Joomla! 5.3.2 Release Candidate 1

👀 Release information

• 💁 7+ contributors
• 🧰 17+ 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)	c8ab097919f04986a1378ae75bca803e0b44d2b2ea91a045d60a83f7f371a27b
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	9aa156cc7c8058228fbe1898af4d0754d10429954f717ed7cd506db51ffe8422
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	508312bc2e7425ec78c00a71c678c48a7e85a5f421ce45c03a609e0dd1f64ee1

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)	dd57ea103b998040aaa9d9b3732a96ee7c1bfe9a0d42cf016934e27bc9bcd8a7
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	d1c80791f0a62f76500c0b9b269a02c5e14a6c8592582b6e08e29e983b4abcc3
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	b93c8563c35171c821251b215abc76f082059ab5ed17e82dc3421caa62e03133

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

• [5.3] Installation missing string by @brianteeman in #45520
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45522
• [5.3] Code comments by @brianteeman in #45514
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45537
• [5.3] Fix build.php to create zstd packages on macOS by @muhme in #45535
• [5.3] Debug duplicate queries dark mode by @brianteeman in #45527
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45546
• [5.3] Installation error page by @brianteeman in #45466
• [5.3] Optimize load of smart search plugins language by @Denitz in #45345
• [5.3] Disable opcache as it makes the SEF system test flaky by @laoneo in #45608
• [5.3] Remove Fields button for custom module by @brianteeman in #45600
• [5.3] Copy/Paste error in comment. by @chmst in #45625
• [5.3] Login Module show password by @brianteeman in #45626
• [5.3] build.php Bug fix and stability improvements by @muhme in #45622
• [5.3] Add CI Github workflow by @laoneo in #45602
• [5.3] Fix type for custom form validators by @HLeithner in #45650
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45643

Full Changelog: 5.3.1...5.3.2-rc1