10. Keeping Your Site Up-to-Date
Keeping both your Joomla! installation and the extensions that you have added up-to-date is an essential part of managing your site. The biggest security threat to any Web site comes from allowing the software on which it runs to become out-of-date. Fortunately, Joomla! makes it relatively easy to maintain your software.
Updating Your Site
You can expect there to be updates to Joomla! at least once every two months, although if you are using a long-term-support (LTS) release such as Joomla! 2.5, these may become less frequent as time goes by. Updates to LTS releases contain important bug fixes and security improvements in the event that a security issue is discovered. Updates to short-term-support (STS) releases ...
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