Community Builder 1.8 is now available for free to all Joomlapolis members!
Our entire team (developers, testers and translators) is extremely proud to give our 443897 large community this free and always open-source new Community Builder release.
You can install CB 1.8 on any Joomla version, ranging from Joomla 1.0 up to and including Joomla 2.5.1. And it also continues to support the Mambo CMS (Mambo 4.6.5).
If you want to take advantage of the new Joomla 2.5 ACL group functionality, then upgrading to CB 1.8 is your ticket!
Just to be clear, CB 1.8, our 15+ CB Add-ons, our 16+ Incubator add-ons, CB GroupJive and CBSubs will work just fine on all versions of Joomla!
The cornerstone new feature of Community Builder 1.8 is the updated support for Joomla 2.5 ACL groups as well as user notes support. With this you can configure who can access your Community Builder administration areas and you can also specify who can view what using new Joomla 2.5 Viewing Access Levels in your CB Tabs and CB Plugins.
With this new functionality on a CB 1.8 / Joomla 2.5.1 website you can:
- Let backend users sdminister CB Users without the need for superadmin privileges.
Use the same Joomla User Manager Options permissions on CB User Manager area. - Decide who sees which CB Tabs/Plugins based on Joomla 2.5 viewing access levels!
New Joomla 2.5 Viewing Access Levels are now respected in CB Tab and CB Plugin Manager. - Configure privileges to CB Configuration administrative area using Joomla ACL permissions.
CB Configuration area now has an Options icon for Joomla permissions management settings.