Joomla! 5.3.4 Release Candidate 1

👀 Release information

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

🚀 Download information

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Userfacing information about this Joomla! release can be found on the release page

🔥 Installation Packages

New Joomla! Installations	SHA-256 Checksums
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✒️ 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
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💆 New Contributors

• @shane-clickingmad made their first contribution in #42162
• @coling made their first contribution in #43451

🧹 What has been changed

• [5.3] Language string frontend by @brianteeman in #45918
• [5.3] db prefix by @brianteeman in #45920
• [5.3] contributing.md by @brianteeman in #45883
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45951
• remove .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md by @wojsmol in #45519
• [5.3] FIX calendar picker if weeknumbers hidden and time format 24h by @cyrez in #42185
• [5.3] Update tag router to restrict lossy matches to menu items set to any by @shane-clickingmad in #42162
• [5.3] Fixing Cassiopeia mobile menu collapse bug #44140 by @coolcat-creations in #44221
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45970
• [5.3] Avoid setting an explicit session ID via GET args. by @coling in #43451
• [5.3] Restored Article Version Now Properly Checked Out to Current User by @travisrisner in #45597
• [5.3] undefined array key in table\nested.php by @brianteeman in #45176
• [5.3] Banners - Enforce Unique Alias on Both Create and Update by @travisrisner in #45599
• [5.3] DELETE should return 204 if item don't exist by @alikon in #45589
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45976
• [5.3] Infinite API loop if site is offline and requesting unknow resource by @Flowman in #45576
• [5.3] Set http status header for XML/feed responses by @ManuelHu in #45419
• [5.3] Shortening the code for 'No Media found' in Media Manager by @rajputanuj31 in #39835
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45983
• [5.3] Fix copy / paste error in form fields by @chmst in #45979
• [5.3] Security updates for composer and npm dependencies for the upcoming 5.3.4 release by @richard67 in #45984
• [5.3] Update TinyMCE from 6.8.5 to 6.8.6 to fix TinyMCE issue with cursor placement by @richard67 in #45987
• [5.3] Update joomla/filesystem to fix extension uploads when post_max_size is 0 by @richard67 in #45986
• [5.3] Add check if fields exist in versioning by @bembelimen in #46009
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #45989
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #46017
• [5.3] Fix caching for Predefinedlist getOptions method by @HLeithner in #45885
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #46031
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #46048
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #46059
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #46077
• [5.3] Update Icon of Miscellaneous Information in Contact by @imanickam in #46067
• [5.3] - Fix deploy_version typo in com_scheduler by @travisrisner in #46085
• [5.3] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #46109
• [5.3] PHPDoc cleanup by @janschoenherr in #46122
• [5.3] clean newsfeed & newsfeed category after first test suite run by @alikon in #46115
• [5.3] Sentence period by @brianteeman in #46105
• [5.3] Joomla Dialog add support for aria-label by @Fedik in #46090
• [5.3] Fix author not being updated in Tagged Item upon saving article by @janschoenherr in #44571
• [5.3] Enhance header handling in transport classes to support array values by @bembelimen in #46078
• [5.3] Fix date format to use ISO 8601 in SchemaorgPrepareDateTrait by @LadySolveig in #45581
• [5.3] Composer update joomla/oauth2 to 3.0.2 to fix case insensitive OAuth2Client authentication by @richard67 in #46132

🧑‍💻 Test contributions

Thank you to all the testers who help us maintain high quality standards and deliver a robust product.

@alikon (5), @bembelimen (4), @brianteeman (6), @ceford (4), @crimle (1), @dautrich (1), @drmenzelit (1), @exlemor (11), @joomdonation (1), @MacJoom (4), @muhme (2), @obuisard (2), @QuyTon (4), @rbuelund (1), @richard67 (2), @SniperSister (1), @Sulpher (1), @SumCompanyInc (3), @tecpromotion (2), @webmasterab (1)

Full Changelog: 5.3.3...5.3.4-rc1