Joomla! Community Magazine

1. The October Issue

   When this issue of the JCM comes out, Joomla 6 has just been launched. A new major version of your favorite CMS has seen the light of day 🎉. And if you know our awesome, well-structured roadmap, you're probably not even a bit surprised by that, because it was announced ages ago: major new versions every two years. Which is, you guessed it, now, for Joomla 6.

2. Six WOW Factors of Joomla! 6

   In your opinion, what is a WOW-factor? Is it fancy features, shiny stuff or glittering gadgets? When it comes to content management systems, the WOW- factors may lie in completely different things.  

3. Mastering Joomla Content Versioning: How to Track, Compare, and Restore Article Changes

   When managing a website, content changes are inevitable. Articles get updated, pages evolve, and information needs to stay current. But what happens when you need to undo a change or review who edited what? That’s where content versioning in Joomla comes in.

4. Automatic core updates in Joomla

   With the release of Joomla 5.4 and Joomla 6.0 on 14 October 2025, the Joomla project introduces a significant innovation: automatic updates for the core system. This feature makes it possible to keep Joomla installations up to date reliably and without manual intervention – an important step towards increasing the security and maintainability of Joomla websites.

5. Cassiopeia’s Child Learns to Dress Itself: Colors and Font Sizes in Joomla’s core template

   Joomla 6 is out and it brings a great example of a Child Template with new options for colors and font sizes.