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Version 12.3 (“Curiosity”) of the Joomla Platform was tagged and released on 20 December 2012. It is the third release of the 12.x series. In addition to numerous bug fixes, documentation updates and it also brings new features, the main ones: 

• Platform manual converted from DocBook to Markdown to improve readability and enhance contribution.
• Extensive additions to the platform documentation.
• Easier query construction with JDatabaseQuery::format
• Support for composite keys in JTable
• Improvements to the JGitHub API
• Improvements to JLog around excluding categories and features for syslog
• Improved Windows support for testing and building
• PHPMailer updated to 5.2.2

The full list of commits is available here https://github.com/joomla/joomla-platform/commits/12.3 and the api doc here http://api.joomla.org. The Joomla! Platform Manual is available at http://joomla.github.com/joomla-platform/.

Project size

• Classes: 305 (300 in platform 12.2)
• Methods: 2187 (2136 in platform 12.2)

Summary of code quality

• Check style: 123 warnings (124 in platform 12.2)
• Test Coverage: 39.4% (38.16% in platform 12.2).

The Joomla Platform Maintainers would like your feedback about whether, as a community, we want to change the license under which the Joomla Platform is released to the LGPL. It is felt that in moving to the LGPL, we will be able to allow more people to integrate the Joomla Platform with their software solutions, and that will translate to an increase in support for the Joomla project overall.

Please give your feedback via the Joomla Platform LGPL Survey. This survey will remain open until the 2 January 2013. After the feedback is collected and reviewed, we will publish the results in a consolidated form and make a determination about what the next steps, if any, will be.

Please note, the feedback relates only to the license of the Joomla Platform. There is no proposal to change the license of the Joomla CMS.

The Joomla Platform Maintainers thank you in advance for your valued feedback.

Version 12.1 (“Louis Landry”) of the Joomla Platform was tagged and released on 9 May 2012. It is the first release of the 12.x serie. In addition to numerous bug fixes, it also brings new features, the main ones: 

• Simplified foundational classes for Model, View and Controller
• Database iterator
• PostgreSQL driver
• New Crypt package
• File patcher

The full list of commits is available here https://github.com/joomla/joomla-platform/commits/12.1 and the api doc here http://api.joomla.org

Project size

• Classes: 309 (270 in platform 11.4)
• Methods: 2122 (2000 in platform 11.4)
• Lines: 28540 (25970 in platform 11.4)
• Comments: 56837 (62155 in platform 11.4)
• Blank lines: 10472 (11877 in platform 11.4)

Summary of code quality

• Check style: 142 warnings (199 in platform 11.4)
• Duplicate code: 27 warnings (26 in platform 11.4)
• Programming Mess Detector (PMD): 702 warnings (1002 in platform 11.4)
• Test Coverage: 39.70% (41% in platform 11.4). The decrease is due to the move of some classes to the legacy folder.