Joomla 3.5 brought support for PHP 7 – a significant speed gain, according to its announcement – and 34 new features. For this review we installed Joomla 3.5.1 of 5 April 2016, the last version of this line, and photographed it.
| Released | 21 March 2016 (Joomla 3.5.0) |
|---|---|
| Last version | 3.5.1 of 5 April 2016 (2 versions) |
| Followed by | Joomla 3.6 on 12 July 2016 |
| Requirements | PHP from 5.3.10 |
| Templates | Protostar (default), Beez3; Isis in the backend, Hathor |
| Included in the installation | 135 extensions |
| End of support | End of Life: Joomla 3.x |
What was new in Joomla 3.5
According to the Joomla 3.5 announcement:
- Support for PHP 7.
- An e-mail to administrators as soon as a Joomla update is available.
- A statistics plugin that reports the server environment anonymously – with a question in the control panel.
- System information to download for support.
- A user.css of your own for Protostar.
- Article counts in the Category Manager and random ordering in the blog.
- Editor buttons in the toolbar, inserting modules into articles with a button and drag-and-drop images in TinyMCE.




The installation




The website







The backend














2016 and today
For comparison: the same views in a fresh Joomla 6.2.
All 2 versions of Joomla 3.5
According to the Joomla downloads:
- 3.5.021 Mar 2016
- 3.5.15 Apr 2016
Joomla 3 at a glance
| Version | First release | Last release | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joomla 3.0 | 27 Sep 2012 | 3.0.4 · 23 Apr 2013 | 5 |
| Joomla 3.1 | 23 Apr 2013 | 3.1.6 · 6 Nov 2013 | 7 |
| Joomla 3.2 | 6 Nov 2013 | 3.2.7 · 1 Oct 2014 | 8 |
| Joomla 3.3 | 30 Apr 2014 | 3.3.6 · 1 Oct 2014 | 7 |
| Joomla 3.4 | 24 Feb 2015 | 3.4.8 · 24 Dec 2015 | 9 |
| Joomla 3.5 | 21 Mar 2016 | 3.5.1 · 5 Apr 2016 | 2 |
| Joomla 3.6 | 12 Jul 2016 | 3.6.5 · 13 Dec 2016 | 6 |
| Joomla 3.7 | 25 Apr 2017 | 3.7.5 · 17 Aug 2017 | 6 |
| Joomla 3.8 | 18 Sep 2017 | 3.8.13 · 9 Oct 2018 | 14 |
| Joomla 3.9 | 30 Oct 2018 | 3.9.28 · 6 Jul 2021 | 29 |
| Joomla 3.10 | 17 Aug 2021 | 3.10.12 · 11 Jul 2023 | 13 |
Still running a website on Joomla 3?
It gets no security updates any more. We bring it to Joomla 6 – we name the effort after an inventory.
See Joomla update and migrationHow we did it: Joomla 3.5.1 in the original package from downloads.joomla.org, locally in Docker with PHP 7.4 and MySQL 5.7, reachable only on our own machine, files unchanged, with the "Learn Joomla" sample data. PHP error display is switched off so that notices about outdated functions do not cover the pictures.
All versions of Joomla 3







