Joomla 3.2 is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Joomla 3.2 is truly a Something New for Everyone release, which standard-term support release and is a one-click upgrade (not a migration) from previous Joomla 2.5 and 3 series releases.

Joomla 3.2 Hosting Features
Here is a list of the top new features worth checking out in Joomla 3.2:

  • Content History - Content versioning is Joomla's feature for storing, comparing, and reverting content. For example, you can use it to change back to a previous revision of an article if a mistake happens.
  • JUX Improvements -There have been dozens of improvements to the Joomla User eXperience (JUX) to provide a more user-friendly CMS. Two of my favorites are the cleaned up control panel and top menu. I especially love the way the new control panel looks.
  • Front-end Administration of Global Configuration Settings - Joomla now has two new menu item types that allow end-users to change some of the settings from the front-end. The component uses a web-services approach to change the settings.
  • TinyMCE Update - TinyMCE has been updated to 4.0 and it looks amazing. Just compare the before (above) and after (below) screenshots to decide for yourself.
  • Install from Web - The Install from Web feature will include free and commercial extensions, with commercial extensions redirecting to the developers' sites for payment, then automatic installation.
  • Joomla Multilingual-site Automatic - For those wanting a multi-lingual site, you'll now be able to set one up automatically during Joomla's initial installation saving you precious setup time.
  • Improved Template Manager - All that could be done in Template Manager was to edit pre-existing CSS files of templates, to edit root template files, and to duplicate templates.
  • Post-install Messages - There's now a post-install component that is used to notify admins of important information when Joomla or an extension is installed or updated.
  • RAD (Rapid Application Development) Layer - Joomla's new RAD layer is a rapid application development framework on top of Joomla.
  • AJAX Interface - oomla 3.2 has also added an interface for AJAX entry points. This will save development time and also provide standardization for 3rd party custom extensions.
  • Micro-data Semantics Library - Another Library that has been added for developers is one that implements http://schema.org micro-data semantics.
  • HTML5 Form Fields and Attributes - improvement for developers is the addition new HTML form fields and attributes.
  • Two Factor Authentication - TFA produces an extra temporary security code that is then sent privately to the user (e.g. to their smart phone app) and which allows them to login. This prevents unauthorized login attempts.
  • BCrypt encryption of Passwords - Joomla now provides an even stronger password encryption method using BCrypt.
  • MooTools to jQuery Conversion - Much of the Joomla Core has been converted from MooTools to jQuery, as jQuery has become the default Joomla library in Joomla 3.