Joomla! 6.1.2 Release Candidate 1

👀 Release information

• 💁 6+ contributors
• 🧰 11+ Pull Requests has been merged
• ⬆️ New migration guide
• 📖 New developer documentation
• 🌎 Release page
• 👀 Full Changelog

🚀 Download information

Note

Userfacing information about this Joomla! release can be found on the release page

🔥 Installation Packages

New Joomla! Installations	SHA-256 Checksums
ZIP Archive (.zip)	26a590ecb3690376781ca994e75ddca4454247e37f9af8bfcc8cf138d8084677
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	fa8fa8d4a483f8a658bc875f1d55ab9fa577c57911a0e7ace06c273be8aaca9b
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	61182ffa3212f692653d5582f8d821350bb7dc153789045778affc10a92fd6eb

Additional and a second source of checksums can be found at our official download page. If you need further information on how to validate a release package please visit our documentation.

✒️ Upgrade Packages

Important

Don't update directly from a version lower than 5.4 it is important that you first update to 5.4 and then update to 6.x

Update from a previous version	SHA-256 Checksums
ZIP Archive (.zip)	3ec03c416ff15c4a235432c3c5fdeb804f23ea2449572ce21ab468699180119e
GNU Zip Archive (.tar.gz)	517a8b755cbb3cb8d7e4e3344b9ac424af2cb8b8910537a0e29ad372d94663a6
Zstandard Archive (.tar.zst)	a7a69ed4ef5d4f88c221e19226fb265400e56230746ae8dc2e54b9117b099a59

Additional and a second source of checksums can be found at our official download page. If you need further information on how to validate a release package please visit our documentation.

🧹 What has been changed

• [6.1] README delete heavy development note by @heelc29 in #47792
• [6.1] Update docs about branches after 6.1.0 stable by @heelc29 in #47791
• [6.1] Remove obsolete exclusion for tinymce/langs from typos.toml by @richard67 in #47831
• [6.1] Remove Dockerfile and compose.yml files from vendor folder by @HLeithner in #47876
• [6.1] Disable flaky view transitions in system tests by @laoneo in #47920
• [6.1][AI] Fix Accessiblemedia subform values for non-image media types by @tecpromotion in #47804
• [6.1] Update deleted files in script.php for 6.1.2 by @richard67 in #47892
• [6.1] [AI] Make CSS url() versioning resilient to unparseable vendor CSS by @tecpromotion in #47996
• [6.1] Update Tinymce and languagse by @brianteeman in #47994
• [6.1] Composer updates 2026-06-24 by @richard67 in #48019
• [6.1] NPM updates 2026-06-25 by @richard67 in #48025

🧑‍💻 Test contributions

Thank you to all the testers who help us maintain high quality standards and deliver a robust product.

@brianteeman (2), @ChristineWk (1), @CSGoat0 (2), @LadySolveig (1), @QuyTon (3), @sdwjoomla (1), @velisnolis (1)