Joomla 6.2 Is Here: What's New + Live Upgrade

Written by: Shahbaz Latif Created: 14 October 2026

Category: Watch Me Work Live Streams

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Watch me Work Live Streams

Joomla 6.2 came out yesterday, so today on Watch Me Work I'm updating my own site, cybersalt.org, from Joomla 6.1.4 to 6.2 live, then testing my own extensions on it to see what (if anything) breaks. 6.2 is a minor release with no backward-compatibility breaks and the same server requirements as 6.1. It doesn't contain security fixes itself, but the next Joomla 6 security release will be a 6.2.x, so now is the time to get your sites onto it. Here's what I'll cover live:
✅ What's actually new in Joomla 6.2, and the one feature that was pulled before release
✅ Pre-flight checks: Akeeba backup, Joomla's Pre-Update Check, and asking Claude via MCP for Joomla
✅ Staging the site with StageIt, then updating to 6.2
✅ Testing extensions on 6.2: 0-9 & A-Z Menu, Override Checker, Newsletter Vault, MCP for Joomla and StageIt
✅ The new TinyMCE tools: Media Manager image picker, link picker and Read More button
✅ Image and figure CSS classes, subcategory images, and the new login module options
✅ Security flags on extension updates, and what they mean for site owners
✅ SMTP with OAuth 2.0 for Microsoft 365 and Google mail
✅ Your questions in chat
🔗 Links:
Joomla 6.2 release announcement: https://www.joomla.org/announcements/...
Joomla 6.2.0 on GitHub: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/...
Joomla 6.1 to 6.2 migration notes: https://manual.joomla.org/migrations/...
mySites.guru on Joomla 6.2 readiness: https://mysites.guru/blog/joomla-6-2-...
Cybersalt Consulting: https://www.cybersalt.com

00:00:00 – Intro & Joomla 6.2 New Features

00:03:44 – Joomla 5 End-of-Life & Updating to Joomla 6.2

00:09:04 – TinyMCE Media Picker, Captions & Image Styling

00:25:26 – Joomla Link Picker & TinyMCE Toolbar Updates

00:41:43 – Text Filters, Login Security & Passkeys

00:46:42 – Cassiopeia Dropdown Menus & Extension Security Flags

00:51:42 – Joomla Help Pages & Web Services Updates

00:58:31 – OAuth2 Mail Authentication for SMTP, O365 & Gmail

01:01:06 – Image CSS Classes, Admin Links & PHP Enum Fields

01:17:38 – Joomla World Conference 2026

01:26:18 – CS Page Protector v0.2 Demo

01:35:53 – Wrap-Up & God Bless

Summary

1. Introduction, Sponsor & Background Story
Opens the livestream with a channel welcome, a hiring plug, and a sponsorship mention for MySites.Guru, followed by a lighthearted story about a frying-pan bird bath.
2. Joomla 5 End-of-Life & Joomla 6.2 Upgrade
Explains Joomla 5's end-of-life status and the importance of security updates, then demonstrates updating a website to Joomla 6.2 and reviewing its new features.
3. TinyMCE Media Manager Improvements
Explores the updated image picker in Joomla's TinyMCE editor, including inserting images, managing captions, adjusting alignment, and troubleshooting image-float CSS issues.
4. Unified Link Selector & Read More Integration
Demonstrates the new link-selection modal for linking to articles, contacts, menu items, and media. Also covers integrating and enabling the Read More button directly in TinyMCE.
5. TinyMCE Configuration & Text Filtering
Shares toolbar customization tips and explains how TinyMCE now uses Joomla's own text-filtering system, improving consistency with Joomla's content-handling rules.
6. Login Forms, Dropdown Menus & Extension Security
Shows how to hide forgotten-password and forgotten-username links in the Login module, discusses passkeys for a more compact login form, explores multilevel dropdown menus in Cassiopeia, and introduces a security indicator for extension updates.
7. Help Pages & Web Services Improvements
Reviews Joomla's redesigned help pages and compares them with Joomla 5. Covers separate introductory and full-text fields for web services, clearer SVG upload errors, and OAuth2 support for email authentication with services such as Microsoft 365 and Gmail.
8. Media Styling, Administrator Links & PHP Enum Fields
Explains separate CSS classes for images and figures, adding a custom support link to the administrator menu, and using Joomla's new PHP enum form field for more structured configuration options.
9. Joomla World Conference 2026
Introduces the Joomla World Conference 2026, reviews the event's key details, and investigates virtual attendance options for people who cannot attend in person.
10. CS Page Protector Update & Closing
Reviews updates to the CS Page Protector extension, including its progress to version 0.2, and concludes with final thoughts on Joomla 6.2's improvements and ongoing extension development.