joomla 4 release date

 ---------------- update 30 Mar 2021 -------------------

Joomla 4 Beta 7 and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 5 Ready for Testing

Joomla 4 Beta 7 and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 5 are available. You're welcome to download, install and test the package to improve quality assurance for the forthcoming 4.0 release and to discover the new features introduced in this major release.

Highlight Differences between Beta 7 and Beta 6  Joomla 4 Beta 7 contains:      An upgrade from Bootstrap 4 to Bootstrap 5 in response to the community initiated discussions on GitHub.

Joomla 3.10 Alpha 5

Along with Joomla 4 Beta 7, the 5th alpha version of Joomla 3.10 also is carried out.  Joomla 3.10 is the bridge between Joomla 4 and Joomla 3.x. Joomla 3.10 stable will primarily be a release containing backports of API changes from the Joomla 4 development branch to help ease the transition to the next major release for the community. Joomla 3.10 will be supported for 2 years after it has been finally released. A new feature is introduced in Joomla 3.10 is the Joomla Update component to help you with your mini-migration process: the Pre-Update Checker.  Once your website is updated to 3.10, the pre-update checker will allow you to check the compatibility with the Joomla 4.0 minimum requirements in terms of the current hosting environment and, more importantly, your installed extensions. This will help you migrate to Joomla 4.0 smoothly.  Joomla 4 is on the go with Beta release. We will update all our Joomla templates, Joomla extensions to Joomla 4 as soon as the stable release.

What is the difference between Beta 3 and Beta 4?

Joomla 4 Beta 4 contains:

    Various bug fixes around the functionality of the CSP Plugin
    Improved our icomoon to fontawesome mapping (shoutout to Hans Kuijpers and Troy Hall for their continued teamwork on this)
    Added some code to handle nested templates as a preparatory step for future Joomla 4.x releases
    Added back the custom_data field to the extensions table (as a direct result of developer feedback)
    Increased test coverage of the API
    Over 100 bugs squashed!

We invite you to test this version and will be very grateful to receive all feedback you can provide, in addition to reporting issues and bugs in the Joomla CMS Issue Tracker.

In order to update from Joomla 4.x to any newer release please make sure you configure your Joomla Update Components Options to point to the Update Channel “Testing” and set the Minimum Stability to “Beta” this setting also now supports updates between pre-releases. Specifically for upgrading to beta 4 please also read the following link: https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Upgrade_to_4.0_Beta_4

For a complete list of known backward compatibility issues for version 4.0, please see Potential backward compatibility issues in Joomla 4.0 in the documentation site.

Can I update my website from 3.9.x to Joomla 4 Beta 4?

The simple answer here is yes. Not on a production site of course, but if you want to test the update to Joomla 4, now you can.

Upgrade notice: Due to merging both a preparatory step for an upcoming Joomla 4.1 feature and adding back the custom_data property - there will be issues upgrading from beta 3 to beta 4. You’ll need to run a small amount of SQL before you make the upgrade - this is on the following documentation page: https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:Upgrade_to_4.0_Beta_4

In order to upgrade from 3.9.x to Joomla 4, you have to go via the latest 3.10 alpha at this point. There is no direct upgrade path between 3.9 and 4.x planned nor supported. All upgrades go via 3.10.

For the upgrade please follow these steps:

    Go to the Joomla Update Component Options and switch the Update Channel to “Testing” and the Minimum Stability option to “Alpha”.
    Update to 3.10 alpha2 using the Joomla Update Component.
    After you have updated to 3.10 alpha 2 please switch the Update Channel to “Custom URL” and set the Custom URL to “https://update.joomla.org/core/test/310to4_list.xml”
    Now you get the update to the latest 4.0 beta release.
    Please carefully check the results you get from the pre-update checker in terms of your environment and specify your installed extensions before upgrading.
    After the upgrade please switch back to the “Testing” Update Channel with the “Beta” minimum stability to get future updates between Joomla 4 betas.

Do you need more details on the upgrade process? You’ll find them in the documentation.

18th October 2019 , Till now, there are only Alpha versions have been released with its latest version come out on 18th October 2019: Joomla 4.0 Alpha 12.

What’s new in Joomla 4?

We are firmly committed to making the next generation of Joomla the best. Joomla 4 will provide simplicity and a better user experience while also being a more powerful system for developers.

Here is a short list of Joomla 4 key features and benefits we intend to implement:

   - Install Joomla in the blink of an eye. An easier, faster and more user friendly install process
   - Brand new User Interfaces (backend and frontend) to provide a new and improved experience
   - The web is for all. We aim to ensure that the templates are accessible (Level AA of WCAG 2.1)
   - A fully rebuilt Media Manager with a cleaner User Interface and new image editing capabilities
   - A new Publishing Workflow to manage your articles in an advanced and customisable way
   - Web Services to allow you to make your content accessible to other websites and for easy mobile app creation
   - New security features such as support for prepared SQL statements
   - HTML Mail Templates to allow easy customisation of the emails your site sends
   - An improved and expanded Command Line Interface (CLI)
   - A cleaner and more powerful codebase. With the removal of deprecated functions from Joomla 3.x and the use of PHP namespaces that allows developers to deliver more robust and innovative applications than ever before
   - The power of the Joomla Framework merged into the CMS
   - An enhanced event dispatching system
   - And much more!

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