Joomla! 5.0.2 Release Candidate 2

👀 Release information

• 💁 15+ contributors
• 🧰 28+ 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)	c369d28e19a52111fb4df13cd9f280425ea4fd567f94df04682e2595b85dd66c
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	0e4c9594a577b5eab5c82c23181bb2645fda0d8de85de6e1dfd7e28888cf2948
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	89d2d295a9c9533976934683240d99a4b0f83c73f4174cc58026c0d75d8294d6

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✒️ 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)	ab2572c90e8f6fcf82ba15589b544cf88add8f983195afe7b57923992d7cdbc1
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	3a463880cfe9095673c72dcaa3b25c7d7668a62f94c713e1a0986a817ae5b76b
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	6b8f4a0c68b3d3077df853322ec5119c0351eaadf6882bd76795f43580798cba

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.

💆 New Contributors

• @Elfangor93 made their first contribution in #42533

🧹 What has been changed

• [4.4] TinyMCE 5.10.9 by @brianteeman in #42359
• [4.4] Broken language comment by @brianteeman in #42425
• [4.4] json_decode of NULL in InstallerScript::getItemArray() by @Denitz in #40527
• [4.4] Finder: Do not show error messages for suggestions by @Hackwar in #42490
• [4.4] com_contact: Fixing ignored loadData parameter for getForm by @Hackwar in #42491
• [4.4] Fix error editor not found in contenthistory modal by @chmst in #42458
• [5.0] Upmerge 2023-12-12 by @bembelimen in #42497
• [5] install from CLI deprecation php 8 by @alikon in #42451
• [4.4] Improve com users list view by @chmst in #42457
• [5] fix Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property by @alikon in #42429
• [5.x] Missing Strings [a11y] by @brianteeman in #42387
• [5.0] Show proper error message when package is installed with no extensions by @BrainforgeUK in #42337
• [4.4] File::delete() throws error and terminates installation/update/uninstall by @Elfangor93 in #42533
• [4.4] Add information about reasons to Joomla Update when an update was found which doesn't fulfil PHP or DB requirements by @richard67 in #42489
• Fix link and button colors in header footer of Cassiopeia template by @RickR2H in #42504
• [4.x] add PHP 8.3 to tests by @heelc29 in #42545
• Update the signature for #42545 by @laoneo in #42552
• [4.4] Joomlaupdate remove br tag from language strings - follow up to PR 42489 by @richard67 in #42550
• [4.4] Fixes to form validation process by @wilsonge in #42560
• [4][com_actionlogs] missed load plugin languages by @alikon in #42562
• [4.4] Better message on package uninstallation when an extension is missing by @richard67 in #42570
• [4] backport #41865 by @alikon in #42088
• [5] harmonize naming task types by @alikon in #42574
• [5.0] colour contrast in media manager file list [a11y] by @brianteeman in #42544
• [5.0] Upmerge 2023-12-30 by @bembelimen in #42580
• [5.0] Update phpseclib to 3.0.34 by @SniperSister in #42469
• Fix function parameter lost during redirect by @janschoenherr in #42315
• [4.4] Fix SQL error "1104 The SELECT would examine more than MAX_JOIN_SIZE rows" when checking for core updates by @richard67 in #42576
• [5.0] Revert min version in drone by @bembelimen in #42583
• [4][com_templates] cast to int for pgsql by @alikon in #42569
• [4][webservices] PATCH article tags by @alikon in #42486
• [5.0] Upmerge 2024-01-02 by @bembelimen in #42591

Full Changelog: 5.0.1...5.0.2-rc2