The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5.0.

What happened to 1.8? Well we skipped from version 1.7.x to 2.5.x. Version 2.5 is also a long-term-support (LTS) release that will be supported for at least 18 months.

Version 1.7 will reach end of life one month from today, on 24 February 2012. All users of version 1.7 should update to version 2.5.0 before that time.

For more information, please refer to
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5403-joomla-250-released.html

The next JUGA (and first for 2012!) is coming up!

February 7th 2012 @ PROBIZ
Hosted by Greg Willson
Topics to be covered:

• Updates on Joomla 2.5 (scheduled for release on January 24th)
• Project management - by Jared Green

Let Greg know if you're coming. Read on for future user group meeting dates for 2012 - jot them down in your diary!

 For our first meeting of the year we will be looking at Joomla 2.5.  All welcome. Follow @sydjug on Twitter for SJUG updates or register your attendance here.

The Joomla project has this morning announced the immediate availability of two Joomla releases:

• Joomla 1.7.3
• Joomla 1.5.25

These are both security releases, and site administrators should look to upgrade as soon as practical.