Joomla is a content management system (CMS) written in PHP and JavaScript, using MySQL and MsSQL databases as storage. It is free software distributed under the GNU/GPL license.
The name Joomla! was chosen as a result of a contest, the results of which were evaluated by experts in the field of branding and marketing. The basis for the name was the word “Jumla”, which means “all together” or “as a whole” in Swahili, because many teams involved in the Mambo CMS project were unanimous in their desire to protect the interests of the creators and the community, which was the true reason for the success of Mambo CMS.
How Joomla is different from other systems
Joomla! tries to keep things as simple as possible while providing great features. Finally, people unfamiliar with programming can get a system to fully manage their websites without spending exorbitant amounts of money on closed source software.
History
Joomla CMS is an offshoot of the well-known CMS Mambo. In August 2005, most of the team of CMS Mambo developers separated from the Mambo project because of disagreement with the economic policy and plans for the development of the system. Already on September 16, 2005 the first version of Joomla! was released, which was renamed Mambo 4.5.2.3 and contained fixes for bugs and vulnerabilities discovered at that time.
Development of Joomla version 1.0 was terminated in February 2008, and final support for this version was completed on July 1, 2009. Joomla 1.5 was released to replace version 1.0. This version was released from December 2007 to March 2012 and in April 2012 its support was completed.
In late 2011 early 2012 were released Joomla 1.6 and Joomla 1.7, which were essentially intermediate versions between Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 2.5.
In 2012, the final version of Joomla 2.5 was released, which was maintained in version status with long-term support until the end of 2014.
Today, only one version of CMS is supported – Joomla 3 system with a continuous update cycle, which is a new round in the development of Joomla! CMS.
In 2020 is expected to finish the development of version 4 of Joomla.
Joomla is more than just software, all releases of the system are done by volunteers on a volunteer basis. The community behind Joomla! includes developers, designers, system administrators, translators, copywriters, and most importantly, ordinary users.