The Christian Web Ministries Team is proud to announce Proclaim 10.5.1 — a maintenance release correcting five faults in what Proclaim writes into podcast feeds, found by auditing a live feed against the RSS and Apple specifications, and settling two things 10.5.0 got wrong while updating.

What's new in Proclaim 10:

  • Episode dates now use your time zone. Dates were written in the server's zone rather than the one set in Global Configuration — on a site configured for Chicago but hosted elsewhere, every episode was published eight hours from the correct moment, which is what podcast apps sort by.
  • Your feed's web address is complete. If your podcast link points at a menu item, Proclaim wrote a partial address such as /resources/sermons.html. RSS does not allow that and feed validators reject it.
  • Seasons now work in Apple Podcasts. Season and episode numbers were written in a form Apple ignores, so episodes never grouped into seasons there.
  • The copyright line names you. Every feed said "© (2026) All rights reserved." — stray brackets, naming nobody. Podcasts gain a Copyright Holder field; leave it empty and Proclaim uses your site name, so existing feeds gain a real owner without you editing anything.
  • The feed language is no longer tied to Joomla's. Joomla installs British English, and the feed could only offer what Joomla had installed — so churches outside the UK published their sermons as British English with no way to correct it. Podcasts now have a Feed Language covering the codes directories act on, which Apple and Spotify use for language and territory targeting.
  • A successful update no longer reports a failure. Updating showed a red "Could not delete folder" warning beside the success message. Joomla cannot remove a cache folder the page doing the clearing is still using, and said so in a way that looked like something had gone wrong. Nothing had.
  • The notice naming a caching plugin Proclaim cannot clear for you no longer lists the same plugin twice.
  • Rebuild your podcast feed after updating and the corrections above are in it.

You can download the latest release here: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/releases/tag/v10.5.1

Report issues on GitHub here: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/issues

Visit the Documentation area for helpful articles and videos. We will continue to work on new articles as time permits.

May God richly bless you as you continue to spread the gospel and build Christians using this tool.

The CWM team (Brent and Tom)