🎉 JCB v5.1.1 & v4.1.1 Released — Thank You for Powering the Future of Joomla Development!
Published on July 4, 2025 by Llewellyn
After five months of focused development, we're excited to officially release JCB v5.1.1 — our most feature-packed and visionary version yet.
This release introduces the powerful new Packaging Engine, which lets you export your components, views, fields, and full blueprint structure directly into Git repositories. This makes it possible to collaborate in teams, share blueprint versions, and compile extensions from structured source data — all tracked in version control.
Other major features include:
- Modal Select (Joomla 5 only): Smarter, searchable modals for selecting related entities.
- History tracking for subform tables: Now even deeply nested sub-entities can track changes.
- Improved CLI spreadsheet importing, new repository management tools, and more.
- Deep refactoring for long-term stability and Joomla 6 readiness (we're ~99% there!).
🙌 We want to sincerely thank every one of our supporters. Your funding, encouragement, and belief in the vision of JCB made this possible. You helped shape a stronger, more open, and more collaborative Joomla ecosystem.
💡 Alongside this, we've also released JCB v4.1.1 for Joomla 4 — which includes nearly all the same features except for Modal Select, which relies on Joomla 5's modern field system.
JCB continues to support building components for Joomla 3, 4, and 5, with full alignment between v4.x and v5.x (where Joomla allows). We're committed to helping developers on any supported version build powerful components — and preparing everyone for Joomla 6.
📖 Want the full breakdown?
Read the full blog post here:
👉 https://github.com/orgs/joomengine/discussions/994
🔗 Quick links:
→ JCB v5.1.1 Release Notes
→ JCB v4.1.1 Release Notes
❤️ From all of us — thank you for being part of this journey.
— The JCB Team