Joomla 1.6 was released to the public as stable code on 10th Jan 2011. In the fortnight since it's release, each day there have been 10 to 15 commits into the trunk of the SVN repository squashing bugs at an admirable rate. The Code Summary for the trunk branch can be monitored for development progress.

For this install an svn export of the latest SVN (as of writing this article is SVN 20480) code was taken. A Debian Squeeze OpenVZ container was requisitioned for the purpose of this install walk-through.