External Libraries in Joomla

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A Joomla! installation contain external libraries which are included with Joomla! CMS version releases. These external libraries are not part of the core code. Please read the Notes section as they may contain more information, such as a external library version change released with a maintenance release.

Joomla! 
3.10.12
Stable Version

External Libraries by Joomla Release[edit]

CMS Version CMS Version Supported Mootools Mootools More jQuery jQuery UI
(Core, Widget, Mouse, Position, and Sortable)
Bootstrap Simple Pie PHP Mailer PHP UTF-8 IDNA Convert Rapid Application Development (RAD) Framework
Akeeba's Framework on Framework(FOF)
password _compat[1] lessphp random _compat[2]
3.9
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.12.4[3] 1.9.2 2.3.2[4] 1.3.1[5] 5.2.26 0.5 0.8.0 2.4.3 1.0.4 0.5.0 1.4.1
3.8
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.12.4[3] 1.9.2 2.3.2[4] 1.3.1[5] 5.2.24[6] 0.5 0.8.0 2.4.3 1.0.4 0.5.0 1.4.1
3.7
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.12.4[3] 1.9.2 2.3.2[4] 1.3.1[5] 5.2.22[7] 0.5 0.8.0 2.4.3 1.0.4 0.5.0 1.4.1
3.6
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.12.4[3] 1.9.2 2.3.2[4] 1.3.1[5] 5.2.14[8] 0.5 0.8.0 2.4.3 1.0.4 0.5.0 1.4.1
3.5
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.11.3[3] 1.9.2 2.3.2[4] 1.2[5] 5.2.14 0.5 0.8.0 2.4.3 1.0.4 0.5.0 1.0.10
3.4
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.11.3[3] 1.9.2 2.3.2[4] 1.2[5] 5.2.9 0.5 0.8.0 2.4.3 1.0.4 0.3.9 N/A[9]
3.3
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.11.1[3] 1.9.2 2.3.2[4] 1.2[5] 5.2.8 0.5 0.8.0 2.1 1.0.3 N/A[10] N/A[9]
3.2
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.10.2[3] 1.9.2 2.3.2[4] 1.2[5] 5.2.6 0.5 0.8.0 2.1 1.0.3 N/A[10] N/A[9]
3.1.2
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.8.3 1.8.23 2.3.2[4] 1.2[5] 5.2.6 0.5 0.8.0 N/A[11] N/A[12] N/A[10] N/A[9]
3.1
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.8.3 1.8.23 2.1.0 1.2[5] 5.2.3 0.5 N/A[13] N/A[11] N/A[12] N/A[10] N/A[9]
3.0
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1.4.5 1.4.0.1 1.8.1 1.8.23 2.1.0 1.2 5.2.1 0.5 N/A[13] N/A[11] N/A[12] N/A[10] N/A[9]
2.5
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1.4.5[14] 1.4.0.1 N/A[15] N/A[15] N/A[15] 1.2 5.2.1 0.5 N/A[13] N/A[11] N/A[12] N/A[10] N/A[9]

Notes

  1. This library is intended to provide forward compatibility with the password_* functions which were added to PHP 5.5. See password_compat git for further information.
  2. This library is intended to provide forward compatibility with the random_bytes and random_int functions which were added to PHP 7.0. See random_compat git for further information.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Includes jQuery Migrate plugin 1.2.1 for backwards compatibility
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Contains some 2.1 backward compatibility defaults
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 This library was deprecated for JFeedFactory in Joomla! CMS version 3.1.0
  6. 5.2.26 as of 3.8.3
  7. 5.2.23 as of 3.7.3
  8. 5.2.16 as of 3.6.3
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 Not applicable, this library was not included with the Joomla! CMS prior to version 3.5
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Not applicable, this library was not included with the Joomla! CMS prior to version 3.4
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Not applicable, this library was not included with the Joomla! CMS prior to version 3.2. The version of FOF included in Joomla 3.2 is compatible with Joomla 2.5 however.
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Not applicable, this library was not included with the Joomla! CMS prior to version 3.2
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Not applicable, this library was not included with the Joomla! CMS prior to version 3.1.2.
  14. Contains a 1.2 compatibility layer
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 Not applicable, this library was not included with Joomla! CMS version 2.5.