With the stable release of Joomla 3.7 due in March, we took a look at what's coming up in the new version. There are over 40 new features.

1. What’s new in Joomla 3.7
Presented by Tim Plummer
Joomla User Group Sydney
14th February 2017

3. Schedule for release
Actual release dates
Alpha 1 – 20th Dec 2016
Alpha 2 – 19th Jan 2017
Beta 1 – 2nd Feb 2017
Beta 2 – 9th Feb 2017
Planned dates

4. Big features
• Routing
• Custom Fields
• Associations Manager
• Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues?page=1&q=label%3A%22New+Feature%22+milestone%3A%22Joomla+3.7.0%22+is%3Aclosed

5. Routing
• New router
– make routing both more flexible and more reliable
– Get rid of ids from URL
– Avoid search engines indexing the same content
with multiple URLs

6. Routing
• Optional feature, default is legacy routing
(nothing will change)
• Integration tab allows you to switch on per
component

7. Routing
• Legacy mode shows article ID in URL (eg.
When accessed from a category blog menu
item)
• Modern setting with Remove IDs from URLs
set to Yes

8. Routing
• Recommended that new sites use Modern
• Existing sites leave the Legacy mode or use
Modern with Remove-ID setting left to No (to
avoid SEO consequences)
• Or existing sites could use 301-redirect to
reroute existing URLs

9. Custom Fields

10. Multilingual Associations Manager
• a result of a GSOC project
• allows you to make translations from content
into another language using one interface
• https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/13537

11. Backend Admin Menu Manager
• With this feature you can create and use a
custom admin menu
• https://github.com/joomla/joomla-
cms/pull/13036

12. Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu
• You can create your own admin menu

13. Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu
• And change the module to display your menu
instead

14. Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu
• So you can control what is shown on your
backend menu

15. Other new features

16. Plugin with a nag message to update PHP
• New warnings about old PHP versions
• Warnings for PHP 5.3 thru 5.5.
• No warnings for 5.6 or 7.0

17. Buttons look different

18. New show info option in com_contact
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/8607

19. Media select all
• So you can easily delete a folder full of images

20. Allow a custom page title to be defined for
an article without a menu item
• Makes it possible to customize the browser
page title for a case when an article is not
displayed using a com_content article menu
item (i.e. displaying an article that's a child of
a blog with a menu item).
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/10838

21. Reply to email
Set in global config

22. Add sort by modified date in
mod_articles_news
Articles – Newsflash module can now order by
modified date

23. Show Intro Text parameter added to
mod_articles_news

24. Feature items filter to
mod_articles_news

25. New DateTime picker (replaces calendar)

26. Did you know that Joomla has a built
in voting feature?
• This feature has been in Joomla for a long
time
• In article options, turn on Show Voting
• Make sure Content – Vote plugin is enabled
• Users can then vote on the articles

27. Article ordering by votes or ratings

28. Article ordering by votes or ratings

29. Insert menu item links in content

30. Insert contact links in content

31. Create Article button

32. Create Contact Button
• Single contact menu item

33. Create news feed button
• Single news feed menu item

34. Create Menu Item button
• System links – menu item alias

35. Create Category button
• For multilanguage install, on associations tab
you can now create a new category
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/11857

36. Add unpublished Content Language on
Language Package Install
• When you install a new language pack, it will
create the content language for you

37. Value of global setting shown

38. Menu item visibility indicator
• When using “Display in Menu” feature (added
in 3.5.1), there was no easy way to see what is
hidden. Now there is visual indicator

39. Optional prefix/suffix text on Mass
Mail Form
• Users->Mass Mail Users->Options
• Now you can see prefix & suffix text on form

40. Check for minimum supported database
type and version
• com_joomlaupdate can now check for
minimum supported database version per
type
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/12355

41. Show configured upload limit when
uploading files

42. Declare that child extensions cannot
be uninstalled
• Extension developers and prevent child
extensions in a package from being uninstalled
separately
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/13154

43. Tim Plummer
www.timplummer.com.au
@bfsurvey