Joomla! 5.2.0 RC 1

👀 Release information

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

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🧹 What has been changed

• [5.2] [Guided Tours] The 'Welcome' tour contains unescaped quotes in a language string by @obuisard in #44106
• [5.2] [Guided tours] Bug fixes for PR #43966 by @tecpromotion in #44075
• [5.2] [Guided Tours] Better tour user state wording and explanation by @obuisard in #44093
• [5.2] Created translatable strings for LocalAdapter.php "code review" by @webmasterab in #43694
• [5.2] [Guided Tours] Fix permission errors when recording user tour state by @obuisard in #44082
• [5.2] [Guided Tours] Fix content and footer padding by @obuisard in #44104
• [5.2] fix unescaped quotes in sampldata_blog language string by @tecpromotion in #44111
• [5.2] [Guided Tours] unescaped quotes in a language string by @tecpromotion in #44110
• [5.2] fix update sql for postgres by @alikon in #44123
• [5.2] [Guided Tours] Addition of 'Auto start' step in 'How to create a tour?' tour by @obuisard in #44105
• [5.2] [Guided Tours] Global Configuration delay field fix by @obuisard in #44091
• [5.2] Updating dev dependencies by @Hackwar in #44125
• [5.2] Translation Update by @joomla-translation-bot in #44146
• [5.2] Fix filtering exclude and include articles by @rdeutz in #44142
• Remove forgotten 'card-link' parameter from field and blog sample data by @drmenzelit in #44144
• Option to show all articles in the new mod_articles by @RickR2H in #44127
• Added plugin event triggers to the new mod_articles module by @RickR2H in #44132
• Articles Module: (Re)Introduced dynamic mode as on mod_articles_category by @drmenzelit in #44145
• Module Articles show only articles from current user by @RickR2H in #44137
• Fix showon for Trigger Plugin Events in mod_articles by @RickR2H in #44155
• Article module fix read more title by @RickR2H in #44136
• [5.2] Update NPM developer dependency "rollup" from 2.79.1 to 2.79.2 by @richard67 in #44156
• [5.2] Upmerge from 4.4-dev 2024-09-29 by @richard67 in #44158
• [5.2] Fix saving edited images in media manager by @Hackwar in #44160