By Benjamin Trenkle on 2026-03-25 12:18 in CMS Maintenance Team

CMS Maintenance Team Report

Period: July 2024 - March 2026 Author: Phil Walton Date: 25 March 2026

Since the last report (June 2024), the CMS Maintenance Team has continued its weekly Wednesday meetings, reviewing and processing pull requests across the Joomla CMS repository. This report provides a factual summary of PR activity over the 21-month period.

Summary

	Count
PRs merged	1,654
PRs still open	190
PRs closed without merge	520
Total PRs processed	2,364
Unique contributors	81
Merge rate	70%

Releases Covered

This period saw significant activity across multiple release branches:

Release	Merged PRs
Joomla 5.2.5 - 5.2.6	10
Joomla 5.3.0 - 5.3.4	176
Joomla 5.4.0 - 5.4.4	345
Joomla 6.0.0 - 6.0.4	294
Joomla 6.1.0	112
Joomla 4.4.13 - 4.4.14	7
Joomla 7.0.0 (early)	1
No milestone assigned	72

The Joomla 6.0.0 release was the single largest milestone with 187 merged PRs.

Monthly Breakdown

Month	Merged	Open	Closed (not merged)	Total
July 2024	67	1	23	91
August 2024	76	2	18	96
September 2024	84	3	15	102
October 2024	89	6	31	126
November 2024	72	9	21	102
December 2024	62	5	11	78
January 2025	64	4	18	86
February 2025	138	11	22	171
March 2025	112	12	38	162
April 2025	59	3	22	84
May 2025	52	4	22	78
June 2025	49	4	24	77
July 2025	80	2	14	96
August 2025	114	11	16	141
September 2025	92	7	34	133
October 2025	82	6	19	107
November 2025	51	6	19	76
December 2025	59	2	9	70
January 2026	90	18	21	129
February 2026	75	21	27	123
March 2026 (to date)	67	53	42	162
Totals	1,654	190	520	2,364

Peak activity was in February and March 2025 (171 and 162 PRs respectively), coinciding with the Joomla 6.0 release preparation.

PR Categories

Category	Count
Bug fixes	290
Language changes	249
NPM dependency updates	206
Unit/system tests	96
Composer dependency updates	69
New features	65
Test instructions missing	43
Prepare for B/C Framework	21
Webservices	18
PHP 8.x compatibility	14
Backwards-compatibility breaks	12
Documentation required	10
Accessibility	8
Guided Tours	5
Performance	3
UI/UX	3

Target Branches

Branch	PRs
PR-5.4-dev	352
PR-6.0-dev	295
PR-6.1-dev	141
PR-7.0-dev	3

Top Contributors

81 unique contributors submitted merged PRs during this period. The top 20:

Contributor	Merged PRs
brianteeman	142
richard67	139
heelc29	53
Bodge-IT	51
tecpromotion	48
laoneo	42
joomdonation	40
alikon	40
muhme	27
Fedik	26
HLeithner	25
Hackwar	22
SniperSister	21
bembelimen	19
chmst	18
dgrammatiko	17
LadySolveig	16
Denitz	14
rdeutz	13

Key Observations

• The team maintained a consistent 70% merge rate throughout the period, indicating thorough review standards
• Bug fixes accounted for the largest single category of work (290 PRs)
• The transition from Joomla 5.x to 6.x was the dominant focus, with 6.0.0 alone accounting for 187 merged PRs
• Dependency management (NPM and Composer combined) represented 275 PRs, reflecting the ongoing work to keep the platform current
• Early Joomla 7.0.0 development has begun with initial PRs appearing
• The team continues to meet weekly on Wednesdays at 7 PM CEST

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Data sourced from the joomla/joomla-cms GitHub repository via the GitHub API.