System - Link Canonical

Extension Article: System - Link Canonical

Version 5.3.4 Stable

Joomla! 4.x Joomla! 5.x Joomla! 6.x

Released on: Sunday, 19 October 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Sunday, 19 October 2025

Release notes

Introduced pagination fix to resolve an issue where the start query var does not align with valid values (limit 5 with a start value that is NOT a multiple of 5)

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Version 5.0.19 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Thursday, 21 August 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Thursday, 21 August 2025

Release notes

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Version 5.0.20 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Thursday, 11 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Thursday, 11 September 2025

Release notes

Fixed XSS bug. Update immediately.

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Version 5.1.4 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 PHP 5.3

Released on: Saturday, 13 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Saturday, 13 September 2025

Release notes

Update to add prev/next links for search engine signaling (Bing and others, Google ignores these now)

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Version 5.1.5 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Monday, 15 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Monday, 15 September 2025

Release notes

Fixed error where items that did not have pagination were given prev/next links.

Fixed error where com_ars category model name was incorrect

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Version 5.1.6 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Monday, 15 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Monday, 15 September 2025

Release notes

OK, so pagination in com_ars is super broken - so that has been removed from the fix.

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Version 5.1.7 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 PHP 5.3

Released on: Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Release notes

Fixed prev/next link issue where ? was preceded by &

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Version 5.1.8 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Release notes

more permanent fix to the &? problem that I fixed in the last update - this implements some logic to prevent it from happening to non-sef urls.

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Version 5.2.0 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Release notes

New features:
Prev/Next HTTP Link Headers
Caching - to reduce time-to-first-byte

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Version 5.2.1 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Release notes

New feature:
trailing slash and trailing index.php removal

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Version 5.2.2 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Thursday, 18 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Thursday, 18 September 2025

Release notes

Fixed minor issue with releases view of com_ars

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Version 5.2.4 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Sunday, 21 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Sunday, 21 September 2025

Release notes

Fixed bug where system-sef canonical was not removed when new canonical is loaded from cache.

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Version 5.2.6 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Sunday, 21 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Sunday, 21 September 2025

Release notes

more robust query var filtering and normalization

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Version 5.2.7 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Release notes

pagination got a little smarter, and is able to affect the value of the start query var.

If the start query var is larger than the dataset, the plugin now reduces its value to the maximum value the dataset allows. For example - if the query var is start=220, but the maximum pagination value is 60, the canonical URL will show start=60.

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Version 5.2.8 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Thursday, 02 October 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Thursday, 02 October 2025

Release notes

fixed minor errors for array keys not found

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Version 5.2.9 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Thursday, 02 October 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Thursday, 02 October 2025

Release notes

repaired missing header link for non-cached items

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Version 5.3.0 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Friday, 10 October 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Friday, 10 October 2025

Release notes

New Feature!

The plugin now operates on RSS and Atom feeds, injecting a canonical link HTTP header to resolve "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" items in GSC.

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Version 5.3.1 Stable

Joomla! 4.0 Joomla! 4.1 Joomla! 5.0 Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Friday, 10 October 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Friday, 10 October 2025

Release notes

found and removed a few more common query vars from rss/atom feed urls.

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Version 5.3.2 Stable

Joomla! 4.x Joomla! 5.x Joomla! 6.x

Released on: Friday, 10 October 2025

Maturity	Stable
Released on	Friday, 10 October 2025

Release notes

more fixes for rss/atom - I missed the layout parameter, which is important for sites with SEF URLs enabled.

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