Joomla 3.9 is the tenth minor release of Joomla 3, before the Joomla 4 will be released on the end of 2018. Joomla 3.8 to 3.9 is just one-click upgrade and is NOT a migration.
What's New in Joomla 3.9
This new version has 200+ new features, improvements and bug fixes. Its main purpose is to introduce:
- Privacy Tool Suite into Joomla CMS to facilitate the compliance of your sites and to make developers’ life easier to get their extensions compliant with laws and regulations such as GDPR.
- Some new features for easy content management: Add notes to your article in the backend. a new search in the backend, loading module by ID
- More flexibility for custom fields
- Some frontend changes
- New features for multilingual sites: new toolbar button to edit associations, Propagate existing associations, Display your tags per language
- Use Google Invisible reCAPTCHA on your websites
- And More
Remember this is not ready for use on a production website. It is for testing only.
Note: SmartAddons' Joomla templates are now ready for Joomla 3.8, if you have any problem in bugs fixing or contact us here, we will help you.