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Details: Written by: Benjamin Trenkle; Category: September; Published: 20 September 2026; Hits: 604

Joomla World Conference starts on Friday. We’re starting one day earlier: on Thursday, 15 October, the Joomla Maintenance Team will meet at the conference venue in Potsdam for another hands-on sprint towards Joomla 7.0.

Yes, we are going to remove more old code.

No, we have not run out of it yet.

After our first sprint in June, we removed more than 100 deprecation notices and started working through the long list of things that have been deprecated for quite some time.

And we already did it once again.

A second Maintenance Team sprint took place since then. It was not published in the Magazine. We simply got on with the work. More deprecated code was removed, more pull requests were created and reviewed, and Joomla 7.0 moved another step forward.

Now it is time for sprint number three.

The goal remains the same: make Joomla 7.0 cleaner, reduce legacy code and finally get rid of things that have been deprecated for long enough.

This is not a strategy meeting.

It is not a workshop where someone shows slides for three hours.

We write code. We review code. We delete code.

And occasionally we ask ourselves why that piece of code still exists.

Want to join?

If you have development experience and are available on Thursday, 15 October, come and help us make Joomla 7.0 a little better.

The sprint takes place at the Kongresshotel Potsdam, the same location as the Joomla World Conference.

If you want to participate, contact me via Mattermost or send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Bring your laptop. We’ll bring the deprecated code.

About the author

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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