News

• Feature: Joomla 6 support added.
• Change: Joomla 4 support dropped, Joomla 5.4 is minimum version.
• Change: PHP 8.3 as min.
• Note: with Joomla 6, a couple of original phpBB files are modified to resolve conflicts between outdated PSR interfaces in phpBB (should be not a problem with upcoming phpBB 4).

Two new features added:

1. Advanced page caching: helps to cache the entire page output but re-render specific modules on each page load. I.e. the page contents are cached, but the menu module is re-rendered.
2. Extraction of critical CSS (above-the-fold CSS): you can extract critical CSS for specific combinations of pages and apply it for the 1st session load. Helps to significantly improve the page loading speed for the new visitors.

Change: Joomla 6 support added.
Change: Joomla 4 support dropped, Joomla 5.4 as min, PHP 8.3 as min.

• Feature: saving a menu item with direct alias can display a warning if we have another menu item with the same computed route.
• Fix: short routes are not applied in backend, when using article preview or accessibility check.
• Feature: new plugin settings "Remove Separator Aliases" and "Remove Menu Heading Aliases" help to remove aliases for all menu items of specific types.

The good news: we will add support for Joomla! 6 for all of our extensions, but the active development will only start once we have Joomla! 6.0.0 RC (release candidate) version available.

The plan is to have all extension working natively with Joomla! 5.3.x and 6.x without BC plugins enabled.

The bad news: support for Joomla! 4.x will be dropped. But, the last extension version which works with Joomla! 4.x and 5.3.x will be available for download in order to simplify the process of migration from Joomla! 4 to 5.

Please don't wait with migration to Joomla! 5, the more time you waste - the more time is required in the future.