What's new

Bug fixes and minor improvements. Please take a look at the CHANGELOG below.

The clock is ticking

Akeeba Backup 8 will stop receiving updates for non-security issues when Joomla 5.0 is released. According to the current Joomla release plan this will happen in October 2023. Furthermore, it will not support any PHP version beyond 8.1 since Joomla 3 itself does not support them. Availability of security updates is contingent on our access to older versions of PHP and their support by our build tools. We expect to be unable to provide security updates for Akeeba Backup 8 after November 2024 when PHP 8.1 becomes End of Life.

Moreover, we will NOT be providing a migration path from Joomla 3 to Joomla 5 for any of our software. Upgrading a Joomla 3 site to Joomla 5 will require upgrading it to Joomla 4 first.

Changelog

Bug fixes

• [HIGH] Some password managers prevent successful submission of the Site Setup page (you get an error about a missing email address)
• [LOW] Push messages may be untranslated strings when a backup is taken over the API or the frontend backup URL