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Joomla! is now on the WC Authoring Tools List
The minutes of the Joomla! Project's Production Department meeting held on 5 March 2024 include a reference to the fact that Joomla! is now on the WC Authoring Tools List at:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/tools-list/authoring/.
The Authoring Tools List provides information on accessibility support in content management systems (CMS), learning management systems (LMS), web page editors, and other 'authoring tools'.
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Ask your hosting company for PHP 8.2
Joomla! 5 requires that the server hosting your Joomla! CMS website is using PHP 8.1 or later.
And The Joomla! Project recommend using PHP 8.2.
Using PHP 8.2 with your Joomla! CMS website will enhance performance, including:
- improved page load speed, and
- reduced memory usage, meaning more users can be served at any one time
and security.
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Is your website impacted by the UK Online Safety Act 2023?
New rules for online services: what you need to know
"The Online Safety Act 2023 makes businesses, and anyone else who operates a wide range of online services, legally responsible for keeping people (especially children) in the UK safe online."
Website administrators should familiarise themselves with the new rules to determine whether their website is impacted.
To help get you started this article includes a few extracts taken from the full guidance as published by Ofcom (UK Office of Communications responsible for implementing the legislation) on its website at the link below.
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Read more: Is your website impacted by the UK Online Safety Act 2023?
The Joomla! Project has co-founded the Open Website Alliance
Date: 5 February 2024.
In a press release this week, The Joomla! Project announced that it has co-founded the Open Website Alliance.
Fellow co-founders include the following international community organisations which are also "dedicated to championing the cause of open-source software over proprietary alternatives": Drupal, TYPO3, and WordPress.
The Joomla! Project stated:
"Joomla is immensely proud to be a founding member of the Open Website Alliance, an initiative that aligns perfectly with Joomla’s mission, vision, and values. By championing freedom, equality, trust, community, collaboration, usability, and transparency, Joomla continues to foster a platform that is not only innovative but also inclusive and accessible to all."
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Krystal Hosting again named UK’s Best Hosted Service!
Wow - our favourite Hosting Service Provider, Krystal has won the Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA) “Best Hosted Service” Award for the second time in two years!
That makes three times in the last six years. Impressive.
The ISPA Awards are the longest-running and perhaps the most prestigious awards in the industry.
On behalf of Krystal, Simon Blackler, Founder & CEO, said:
"The whole team works very hard to provide the best service possible, so it’s wonderful to be recognised across our industry."
The judges said:
"“[Krystal] keep impressing our judges with their UK-based support and engineering teams, as well as affordable services and flexible options.”
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Read more: Krystal Hosting again named UK’s Best Hosted Service!
55 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Weaponised in 2022
The Hacker News report:
"As many as 55 zero-day vulnerabilities were exploited in the wild in 2022, with most of the flaws discovered in software from Microsoft, Google, and Apple.
While this figure represents a decrease from the year before, when a staggering 81 zero-days were weaponized, it still represents a significant uptick in recent years of threat actors leveraging unknown security flaws to their advantage."
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