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Joomla 5.3.1 bugfix release
On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Joomla 5.3.1 was released. This is a bugfix release within the 5.x series, focusing on accessibility, simplicity, and security.
Bug fixes in the Joomla 5.3.1 release
Some improvements include:
- Correct label in article filter
- Better handling of image size in Media Resize plugin
- Custom fields display correctly after filtering by multiple categories
- PostgreSQL fixes (log order and JSON)
- HTTP Headers - CSP - Policy Directive: order + fancy select
- Various language and typo fixes
- PHP deprecation warnings removed
- Improved UI and accessibility in the Media Manager
- Timezone now correctly used in action log emails
- Improved search behavior in Smart Search
- Fix for "save as copy" wrongly marking articles as published
A full list of changes is available in the 5.3.1 milestone on GitHub.
How improvements are added to Joomla
In April 2025, Peter Martin gave a presentation at the Joomla User Group Arnhem-Nijmegen titled "How improvements come into Joomla". He explained how bugs are reported, how the community contributes code, how patches are tested, and how they ultimately end up in a new release.
To demonstrate this process in action, he gave a live demonstration. He showed a usability issue in the Joomla core plugin "HTTP Headers". Within the Content Security Policy (CSP), options were not sorted alphabetically, making it difficult to quickly find the right one. Peter wrote a patch live to sort the options alphabetically. He also added a "fancy select", a dropdown with search filtering, to make selecting an option even easier.
He submitted this improvement as a Pull Request (PR) in the Joomla project:
- HTTP Headers - CSP - Policy Directive: order + fancy select #45407
Once submitted, the code was automatically tested and approved. Two attendees then tested the PR on their own Joomla installations and manually approved it. The PR was marked as RTC (Ready To Commit).
The final step was up to the Joomla Release Managers. They reviewed and approved the PR, and the patch was added to the Joomla core. It is now included in this Joomla 5.3.1 release.
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