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Benjamin Trenkle
Fascinated by the possibilities, Benjamin Trenkle has been a passionate Joomla! developer since Joomla! 1.0. Since then, he has taken on various roles within the Joomla! community. He serves as a mentor for the Google Summer of Code project and is a member of the Security Strike Team and the CMS Maintenance Team. After serving as Release Lead for Joomla! 4.1, he worked for one year as Production Department Coordinator before taking over leadership of the CMS Release Team in August 2022, where he supports the current and future release managers for Joomla!. Since 2026, he has been the team leader of the Maintenance Team. He has also been involved in implementing a wide range of Joomla! features, such as multilingual support in Joomla! 3, the workflow system for Joomla! 4, the Task Scheduler, and the schema.org implementation.
At the same time, he runs the company Wicked Software, which specializes in the development of Joomla! extensions. Their offerings include the “Wicked Team” component, which enables the management of records, employees, departments, roles, and lists directly within the Joomla! backend. In addition, he offers the development of custom extensions, maintenance, support and training, as well as consulting for multilingual websites, accessible websites, and complex Joomla! projects.
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Joomla Maintenance Team Sprint: First Steps Towards Joomla 7.0
June 6th. The Joomla Maintenance Team sat down to do something we've been threatening to do for ages: actually remove that deprecated code we've been nagging people about.
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Joomla! 8 Sprint - Next steps
It’s the big elephant in the room: Joomla lacks a reliable long term roadmap for it’s CMS product. Additions to new versions have been primarily driven by personal preferences of individual contributors and not by a long term strategy - and finally, it’s time for that issue to be solved.
In order to do so, a group of people gathered in a rural village in southern Germany in early September to answer the big question: where should Joomla head to?
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Joomla! 8 - Get involved
You’ve probably heard about the Joomla 8 sprint in the June edition of the magazine. With only 2 weeks left - the sprint will take place from September 4th to September 7th - we would like to update you about the plans.
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The Backward Compatibility Plugin and why you should switch it off
Joomla! 5 is there and it brings a lot of improvements. One of them is the “Behaviour - Backward Compatibility” plugin. It’s not a feature you can see in backend or frontend, so what is the purpose of this plugin? Let’s answer the most important questions!
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Just a Break, no Goodbye - Thank you, Harald Leithner
Elections again… one of the reasons is that you, Harald, stepped down as Operations DC. I understand your decision, being totally in the hot spot of Joomla! leadership is, at times, absolutely no fun. But it is also a very sad moment for the Joomla! project as you, Harald, were the rock in the surf for many people in Joomla!. Hundreds (probably thousands) of volunteers benefited from your support and millions of website owners benefited from your dedication for Joomla.
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Thank you Tobias!
Hello Tobias,
After over three years of service your term as Joomla! 3.10 Release Lead is over. What should I say? It had its ups and downs but the stable factor was you. The whole Joomla community was lucky to have you as the 3.10 release lead during this time.
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