Are you a hardcore Joomla Fan? Help Test out Joomla 3.0 Beta 1

If you are a hardcore Joomla fan and can't wait to get a chance to check out the new features in Joomla 3.0, then today is a great day for you! Joomla 3.0 beta 1 has been released and is ready to be played with.

There are plenty of new features to mess around with, here's a quick list of some of them:

• Incorporation of Twitter Bootstrap into a jui media package.
• A new responsive administrator template–Isis– and interface.
• A new front end template–Protostar– built using Twitter Bootstrap Updated accessible template called Beez3
• PostgreSQL Driver. You will be able to run Joomla 3.0 sites using the PostgreSQL database.
• PHP Memcached Driver
• Use of JFeed for feed management rather than SimplePie
• Installation of language packages directly from the extension manager
• Guest user group present by default
• Saving blank articles allowed
• New administrator statistics module
• Update TinyMCE to version 3.5.6
• Continued clean up of older unused code, files and database fields and tables and improved standardization of tables.
• Improvements to Smart Search
• Extensive work on code style standardisation and consistency
• Unit testing in the CMS
• Updated system tests in the CMS

Ready to start geeking out? Grab your copy from Joomla.org