New additions in Joomla 2.5, what should we know and what is the Difference between both

Above all we must say that Joomla 2.5, will be long-term releases version of Joomla CMS.

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1 / Smart Search

Thanks to the new search engine, users can choose from the suggestions of Joomla 2.5. Find how to switch it ON.

2 / Joomla! to more Platforms

It will be possible to use Joomla 2.5 and other databases than MySQL (for example: Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL and Oracle)

3 / Better Choices for Offline Mode

4 / User registrations with CAPTCHA

It is interesting that CAPTCHA, will be part of Joomla core. For registration of new users, you will not have to search for CAPTCHA plugins ..

5 / Multilanguage

Again in the core, you can overwrite default language strings, with your own.

6 / Can I use Joomla 1.7 template to Joomla 2.5

Yes. Most templates Joomla 1.7 will work with Joomla 2.5

Some significant differences between Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 2.5

1 / Categories can be nested

2 / Search engine optimization

3 / button version update – now with just one click you can reach new version of Joomla without having been the preparation of various databases and similar

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