Joomla!

Is Joomla! actively maintained?

Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 414 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 107 of them.

The most recent tagged release, 6.1.4-rc1, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.

Of the 48 projects we track in Content Management Systems (CMS), Joomla! ranks #12 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.

What Joomla! actually does

Joomla! is a PHP-based content management system released under the GPL-2.0 licence. It provides a structured environment for publishing, organising, and managing web content on a self-hosted server. The platform relies on a traditional LAMP or similar PHP stack to handle page rendering and administrative workflows.

Best fit: It is a suitable choice if you need a structured content management system with native support for complex user permission levels and multilingual sites.

Worth knowing: You should consider the maintenance overhead associated with keeping a PHP-based CMS and its various extensions updated against potential security vulnerabilities.

Deployment notes

You will typically need to provision a PHP runtime, a relational database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, and a web server like Nginx or Apache with persistent storage for uploaded assets.

Links

• Official website
• Source code