Joomla! 5.3.0 Alpha 1

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

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🧹 What has been changed

• [5.3] Bumping version to 5.3.0-alpha1-dev by @Hackwar in #44010
• [5.3] Drone: Fix version in nightly build messages by @Hackwar in #44014
• [5.3] Calendar Strings by @brianteeman in #44099
• [5.3] Refactoring views to directly call models (com_actionlogs to com_finder) by @Hackwar in #44149
• [5.3] Refactoring views to directly call models (com_plugins to com_workflow) by @Hackwar in #44167
• [5.3] Removing LegacyPropertyManagementTrait::setProperties() usage in Core by @Hackwar in #44008
• [5.3] Removing calls to legacy ->set() by @Hackwar in #44011
• [5.3] Deprecate AbstractView::get() by @Hackwar in #44162
• [5.3] Refactoring from CMS Folder to framework Folder class by @Hackwar in #43958
• [5.3] Refactor all instances of File::makesafe() to use framework by @Hackwar in #43359
• [5.3] Refactoring views to directly call models (com_guidedtours to com_newsfeeds) by @Hackwar in #44164
• [5.3] Refactoring views to directly call models (frontend) by @Hackwar in #44170
• [5.3] Refactoring views to directly call models (installation & API) by @Hackwar in #44169
• [5.3] PHPStan: Fixing return statements and types by @Hackwar in #44030
• [5.3] Send test mail to the logged-in user. by @tecpromotion in #44002
• [5.3] Remove the not needed getPathway in the SiteApplication class by @rdeutz in #43385
• [5.3] [Events] Use event classes for custom fields plugins by @Fedik in #43611
• [5.3] Email cloak comments by @brianteeman in #44102
• [5.2] Debug plugin Remove unused code by @brianteeman in #44226
• [5.3] Change type of field "fieldparams" in table #_fields from text to mediumtext by @alikon in #44238
• [5.3] Drone: Fixing nightly build version by @Hackwar in #44245
• [5.3] Fix for: Can't select menu item type by @rdeutz in #44251
• [5.3] Fix constant by @Quy in #44259
• [5.3] Cypress add test for 'can create menu item' -> administrator by @LadySolveig in #44256
• [5.3] Spelling Update TemplateModel.php by @brianteeman in #44268
• [5.3] Add option for show/hide title in readmore by @rdeutz in #43457
• [5.3] Form control fields, new API by @Fedik in #43857
• [5.3] Deprecate unused language strings mod_stats_admin by @brianteeman in #44271
• [5.3] Ajax component support of Stringable results by @Fedik in #43530
• [5.3] Loadmodule plugin remove unused options by @brianteeman in #44273
• [5.3] handle check by @brianteeman in #44275
• [5.3] Delete Action Logs description by @brianteeman in #44288
• [5.3] Remove autostart temp code by @brianteeman in #44287
• [5.3] Move to ESM redo of #43779 by @dgrammatiko in #44296
• [5.3] Remove TODO joomla-alert.scss by @brianteeman in #44274
• [5.3] SEF: Fix URLs when preprocessing by @Hackwar in #43992
• [5.3] Add missing MVCFactoryInterface into model constructors by @Denitz in #44295
• [5.3] Update README to J5.3 by @heelc29 in #44444
• [5.3] Deprecate methods for batch remove tag handling by @beni71 in #44383
• [5.3] Add Files folder to Media component and to "FileSystem local" adapter by @Fedik in #43532
• [5.3] Fix deprecation message in installation by @bembelimen in #44461
• [5.3] Form control fields removable token by @Fedik in #44359
• [5.3] Replace deprecated createRestorationFile with createUpdateFile by @bembelimen in #44466
• [5.3] Update deleted files in script.php for the upcoming 5.3.0-alpha1 by @richard67 in #44450
• [5.3] fix preprocess rule if contains alias (pgsql) by @heelc29 in #44459

Full Changelog: 5.2.2...5.3.0-alpha1