Joomla! 5.3.0 Alpha 2

👀 Release information

• 💁 17+ contributors
• 🧰 18+ Pull Requests has been merged
• ⬆️ New migration guide
• 📖 New developer documentation
• 🌎 Release page
• 👀 Full Changelog

🚀 Download information

Note

Userfacing information about this Joomla! release can be found on the release page

🔥 Installation Packages

New Joomla! Installations	SHA-256 Checksums
ZIP Archive (.zip)	d9169b43ff4f355bf9395ca443afe3cb9e250cb8fd93a703c95058dc1f6f252b
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	f770391ce9fcfef3920641f7c8319a8deb5ae814bfc08e05ffa04c21404b05ff
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	84d74830b98895aeab94ec8cb8319d633a923834eb12d6ea16a9bbc9f905ac4d

Additional and a second source of checksums can be found at our official download page. If you need further information on how to validate a release package please visit our documentation.

✒️ Upgrade Packages

Important

Don't update directly from a version lower than 4.4 it is important that you first update to 4.4 and then update to 5.x

Update from a previous version	SHA-256 Checksums
ZIP Archive (.zip)	c308f0443667d4e39fa774255a7513d28a12c3733835cb754bd57082b6463086
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	4992cf0f0f5b541c8a2048c55dc0889c327b4d1b3681964806a4d7aface0240a
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	5870f04e58684b59eefce260e8af9575765e1bef778ef886e459794a2866daa6

Additional and a second source of checksums can be found at our official download page. If you need further information on how to validate a release package please visit our documentation.

🧹 What has been changed

• [5.3] Upmerge changes from 5.2-dev 2024-12-01 by @richard67 in #44562
• [5.3] xml manifest corrections by @brianteeman in #44269
• [5.3] Actionlogs User filter by @brianteeman in #44550
• [5.3] Contact icons etc [a11y] by @brianteeman in #44523
• [5.3] Tags: Fix broken aliases in routing by @Hackwar in #44515
• [5.3]Sort order of fields relative to their actual location in the table by @brianteeman in #44486
• [5.3] Smart Search: Improve Indexer::optimize() by @Hackwar in #44485
• [5.3] Router: Discover tainted URLs for core components by @Hackwar in #44477
• [5.3] Routing: Allow to mark parsed URLs as tainted by @Hackwar in #44455
• [5.3] Add debug mode to build script and create nightly debug builds by @HLeithner in #44576
• [5.3] [com_scheduler] task execution history view by @alikon in #42530
• [5.3] [bugfix] Use iife for the scripts core and load validate as module by @dgrammatiko in #43758
• [5.3] Template Override Plugins Compare by @brianteeman in #44588
• [5.3] tuf_metdata by @brianteeman in #44602
• [5.3] Upmerge changes from 5.2-dev 2024-12-14 by @richard67 in #44621
• [5.3] com_users doc comment by @brianteeman in #44616
• [5.3] Fix doctype by @janschoenherr in #44612
• [5.3] Send an event before an update site is downloaded by @laoneo in #44516

Full Changelog: 5.3.0-alpha1...5.3.0-alpha2