The October Issue

The JCM Team is proud to present you the October Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine.

This month’s edition features:

An interview with the newly elected Vice President, Nicola Galgano as part of the Leadership Interviews. An interview with Tobias Zulauf as part of the Meet a Joomler. Daniel Dubois reminded the Community that we are all responsible with his great article. Sandra Decoux interviewed Simon Grange regarding the book he wrote on how to build a website with Joomla 4. Christiane Maier-Stadtherr wrote an article to discover the Article management features of Joomla 4. Russel Winter wrote an article explaining where to find all the documentation resources related to Joomla 4. Rüdiger Schultz explained how to Joomla4-ify an old template. Patrick Jackson published an article on the new metrics for web performance. An article explaining the proposal to restructure the governance of Open Source Matters. Andrea Gentil interviewed Sergio Iglesias regarding the migration of his website to Joomla 4. Marc Dechèvre published the 7th episode of the series of articles related to Custom Fields. The Volunteers Engagement Team published a call for volunteers: Help4Joomla.

This release wouldn't have been possible without the work of the Community Magazine Team, all the authors and all the people who allowed us to interview them.

Thanks to all those who participated.

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Joomla 4 RC 2 and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 7 are here

The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla! CMS 4.0 Release Candidate 2 and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 7.

Joomla users and extension developers are asked to download and install the packages in order to provide quality assurance for the forthcoming 4.0 and 3.10 releases.

Joomla! 4 is the latest major release of Joomla! CMS. Please note that going from 3.9 to 4.0 is a migration. You would need to upgrade your J3.9 to J3.10, which will be available the day J4.0 is stable. J3.10 has a compatibility checker to help guide you through the migration to J4.0. Please do not upgrade any of your production sites to the release candidate version!

What is this release for?

Joomla 4.0 RC2 is aimed at extension and template developers. To encourage them to work with this release in order to prepare extensions for the stable release of Joomla! CMS 4.0. Users are encouraged to test the package for issues and to report issues in the Joomla! CMS Issue Tracker. Test sites based on this release candidate can be taken through to stable but never use this version on a production site. There will be an upgrade path between release candidates and the final release candidate to the stable of Joomla 4.0 should you wish to try a new site build.

Spotlight on Joomla4Accessibility

Whatever size your site is, accessibility is a must, and from the start Joomla 4 delivers best in class accessibility. The layout, contrast and infrastructure all have accessibility built in so all your visitors will benefit.
Now you can change how you use Joomla as an administrator in your profile.
Using the accessibility tab you can:

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Bugs and Fun @home

The Production Department is pleased to announce Bugs and Fun @home. A weekly online meet up where you can help make Joomla better, share and learn.

We hope you are keeping well and safe where ever you are.

Following on from the success of the first meeting of what is now called Bugs & Fun @Home we are continuing to run the event weekly, every Saturday from 6:00 UTC to 18:00 UTC
We are also looking to extend the hours to allow more regions of the world to take part.

It’s a great opportunity to meet other Joomla users online. Learn how to help make Joomla 4 a reality by translating documents into your language, writing documents that are needed or testing patches with the patch tester. If you have never done any of this before then that’s fine, there are people in the chat rooms who are willing to help and show you how to do all of this.

We have prepared a Google sheet with an:

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The April Edition of Joomla Community Magazine

We are living in a weird period, in which we are obliged to practice “social distancing” and we cannot crowd together to meet or get things done. We saw many local and international events cancelled due to the pandemic emergency. And in this period, everyone spends more time to reflect and re-evaluate the importance of many things that we claimed were “normal” for so long.

In this edition of the Community Magazine, we wanted to put people first, remembering that Joomla exists only thanks to “its people” and we wanted to take a moment to appreciate them and their contributions.

This issue will include several interviews with Community Members, from the newly elected (or re-elected) Board members to the “hidden gems”, those volunteers who contribute to Joomla but are not really visible or enough exposed. 

Joomla is entirely run by volunteers and their work is precious to keep the project and all its operations running smoothly.

Together we are stronger and we will succeed! #stayhome and #contributetojoomla 

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Joomla 3.9.4 Release

Joomla 3.9.4 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 4 security vulnerabilities and contains 28 bug fixes and improvements.

What's in 3.9.4?

Joomla 3.9.4 includes 4 security vulnerabilities fixes and several bugs and improvements, including:

Security Issues Fixed

  • High Priority - Core - Missing ACL check in sample data plugins (affecting Joomla 3.8.0 through 3.9.3) More information »
  • Low Priority - Core - XSS in com_config JSON handler (affecting Joomla 3.2.0 through 3.9.3) More information »
  • Low Priority - Core - XSS in item_title layout (affecting Joomla 3.0.0 through 3.9.3) More information »
  • Low Priority - Core - XSS in media form field (affecting Joomla 3.0.0 through 3.9.3) More information »

Bug fixes and Improvements

  • User Terms (#23787) and Privacy Consent (#23660) plugins: Layouts for the label and message added
  • Featured articles: Page subheading added #23583
  • Custom formfield layout paths simplified #22645
  • Com_contact: Contact name field moved out of the Contact Information block #23563
  • Custom module: Improvement of the frontend editing #23741
  • Action Logs improvement: Cache (#22739) and Purge/Export (#22740) actions are now logged

Visit GitHub for the full list of bug fixes.

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Found a bug? Report it on the Joomla Issue Tracker.
Questions? See the documentation wiki for FAQ’s regarding the 3.9.4 release.

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