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We’re excited to announce a major milestone for the JomSocial community: JomSocial 5.0.0 is now available, delivering full compatibility with Joomla 6 and PHP 8.3.

This release also includes refactoring across both backend and frontend areas to ensure a smooth upgrade path and long-term stability.

Even better: all JomSocial themes and templates are also fully compatible with Joomla 6, so you can upgrade with confidence while keeping your current look and feel intact.

If you’re planning a Joomla 6 migration (or already running Joomla 6), this update is the recommended foundation for a secure, modern, and future-ready community website.

JomSocial 5.0.0 update - Joomla 6 and PHP 8.3 compatibility


What’s new in JomSocial 5.0.0

Version 5.0.0 focuses on Joomla 6 readiness with a full review of deprecated APIs and legacy calls, plus key improvements to installation, configuration, and media workflows. Below is the full changelog:

Version 5.0.0 changelog

  • Update for Joomla 6 compatibility
  • Refactored deprecated backend methods and legacy code
  • Resolved installation and configuration issues
  • Replaced deprecated frontend methods and legacy calls
  • Refactored photo upload workflow to comply with Joomla 6 APIs
  • Fixed: Incorrect return value for hash in pro/dev version
  • Fixed: JavaScript error in Terms & Conditions popup

JomSocial Themes – Joomla 6 ready

All JomSocial themes have been reviewed and updated to ensure full compatibility with Joomla 6 and PHP 8.3. You can safely upgrade your Joomla core while keeping your community design consistent and stable.

JomSocial Templates – Joomla 6 ready

In addition to themes, all official JomSocial templates are now fully compatible with Joomla 6. These templates work seamlessly with JomSocial 5.0.0 and help you customize layouts without breaking core functionality.


Download JomSocial 5.0.0

Get the latest packages:

Download JomSocial 5.0.0 Download Themes Download Templates


Upgrade instructions

  1. Backup first: Create a full site backup (files + database) before making changes.
  2. Update Joomla & PHP: Ensure your environment is running Joomla 6 and PHP 8.3 (or upgrade in a staging site first).
  3. Install JomSocial 5.0.0: Download the package and install it via Joomla Extension Manager.
  4. Update themes/templates: If you use JomSocial themes or templates, download the Joomla 6 compatible versions and apply them as needed.
  5. Verify site functionality: Test registration, activity stream, photos, user profiles, and key workflows.

Tip: If your site includes heavy customizations or template overrides, we recommend testing in a staging environment first to ensure a seamless transition.


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Hi guys,

Guru Pro 6.3.0 is now ready to download.

This update brings full Joomla 6 compatibility, improved PHP 8.x support, and a set of important bug fixes to ensure a stable and future-proof LMS experience.

Guru Pro is a powerful Joomla LMS extension for building online courses, universities, and training platforms that generate revenue. Version 6.3.0 ensures your LMS is fully aligned with the latest Joomla standards.

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Hi everyone,

Another Joomla update is here. We’re releasing a new batch of JoomlArt templates updated for Joomla 6.0.1 and Joomla 5.4, ensuring continued compatibility, stability, and performance with the latest Joomla versions.

All templates in this release are built on the latest T4 Framework and fully tested with Joomla 6.0.1 and Joomla 5.4.

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Hi everyone,

The Joomla 6 upgrade continues! We’re excited to announce another large batch of Joomla 6–ready template updates, further expanding our compatibility coverage across the JoomlArt portfolio.

All templates below are now fully compatible with Joomla 6 (and also support Joomla 5.4 / Joomla 4), ensuring smooth upgrades and long-term stability for your sites.

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Say hello to JA Magz - the awesome October Responsive Joomla template for News & Magazine on both Joomla 2.5 & Joomla 3. Here are the 4 reasons why JA Magz is the bomb:

  1. Supports over 41 languages (Bing translation)
  2. JA Magz is extremely customization friendly
  3. Fully responsive, supports EasyBlog and RTL language layout
  4. Enhance productive collaboration and content sharing
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The latest of our Joomla 2.5 & 3.0 responsive template is JA Beranis. Fully loaded with great features including: RTL language layout support, EasyBlog component support, brand new module - image hotspot, our first ever vertical Mega Menu support and not to mention 5 more complimentary extensions. It also incorporates text and image animation (scrolling down on the home page to see it in action). JA Beranis is hands-down one of the most charismatic Joomla business template in our current collection. Let me give you a short tour of this template.

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Following up for RTL language layout support for Joomla 2.5 & 3.1 templates, we have immediately updated 6 templates featuring this outstanding feature including: JA Beranis, JA Argo, JA Mitius, JA Onepage, JA Mero, and JA Brisk. If you haven’t known already, we now support RTL language layout in our T3 framework integrated with Bootstrap at core, it is amazingly easy to use. That means any Joomla templates that are compatible with the latest version of T3 Framework are RTL layout friendly. Woot woot!

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Yes! we did it right this time. Our Joomla templates (running T3v3 framework) now supports Right to left (RTL) language layouts. If you all remember we were the first to introduce native RTL support in Joomla templates via our T3v2 framework but it was a cumbersome process and hard work to release and maintain them, we eventually had to pause the RTL support, it was a hard decision then. For quite many months we have been working hard for the development and improvement of our T3 framework for Joomla! 2.5 / 3.0. Addition of Right to left layouts was one of the important feature and I am happy to announce that the feature is now available. RTL support in the latest T3 framework now uses the bootstrap RTL and is amazingly simple to use.

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Since more than one year, I discussed with Joomlart's CEO (Hung) about the necessity to do a native RTL template. Actually, I was unhappy to see all these automaticlly mirrored templates with a global code: "direction: rtl" that send the vertical scroll to the left side of the screen and cause more issues than solutions. Yes, I read from right to left but I use my right hand to scroll pages and I have the same visual logic as readers of Left-to-Right scripts.

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