Joomla! 5.2.0 Release Candidate 2

👀 Release information

• 💁 2+ contributors
• 🧰 2+ Pull Requests has been merged
• ⬆️ New migration guide
• 📖 New developer documentation
• 🌎 Release page
• 👀 Full Changelog

🚀 Download information

Note

Userfacing information about this Joomla! release can be found on the release page

🔥 Installation Packages

New Joomla! Installations	SHA-256 Checksums
ZIP Archive (.zip)	d4b77ef190998bf7c4fae58cf53a747c40192cc5817428968c80b8464c08ba67
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	a9fd720ece91fd780ebc0625db103ac97c28f996215d1ffc2893c9b75a6ab05f
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	b321c0cd69faf82a11d6933c996e37d122190446cd9794562a2ffa814dd55c17

Additional and a second source of checksums can be found at our official download page. If you need further information on how to validate a release package please visit our documentation.

✒️ Upgrade Packages

Important

Don't update directly from a version lower than 4.4 it is important that you first update to 4.4 and then update to 5.x

Update from a previous version	SHA-256 Checksums
ZIP Archive (.zip)	3e2d467d20651d0be4fb9aac43e803aeec2dd6cff5ac51917156b27b144963c9
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	68652d546bc27a38e6039d895d4355ed43af39bec0acc59a2a77bfb2bc54f630
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	1f33ad04e81ac39b1648ad7f7c8b9ba3f0d28718842c85592db3b7bcd483f824

Additional and a second source of checksums can be found at our official download page. If you need further information on how to validate a release package please visit our documentation.

🧹 What has been changed

• [5.2] Add active class to active item in mod_ articles by @RickR2H in #44153
• Truncate Text by @drmenzelit in #44189