Joomla 5.1.0
16 April 2024
Joomla version 5.1.0 is now available (major release).
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What's New in Joomla 5.1.0
Joomla 5.1 is a minor version. We’re bringing plenty of new features, security and code improvements and increased speed with those improvements.
Highlights
- Implement TUF updater (#42799)
- Heavily improve dark mode (#42986)
- Implement backend dark mode switch (#42221)
- Implement a Welcome Tour (#41659)
- SEO: Add trailing slash behaviour (#42702)
- SEO: Improve URL behaviour with index.php (#42704)
- Adding notice to global configuration for additional options in SEF plugin (#42832)
- Update Jooa11y Accessibility Checker Plugin with latest Sa11y (#42780)
- Improve Guided Tours with new features for required field handling and support for checkbox / radio / select lists as target (#40994)
- Add regex validation for fields (#42657)
- Add schema.org Generic type (#42699)
- Add schema.org Article type (#42402)
- Allow custom fields form be manipulates like category form (#42510)
- Replace bootstrap modal with new dialog in backend for
- Add main region and better support for modules in Cassiopeia error page (#42719)
- Joomla Update: Improving error handling when writing files (#41096)
- Update FontAwesome to 6.5.1 (#42721)
- Update TinyMCE to 6.8.3 (#42930)
- Strip attributes from images in HTML mails (#42448)
- Change type of field "value" in table #_fields_values from text to mediumtext (#42606)
- Add support for subcategory levels in contacts category view (#41618)
- Add “New Article” button to blog view (#39506)
- CLI: Add command to manage Joomla core update channels (#42597)
- CLI: Renaming and improving output of core:update:check (#42594)
- CLI: Improve output of Core Update command (#42601)
- CLI: Update:extension:check command (#42844)
- CLI: maintenance database update db structure (42568)
- Module conversion to service provider
- Add toolbar buttons in language installation toolbar to go directly to language management views (#42610)
- Improve long description output for templates (#42651)
- Add possibility to sort subform rows with buttons "up" and "down" (#42334)
- Add rebuild button in Tags (#42586)
- Improve uninstall of package children extension (#42607)
- Improve webservices filter (#42519)
- Improve webservice event classes (#42092)
- Use generic icon for documents in media manager (#42527)
- Rewrite com_associations in vanilla JS (#42771)
- Implementing Event classes for PageCache events (#41965)
- Fix actionlogs information emails containing HTML links (#40033)
- Load plugin group when executing batch tasks (#39013)
- Add Global Setting for Form Layout option to custom fields (#37320)
- Add SVG support to mod_banners (#41854)
- Several JS improvements (#42756, #42755, #42776, #42784)
- Update Code style fixer (#42603)
- Unit test for WebAsset (#42885)