Joomla! 5.2.0 Beta 2

👀 Release information

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

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✒️ Upgrade Packages

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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

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🧹 What has been changed

• [5.2] Multilang: Remove restrictions for home language menu items by @Hackwar in #43862
• [5.2] [REGRESSION] Fix menu and module list state filter by @Hackwar in #43941
• [5.2] Remove call_user_func() by @Denitz in #41988
• [5.2] radio basic deprecate by @brianteeman in #43860
• [5.2][Events] Class for MailBeforeRendering event by @Fedik in #43529
• [5.2] Refactor all instances of File to use framework by @Hackwar in #43362
• [5.2] Only register hits on items when GET or POST request by @Hackwar in #43231
• [5.2] Spelling by @brianteeman in #43985
• [5.2] Improve UX for template buttons - replace PR #43592 by @chmst in #43975
• [5.2] Invalid pass-by-reference usage by @Denitz in #41971
• [5.2][Events] Use event classes for Extension plugins by @Fedik in #43617
• [5.2][Events] Use event classes for Authentication plugins by @Fedik in #43601
• [5.2][Events] Use event classes for Finder plugins by @Fedik in #43607
• [5.2] Fixing FQSN in BaseModel by @Hackwar in #43995
• [cypress] PostgreSQL Connection pool for System Tests by @muhme in #43924
• [5.2][Events] Use event classes for Media-action plugins by @Fedik in #43608
• [5.2] Tinymce lang sort by @brianteeman in #43910
• [Guided Tours] Fix dropdown mouse accessibility on fancy selects by @obuisard in #43960
• [5.2] Search for content checked out by an author by @brianteeman in #43965
• [5.2] SEF: Add option to don't set Itemid to homepage by default by @Hackwar in #42989
• Articles Module by @drmenzelit in #43738
• [5.2] [Guided tours] Auto start tours - full functionality by @obuisard in #43814
• [5.2] Composer dependency updates by @Hackwar in #44004