Joomla! 6.0.0 Alpha 2

👀 Release information

• 💁 6+ contributors
• 🧰 12+ 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)	178eafbd014a5934ae2977d2db72005a7d08cd3779a2f9880c78714dd8d8f759
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	4cb3d2570ff89e7ffea375bd3c2397298ed442ae3906c8929bb2a2b3ff2df907
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	f8b490cfd08a07f63df28b57392f48cc9c41fd41c70af1828833fb5b836f7750

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✒️ Upgrade Packages

Important

Don't update directly from a version lower than 5.4 it is important that you first update to 5.4 and then update to 6.x

Update from a previous version	SHA-256 Checksums
ZIP Archive (.zip)	5ed42e04a5c11fdfd300836fa7466da112693a32b7cd710a8fab405cb06e6e99
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	da678463b4e7c754ff2ffa0b904671dba0565b18e7b7bf35163d15435d5ae585
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	9c8f520f337a956f23d1444c710d7f3df89f71384287a92c9ef4c0d1037462b6

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

• [6.0] Update version and links for release notes layout by @LadySolveig in #45532
• [6.0] Workflow: use generic AbstractApplication in type hint by @Hackwar in #43155
• [6.0] Installer: Remove dependency on Adapter class by @Hackwar in #43792
• [6.0] Reset stats on update to 6 by @brianteeman in #45498
• [6.x] Update strings by @brianteeman in #45563
• [6.0] Accesslevel edit - simplify by @chmst in #45588
• [6.x] Remove j5 guided tours by @brianteeman in #45512
• [6.0] Removes fetchExtensionCompatibility in UpdateController class by @laoneo in #45436
• [6.0] Enable support for multiple image extensions in Random Image module by @AdarshSantoria in #45200
• [6.x] Remove unused string by @brianteeman in #45565
• [6.0] Updater: Remove Adapter classes from inheritance by @Hackwar in #43793
• [6.0] Remove the dispatch event functions in model and view by @laoneo in #45431

Full Changelog: 6.0.0-alpha1...6.0.0-alpha2