Joomla 1.7 Upgrade : Another brilliant version of brilliant CMS has been released . Joomla 1.7 version have a lot of awesome features.In this version joomla team increased the security and more easy to use features in joomla 1.7 .Joomla 1.7 considered as the most secure CMS till now as per the developers note

“Security is an important aspect of any CMS. Downloading the latest version of Joomla is the best way to ensure your personal or organizational security needs are being met,”

said Mark Dexter of the Joomla Production Leadership Team.

“With Joomla 1.7 the user community placed a large emphasis on making the CMS installation process as simple as possible and new versions more frequent. This will allow users to more easily and frequently migrate to the latest version of Joomla, and take advantage of all the security benefits associated with running the newest code. We think Joomla users around the world will really embrace this new process.”

There are some most important feature of joomla 1.7

One Click Version Updating

Six-Month Release Cycle

Pre-Defined Search Options

Automatic Form Data Validation

Improved Multi-Lingual Support

Architectural Decoupling

Please find the complete release note as Official Joomla SIte