Joomla 3.4 In Late Stages of Beta

The third Beta for Joomla 3.4 has been released, indicating that the final version is edging closer, with a date currently set for February 24th 2015.

More than 3 percent of the Internet runs on Joomla. It powers everything from websites to blogs to custom apps to Intranets.

The Joomla team has also been busy recently. The CMS giant greeted 2015 by unveiling Joomla.com, providing the public with a quick and easy way to start a hosted Joomla website — for free.

Version 3.4 will address the following areas.

Front-end Module Editing

Editing modules will be faster and easier in Joomla 3.4. Incorporating Font end Module editing allows you to to edit modules directly on the page without the need to use Joomla's admin dashboard. Naturally, this new feature simplifies the administration of websites, making them far easier to edit.

No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA

Google introduced a no CAPTCHA CAPTCHA API in December 2014, and Joomla has now responded to stay up to date.

Version 3.4 brings about an updated reCAPTCHA plugin to protect your login and registration forms against spam. While still supporting the old reCAPTCHA 1.0, you can now also use it for the new reCAPTCHA version 2.0. A significant number of your users can now attest they are human without having to solve a CAPTCHA. Instead with just a single click they’ll confirm they are not a robot.

Core en-GB standardisation

The official language of Joomla is en-GB, and the goal is to standardise all the en-GB language strings in the core of Joomla based on the style guide. This will ensure consistency throughout Joomla. It will provide translation teams with an easy framework and guidelines to create their own style guides to ensure consistency throughout the project across the world.

To find out more about Joomla 3.4, check out Joomla's latest beta announcement.

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