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The Flexible Platform Empowering Website Creators Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications.

This is the source of Joomla! 5.x. Joomla's Official website. Joomla! 5.4 version history. Detailed changes are in the changelog. Joomla! is a Content Management System (CMS) which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications. It is a simple and powerful web server application which requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL to run. You can find full technical requirements here. Joomla! is free and Open Source software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. You will need: PHP - basically the same as you need for running a Joomla Site, but you need the cli (command line interface) Version (see Composer - for managing Joomla's PHP Dependencies. For help installing composer please read the documentation at Node.js - for compiling Joomla's Javascript and SASS files. For help installing Node.js please follow the instructions available on Git - for version management. Download from here (MacOS users can also use Brew and Linux users can use the built-in package manager, eg apt, yum, etc). Steps to setup the local environment: Clone the repository: Go to the joomla-cms folder: Go to the 5.4-dev branch: Install all the needed composer packages: Install all the needed npm packages: Where to request a feature? How do you report a bug on the Issue Tracker? How to submit code to the Joomla CMS using a Pull Request? Get Involved: Joomla! is community developed software. Join the community. Documentation for Developers. Documentation for Web designers. Provide a translation for Joomla: Joomla Crowdin Project Using a simple classification keeps the project stable , transparent , and easy for everyone to contribute. Bug / Patch release The change fixes an actual error. The software crashes, produces the wrong result, or behaves contrary to its specification. It can be resolved without large‑scale refactoring or new functionality. 5.4-dev (6.1-dev) Feature / Minor release Anything that isn’t a strict bug – new behavior, refactoring, performance improvements, enhancements, UI tweaks, etc. These changes are bundled together for the next minor version. 6.2-dev All bugs that already exist in version 5.4.x should be fixed in 5.4-dev . Only bugs that are introduced for the first time in version 6.x should target the 6.1-dev branch. (C) 2005 Open Source Matters, Inc. Distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later See License details