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Advanced Search Component Version 2.0.4 released

Community Builder - CB 3PD Announcements
Written by Robert Grund
Friday, 25 August 2006
Another version release 2.0.4 of the Advanced Search Component for CB is available. The following changes have been made: Works now with SEF The Userlist can be sorted by the visitor by clicking on the heading of the table The search forms have been relocated within the Navigation Tab System of Joomla I have tested out the component both with and without SEF. On my system it worked fine. If you find any errors/bugs please inform me in the forum at www.emptorum.com. Thank you! You can download the latest version within our Repository at www.emptorum.com
Last Updated ( Saturday, 26 August 2006 )

Security Release - CB 1.0.1 - RELEASED!

Community Builder - Newsflashes

Written by Nick A.

Wednesday, 09 August 2006

Update 2: ERRATA: All sites should either update to CB 1.0.1 or correct a Joomla setting !
Just when you thought you were safe with PHP register_globals OFF ... NO! ... A post less than an hour ago brought to our attention that Joomla 1.0.10 still emulates register_globals ON by default, even if php-setting register_globals is OFF. See the Joomla forum post by Adam (aka Websmurf) for instructions on how to turn it off. So: if you didn't or can't turn that off in that file, you should update Community Builder immediately to security release 1.0.1.

UPDATE 3: Excellent article about website security and Joomla configuration. A must-read !

The following mass email has just been sent (actually in progress) to all Joomlapolitans ...

Fellow Community Builder Website Masters,

The CB Core team over at joomlapolis.com has been working hard during the past 48 hours on a security release 1.0.1 of the CB suite following the discovery of a vulnerability present in 1.0 RC2 and 1.0 stable on weakly configured web-servers.

We have decided to release it as a highly-recommended critical security and stability update, as we had one report this morning and another one this afternoon for 2 sites where it got exploited to change files.

Your site needs urgent update to CB 1.0.1 if ALL of these PHP settings are met:

php register_globals set to ON
allow_url_fopen is ON
no open base directory limitations set
php code directories have write permissions from web-server process

CB 1.0.1 will be released in the next hours and will be available on http://www.joomlapolis.com and on the Community Builder project area on forge.joomla.org.

Everyone is urged to upgrade asap, a REAME file is included in the release as usual.

Sites with the settings above are in danger.

If you want to stop receiving future messages of this type just visit your contact info tab on your joomlapolis profile and click on the "Don't email me critical vulnerability fixes" checkbox.

Thank you,

The CB Team on Joomlapolis.com

Update 1:
The security release 1.0.1 is now available as package on our project area on the forge and in the downloads area of Joomlapolis. If your hosting environment meets all 4 of the above prerequisites you must upgrade immediately! Either way all installations should be upgraded ASAP.

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 August 2006 )

20000 JP Members!

Website - Newsflashes

Written by Nick A.

Thursday, 20 July 2006

Our Joomlapolis site

has just signed up

its 20,000th member!

This is an amazing accomplishment taken into account that the initial launch of this site took place around the end of November 2005 - thus 8 months ago. Another interesting stat is the fact that - due to the actual purpose of this site to support the Community Builder activities - most of the membership is comprised of website admins and developers.

We would like to thank all Joomlapolitans who have helped bring this community to this major milestone!

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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 August 2006 )

Joomlapolis updated to Joomla 1.0.10

Website - Announcements
Written by Nick A.
Sunday, 02 July 2006
This site has just been updated to the latest 1.0.10 Joomla release.

New Version of jAwards: v0.6

Community Builder - CB 3PD Announcements
Written by Armin Hornung
Monday, 19 June 2006
A new Version of jAwards, the component for distributing medals among your users in Joomla and Community Builder, is out. here With a small bugfix, there are 2 new features: * When handing out a new award, the complete list of users is only displayed on request - instead it's possible to enter just a userid for performance on sites with a large number of members * Deletion of not needed medals (meaning there are no awards associated to is) is now possible in Medal Management. For Upgrading from 0.5 / 0.51, just remove the old component and install the new one, the database entries _should_ stay intact. No need to install a new CB-Tab. For older versions check out the Readme in the Documents Section: http://developer.joomla.org/sf/go/doc1391?nav=1
Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 July 2006 )