It's time to migrate your Joomla site
Most Joomla! website owners, implementers, and designers are aware that Joomla! version 3 is the latest major release of Joomla!. The Joomla! Project has recently announced that version 2.5 support ended on December 31, 2014! If you are not already aware, version 1.5 support ended on April 30th, 2012.
BREAKING NEWS 12/14/2015:
It has come to our attention that the Joomla Security Strike Team was notified of a critical security vulnerability and they have just released a patch on 12/14/2015. There was a High Priority Remote Code Execution (affecting Joomla 1.5 through 3.4.5). According to news posted by the Joomla Security Strike Team your site can be very easily hacked if you are not running the latest Joomla version 3.4.6 or later.
Further details can be found here:
https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5641-joomla-3-4-6-released.html
This critical vulnerability affects all versions of Joomla below 3.4.6, including Joomla 1.5 and 2.5 versions. Since these series of Joomla are no longer supported, there will be no patches released for Joomla 1.5 and 2.5 websites. It is highly advised that you migrate to Joomla 3 ASAP if you are running these rather outdated versions of Joomla.
If you are running an older version of Joomla and wish to be updated please contact us ASAP and we can help you get your site secure.
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What does all of this mean?
As mentioned, Joomla! is an amazing CMS which makes up the core framework of millions of websites. Joomla! is a software project maintained by a skilled group of software developers as well as a large and knowledgeable community of experts. In order to keep up with internet trends as well as constantly emerging security threats, the Joomla! developers are constantly upgrading and reworking the Joomla! code. These changes emerge in the form of release versions of the Joomla! system to be installed on your web site. Joomla! works in such a manner that all updates to a major release can only be made within that major release. In other words, Joomla! 2.5.5 will update smoothly to 2.5.6 and later on to 2.5.7 but never to 3.x. In order to make the leap to 3.x from 2.5, a “migration” is required which is in essence a full or partial rebuild of a website where certain elements of the system can be “copied” or “migrated” over to the new system. When many of the web technologies driving a major release of Joomla! become archaic, a new major release version of Joomla! is developed and released, and the archaic versions are abandoned. This means that no more updates will be made to that version.
Conclusion
Joomla! 3 is where you need to be! Not only for important security reasons but for ease of management for your entire website. And don't you want to take advantage of all those new features? Joomla! version 3 will be actively supported through at least September of 2016 as reported on the Joomla! Development Network.
We are experts at migrating Joomla! websites. More and more new clients are coming to us every day because of our experience and knowledge with Joomla! upgrades and development.
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Joomla! 1.5 support ended on April 30, 2012 and Joomla! 2.5 support ended on December 31, 2014. Click here for more information.