Releases of Joomla 4.4.9 and 5.2.0 are now available

For all content creators and developers, version 5.2 was released, which greatly improves some of the aspects associated with the management and creation of sites. In addition, version 4.4.9 was released.

Updates in Joomla 5.2.0

• Tours concerning new features and improvements. Immediately after the update of version 5.2, a familiarization tour will be launched, and you can also slightly modify such a feature.
• Adding the right categories to the menu. To simplify the work with Joomla, you can now add the desired categories in the menu and thus significantly speed up the workflow.
• In TinyMCE became available selector SCC. With this feature, it will be much easier to make changes to links, now you do not need to manually style HTML.
• Event classes are now available in plugins, with the help of which management becomes easier and development becomes more modular.
• Changes have been made to make it easier to work with multilingual sites. It is no longer necessary to duplicate menus for each language separately.
• It is now possible to customize HTML templates from the panel. The ability to professionally personalize emails with the addition of the desired logo has a significant impact on the branding of the company.
• User-friendly module for displaying content. With a more intuitive module, it becomes much easier to customize the display and filter content according to needs.
• Added a new field feature for forms that allows you to display fields and hide them as needed.
• There is now support for a wider character set to improve password security. This improvement increases general security.
• Some improvements have been made to task management. If a task is not completed, the admin will be instantly alerted. Management and tracking will become much easier.
• SEF URL and routing parameters have been upgraded to improve SEO performance. This change will affect the number of unnecessary redirects and duplicates in content.
• To speed up work with media files, the media manager has been slightly modified. Now the manager can automatically select the last downloaded file. Thus, media files can be added to an article faster.
• To improve security and performance, support for PHP 8.4 has been added. Full compatibility with this version of PHP has a positive impact during the transition of hosting environments.

Updates in Joomla 4.4.9

Version 4.4.9 from October 15 of this year will only receive security-related fixes and no other corrections are planned. This transitional phase before the release of version 6 will be about a year and all users will be able to safely switch to the current version 5.