Joomla! 5.2.0 Alpha 1

👀 Release information

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

🚀 Download information

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🔥 Installation Packages

New Joomla! Installations	SHA-256 Checksums
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✒️ Upgrade Packages

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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

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ZIP Archive (.zip)	4c19b43510e0990cbad47d98e97ff5505ad626508b42cebb41c6def47916159e
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	73b4a77cb0957db863e86110e013efa1ac48b411156293b06dc2057a6f0da024
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💆 New Contributors

• @woluweb made their first contribution in #43297

🧹 What has been changed

• [5.2] Set version to 5.2 by @Hackwar in #42970
• [5.2] Upmerge 2024-03-14 by @pe7er in #43028
• [5.2] Drone: Fix artifacts upload for 5.2-dev by @Hackwar in #43035
• [5.2] Router: Check directly for RouterInterface by @Hackwar in #43119
• [5.2] Upmerge 2024-03-27 by @pe7er in #43167
• [5.2] Upmerge 2024-04-03 by @pe7er in #43201
• [5.2] Drone: Switching to key authentication for artifacts by @Hackwar in #43237
• [5.2] Change all calls for AbstractView::document getDocument() by @Hackwar in #43205
• [5.2] Adding missing type hints for $this by @Hackwar in #43136
• [5.2] Upmerge 2024-04-11 by @pe7er in #43257
• [5.2] Upmerge 2024-04-18 by @woluweb in #43297
• [5.2] Deprecate WebApplication::$JComponentTitle by @HLeithner in #43304
• [5.2] Languagefilter: Add message when no content language is published by @Hackwar in #43232
• [5.2] Add script to update titles on github by @HLeithner in #43341
• [5.2] Fix CS by @HLeithner in #43363
• [5.2] Upmerge 2024-04-25 by @woluweb in #43364
• [5.2] Removing deprecated access to User object attributes by @Hackwar in #43268
• [5.2] Fix of unnecessary SQL query for Fields, get the field value already loaded by getFields() by @Fedik in #42861
• [5.2] json encoded in bind method by @brianteeman in #43273
• [5.2] Clarify Cache Plugin by @brianteeman in #43378
• [5.2] Admin Module Latest by @brianteeman in #43216
• [5.2] Compress the thumbnails by @dgrammatiko in #43282
• [5.2] replace scss variables by css variables by @hans2103 in #42509
• [5.2] Fixing typehint for getListQuery to QueryInterface by @Hackwar in #43265
• [5.2] Added link class selection to TinyMCE dialog by @RickR2H in #43260
• [5.2] Vote : add aggregateRating in article's schemaorg information by @conseilgouz in #42933
• [5.2] Pin Mysql Version to 8.0 by @rdeutz in #43418
• [5.2] com_users: Simplifying empty check in login layout by @Hackwar in #41677
• [5.2] Change the workflows article title by @brianteeman in #43386
• [5.2] Static function getList deprecated in mod_stats by @joomlaweby in #42907
• [5.2] Allow nested Subform inside a Subform Custom Field by @AndySDH in #43204
• [5.2] TinyMCe insert content by @brianteeman in #43411
• Replace at feature in SessionManagerTest unit test by @rdeutz in #43381
• [5.2] scss comments by @brianteeman in #43436
• [5.2] Upmerge 2024-05-14 by @pe7er in #43469
• [5.2] Upmerge 2024-05-21 by @pe7er in #43500
• [5.2] Add missing Toggle inline help button to plugin modal / dialog by @Ruud68 in #43296
• [5.2] Minor cleanup for plugins JS by @C-Lodder in #42797
• [5.2] Other JS improvements by @C-Lodder in #42798
• [5.2] Password Strength Symbols by @brianteeman in #43484
• [5.2] Upmerge 2024-05-27 by @pe7er in #43542

Full Changelog: 5.1.1...5.2.0-alpha1