Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community.
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Planning for Joomla 5.2 is Underway
Joomla 5.1 was released in April. We can now expect Joomla 5.2 to arrive in October. This means that we're just starting the development process for 5.2. The first Alpha version is now available.
Congrats to the Joomla Day USA team who have published over 15 sessions from this year's events. You'll find talks from Benjamin Trenkle (one of the leads for Joomla 5), Nicholas Dionysopoulos (from Akeeba), and more.
Why Joomla's Release Cycle is Now Planned in Advanced
Philip Walton writes about why Joomla now commits specific release dates. This article is particularly targeted at developers. Did you know that Joomla now makes it very obvious when features will be deprecated?
Matthew Tamin provides an excellent 90 minute video to help you master the art of Joomla template editing. He shows you how to decipher and modify Joomla template code, plus how to customize layouts, colors, fonts, and more.
I've known Ryan for a long time and he's a great guy. He's also the developer of JCE (Joomla Content Editor), one of the most popular Joomla extensions. Serge Billon interviewed Ryan for the Joomla Magazine.
Olivier Buisard is an excellent Joomla developer and he explains why he now users Bearsampp when he needs a reliable local server environment. Bearsampp is free and available for Windows.
Yannick Gaultier presents Weeblr.com's newest extension for Joomla: 4Command. This extension provides a command palette and keyboard shortcut to make managing your site much easier.
