There are many fine achievements to reflect on as we look back on 2017. Most importantly the Joomla Project wants to say a massive “thank you” to all our volunteers. As an open source project, Joomla can only achieve what it does with the valuable contributions of our extensive global community of hard-working volunteers. On behalf of the Joomla Project, Thank You!
In the December 2017 survey we received responses from 1,734,290,608 sites across 212,870,632 unique domain names and 7,014,428 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 5.34 million domains and 121,000 computers. Web Server Developers – Market Share of Domains The number of hostnames in use on the web has been a headline metric since the […]
New York – December 15, 2017
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) vote on Thursday December 14, 2017 to repeal Net Neutrality, while unfortunately expected, is tremendously disappointing to all believers of an open and free internet.
Open Source Matters, Inc. and the Joomla Community believe wholeheartedly in content creation and dissemination. We as a community have been overwhelmingly in favor of retaining Net Neutrality in the United States and worldwide and will seek to make our voices heard in as many ways as possible.
Joomla 3.8.3 is now available. This is a bug fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which includes over 60 bug fixes and improvements.
Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that PowerDNS Recursor, a high-performance resolving name server was susceptible to denial of service via a crafted CNAME answer.
It discovered that the Private Browsing mode in the Mozilla Firefox web browser allowed to fingerprint a user across multiple sessions via IndexedDB.
Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
Who is A2 Hosting?
It’s likely that you’re already familiar with A2 Hosting. Not only are they an active Joomla! Community member and have sponsored Joomla! and our community, they have been hosting Joomla! sites since their launch back in 2003.
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With the prospect of Joomla 4 next year we would like to raise awareness on the must of upgrading to PHP 7.
Joomla 4 will require PHP 7 to run, as stated in this announcement. Most hosts already offer PHP 7 in their packages and it should be fairly easy to change your PHP version. (Hint: before you do, make sure you backup) If not, contact your host today.
Let us give you 4 reasons why you shouldn’t wait on upgrading PHP.
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