Joomla 1.6 is the next generation of Joomla, the most popular Open Source Content Management System in the world. The Highlights of Joomla 1.6 are listed below
Expanded access control system
Nested categories solution
Commenting system
and standardise the way extensions are built using the MVC framework.
There is a lot of other ancillary work to be done, for the stable version of Joomla 1.6 New Release.Apart from some user interface improvements the new access control and nested categories systems are feature complete.
The following Administrator extensions are ready for the beta release.
* Articles manager
* Banners manager
* Configuration manager (used for Global Configuration and Component options)
* Modules manager
* Messages (private) manager
* Newsfeeds manager
* Plugins manager
* Redirect manager (a new component to redirect old page links to new ones)
* Search manager
* Template manager (including new "styles")
* User manager (includes ability to add new user groups and content access levels)
* Weblinks manager
Note : Stable version of Joomla 1.6.0 has been released and you can download here
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5696
