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Details: Category: News; Published: 16 February 2022; Last Updated: 16 February 2022; Hits: 3304

The Joomla! Project is thrilled to announce the features-packed and timely release of Joomla 4.1.

Joomla 4.1 brings new features for bloggers and authors, web designers and extension developers, web agencies or multinationals. The highlights are:

Tasks Scheduler to automate your periodic tasks, e.g. to trigger a CB Auto Action.
Child Templates allow to fine-tune your templates, and still be able to keep the template updated.
Accessibility Checker checks your article's accessibility with a click near the Preview button
Syntax Highlighting in the integrated editor brings clarity to your HTML source view
Inline Help displays at the click of the Toggle Help button in the Joomla Configuration
PHP 8.1 compatibility

This release sets new standards in accessible web design and brings exciting new features, highlighting Joomla's values of inclusiveness, simplicity and security into an even more powerful open-source web platform.

In addition to Joomla 4.1, the project team has also released Joomla 3.10.6, which mainly brings PHP 8.1 compatibilty.

Beat has contributed to Joomla 4.1 and 3.10.6 with PHP 8.1 compatibility (with actually half of Joomla 3.10.6's pull requests, which were also applied to Joomla 4.1.

Community Builder 2.7.1 (and latest nightly build for Joomla 4.1) and all Joomlapolis add-ons run just fine on these new Joomla releases.

You can learn more about these new features by reading the Joomla 4.1/3.10.6 announcement, and for the accessibility checker, visit the Jooa11y accessibility checker micro-site with more details about this exciting new feature and many examples.

Details: Category: News; Published: 11 February 2022; Last Updated: 11 February 2022; Hits: 5036

Community Builder 2.7 can be freely downloaded by all registered members

We just released Community Builder 2.7, with 9 improvements and 9 bug fixes.

CB 2.7 is compatible with Joomla 4.0.6 and Joomla 3.10.5.

The main highlights of this release are:

PHP 8.1 support
User imports are significantly improved to give a front-end-registration-like process, with a new option to not send emails during import.
Removal of Joomla 2.5 support
Minimum system requirements are now: Joomla 3.10+, PHP 7.4+, and MYSQL 5.6+ (or MariaDB 10.x), as announced since CB 2.6.0 release, 9 months ago.
CB 2.7.1 fixes the pre-install check of CB 2.7.0 for sites with MariaDB 10.x database server.

Details can be found in the full CB 2.7 changelog and CB 2.7.1 changelog.

Community Builder 2.7/2.7.1 is a highly recommended upgrade for all CB sites on Joomla 3.x and 4.0.x.

Some comments directly from Beat:

It's voluntarily a minor upgrade in terms of features, so it's an easy and safe upgrade for users.
It's safely checking for PHP and MySQL requirements before upgrade.
The new PHP 7.4 and Joomla 3.10 prerequisites are a huge step forward from PHP 5.6 and Joomla 2.5.
CB 2.7 removes a lot of legacy compatibility code and lays modern grounds for substantial improvements in the core and add-ons, next 2.7.x releases will be using new PHP 7.0-7.4 features.
Finally CB 2.7 brings full PHP 8.1 compatibility (with the just around the corner Joomla 4.1 or 3.10.6).
Note: Joomla 3.10.5 and 4.0.6 are not yet fully PHP 8.1 compatible, but next week's Joomla 3.10.6 and 4.1 will be (btw I contributed a series of PRs to Joomla to make that happen, and all got accepted and merged!)

Our demo website has already been updated to Community Builder 2.7, so you can see it in action along will all our Joomlapolis add-ons.

Details: Category: News; Published: 03 February 2022; Last Updated: 03 February 2022; Hits: 2755

Joomla 4.1 RC2 released!

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the second Joomla 4.1 Release Candidate for testing and it anticipates to release Joomla 4.1 stable around the 15th of February!

Joomla 4.1 features include:

Accessibility improvement, language support within articles
Better support for code highlighting in TinyMCE editor
Enhancement of the Media Manager Web Service
Child templates
Task Scheduler (Web cron) for Joomla
Accessibility Checker for authors

Joomla 4.1 RC2 is released for testing purposes.

Community Builder 2.6.4 (latest build) and all Joomlapolis add-ons seem to work just fine with Joomla 4.1 RC2 (internal testing in progress).

You can learn more about Joomla 4.1 RC2 and Joomla 4.1 stable plans by reading the Joomla 4.1 RC2 announcement.

Details: Category: News; Published: 24 January 2022; Last Updated: 24 January 2022; Hits: 1613

Joomla 4.0.6 and 3.10.5, as well as 4.1 RC1 are released

Joomla has just released new stable releases 4.0.6 and 3.10.5, as well as Joomla 4.1 RC1. Joomla 4.1 RC2 is scheduled beginning of February, and stable is scheduled for February 15th.

Joomla 4.0.6 and Joomla 3.10.5 are considered maintenance releases.

Joomla 4.0.6 brings:

better PHP 8.1 compatibility
Bootstrap updated to 5.1.3
a few bug-fixes

Joomla 3.10.5 addresses a few minor bugs.

Community Builder 2.6.4 (latest build) and all Joomlapolis add-ons run just fine on both environments.

You can learn more about these new releases by reading the Joomla 4.0.6/3.10.5 announcement. Please make sure to read the Joomla 4.0.6 FAQ if you have enabled the Joomla “System - Redirect” plugin.

Details: Category: News; Published: 17 December 2021; Last Updated: 17 December 2021; Hits: 2677

Joomla 4.05 and 3.10.4 are here

Joomla is on fire and pushing forward with new stable releases 4.0.5 and 3.10.4 while working on Joomla 4.1, already available as beta.

Joomla 4.0.5 and Joomla 3.10.4 are considered as bug fixes releases also containing some improvements.

Joomla 4.0.5 addresses several bugs, including:

PHP 8.1 compatibility patches
RTL Styling Simplifications
Tinymce plugin configuration styling improvements
Fix Joomla Page Cache when System Page Cache plugin is enabled
Fix SQL Error edge case in the template override update view

Github has a full list of bug fixes for Joomla 4.0.5.

Joomla 3.10.3 addresses several bugs, including:

PHP 8.1 compatibility patches
Update cacert.pem as of: Tue Oct 26 03:12:05 2021 GMT
Fix wrong input filter type for extension names of site and admin languages in the extensions installer
Fix tinymce issues when resorting happens

Github has a full list of bug fixes for Joomla 3.10.4.

Community Builder 2.6.4 (latest build) and all Joomlapolis add-ons run just fine on both environments.

You can learn more about these new releases by reading the Joomla 4.0.5/3.10.4 announcement.