Some major milestones over this last year

• Release of Joomla 1.6 and 1.7
• Establishment of a new timed release cycle
• A record number of Joomla Day events
• Over 25 million Joomla downloads
• Over 500,000 forum members and over 2 million forum posts
• Over 8000 extensions on the Joomla Extensions Directory
• Joomla was separated into two projects, the Platform and the CMS
• 50,000 users on Joomla's Facebook page
• One full year of great Joomla Magazine articles, along with two JOSCARS!

What an amazing journey this has been for us here at The Microtechs. Starting our Joomla journey in 2007, we've had the privilege of sharing the evolution of the internet since the early days of Web 2.0. So many fantastic new possibilities have opened up just over this last year - we can't wait to see what 2012 has in store.