Joomla 3 parity and differences

v2.3.0 is a full port of the v4.6.0 feature set to Joomla 3 — not a cut-down edition. The differences below are the complete list; everything else behaves identically.

Parity table

FeatureJoomla 4+ (v4.6.0)Joomla 3 (v2.3.0) Incident response (G7)✅ identical✅ identical Privileged login alerts (G6)✅ needs Shield 1.6.0+✅ identical, needs Shield 2.1.0+ Account hygiene (G1)✅ identical✅ identical Content SEO-spam (G2)Articles + Custom HTML modulesHomepage + menu table instead Scheduler audit (G3)✅Not available — Joomla 3 has no Scheduler component Runtime verification (G4)✅ identical✅ identical TLS-expiry watch (G5)✅ 14-day window✅ identical, 14-day window Site Protection sub-tabs✅ identical✅ identical Alert channels / AI loading / license masking✅ identical✅ identical Shield virtual patch (SP Page Builder/Helix/EasyStore/SP Property)— (J4+ builds patch via updates)✅ included in Shield 2.1.0

Versions

Joomla 3 ships as component 2.3.0 + Shield plugin 2.1.0 in one package (pkg_muruguard-2.3.0-j3.zip). Joomla 4+ ships as component 4.6.0 + Shield 1.6.0.