Here's a little bit about Joomla 1.6, which will have a beta release one day soon.

Joomla! 1.6 now requires PHP 5.2+ and MySQL 5.0.4+.

New Features of Joomla! 1.6 include: User Interface Redesign, Nested categories, ACL and customisable user groups, Improved Extension Manager, Redirect Manager, Integrated Trash, Featured Items, Under the hood changes

Here' s look at the Administrator User Interface (UI) Redesign:

Joomla! provides plenty of flexibility when displaying your Web content. Whether you are using Joomla! for a blog site, news or a Web site for a company, you'll find one or more content styles to showcase your information. You can also change the style of content dynamically depending on your preferences. Joomla! calls how a page is laid out a layout. Use the guide below to understand which layouts are available and how you might use them.

Content

Joomla! makes it extremely easy to add and display content. All content is placed where your mainbody tag in your template is located. There are three main types of layouts available in Joomla! and all of them can be customised via parameters. The display and parameters are set in the Menu Item used to display the content your working on. You create these layouts by creating a Menu Item and choosing how you want the content to display.