What i don’t like about joomla 1.6

Joomla the much acclaimed content management system has released its new version 1.6.

They churn out one new version every 6 months and don’t focus on upgrade issues.  If you are running joomla 1.5 you are stuck.  I find no reliable way one can migrate to the current 1.6 version.  So i decided to stick on with the old joomla 1.5 till I decide what to do next.  I know support to joomla 1.5 version will be stopped this month.  What to do I am stuck with it.  But I was glad to know that a lot many out there are caught in this quagmire.

I was curious about the features of joomla 1.6.  So I installed a new joomla 1.6 installation with which I could run my tests.  While I was going through the administrator menu features I saw that they had ported an upgrade feature under the extension manager.

I was curious to test this feature.  When I clicked the update button it said the current version is 1.65.  So I asked for the update.  After sometime I found the whole update process got jinxed and it wiped out all the files in the joomla folder.  This came as an absolute shock to me.  When I googled the problem I found that a lot many out there had the same problem.

Then I re installed joomla 1.6 and updated it to the current version using ftp route.  Now the update was seamless.

I learn that update to version 1.65is a must before upgrading to joomla 1.7 which is just around the corner.

All said and done Joomla 1.65 doesn’t support video embedding.  Without this feature it is absolutely useless as you cannot embed youtube / blip tv videos.  Still waiting for video embed module for joomla 1.6.