This week, Opus gains a Weather element and opens much faster, even on a very full module. Iris, Corpus, Astus, Formulus and Markus Editor also get their share of improvements. Here is what changes for you.
Opus: the weather for your town
The new Opus Weather element shows the forecast for a place, today and the following days: sky, temperatures, rain, wind and gusts, and even a reliability score. Forecasts come from Open-Meteo, Météo-France or MET Norway, as you choose. Moreover, the site reads the forecast itself: no script and no call to a third-party site leaves the visitor's browser.
In addition, with a free Météo-France key, a banner shows the yellow, orange or red weather warning for the area. Everything is explained in the Opus manual.
Opus: a faster administrator
Above all, a very full module now opens much faster: each element only brings the settings of its own type, and the class catalogue loads on demand. Furthermore, the move handle answers the arrow keys, and a field filled in wrongly when saving is reported in a window that leads straight to it. Finally, the map computes the service area in kilometres by road or as the crow flies, as well as in driving time.
Iris: right click and large galleries
The Iris media library now has a right-click menu, as well as F2 to rename and Delete to delete. As for galleries, you create a folder without leaving the gallery, the file name shows under each card, and a gallery of several hundred images saves without hitting the server's limits. In addition, delete and move now also work with hosts that used to refuse these requests. The details are in the Iris manual.
Corpus, Astus, Formulus and Markus Editor
- Corpus: accordions open one panel at a time, the mega menu no longer overflows the page, and every page always has a main heading and a main area for screen readers.
- Astus: the audit creates and maintains the llms.txt file, reports an AI search robot blocked in robots.txt, and each page of a multilingual site declares its language to Google.
- Formulus: a closing text under the form, and a drop-down list that starts with "Choose".
- Markus Editor: find and replace (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+H), and visible line breaks you split or join from the keyboard.
Still Joomla 6.2
As last week, these versions require Joomla 6.2 (see the official announcement). In other words, a site still on Joomla 6.1 keeps its current version: update Joomla first, and our updates will follow.
Good to know
Today's versions are Corpus 2.1.704, Astus 2.1.204, Opus 1.5.930, Iris 3.0.210, Formulus 1.0.602 and Markus Editor 1.0.100. They arrive through the normal Joomla update.
Finally, a question or a problem after updating? The site's help button is there for that.