Joomla 2.5 is the latest Long Term Support version released by Joomla project and is here for at least till September 2013. It has lots of enhancements and progressions - more than 26 new features, and 4 security issues fixed. Also, the security release for the same i.e. 2.5.1 has come out already.

The most powerful features of Joomla 2.5 are Multi-Database Support, Database Fix, and Access Control List (ACL). Previously, it worked exclusively with MySQL, but now it also supports Microsoft SQL Server. In addition to that, the Database Version Fix button will check to see if your database is up-to-date with any database changes during upgrade, and will fix any error if encountered. With ACL one can create unlimited groups and assign desired access level permissions to the group such as edit, update, delete, publish, login etc. Other expedient features include:

1.    Update Notification: The admin panel notifies on recent Joomla updates as well as for all the installed extensions.
2.    In-built Captcha: With the integrated Captcha function, one can avoid the risk of    spamming.
3.    Unlimited nested categories: Allow adding unlimited subcategories easily.

When we started developing Listbingo in January 2010, we were only thinking to somehow bring our classifieds component into the Joomla community. We of course had a vision that this component should be best because our benchmark was strong but we never thought that in future this component will be so huge. Now we realize that our original concept of making “Plug and Play” addons has made this all possible.