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This summer PHP 5.3 was released, but while the incrementation of the version-number suggests a minor change, it is important to know that in fact it includes some major changes. While PHP 6 is actively developed, it takes time to round up such a major new version. But PHP-developers are eagerly waiting for some of the PHP 6 functionality, so it was decided to implement some of the PHP 6 features in PHP 5.3 anyway.

Since Joomla! 1.5.3, a security feature has been added to the Joomla! CMS which checks submitted forms for the existance of a specific token. If it does not exist, the form is considered as spam or even a hack-attempt, and an error-message Invalid token is displayed on the screen. Sometimes regular users will see such an error. Recently I had to troubleshoot such an instance - the culprit was caching.

Joomla! version 1.5 was released almost a year ago. So what's happening with Joomla! 1.6? How much work is already done? Developers who are interested in Joomla! 1.6 can take a sneak preview at the next version of Joomla! by checking out the sources with Subversion (SVN).