Version 12.3 ("Curiosity") of the Joomla Platform was tagged and released on 20 December 2012. It is the third release of the 12.x series. In addition to numerous bug fixes, documentation updates and it also brings new features, the main ones: 

• Platform manual converted from DocBook to Markdown to improve readability and enhance contribution.
• Extensi

If you are a Joomla extension developer, your feedback on a proposed new method of checking extension compatibility with Joomla, before a Joomla upgrade takes place, is needed. This is your chance to influence a major Joomla feature which will stay with us for years to come.

Providing your feedback is very simple. There is a forum thread where you

The Joomla Platform Maintainers would like your feedback about whether, as a community, we want to change the license under which the Joomla Platform is released to the LGPL. It is felt that in moving to the LGPL, we will be able to allow more people to integrate the Joomla Platform with their software solutions, and that will translate to an i

Version 12.2 ("Neil Armstrong") of the Joomla Platform was tagged and released on 21 September 2012. It is the second release of the 12.x series. Joomla Platform 12.2 was also included in the Joomla CMS 3.0 release. In addition to numerous bug fixes, it also brings new features, the main ones: 

• New (and generic) web application routers
• New password