A follow-up to 10.5.0, and worth taking if you publish a podcast. Auditing a live feed against the RSS and Apple specifications turned up five further faults in what Proclaim writes — including episode dates that were eight hours from the truth on any site whose host sits in a different time zone from the one you configured. It also settles two things 10.5.0 itself got wrong during the update.

More podcast feed corrections

• Episode dates use your time zone. Dates were written in the server's time zone rather than the one set in Global Configuration. On a site configured for Chicago but hosted on a machine set to Los Angeles, every episode was published two hours adrift on the clock and eight hours adrift as a moment in time — and podcast apps sort episodes by that moment.
• The channel address is absolute. If your podcast's link is set to a menu item, Proclaim wrote a partial address such as /resources/sermons.html. RSS does not allow that, and feed validators reject it.
• Seasons work in Apple Podcasts. Season and episode numbers were written in a form Apple ignores, so episodes never grouped into seasons there. They are now written in both forms.
• The copyright line names you. Every feed said © (2026) All rights reserved. — stray brackets, and 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. The language was limited to the languages installed in Joomla, and Joomla installs British English — so every church outside the UK published its sermons as British English with no way to correct it. Podcasts now have a Feed Language covering the codes directories act on. Apple and Spotify use it for language and territory targeting, so it is worth setting.

Rebuild your feed after updating and the corrections are in it.

Two things 10.5.0 got wrong while updating

• 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 that the page doing the clearing is still using, and said so in a way that looked like something had gone wrong. Nothing had.
• The cache notice no longer repeats itself. The message naming a caching plugin Proclaim cannot clear for you listed the same plugin twice.

Changes

What's Changed

• chore: update versions.json for the v10.5.0 release by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1406
• docs(release): announcement bullets for 10.5.0 by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1408
• fix(podcast): absolute channel link, and season/episode tags Apple reads by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1409
• fix(podcast): write feed dates in the site's time zone, not the server's by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1410
• feat(podcast): copyright holder and a feed language that is not Joomla's by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1413
• fix(install): stop the cache notice repeating itself and alarming on success by @bcordis in https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/pull/1414

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.0...v10.5.1