I guess it is no big secret that I like to work with CMS systems? Originating out of the world of databases, it is my world and I more than once ended up in tweaking data directly within the database,

Working since years with Mambo and Joomla now, I was more or less happy with it all the time. The core system and updates always worked painless and the only hassle you had were coming along with third party software you had decided to add in yourself.

Now this has changed! Since the new version 1.5 for my feeling the overall quality has gone worse. I had a short glance looking into the Release Candidates and felt from the beginning just less impressed about them not offering much new.

The first Final Release 1.5 I also did put away very soon, to later on coming back to it with version 1.5.3 again.

At that time world seemed to be fine agan and I created an own site using it without having big trouble. I felt more and more happy about it again, as for I was able to fix all issues, you for sure have with any new version ending up with a result I was happy about.

Now recently the Joomla team proudly announce a new update version 1.5.4, which I directly installed on a test site a few days ago (happily just there!).

And I directly found issues by only opening the frontpage directly after the upgrade was finished.

Ok I thought! You better go and check that first … But I ended up in recognising that some global setting which had already worked fine in 1.5.3 now just plainly get ignored in 1.5.4! Boys (and girls for sure) that sucks…..

Guess it’s finally time to look for something new now!!