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Published: 08 May 2018

As previously announced here, the Joomla Project is working on a GDPR oriented release including tools to help you with the privacy of your websites.

Read more: Goals for Joomla 3.9

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Published: 04 April 2018

Since version 1.5, the Joomla CMS contains a Gmail authentication plugin. Its main purpose was to illustrate how you can build a Joomla authentication plugin for an external service with a ‘real world’ example. The web has changed dramatically since then, but not this plugin. The technique the plugin is using is not anymore state of the art and less secure.

Read more: Removal of the Gmail Authentication Plugin as of Joomla 4.0

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Published: 26 January 2018

With the release of Joomla 3.8 a first compatibility layer for Joomla 4 was released. What does this layer contain? Why is such a layer needed? Questions like this will be answered in this post.

Read more: Joomla 4 compatibility layer in 3.8

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Published: 27 December 2017

With every new major version release of our popular CMS, we have some points of attention to bring to our developers and users. With the upcoming Joomla 4 launch, this is no different. You can load any UI framework you want in your extension, template, plugin, ... But you may not unload any media of the package (Bootstrap, jQuery, MooTools, Chosen, or whatever libraries are being introduced into 4.0), otherwise things will break.

Read more: Be smart, load but don’t unload!