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Joomla 5.2.0 available!
On Tuesday 15 October 2024, Joomla 5.2 was released with new features and improvements for both users and developers. It makes Joomla more user-friendly, flexible, and up-to-date with modern technologies.
New functionality in Joomla 5.2 for users:
- Guided Tour: After updating to Joomla 5.2, a tour appears explaining the new features.
- Custom Email Templates: Users can now customize email templates for a more professional presentation of email notifications.
- New Article Module: More flexibility in managing articles by filtering them by category, status, or ID. It serves as an alternative to the seven existing article modules.
- Conditional Field Display: Forms automatically adjust based on global settings, making management easier.
- SEO Improvements: Stricter routing and SEF URLs help avoid duplicate content and improve visibility.
- Automatic File Selection: When uploading media, the most recently uploaded file is automatically selected.
- Link Management in TinyMCE: Users can now directly apply custom CSS classes to links.
- Title Display: When using ModalSelect fields, the titles of selected items are automatically displayed, making them easier to recognize after saving.
- Media Management: Direct folder selection is now possible, which is useful for sites with many media files.
- Total Counter in Backend: The total number of items is displayed above the pagination, giving you a better overview.
New functionality in Joomla 5.2 for developers:
- Event Classes for Plugins: A new event management system for plugins with event classes provides better structure and easier management and maintenance of plugins.
- Nested Subforms: Support for complex forms with hierarchical structures.
- Technical Optimizations: Better compression of image thumbnails, improved file extension management, and full compatibility with PHP 8.4.
In summary, Joomla 5.2 offers improvements in usability, management, SEO, and development options, further optimizing CMS performance.
Need support updating or migrating to Joomla 5.2? Contact us.
