Let’s celebrate! Today is an important day for the Joomla! Project. We’re celebrating two years of hard work by our volunteers, after all the discussion, code sprints, and bug squashing, the day has finally arrived. We are proud to announce the release of our new major version, Joomla 6.0 (Kuimarisha), alongside Joomla 5.4 (Kutegemea).
Whether you’re an individual, blogger, charity, web agency or multinational, Joomla is a great choice for you!Want to know how Joomla 6 will benefit you? Visit joomla.org/6
What’s new in Joomla 6.0?
Joomla 6 is a new major version. We’re bringing plenty of new features, security and code improvements and increased speed with those improvements. We’ve highlighted a bunch of features below. You can check the list of all merged features on our GitHub changes page.
Automatic Joomla updates
With Joomla 5.1 we introduced TUF secure Joomla updates. With Joomla 5.4 and 6.0 we are now introducing automatic Joomla core updates! Now you can keep your website up to date automatically and securely!
Cassiopeia child template with extended customisation options
Joomla 6 comes with a new cassiopeia child template that has extended color and font options allowing you to define more colors and font-sizes without having to create a custom css file.
Advanced versioning
The versioning has always been database table based. This meant data like custom fields were not included in the versioning. The versioning has now been extended to also include custom fields data in the versioning.
New custom fields
We have 2 new custom fields available in Joomla 6. There is a new “notes” field that lets you add “notes” in between your custom fields or in your article. This can be very useful to add extra instructions between your custom fields to help guide your users. We now also have a “numbers” custom field that lets you display a number with optional currency formatting options.
Backward Compatibility 6 plugin
New in Joomla 5.4 is the 'Behaviour - Backward Compatibility 6' plugin. In Joomla 5.4, the plugin does not perform any actions other than existing and being enabled. This ensures that when the Joomla instance is updated for Joomla 6, it can run immediately with the updated code, and third-party extensions that require the plugin to be enabled in Joomla 6 will not cause the update to fail. Therefore the 'Behaviour - Backward Compatibility 6' plugin makes upgrades from Joomla 5 smoother.
CSS transitions in Atum & Cassiopeia
Both the default frontend template (Cassiopeia) and the backend template (Atum) now are using CSS transitions. This makes navigation between pages feel much more seamless.
Developer features and optimisations
New Date and Datetime fields
There are two new fields added. The date and datetime-local input’s.
TinyMCE 8.0.1
The TinyMCE version has been updated from version 6 to version 8. This version comes with a host of bugfixes and accessibility improvements.
Cache language files
In Joomla 6 we introduce a caching layer for the languageHelper::parseIniFile method. This greatly improves the loading of the language strings.
Upgrade information
Please check out the Joomla 5.4 and Joomla 6.0 Upgrade Notes.
Download Joomla 6.0 now!
Experience Joomla 6.0 for yourself by downloading the latest version:
- Download Joomla 6.0.0 Full Package
- Or visit all Joomla 6.0.0 Packages
If you’re still on Joomla 5.x, good news! Upgrading from Joomla 5.4 to 6.0 is an upgrade, not a migration. Most extensions will work seamlessly with the ‘Behaviour - Backward Compatibility 6' plugin enabled.
Installation instructions & technical requirements
- New installation instructions: Installing Joomla 5.x
- Technical requirements: Technical Requirements for Joomla
Upgrade existing sites to Joomla 5.4.0
Joomla 5.4.0 is now available, bringing the latest bug fixes and serving as a bridge release for upgrading existing Joomla 5 installations to Joomla 6.0. This version also introduces the new Joomla automatic core update feature.
- Download Joomla 5.4.0 Full Package
- Or visit all Joomla 5.4.0 Packages
Would you like to make a tour of Joomla 5 without having to install it? We have a solution for you: launch.joomla.org
If you’re still on Joomla 4.x please use the Joomla 4.4.x to 5.x upgrade guide.
A huge thank you to our volunteers!
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the 6.0.0 and the 5.4.0 releases!
A special mention to the Joomla 6.0 release managers: Philip Walton and Gary Barclay, who worked tirelessly to get this release out. And Heiko Lübbe and Richard Fath, who worked to get Joomla 5.4.0 ready for release.
Phil and Gary would like to say how much they appreciate the help and guidance given from Heiko Lübbe, Richard Fath and Benjamin Trenkle without whose help Joomla 6 would not have happened.
For Joomla 5.4.0 we had 24+ contributors and 128+ Pull Requests have been merged. Full details are on GitHub.
Additionally for Joomla 6.0.0 we had 3 new contributors, 32+ contributors and 206+ Pull Requests have been merged. Full details are on GitHub.
A huge shout-out to our teams, who have done an amazing job. In particular, the CMS maintenance team, the CMS release team, the Documentations team and the Marketing team have given their all to make this release happen.
Thank you all.
Translations
German: Joomla 6.0 und Joomla 5.4 sind da!
French : Joomla 6.0 et Joomla 5.4 sont arrivés !
Russian: Joomla 6.0 и Joomla 5.4 уже здесь!