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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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We have introduced lots of amazing features of our completely new T4 Joomla template framework in previous 2 preview releases. We thank you for all your feedbacks, features requests and also bug report. We has been working hard with passion to make the product better, release new version faster with more stunning new features and improvements.

One week since Preview 2 released, we are happy to announce ALPHA version of T4 Framework has been released with more new major features. Here are the main features come with the Alpha version.

  • Addons Management System
  • Template Settings Import/Export
  • Customize style with inbuilt Custom CSS Editor
  • Section overlay image and video
  • Add/Edit Block
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Last week, we released first preview of T4 Joomla template framework, the powerful and advanced responsive template framework for Joomla. We got lots of good feedbacks, features suggestion and of-course bugs report, our development team have implemented almost the requests, rest has been added to the plan. And today, we are releasing update version - T4 Framework Preview 2 with following major new features:

  • Off canvas menu support
  • Color Palettes
  • Admin panel dark theme
  • Layout position preview
  • Enable / Disable dev mode
  • Local folder for override template
  • Extra fields support
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We are so excited to announce first preview release of JoomlArt’s 2019 core project - T4. T4 will include 2 main products: T4 Joomla Template Framework and T4 Page builder. In this blog post, we will focus on our all new Framework - T4 Framework.

T4 Framework is powerful and advanced responsive template framework for Joomla. It is a modern, flexible and highly customizable framework to build beautiful Joomla websites easier.

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