Joomla! 5.4.0 Beta 3

👀 Release information

• 💁 15+ contributors
• 🧰 11+ 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)	1331cef58972f52a4343e7cb0d0423fd7e675e317653d8976f573948651dfd81
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	15e7f157a0bf868b20aeae7533b019b4fbefdd371c09f1d4760c7a4a012af380
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	5b9b245ccdf1be292dac8a3920116bd7b7b7562464e3fd2773edcbfa25004406

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)	7f802218c67fb7bb8c1fd26f4a40f5e07030e06181e14650f62dcdb8cf3d09b3
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	69a94a9694bd8a22e39b9918d35c2d43c7968dc8e0996379b800e1ed00d43c22
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	c14172ca3c392fb4d0779aa103ff638c75cf462ce17c92785ff8e886b8882524

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

• [5.4] mod_articles - Show field "Show Article Images" also if introtext is truncated by @drmenzelit in #45969
• [5.4] - mod_articles add h6 option for article title heading level by @travisrisner in #46037
• [5.4] Remove unused CSS from mod_articles by @drmenzelit in #45974
• [5.4] Fix fields menu items in preset by @brianteeman in #46062
• [5.4] Fix backend com_fields field list menu item by @SniperSister in #46052
• [5.4] Use correct language for autoupdate notification mails by @SniperSister in #46050
• [5.4] Change the table event name from onBeforeDelete to on TableBeforeDelete by @rdeutz in #46020
• [5.4] Fix backend menu item for 'List All Field Groups' by @SniperSister in #46070
• [5.4] Update notification code improvements by @joomdonation in #46071
• [5.4] Add settings icon for debug plugin by @Denitz in #46076
• [5.4] Add Support for Github Codespaces by @alikon in #45950

🧑‍💻 Test contributions

This time, we would like to place special emphasis on the volunteers who carried out the Pull Request (PR) testing. For Beta 3, they were: @alikon (1), @brianteeman (2), @ChristineWk (1), @dautrich (2), @exlemor (3), @joomdonation (1), @mothershedc (1), @muhme (4), @richard67 (5), @SniperSister (1) and @tecpromotion (2).

Full Changelog: 5.4.0-beta2...5.4.0-beta3