In this article we give you some insight about the next major release 5.0 of our lovely Joomla CMS. This article doesn't list the new features, it is more about the importance of the first major version after 4.0. 4.0 was one of the most challenging release for end users, site integrators and extension developers, because of the difficult migration process. So the whole world is looking at Joomla, if we learn from the mistakes, made in the past.
Read more: Why Joomla 5.0 is the most important release in history
The latest alpha version of Joomla 5 was released this week on Tuesday. It means that no breaking changes will be added anymore and it is time to add Joomla 5 compatibility to our extensions. Beside Joomla 4 and 5, DPCalendar supports Joomla 3.10.x at least till the extended security support phase ends on 17. February 2025.
We are victims of the AcyMailing remote code execution vulnerability as well and our site got hacked. AcyMailing is a widely used extension in the Joomla community so it is a hard incident as many sites are affected. Unfortunately we too.
Joomla 5 will be shipped with icons from Font Awesome version 6. So our extensions are upgrading their icons already to the latest and greatest Font Awesome version. Additionally does DPCalendar support the Joomla 4 inline help toggle button and DPMedia comes with a new adapter option to sync local media.
Our newest Joomla extension, called DPBexio, is now available for the public. It integrates bexio, a Swiss business management service, into Joomla. DPBexio syncs data between your Joomla site and bexio and offers bexio as payment option for DPCalendar. Like that is is possible to issue Swiss QR code bills through bexio during the DPCalendar booking process.
