Joomla! 5.1.0 Alpha1

👀 Release information

• 💁 24+ contributors
• 🧰 29+ 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)	b6f5e925806d2cae175cab81dea3c671f68ce9216ff1eedb46f0b0830c135508
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	fefb61b8740c6816e8ed6664018cba0046229b1cc69daff2577226924830b1a2
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	84b82af3a28b663a3737a896949788d070d11fdb4f31dbe56777b50e679ae0eb

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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)	a0404ed1317fc00f9c975f8dab14daffade02d50bf70dd6c00437af2126ba659
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	6efcfa0084156f393030652084c3959dd08d6aea3527d43e42a57e5bf8ded2f5
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	7d235cc08f38d09d9e7a776e937744d59b4e0b814211781e769941d9df67b6ec

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

• [5.1] typo Update state.es6.js by @brianteeman in #42059
• [5.1] version update by @LadySolveig in #42061
• [5.1] upmerges - 2023-10-05 by @LadySolveig in #42062
• [5.1] change version manifest by @LadySolveig in #42095
• [5.1] upmerges 2023-10-09 by @LadySolveig in #42097
• [5.1] upmerges 2023-10-16 by @LadySolveig in #42146
• [5.1] upmerges 2023-10-21 by @LadySolveig in #42188
• [5.1] Load plugin group when executing batch tasks by @Hackwar in #39013
• [5.1] com_installer getListQuery by @brianteeman in #42140
• [5.1] Alias string consistency by @brianteeman in #42220
• [5.1] upmerge 2023-10-26 by @Razzo1987 in #42223
• [5.1] upmerges 2023-11-01 by @LadySolveig in #42270
• [5.1] Redundant else usage by @Denitz in #41983
• [5.1] Fixing packaging and nightly builds by @Hackwar in #42275
• [5.1] Add Global Setting for Form Layout option to custom fields by @AndySDH in #37320
• [5.1] Add SVG support to mod_banners by @obuisard in #41854
• [5.1] Add Tag Relationship in ContentSerializer.php by @alexandreelise in #42244
• Revert changes in header block from PR #42244 by @LadySolveig in #42278
• [5.1] upmerges 2023-11-07 by @LadySolveig in #42309
• [5.1] Cleanup input options by @wilsonge in #42166
• Update BannerHelper.php with better deprecation information by @obuisard in #42282
• [5.1] Use Dialog field for Modal_Category by @Fedik in #42293
• [5.1] Use Dialog field for Modal_Contact by @Fedik in #42326
• [5.1] Use Dialog field for Modal_Newsfeed by @Fedik in #42327
• [5.1] Use Dialog for Batch windows by @Fedik in #42328
• [5.1] upmerges 2023-11-18 by @LadySolveig in #42363
• [5.1] Update deleted files list in script.php for 5.1.0-alpha1 by @richard67 in #42364
• 5.1.0 not 5.1.1 yet by @alikon in #42398
• [5.1] upmerges 2023-11-25 by @LadySolveig in #42400

Full Changelog: 5.1-dev...5.1.0-alpha1