Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
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Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:
- Corporate Web sites or portals
- Corporate intranets and extranets
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government applications
- Small business Web sites
- Non-profit and organizational Web sites
- Community-based portals
- School and church Web sites
- Personal or family homepages
Joomla 3.5 was released on February 17, 2016. Here is a glimpse of what will be on Joomla 3.5. Joomla users have the opportunity to test the beta and pre-release versions given by the official Joomla development team.
If you are using Joomla and would like to contribute or you just want to test the latest features of Joomla 3.5 and its extensions, of course this is very useful. You can find some of the features that may not have been perfect and needs to be improved to be released in due course.
This time I will show you how to test the beta version of Joomla 3.5 on your website that Joomla version 3.4.x.
# Note: Do not do this test on your website is running, it helps you create a duplicate to avoid the risks that can be generated.
Step # 1. Turn Mode Update Version Joomla For Testing
Access to the menu Components -> Joomla Update -> Click on the "Option"
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Update Enable Channel to "Testing"
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Then click the "Save and close".
Step # 2. Fix Joomla to Beta
If there is a Joomla test version available (it will commonly use the suffix -beta # in "Latest Joomla version" row), click the "Install the update" button and wait until the process ends.
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Step # 3. The trial version of Joomla Beta
Until this stage, you have managed to make updates to the Joomla 3, if you find features that have not been perfect, immediately report it to Github repository page, hopefully Joomla core team can fix it on the next regular release schedule.
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