Joomla! 5.3.0 Release Candidate 1

👀 Release information

• 💁 10+ contributors
• 🧰 20+ 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)	8a2c1fb37da53f79bae38a03f6b4d628a0be53dd4d756017d98979fb29f2fde7
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	d96bd1120efe31785e4134d9749a51f77460e8ceb190a277e2359c487da46a84
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	88f9aaa0d537020c12e1c0713563f37834769911fcd01887f5535b3c992e0583

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)	b3a57002080ac599bb4ea294ec67720985e62a27937aabd1da581a63c181b1af
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	4a51b7da34e3f427c0bc52dee095363d3639b72ab49f161bd84b5424013d027f
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	abf3d212904f7278a795f3cfbc2a40ca88295f5c8d00b6c4e07783f8f206d86c

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.

💆 New Contributors

• @Hemang360 made their first contribution in #45188

🧹 What has been changed

• [5.3] Remove non-distributed files by @brianteeman in #45152
• [5.3] system test for multi-factor authentication plugins (totp & email) by @heelc29 in #44733
• [5.3] Major update idna converter by @laoneo in #45140
• [5.3] Major update dev dependencies by @laoneo in #45138
• [5.3] Update http package to version 3.1.0 to fix some deprecation notices by @laoneo in #45148
• [5.3] Update TUF client to fix PHP 8.4 compat issues by @SniperSister in #45166
• [5.3] php warning in BackupcodesModel by @brianteeman in #45170
• [5.3] Fix install from web by @dgrammatiko in #45174
• [5.3] Don't use the deprecated CMS Filesystem but the framework package in package installer by @richard67 in #45139
• [5.3] php 8.4 compatibility by @brianteeman in #45169
• [5.3][webservices] not found without Warning by @alikon in #45132
• [5.3] add CORS settings when install from CLI by @alikon in #45129
• [5.3] Composer update tobscure/json-api by @brianteeman in #45180
• [5.3] Fix Light Mode Visibility for Table Headers in User Profile by @Hemang360 in #45188
• [5.3][cypress] add tests for issue 45190 by @heelc29 in #45208
• [5.3] Update the joomla cypress package by @laoneo in #45207
• [5.3] Author column by @brianteeman in #45179
• [5.3] Fix unescaped slashes break markup in script tag by @janschoenherr in #44717
• [5.3] cypress test grammar by @brianteeman in #45241
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45246

Full Changelog: 5.3.0-beta3...5.3.0-rc1