Joomla! 5.2.6

👀 Release information

• 💁 7+ contributors
• 🧰 5+ 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)	6959805e15d8c3bbbefbb3b1740d7cf158dd952f7de71e51684d4cbf0148b453
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	003ff8db99cc925bd00c29ec73df4a48712664a9368b3dd156f0e44616ee249f
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	9900274120f580c2147ee13279cbf8a516dcb80c5acad07889f61c63869daeda

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.

✒️ 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)	a0a86a6db0aabaea1b46334eb686e60d853c8247070164a9c4248a575b984a07
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	5c900c25c825925886568a0a7a6a6254a5ed8f6e39da7bd148213ea73b716723
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	71528100b405a3b29e367720684322d7443841590224137d337ba961f6f11eb1

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

• [5.2] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45168
• [5.2] change minor version to 5.3 by @tecpromotion in #45177
• [5.2] [Security] Update joomla/database from 3.2.1 to 3.4.0 by @richard67 in #45273
• [4.x] Security Hardening: Unset the activation token if the mail address changes by @SniperSister in #45221
• [5.2] Composer update joomla/database to 3.4.1 by @richard67 in #45288