The Joomla! team has officially announced the release of Joomla 3.9 – ‘The Privacy Tool Suite’. For all those using Nuagerie servers, our system has automatically been updated to accommodate the changes.

This new release comes with over 250 improvements for the Joomla CMS, including a full privacy tool suite, which will make site compliance faster and easier for everyone (especially the developers).
 

What’s new in Joomla 3.9?

New features

The Privacy Tool Suite by Joomla!

User Consents - Data privacy requirements have been simplified

• Joomla 3.9 now handles user consent to privacy policies and/or terms and conditions automatically. Simply set up your core forms to request consent before collecting any personal data.
• Set up a time-based privacy consent expiration. The system will let you know if and when you need to contact your users to renew consent.
• Track user consents, manage site policy changes and much more, all directly from your dashboard.

User information requests

• Track and manage information access or removal requests from your users, seamlessly. Once a request is made, just log in, export their data and/or remove them.
• User data removal requests are all handled automatically, with all personal data anonymized.
• Joomla 3.9 can now be set to remind you of all requests so you never forget one again.

Privacy Extension Capabilities

• Extension developer – give your potential users a helping hand by making it clear what data your extension collects. When you want to report functionality in your extensions that may need privacy consideration, simply use the new Plugin Event (onPrivacyCollectAdminCapabilities).
• Your users can now have a clear understanding of your extension and can decide whether or not to amend their own documentation (such as their privacy policy or terms of service).

User Actions Log

• Joomla 3.9 now allows Super Users to see which user did what, and when. And it also works with supported extensions. Review the action log, export it and purge the entries. Never miss another system change thanks to the latest actions module that can be added to your control panel.
• You can also enable the new log rotation plugin, which will allow you to rotate and remove your log files.

Joomla 3.9 is about more than Privacy

Content management made fast and easy

• Add notes to your articles in the backend, and filter them 
• A new search feature in the backend: search for a specific article content
• Load a module by ID into your article 

More flexibility for custom fields

• A repeatable custom field is now available 
• Create alternative layouts to fit your needs

Frontend changes

• Display the intro or full image in your newsflash module
• Show only the articles from a specific author in your latest articles module
• and much more

New features for multilingual sites

• A new toolbar button to edit associations 
• Propagate existing associations
• Display your tags per language

Use Google Invisible reCAPTCHA on your websites

• Argon2id Password is now supported

For more information about the update, please visit the official Joomla 3.9 site or browse their documentation to learn how to use the new features.

Prepping your website for Joomla 3.9

Like all the other minor (3.x) versions, updating your website to Joomla 3.9 takes just a single click.

However for all those using unmanaged servers, before upgrading, make sure to update all third-party extensions and run a full backup of your system (make sure to test it).

If you still have questions or concerns, feel free to contact us here or use our live chat feature.