Here is what the May issue... |
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of the Joomla! Community Newsletter! includes:
upcoming Joomla! 5.3.1 & 5.4.0 Alpha, Code Along JUG,
Moving up to Joomla 5 and Dev Corner for your website... |
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Time rolls on and so are improvements to Joomla!
Joomla 5.3.1 RC and Stable are coming out May 17th, and 27th, 2025 respectively!
And then there is Joomla 5.4.0 Alpha 1 that will arrive May 27th, 2025.
The Joomla 5.4 branch is a bridge version and has for purpose to help ease the transition to the next major release: Joomla 6 which is coming out later this year in October.
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Every month, the Code Along JUG gets together online... and you are more than welcome to join:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/985515609990897
The Code Along Joomla User Groups (JUG), founded by Eoin Oliver and Adam Melcher is a bit different than other JUGs in that participants get together to learn and code collaboratively!
"This is not a watch and learn group, this is a bring your laptop group and get sucked in to the wonderful world of coding." in the words of one of its co-founder: Eoin Oliver.
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You can find more information beyond the Facebook group on the new website:
https://codealong.joomla.group/
All ages and knowledge levels are welcome - it's a fun, interactive way to learn or improve your Joomla coding skills the Joomla way - together.
(for exact JUG Meeting dates, please make sure to check the Facebook Group)
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Did you know that now is a perfect time to start moving your site(s) from Joomla 4 to Joomla 5?
And the good news is that updating from Joomla! 4 to Joomla 5 is an easy process and painless.
As you can see from the table below, support for security fixes for Joomla! 4 ends in October this year...
| Development Status | | | Current Release | 4.4.13 | | Release Date of Series | 17 August 2021 | | End of regular bugfix Support for 4.x | 15 October 2024 | | End of security fix only Support for 4.x | 14 October 2025 |
so start planning and/or executing your move to Joomla 5!
And as always, join the Joomla! community on Mattermost if you have questions, need a bit of help or just want to connect with great people.
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This edition of Dev Corner is more about useful tools for Developers, Integrators that make our life easier everyday!
The 1st is: https://clamp.font-size.app/
This feels almost like magic - fonts that scale without having to use media-queries...
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The 2nd is: https://fontgauntlet.com/
Great to play around and see how a font would look and what characteristics it includes, test variable fonts, live preview and more...
The 3rd is: https://wave.webaim.org/
A tool that I can't live without in my effort to check that the content and website(s) that I build are accessible to all.
The 4th is: https://coolors.co/
A tool that helps make generating color palettes a breeze...
Bonus: https://caniuse.com/
The web evolves and keeping up with what can or can't be used across different generations of web browsers is not always easy but Can I Use solves that - that's how I discovered that the above clamp is very well supported today.
All of the above are free to use and only coolors.co requires creating a free account. |
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Some of the tools above were proposed by Angie Radtke and Emmanuel Lemor. |
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Be on the lookout in next month's issue for some
exciting information from Joomla's Sponsors. |
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