Dec 13
Joomla! 1.5 is infested with bugs!
The imminent release of Joomla 1.5 has the community rather excited (read ‘frothing at the mouth’). It constitutes the first major release since Joomla burst onto the scene back in 2005. There are some really impressive new features and usability enhancements that make it more of a viable prospect for serious business websites. Release candidate 3 has been available for some time now and Joomla users all over the world have been putting it through it’s paces.
There is just one small problem. It doesn’t work!
I installed Joomla 1.5 without a hitch and everything seemed to be fine, but then I tried to install a component. Sadly component installation fails without any error messages (not even in the logs) or any clues as to why it fails. The same applies to installing modules and templates. All the configuration and file permission settings are correct so it remains a mystery.
A quick session on the Joomla forums relvealed that lots of other people are having the same problem and there are tons of bugs affecting many parts of the system.
Of course the whole point of beta testing is to identify and fix bugs which is exactly what they have done. Release candidate 4 should be out in 1-2 weeks which will fix many of these issues and will hopefully be the last release candidate before the final stable version.
Until then please, please, please don’t use Joomla 1.5 on a production website!
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December 19th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Of course it has bugs. If it did not, it would be stable. Come on now, you are wasting bandwidth.
December 21st, 2007 at 7:50 am
On one hand, I agree.
On the other, we get asked quite regularly by customers if they should install 1.5. Now we just point them at this article
January 28th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Can anyone really run Joomla1.5….
February 24th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I am hitting very fundamental bugs with with stable 1.5.1 version
Perhaps testing was done well for new installation of Joomla 1.5.x
However I believe testing was not done on migrated websites.
Even simple things like Old Menu structures os 1.0.x give 404 error
I am giving up on my Joomla 1.5.1 migration, after having wasted almost entire weekend
February 25th, 2008 at 9:22 am
We are in the final stages of developing our own auto-installer scripts for 1.5 and so far our tests suggest that fresh installs are very stable. We haven’t done any test migrations from 1.0.x installations yet so I would be very interested to hear what experiences people are having.
March 1st, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Of course the fresh install is stable. But how goes the migration?
Joomla Forum is full of postings by people stating 404 errors after migrating their websites to 1.5. But no meangful solutions available yet.
I am in a fix whether to leave old site on 1.0.x and start new one with J1.5. Surely this means giving up all the old contents, not ideal at all
March 8th, 2008 at 10:49 am
As yet we have not had any need to migrate any sites to 1.5, but I guess we will have to pretty soon. I don’t know how much longer the development team plan to continue supporting the 1.0.x branch.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
404 issue was being faced because the template of Joomla 1.x wasn’t in the 1.5 environment.
Its resolved now
April 5th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I used to run my site on e107 CMS. It was fast and simple. Then I got into Joomla and Drupal.
My first Joomla site 1.0.x loaded faster than my 1.5 site. I have read many threads about Joomla1.5 loading slow. The consensus is: live with it. Well, I can’t. My site takes so long to load on the first try that sometimes it times out. That looks great when you’re trying to show your site to clients! NOT!
Over the last few months, I started to look more favorably at Drupal. I upgraded a Drupal 4.x to 5.7 and it went off smoothly. Much more smoothly than Joomla 1.0 to 1.5 (ugh!) The jury is still out on Drupal 6, though. But it can’t be any worse than Joomla 1.5.
I have been teaching my techs to use Joomla 1.0 if necessary just because it is faster and apparently more stable than 1.5. But today, I’m changing course and going Drupal again. Yee ha. Maybe back to e107?? LOL!