10.6;

Στην αντίστοιχη σελίδα με τα αρχεία, φυσικά :)

Νέες εγκαταστάσεις

• Λήψη Joomla 4.1
• Λήψη Joomla 3.10.6

Πακέτα αναβάθμισης

• Λήψη πακέτου αναβάθμισης 4.1
• Λήψη πακέτου αναβάθμισης 3.10.6

You would like to take a tour of Joomla 4 without having to install it? We have a solution for you: Try Joomla 4.1.0 at launch.joomla.org

How can I upgrade my site to Joomla 4.1?

If your site is a Joomla 4.0.x installation

Then it’s a normal update, backup and update as you would with any Joomla update via the internal updater.

If your site is a Joomla 3.x installation

Don’t stress, you’re not alone, we are guiding you for the mini-migration.

The first step will be to update your site to the latest Joomla 3.10. We invite you to read Joomla 3.10 The Pre-update Checker. The 3.10 update checker will tell you which extensions are compatible with Joomla 4 (great, isn’t it?).

And then, you just have to follow our step by step tutorials. You can find them on our official documentation at https://docs.joomla.org/Why_Migrate. Planning is the most important part of the mini-migration process. See https://docs.joomla.org/Planning_for_Mini-Migration_-_Joomla_3.10.x_to_4.x to start with. At the bottom of that doc, you can then proceed to the step by step for mini-migration from 3.10.x to 4.x. and specifically start with planning at (you’ll find plenty of information and tutorial about Joomla 4 on JDocs).

Note: we advise you to first test the migration on a copy of your production site.

Migrate now?

You may also wonder if you have to migrate now? Ideally, you would start the planning of the migration now so that you can migrate once your template and extensions are ready. Use this as an opportunity to remove old and outdated extensions. More can be done with the core, safely and efficiently, so if an extension has not been migrated, see if you really need it..

Keep in mind that Joomla 3.10 is supported for another 1.5 years, so there is no pressure to migrate now, but you shouldn’t wait too long and be ready before 3.10 ends its support.

You can read articles about the process of mini migration and Joomla 4.1in the Joomla Community Magazine.

Make some noise. Joomla 4.1 is out!

We released the best Joomla yet. Let’s tell the world!

Get the message out about the great new features using the hashtag #Joomla4 and #Joomla4All.

Σύνδεσμος για το φυλλάδιο του J4: https://joom.la/J4brochure

Σύνδεσμος για την τεκμηρίωση του J4: https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Getting_Started_with_Joomla! και https://docs.joomla.org/JDOC:Joomla_4_Tutorials_Project

Ποιους αφορά το Joomla!;

Do you need to make a website? For personal use, your work, a charity, not for profit. Perhaps a university, local government, then Joomla is for you.
A web agency needs a well-supported framework that can grow as your clients' needs grow. Then Joomla is for you.
Written by volunteers from every sector, it's used all over the internet for all kinds of projects: from blogs and intranets to national government sites. From small shops to world-leading brand sites, Joomla is capable of growing to fit your needs.
Joomla’s power comes from its ever-evolving code base, keeping up with best practices, but also from its large ecosystem of developers who see opportunities in the market and fill those gaps with good software designed to meet real-world needs.
Joomla 4.1 is the latest in a world-class CMS that allows you to start your website knowing it can grow with your needs and scale with your customers.
All this and Joomla 4 is free to use and open-source software.
What are you waiting for? Install today and grow your future.

Πώς μπορώ να βοηθήσω στην ανάπτυξη του Joomla;

Υπάρχουν πολλοί τρόποι που μπορείτε να βοηθήσετε και να εμπλακείτε στην ανάπτυξη. Δεν έχει σημασία εάν είστε προγραμματιστής, εγκαταστάτης, ή ένας απλός χρήστης του Joomla. Μπορείτε να επικοινωνήσετε με την αντίστοιχη ομάδα, για να λάβετε τις σχετικές πληροφορίες ή μπορείτε να ξεκινήσετε κατευθείαν συμμετέχοντας στην ομάδα επίλυσης σφαλμάτων (Joomla! Bug Squad).

Η ομάδα επίλυσης σφαλμάτων και η ομάδα δημοσίευσης εκδόσεων, είναι από τις πιό ενεργές στην διαδικασία της εξέλιξης του Joomla! CMS και αναζητούν μόνιμα νέα μέλη (όχι μόνο προγραμματιστές) που μπορούν να ανακαλύψουν, να αναφέρουν και να επιλύουν σφάλματα ή και να δημιουργούν patches. Είναι ένας μοναδικός τρόπος για να αυξηθεί η γνώση και ένας ακόμα καλύτερος τρόπος για να γνωρίσετε νέα άτομα με κοινές ασχολίες σε όλον τον κόσμο.

Εάν σας ενδιαφέρει, μπορείτε να διαβάσετε το Joomla! Wiki και, εφόσον επιθυμείτε να ενταχθείτε στην ομάδα, στείλτε email στον Jacob Waisner,bugsquad@community.joomla.org, ο οποίος είναι ο συντονιστής της ομάδας.

Θέλουμε να ευχαριστήσουμε όλους όσους έχουν συνεισφέρει, με όποιον τρόπο, στην έως τώρα πορεία του έργου.

Ευχαριστούμε τους εθελοντές μας!

Οφείλουμε ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ σε όλους όσους συνεισεφέραν για την δημοσίευση της έκδοσης 4.10. Η έκδοση είναι αποτέλεσμα εκατοντάδων ωρών δουλειάς  εθελοντών.