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Akeeba Backup for Joomla! 9.8.4 Stable

Released on: 2024-01-08 02:56 CST

What's new

Automatically downgrade utf8mb4_900_* collations to utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci on MariaDB. MariaDB does not support the utf8mb4_900_* (Unicode 9.x) family of collations used by modern versions of Joomla!. It only supports the older utf8mb4_*_520_ci (Unicode 5.2) family of collations. In practice, very little would be lost when downgrading from Unicode 9 to 5.2; it's mainly newer Emoji, and some rarely used characters. The restoration script will now automatically convert your tables to this older collation automatically when transferring a site from a MySQL to a MariaDB server.

Bug fixes and minor improvements. Please take a look at the CHANGELOG below.

Changelog

New features

  • Automatically downgrade utf8mb4_900_* collations to utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci on MariaDB
  • Updated environment stats collection code

Bug fixes

  • [LOW] Cannot delete backup archive from CLI
  • [LOW] PHP 8.3 deprecated notice in ComponentParameters service (no functional issue)
  • [MEDIUM] PHP error trying to use WebPush for the first time

Release files

Akeeba Backup Core for Joomla 4 & 5

pkg_akeebabackup-9.8.4-core.zip

1.75 Mb

PHP 7.4 PHP 8.0 PHP 8.1 PHP 8.2 Joomla! 4.3 Joomla! 4.4 Joomla! 5.0 PHP 8.3

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