What’s new in joomla 3.7
- 1. What’s new in Joomla 3.7
Presented by Tim Plummer
Joomla User Group Sydney
14th February 2017
- 3. Schedule for release
Actual release dates
Alpha 1 – 20th Dec 2016
Alpha 2 – 19th Jan 2017
Beta 1 – 2nd Feb 2017
Beta 2 – 9th Feb 2017
Planned dates
- 4. Big features
• Routing
• Custom Fields
• Associations Manager
• Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues?page=1&q=label%3A%22New+Feature%22+milestone%3A%22Joomla+3.7.0%22+is%3Aclosed
- 5. Routing
• New router
– make routing both more flexible and more reliable
– Get rid of ids from URL
– Avoid search engines indexing the same content
with multiple URLs
- 7. Routing
• Legacy mode shows article ID in URL (eg.
When accessed from a category blog menu
item)
• Modern setting with Remove IDs from URLs
set to Yes
- 8. Routing
• Recommended that new sites use Modern
• Existing sites leave the Legacy mode or use
Modern with Remove-ID setting left to No (to
avoid SEO consequences)
• Or existing sites could use 301-redirect to
reroute existing URLs
- 10. Multilingual Associations Manager
• a result of a GSOC project
• allows you to make translations from content
into another language using one interface
• https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/13537
- 11. Backend Admin Menu Manager
• With this feature you can create and use a
custom admin menu
• https://github.com/joomla/joomla-
cms/pull/13036
- 13. Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu
• And change the module to display your menu
instead
- 14. Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu
• So you can control what is shown on your
backend menu
- 16. Plugin with a nag message to update PHP
• New warnings about old PHP versions
• Warnings for PHP 5.3 thru 5.5.
• No warnings for 5.6 or 7.0
- 18. New show info option in com_contact
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/8607
- 20. Allow a custom page title to be defined for
an article without a menu item
• Makes it possible to customize the browser
page title for a case when an article is not
displayed using a com_content article menu
item (i.e. displaying an article that's a child of
a blog with a menu item).
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/10838
- 22. Add sort by modified date in
mod_articles_news
Articles – Newsflash module can now order by
modified date
- 26. Did you know that Joomla has a built
in voting feature?
• This feature has been in Joomla for a long
time
• In article options, turn on Show Voting
• Make sure Content – Vote plugin is enabled
• Users can then vote on the articles
- 35. Create Category button
• For multilanguage install, on associations tab
you can now create a new category
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/11857
- 36. Add unpublished Content Language on
Language Package Install
• When you install a new language pack, it will
create the content language for you
- 38. Menu item visibility indicator
• When using “Display in Menu” feature (added
in 3.5.1), there was no easy way to see what is
hidden. Now there is visual indicator
- 40. Check for minimum supported database
type and version
• com_joomlaupdate can now check for
minimum supported database version per
type
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/12355
- 42. Declare that child extensions cannot
be uninstalled
• Extension developers and prevent child
extensions in a package from being uninstalled
separately
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/13154