After a few months of testing and sending our new snapshot system into the wild, Im happy to announce that from the January release on (due for release in the next day or so) we will be releasing templates with Snapshots only. We wont be releasing a quickstart package for the Avanti template or any future releases and as we develop the snapshots for our prior template releases we will be phasing out the quickstart packages all together.

You can read all about the thinking behind the snapshots here or get an overview of how they work on the template snapshot page.

In a nutshell the snapshots significantly reduce our maintenance time for new and old releases in terms of updating Joomla or any of the Joomal extensions that we use in the release packages. We will also be able to offer a much wider variety starter sample content, so rather than installing the quickstart and removing the demo content the hope is that you will install the quickstart and just start writing.

Ill be posting here when we release new sample data systems but for the time being stay tuned for the release of Avanti.