

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The goals for the Joomla! 1.5 release are to: </p>

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<li>Substantially improve usability, manageability, and scalability far beyond the original Mambo foundations.</li>
<li>Expand accessibility to support internationalisation, double-byte characters and Right-to-Left support for Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew languages for example amongst others.</li>
<li>Extend the integration of external applications through Web Services and remote authentication such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).</li>
<li>Enhance the content delivery, template and presentation capabilities to support accessibility standards and content delivery to any destination.</li>
<li>Achieve a more sustainable and flexible framework for Component and Extension developers.</li>
<li>Deliver backward compatibility with previous releases of Components, Templates, Modules and other Extensions.</li>

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