JLRouter compatibility and if it is definitely included in the new Joomla versions

[Los Carnales]

With the recommendation of Mr. Hackwar I will add this discussion here, which for me is very important for the future of Joomla.

I have read the new router Joomlager Router will not be included in Joomla, but I am doing tests on localhost and I see that depending on the version if it is included and in others it is not.

In joomla 3.7 beta 3 if the new router is included by default.
In joomla 3.7 rc2 the new router is not included.
In joomla 3.8 dev if the new router is included by default.
In joomla 4.0 dev is included by default the new router.

What I do not really understand is whether it will be included by default or not in the stable version 3.7 or 3.8.

As is the process in the version that does not include the new router, will we have to install the jlrouter separately as an external plugin?.

Or if the version includes the new router that is activated from the global configuration - articles - Integration, we will not have to install the plugin separately and if we installed it would happen, since in Joomla 4.0 dev only has the activation of the Not ID in URLs, but you do not have the same options as your plugin if we install it separately.

How can we know this or if it will be compatible its external plugin or as we will have to act with the plugin that includes the package Joomla by default ?.

This is really important to know to do any project that we want to do with joomla 3.7, 3.8 or 4.0.

We need to know if it will be compatible.

As previously mentioned if your jrouter is definitely the manager of creating the friendly URLs within the Joomla sites, all new Joomla projects will work with the jlrouter and will not install any component to generate external SEFURL.

[George Wilson]

As per the official announcement https://developer.joomla.org/news/674-statement-about-the-new-router-feature-for-3-7-0.html our plan is still to ship this in 3.8 fixing the few niggling issues that meant it wasn't going to be ready for 3.7.

Kind Regards,

George

[ssnobben]

I think its a good decision to make "the whole" Joomla dev community to focus on finally implement of a "new modern router" in Joomla with a special Joomla 3.8 focused version for it and also that a focused discussion about how the router of Joomla should work before this work will be finalized.

A problem is that there is so many other Joomla dev versions that people instead focus working on so there still will be the same router people (Hackwar..Johan J?..) that will try to implement this for J 3.8?

And its complex so many doesnt have the time, interests or skill do help with this effort that should have been done since Joomla 1.0. Hope anyway finally this important core feature will be implemented and used.

@Los Carnales you are not alone there is a lot of people that looking forward for this improvement to finally get into the Joomla core.