Joomla 6.1 "Nyota" Is Here
A major minor for the Joomla 6 series. Joomla 6.1.0 — code name "Nyota" — landed on 14 April 2026, the first feature release in the Joomla 6 line. It bundles four headline additions and the result of more than 130 pull requests from contributors around the world: developers, testers, translators, and documentation authors.
If you're already on 6.0.4 or later with automatic updates enabled, your site has likely upgraded itself to 6.1.0 already. Major-version upgrades (5.x → 6.x) still require a manual update, but minor and patch releases inside Joomla 6 are now hands-off.
What's new
Visual workflow editor — content pipeline at a glance
Content workflows are now configured through an interactive diagram instead of nested admin forms. You can see the entire publication process — drafts, reviews, transitions, approvals — in a single visual canvas, and reshape it by dragging stages around. (Tracking PR: #46021.)
Proof-of-work CAPTCHA — spam protection is back
A new proof-of-work CAPTCHA ships in core. It silently solves math puzzles in the visitor's browser before form submission — no account, no API key, no third-party service, privacy-friendly and accessible. Less friction for legitimate users, real cost imposed on bots. (Tracking PR: #46514.)
Three new media custom field types — audio, video, documents
The media custom field family is no longer images-only. Content creators can attach audio clips, video files, and documents directly into custom field slots, using the same selection UI as image fields. (Tracking PR: #45013.)
Module versioning and multilingual associations
Version history — previously available only for articles — now also covers modules. On top of that, module instances can be associated across different languages, the same way articles and categories already could. Multilingual sites can finally manage module translations as a unit instead of as parallel copies. (Tracking PR: #46772.)
What this means for extension developers
If you ship Joomla extensions, this release is worth testing against now:
- The new media field types add three new field-type identifiers your forms and template overrides may need to handle.
- Workflow API surface evolved under the hood to support the visual editor — verify any plugin that hooks into workflow events.
- The POW CAPTCHA registers as a standard captcha plugin, so existing captcha plugin contracts are unchanged.
- Module versioning means modules now participate in the same
#__historyflow as articles — relevant if your extension persists module data through custom save paths.