I am sure you heard a lot about the exciting new features of the new Joomla 1.6. So, why is this new version (the alpha version is going to be released around 2nd of August, by the way) so popular?

Well, just hear this out:

• new permissions system that will make membership sites a breeze
• unlimited depth for categories
• latest version of Mootools
• comments in the core system
• improved performance
• new menu system
• and a lot of delightfull features for geeky coders

For a more detailed desription of the alpha release, here is a great article: http://cocoate.com/2009/07/07/quick-view-joomla-160-alpha-hope