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New deprecations

All the new deprecations that should be aware of and what you should now be using instead.

Language strings

File: administrator/language/en-GB/com_joomlaupdate.ini
Strings: INSTL_MB_STRING_OVERLOAD_OFF, INSTL_NOTICEMBSTRINGOVERLOAD

File: installation/language/en-GB/joomla.ini
Strings: INSTL_MB_STRING_OVERLOAD_OFF, INSTL_NOTICE_MBSTRING_OVERLOAD_OFF

File: administrator/language/en-GB/plg_user_joomla.ini Strings: PLG_USER_JOOMLA_FIELD_STRONG_PASSWORDS_LABEL, PLG_USER_JOOMLA_POSTINSTALL_STRONGPW_BTN, PLG_USER_JOOMLA_POSTINSTALL_STRONGPW_TEXT, PLG_USER_JOOMLA_POSTINSTALL_STRONGPW_TITLE

The item_associations property of the WebApplication class is deprecated​

File: libraries/src/Application/WebApplication.php Replacement: The $item_associations property will be removed with no replacement as it is not used in core anymore.

Privacy plugin db property is deprecated​

File: administrator/components/com_privacy/src/Plugin/PrivacyPlugin.php Replacement: The $this->db property is deprecated in the privacy plugins. Instead of use $this->getDatabase() when the plugin is converted to service providers.

Model states are not anymore of type CMSObject​

File: libraries/src/MVC/Model/StateBehaviorTrait.php Replacement: Direct property access to the state object of the model should be replaced with a get/set function call. The state object is now a Registry which contains all the convenient functions a store should provide. Example:

// Write to the state
$model->getState()->set('foo', 'bar');

// Access the state
$data = $model->getState()->get('foo');

ContentHelper actions are not anymore of type CMSObject​

File: libraries/src/Helper/ContentHelper.php Replacement: Direct property access to the canDo object of the view should be replaced with a get/set function call. The actions object is now a Registry which contains all the convenient functions a store should provide. Example:

$canCreate = \Joomla\CMS\Helper\ContentHelper::getActions('com_content')->get('core.create');

Class deprecations

Planned to be removed in Joomla! 6.0

Filesystem CMS package​

The CMS Filesystem package can be found in libraries/src/Filesystem and will be completely replaced in 6.0 with the Joomla Framework Filesystem package. The CMS package and the Framework package are nearly 1-to-1 replacements for each other, however the Framework package uses Exceptions where appropriate instead of the old setError and getError which the CMS package uses.

In most cases you only have to change the namespace from Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\* to Joomla\Filesystem\*. To properly handle error cases, you will have to go through your code and catch the exceptions where necessary.

  • File: libraries/src/Filesystem/File.php
    Class: Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\File
    Replacement: Joomla\Filesystem\File

  • File: libraries/src/Filesystem/FilesystemHelper.php
    Class: Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\FilesystemHelper
    Replacement: Joomla\Filesystem\Helper

  • File: libraries/src/Filesystem/Folder.php
    Class: Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\Folder
    Replacement: Joomla\Filesystem\Folder

  • File: libraries/src/Filesystem/Patcher.php
    Class: Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\Patcher
    Replacement: Joomla\Filesystem\Patcher

  • File: libraries/src/Filesystem/Path.php
    Class: Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\Path
    Replacement: Joomla\Filesystem\Path

  • File: libraries/src/Filesystem/Stream.php
    Class: Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\Stream
    Replacement: Joomla\Filesystem\Stream

  • File: libraries/src/Filesystem/Streams/StreamString.php
    Class: Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\Streams\StreamString
    Replacement: Joomla\Filesystem\Stream\StringWrapper

  • File: libraries/src/Filesystem/Support/StringController.php
    Class: Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\Support/StringController
    Replacement: Joomla\Filesystem\Support\StringController