女士们，先生们：

我们自豪地向全世界宣布 Joomla! 1.5 稳定版[Khepri]的诞生。作为一个志愿者社团，我们历经磨难，终有所成。我们努力工作，我们收获欢乐。由两年半之前社团收到的一封来信开始，我们的精诚合作，终于成就了一个伟大的机遇，不仅是对 Joomla! 项目团队，也是对整个社区。现在，是该考虑我们的未来的时候了。

为了 Joomla! 1.5 的今天，大家付出了大量的时间与精力。开发人员克服了时差与距离的障碍，团结协作，将热情贡献给了 Joomla!。日以夜继地编码和针锋相对地争辩，涵盖了从可用性到可扩展性的每一个细节，这就是众多开发人员过去两年半来生活的主题。在这一过程中，还有更多的人为发现和修复 bug 付出了劳动。Joomla! 1.5 的用户和开发人员可以通过文档了解所有的变化，一切都一目了然。翻译团队已经准备好了数十种语言包。还有大量的时间和精力投入到了事务协调、团队管理及基础架构升级上。在我们的论坛上，有很多关于 Joomla! 1.5 的精彩问答，解决了很多问题，对于新人大有裨益。

我们的不断壮大的开源社区，在很多方面都取得了创新。来自社区成员——包括开发[Pizza Bugs and Fun]和文档[Doc Camp]——的反响十分热烈。Google Highly Open Participation Contest (Google 高级开源竞赛)鼓励更多有才华的年轻人开发和支持开源软件，这巩固了 Joomla! 的未来，也激励了所有的人。

作为一个应用软件，从 1.0 版到 1.5 版，Joomla! 在可扩展性、易用性、国际化等各个方面都取得了显著的、值得自豪的进步。基于强大的全新 API，制作扩展变得更快更容易。对站点管理员来说并非必要的冗余细节被剔除，用户界面变得更为简洁。支持特殊字符集，支持右起语言，拥有全部前端静态文本的完整翻译，所有这些使得基于 Joomla! 1.5 的网站将更加国际化，可服务于世界各地的访问者。而布局(layout)和模板(template)的参数设置功能，将让设计者全面把握站点的观感。

这一版本的发布是一个里程碑，也标志着一个新的起点。下一阶段，我们将致力于整合，以创造一个真正伟大的事物。为了这一目标，数以百计的人，已经经过了数以千计次修订，付出了数以万计个小时。这是一个不平凡的过程，充满了欢乐、启迪和发现，人人能贡献，人人有贡献。来吧，加入吧！

It is with great pride that the Joomla! community announces to theworld the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5 Stable [Khepri]. As a community of contributors, wehave been through celebrations and tribulations. We have had fun, andwe have worked hard. We have learned from and helped one another. Whatstarted two and a half years ago with a letter to the community hasgrown into a great opportunity for both the Joomla! project andcommunity to benefit from these efforts and to consider our future.

People have contributed enormous amounts of time and energy to makeJoomla! 1.5 what it is today. Developers collaborated over longdistances, around the clock,enthusiastically contributing to Joomla!. Hours writing code combined with intense discussions on everything from usability to extensibility have defined many developers' lives over the last two and a half years. Countless othershave identified and fixed bugs along the way. Documenters have trackedchanges to help make life easier for everyone who uses or develops inJoomla! 1.5. Translators for dozens of languages have prepared languagepacks. Huge amounts of time and energy have gone into eventorganization, team management, and infrastructure upkeep. Our forums are overflowing with those asking and answering questions about Joomla!1.5, helping overcome problems and reaching out to newcomers in aconcerted effort to be helpful.

Our growing and vibrant open source community is innovating in many ways. The response fromcommunity members in both development [Pizza Bugs and Fun] and documentation [Doc Camp] has been both overwhelming and warming. The Google Highly Open Participation Contest energized and excited mentors and students alike, while helpingsolidify Joomla!'s future by involving talented young people inproducing and supporting open source software.

As an application, Joomla! 1.5 boasts remarkable advances over Joomla!1.0 in the areas of extensibility, usability and internationalization.Building extensions is vastly easier andfaster because of the comprehensive new API. The simplified userinterface eliminates unnecessary clicks and context changes for site administrators and managers. Support for extended charactersets, right to left languages, and translation of all static text inthe front end and the administrator allows enhancedinternationalization and worldwide use. New options for use of layoutoverrides and template parameters give designers total control over thelook and feel of sites.

While this release marks a major milestone in our history, it alsomarks a new beginning. The next phase offers the opportunity to bringtogether the code created, lessons learned, and momentum gained, tobuild something truly great. It took us tens of thousands of hours,thousands of revisions, and hundreds of people to get to this point. Ithas been a remarkable journey filled with fun, discovery, andenlightenment where everyone has something to offer and anyone cancontribute. Come join in.