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Created: 07 October 2026

JCE Pro 3.0.2 and JCE Pro 2.9.99.12 are now available. Both are maintenance releases, with fixes for the editor, the File Browser and the Media Manager.

JCE Pro 3.0.2

This is the second maintenance release for JCE 3.0. It fixes issues in profile editing, copy and paste, link editing and the colour pickers. It also improves how the editor handles audio and video files that can hold either type, such as ogg and webm, and includes improvements to the File Manager and Media Manager, and fixes the watermarking of uploaded images.

A changelog for this release is available to view here

Please Note: JCE Pro 3.0.2 is compatible with Joomla 5 and 6, and does not require the Backwards Compatibility plugin in Joomla 5 or Joomla 6.

JCE Pro 2.9.99.12

This release brings many of the same fixes to JCE 2.9.99, including the copy and paste, colour picker and audio and video improvements. It also keeps iframes that contain fallback content, and adds support for more audio and video formats, including m4v, mov, oga, opus, aac and flac.

A changelog for this release is available to view here

Please Note: JCE Pro 2.9.99.12 is compatible with Joomla 3, 4, 5 and 6, and does not require the Backwards Compatibility plugin in Joomla 5 or Joomla 6.

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Created: 01 October 2026

This release adds two new plugin options and corrects a number of problems with the way iframe sizes are handled.

New options

Click to Play can now show a short description on the poster image, below the Click to Play label. The text is set in the plugin options and can include basic formatting and links. The poster can also be activated with the keyboard.

A new Load Assets option controls when the Responsify stylesheet and script are loaded. Set it to "When Required" to load them only on pages that contain responsive media. The default, "Always", loads them on every page, as in previous versions.

Iframe sizing

With Full Width enabled, every iframe was scaled to a 16:9 shape unless its embed code supplied another aspect ratio. An iframe given a fixed height and a percentage width, such as an embedded document, form or report, was reduced to that shape and most of its content was cut off.

A fixed height is now kept. An iframe is only scaled where its height follows its width, as it does for a video, so embeds from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Twitch are unaffected.

Heights are also recognised more reliably. A value with a unit, such as height="1500px", and a width or height set in an inline style, such as style="width:100%;height:1500px", are now read as sizes. Both were previously ignored.

Full Width embeds are sized by the page itself rather than by the script, so an embed no longer changes size as the page finishes loading.

Download and Installation

The plugin can be downloaded from here. A JCE Pro Subscription is required.

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Created: 24 September 2026

This update restores Aia on current versions of JCE. Following a change to the endpoint JCE plugins use to communicate with the server, requests made by Aia 2.2.0 are rejected, and prompts, spellcheck and every other request fail. Anyone running Aia 2.2.0 on JCE 3.0 or the current 2.9.99 releases should update.

Two new platforms are available. Mistral AI joins the list with the Mistral Large, Medium and Small models, and a new Custom platform connects Aia to any endpoint that implements the OpenAI chat completions API - including Together AI, Perplexity, AWS Bedrock through a gateway, or a local model served by Ollama.

Model lists have been brought up to date across each platform, adding GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5-Pro and the GPT-5.4 models for OpenAI, Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Opus 4.8 and Opus 4.7 for Anthropic, and Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for Google. Models retired by their providers have been removed, and where a model that is no longer available had been selected, Aia now maps it to the closest current equivalent so that existing configurations continue to work.

This release also removes the plugin's last remaining dependency on jQuery, in preparation for Joomla versions that no longer ship it.

A full changelog is available to view here

Thank you to everyone who submitted bug reports and tested development versions. If you find any more issues please submit them on the forum or on github.

Download and Installation

Aia is available as a seperate download and requires a valid JCE Pro Subscription.

Instructions for installing and configuring Aia - Ai Assistant are available here

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Created: 21 September 2026

This is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues reported since 3.0.0, including errors that could occur when upgrading from JCE 2.9.99.x or from a 3.0 beta or release candidate.

Upgrading is recommended for all JCE 3.0 users, and particularly for anyone who ran into problems installing 3.0.0.

If you are already running JCE 3.0.0, you can update to 3.0.1 using the Joomla Updater. Automatic updates are not yet offered to 2.9.99.x users, so anyone upgrading from 2.9 will need to download the package and install it manually. JCE 3.0.1 requires Joomla 5.0 or later and PHP 8.0 or later. If you are using Joomla 3 or Joomla 4, please continue to use JCE Pro 2.9.99.x, which remains in maintenance mode.

Please Note: JCE Pro 3.0 is compatible with Joomla 5 and 6, and does not require the Backwards Compatibility plugin in Joomla 5 or Joomla 6.

A changelog for this release is available to view here

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Created: 17 September 2026

JCE Pro 3.0 is available to download now. It is built for Joomla 5 and Joomla 6, so you do not need the Backwards Compatibility plugin on either version.

For now, you install JCE Pro 3.0 yourself. The Joomla updater will not offer it to sites that use JCE Pro 2.9.99.x yet. When we are sure that 3.0 is stable, we will make it the standard update for those sites.

Before you install, check that your site has Joomla 5.0 or later and PHP 8.0 or later. The installer stops if it does not. If your site still uses Joomla 3 or Joomla 4, keep using JCE Pro 2.9.99.x. That version is now in maintenance, but it will still get bug fixes and security updates.

Read more: JCE Pro 3.0.0 released