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Last month we met Charvi Mehra, the first of two release managers steering Joomla 6.2 towards its October 2026 release. Now we turn to Martin Kopp, a 30-year IT veteran from Switzerland who leads the Bug Squad, mentors GSoC students, and was part of the MCP server discovery sprint that explored AI-powered Joomla administration. Martin co-managed Joomla 4.4 alongside Allon Moritz and returns for 6.2 with experience and, as you will discover, a sideline in DJing.
At its core, ambush marketing is simple: one organisation pays to create attention, and another steps in and captures that attention without paying for the privilege.
Joomla 6.0 shipped on the 14th of October 2025, the culmination of about a year's work by Gary Barclay and me as its release managers. We then carried on as caretakers of the 6.0 line for another six months, until Harald Leithner and Stefan Wendhausen shipped Joomla 6.1 on the 14th of April 2026. That was the moment our term came to its natural close.
This article is about how I (re)discovered a Joomla function, because I was inspired by a website I came across.