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Joomla! Official News
Get it straight from the horse's mouth!
Scheduled Release Date: 14 October 2025.
The launch of Joomla! 6, the next major version of this globally popular CMS, is just two weeks away!
The Joomla! 6 Series is expected to introduce significant new features, including:
- the option to schedule Automated Core Updates of the Joomla! CMS.
- Details
Date: 30 September 2025.
The Joomla! Project has announced the release of Joomla! 5.3.4.
It is a Security Fix Release for the Joomla! 5.x Series.
- Details
Date: 30 September 2025.
The Joomla! Project has announced the release of Joomla! 4.4.14.
It is a Critical Security Fix Release.
If not yet using Joomla! 5.x then update your website to Joomla! 4.4.14 before updating it to Joomla! 5.x.
Read on for links to Release Notes and Joomla! Project Advice for upgrading to Joomla! 5.x.
- Details
Read more: Joomla! 4.4.14 is released by The Joomla! Project
The latest release for the PHP 8.3 Series is PHP 8.3.26.
It is a Bug Fix Release.
PHP 8.3.23 was a Security Fix Release.
Are you checking which version and release of PHP is being used by your Joomla! website?
- Details
Release date: 24 September 2025.
JCE 2.9.94 is a bug fix for this excellent content editor extension for the Joomla! CMS.
It follows the recent major release of JCE 2.9.90.
- Details
Release date: 21 September 2025.
This month's newsletter is again packed full of interesting articles about Joomla!
Articles this month include:
- Joomla Weblinks Evolved, and
- Migrating Content from WordPress to Joomla with the (new) Migration Tool.
- Details
- Google patches Chrome Zero-Day exploit threatening millions
- Tabs and Accordions v2.5.6 released by Regular Labs
- Microsoft issue Windows fix for Zero-Day and other flaws
- Weblinks 5.0.0 is released by The Joomla! Project
- Google fixes Android flaws exploited in the wild
- Akeeba Admin Tools 7.8.2 Bug Fix Release
- Akeeba Backup 10.0.6 Bug Fix Release
- Apple patches Zero Day flaw exploited in targeted attacks
- Joomla is 20 years old
- Hikari announce release of HikaShop 6.1.0
- Joomlashack announce release of OSMap 5.0.20
- Slideshow CK 2.7.2 is released by Joomlack
- JW announce release of AllVideos 7.0
- Wordpress CMS security concerns should also concern Joomla! CMS users
- Mozilla patches two Firefox browser Zero-Day exploits
- Phishing attack targeting Wordpress CMS users is a timely reminder for Joomlers
- Aimy Captcha-Less Form Guard 18.1 is released
- Joomla! voted Best Open Source CMS for 2024 in CMS Critic Awards
- Targeted Security Release announced by cPanel
- Opera Browser fixes big security hole that could have exposed user information
- PWT ACL 5.2.0 is released
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