👀 Release information

• 💁 9+ contributors
• 🧰 11+ 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) | deb5983cae4f3eba7d12511ec616b75efb4d640358cbd9f384b4ec8a6cf267a8 | | GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz) | 96db05fca6858d0da125a84e0b079a9d092473941baba1fc85bef122ab55a9e1 | | Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst) | 5e78b0df2bd6be27a9fdf19ac1b94b18e9f721ddbabc32adfbebc9e14a959991 |

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✒️ Upgrade Packages

[!IMPORTANT] Don't update directly from a version lower than 5.4 it is important that you first update to 5.4 and then update to 6.x

| Update from a previous version | SHA-256 Checksums | |--------------------------------|-------------------| | ZIP Archive (.zip) | a667cb010d1e882d52e49845cf437b59b2ed26f85a8f4f922be3e634fe85963e | | GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz) | 821ce142205ffc481f5d669f27118cdddfa0bc85168ab6c4da6723a8e0e86684 | | Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst) | 08940bf392ec2474a8f5516246a368fbc3db98c6731510093eac6e64809237df |

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.

💆 New Contributors

• @samuelagus made their first contribution in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/46047

🧹 What has been changed

• [6.1] Add filter featured to content admin menuitem articles by @chmst in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/46252
• [6.1] Meaningful uninstall message by @brianteeman in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/46277
• [6.1] Replace meaningless element div by element output by @hans2103 in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/46227
• [6.1] Sort Module Logged-in Users by Datetime by @samuelagus in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/46047
• [6.1] User Action Log Emails IP Address by @brianteeman in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/45991
• [6.1] Remove useless empty () check # by @joomdonation in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/45039
• [6.1] Add proof-of-work captcha by @SniperSister in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/46514
• [6.1] Action Log notification mail translate ip_address in case collecting ips is disabled by @HLeithner in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/46511
• [6.1] add composer scripts for cs check and add excludes to php-cs-fixer config by @LadySolveig in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/44498
• [6.1] NPM audit fix security vulnerabilities and update other dependencies 2025-12-19 by @richard67 in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/46592
• [6.1] Add "nocache" as version option to webasset manager by @HLeithner in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/46379

:technologist: Test contributions

Thank you to all the testers who help us maintain high quality standards and deliver a robust product.

@alikon, @basd82, @bembelimen, @brianteeman, @ceford, @ChristineWk, @cyrez, @exlemor, @Fedik, @HLeithner, @JeroenMoolenschot, @tecpromotion