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Administrators of the Joomla blogging platform and content management system can now tag their content so it will be better indexed and automatically routed to the correct locations on their websites.

The new version of the open source software, Joomla 3.1, also comes with a revamped user interface and an easier installation process.

The new feature, called Tags, allows users to tag articles as well as contacts, news feeds and other forms of content. A tag is a word or short phrase that summarizes the nature of the content being tagged. Once a piece of content is tagged, Joomla can automatically add it to lists, blogs and other layouts designated to display such tagged content. Tags are also helpful for search engines as it gives them more information to contextualize the content.

Previously, the tagging of content in Joomla was only possible through the use of third-party add-ons, though other CMS platforms such as Drupal and WordPress have long offered this feature. The addition of tagging capabilities to the core of Joomla also sets the stage for other advanced Joomla features now being developed that would rely on tagging, according to Open Source Matters, the nonprofit organization that provides organizational, legal and financial support to the Joomla project.

Other new features to this release include updated tools for handling access control, a one-click upgrade process and a Joomla User Interface library that provides standardized interface components.

Along with WordPress and Drupal, Joomla is one of a number of open source content publishing platforms available for blogging and constructing websites. Thus far, the software has been downloaded over 40 million times, according to Open Source Matters.

Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for the IDG News Service. More by Joab Jackson

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User Manager Overview (Joomla 3.0)
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and potentially cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) The application does not properly verify authorisation when deleting private messages. This can be exploited to e.g. delete otherwise inaccessible private messages.

2) The application does not properly verify authorisation when viewing permissions. This can be exploited to e.g. disclose otherwise inaccessible permission settings.

3) Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

4) Certain unspecified input related to the Flash-based file uploader is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

5) Certain unspecified input related to the Voting plugin is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

6) An unspecified error related to the "unserialize()" function can be exploited to potentially cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

7) Certain unspecified input related to the Highlighter plugin is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.5.10 and 3.1.0.

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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Apr 24, 2013) - Joomla, one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announced the immediate availability of Joomla 3.1. The biggest feature of Joomla 3.1 is Tags, a built-in tagging system that allows dynamic tagging across content-types. Tags hasn't been created for articles only, but rather Joomla integrated tagging into other areas of its core that made sense (e.g. contacts, feeds, etc).For example, Tags allow end-users to create lists, blogs, or other layouts that combine articles with other content types any way they like.These tags can be dynamically created from the content, without having to navigate to the Tags component, thus bringing both power and simplicity.

"With Joomla 3.1, the most important new feature is definitely the support of tags," said Paul Orwig, president of Open Source Matters, a non-profit created to provide organization, legal and financial support to the Joomla project. "Tags have previously been available through third party extensions, but for 3.1 we are adding them to the core. This will make it easier for third party extensions to integrate with them.Another underlying benefit is that the way the code has been written to support tags will lay the foundation for future enhancements for how Joomla content can be displayed with much more flexibility."

Along with the new Tags feature, the Joomla 3.X series offers the following major features:

Joomla 3.1 is truly a collaborative community-driven software project developed with the feedback gathered from more than 2.7 million Joomla forum posts, nearly 605,000 Joomla forum members and data from more than 6,100 Joomla extensions.To download Joomla 3.1, go to http://www.joomla.org/download.html.

About Joomla! Joomla is one of the world's most popular software packages used to build, organize, manage and publish content for websites, blogs, Intranets, and mobile applications. With about 3 percent of the web running on Joomla, the free open source Content Management System (CMS) powers the web presence of hundreds of thousands of small businesses, governments, non-profits and large organizations worldwide like Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea, McDonald's and Sony. The award-winning CMS is led by an international community of more than a half million active contributors, helping the most inexperienced user to seasoned web developer make their digital visions a reality. Joomla's power and extensibility has resulted in its software being downloaded more than 40 million times.

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