What is the difference in versions of Joomla CMS i.e. Joomla 1.7 and joomla 2.5?

Question

Please explain the difference.I know one difference is user management but what is also.

What is the difference in versions of Joomla CMS i.e. Joomla 1.7 and joomla 2.5 ?

Answer 1

The biggest diffrence between joomla 1.5 and joomla 1.6 is user management .

In joomla 1.5 version are already default 5-6 user management.

But in joomla 1.6 version you create own user managment.

Answer 2

One important consideration and difference is that version 1.7 reached end-of-life status on February 24, with version 1.7.5 being final release of that line. What that means is there will be no further enhancements or bug fixes performed by the core Joomla team on version 1.7 going forward.

The official guidance from the Joomla development team is that 1.7.5 should only be used by those "who for some reason are unable to update to version 2.5.1." The release blurb for 1.7.5 (found here) contains the guidance and EOL date mention.

As far as pure feature differences are concerned, the page dedicated to detailing the new features in Joomla 2.5 does a better job than I could discussing them. You may also want to take a look at the release notes for version 2.5.3 here, as this is the latest release at the time of this answer.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

The bigger the number, the more recent the release.

If developing a new website, you should use the most recent release of Joomla, which is Joomla 2.5.

Joomla 2.5 is just as painful to use, but more stable than, Joomla 1.7