Joomla team has announced the availability of Joomla 4.0 Alpha 12. Now, you can install it to test the extensions compatibility as well as explore the new features in Joomla 4.
Joomla 4 Alpha 12 includes most of the Joomla Core library changes that will be included with version 4.0.0. Some of these changes will require small changes to extensions. SmartAddons makes sure to upgrade all our products to the latest Joomla release. You can find our Joomla 4 templates and Joomla 4 extensions for Joomla as soon as the 4 is released.
Remember this is an Alpha and is not ready for use on a production website. It is for testing only.
What’s new in Joomla 4?
- Install Joomla in the blink of an eye. An easier, faster and more user friendly install process
- Brand new User Interfaces (backend and frontend) to provide a new and improved experience
- The web is for all. We aim to ensure that the templates are accessible (Level AA of WCAG 2.1)
- A fully rebuilt Media Manager with a cleaner User Interface and new image editing capabilities
- A new Publishing Workflow to manage your articles in an advanced and customisable way
- Web Services to allow you to make your content accessible to other websites and for easy mobile app creation
- New security features such as support for prepared SQL statements
- HTML Mail Templates to allow easy customisation of the emails your site sends
- An improved and expanded Command Line Interface (CLI)
- A cleaner and more powerful codebase. With the removal of deprecated functions from Joomla 3.x and the use of PHP namespaces that allows developers to deliver more robust and innovative applications than ever before
- The power of the Joomla Framework merged into the CMS
- An enhanced event dispatching system
- And much more!
Difference between Alpha 11 and Alpha 12:
Joomla 4 Alpha 12 contains:
- Various bug fixes from Alpha 11
- Merge of the Joomla 3.9.7, 3.9.8, 3.9.9, 3.9.10 and 3.9.11 releases
- HTML Mail Templates to allow easy customisation of the emails your site sends
- Improvements to MySQL 8 compatibility with Joomla
Minimum technical requirements for Joomla 4:
- PHP 7.2
- MySQL 5.6 (Note: The minimum MySQL version can be subject to change during the lifetime of Joomla 4 if necessary)
- PostgreSQL 11.0
- Minimum browser version set to n-2
- End of support of Internet Explorer
Follow up all of the news of Joomla 4:
- Here is our list of Joomla 4 extensions
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- The new features of Joomla 4
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To use this big version, you need to make sure your Joomla site is ready for the latest 3.x version. Please follow this article for Joomla Templates Updated for latest Joomla 3.9 templates.