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Joomla 4.1.4 has just been released!
It is a smooth maintenance releases for previous Joomla 4 releases.
And with the Joomla 4.2 alpha 3 preview also already released with last additions for next Joomla 4.2, the Joomla future is brighter than ever!
Joomla 4.1.4 includes 31 minor improvements and bug-fixes. One of them is a minor security improvement for https-only websites, Main improvements are:
- Adding scheduler sort by last run
- Showing workflow stage names in article list view
- Setting 'secure' flag in session cookies if TLS in enforced
- Fixing nested items re-ordering
- Fixing toggle chevron in module menu assignment
- Fixing "save to copy" for menus
Joomla 4.1.4 is a recommended easy upgrade.
Community Builder 2.7.2 latest build and all Joomlapolis add-ons run just fine on this solid new Joomla release.
You can learn more about these new features by reading the Joomla 4.1.4 announcement.
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Joomla 4.1.3 and Joomla 3.10.9 are here!
Joomla 4.1.3 and Joomla 3.10.9 have just been released on schedule, 6 weeks after Joomla 4.1.2 and 3.0.8!
Both are smooth maintenance releases for previous Joomla releases.
We are happy to see Joomla continuing to pick up momentum and keep its legendar dependability.
Amd with the Joomla 4.2 alpha 2 preview also already released, the Joomla future is bright!
Joomla 4.1.3 includes 93 improvements and bug-fixes, main ones being:
- Some PHP 8.1 improvements, some of them contributed by Beat
- Improved SVG upload
- Language improvements
- Improved child template creation
- Fixed scheduler database query
- Cassiopeia SCSS variables got the !default flag
Joomla 3.10.8 contains 7 bug-fixes, main ones being:
- Corrected date format in Last-Modified http header
- Added dedicated string for "I do not agree" over the general JNO
- Updated Ca cert files as of 26.04.2022
- Improved remind and password request and reset messages
Both Joomla 4.1.3 and 3.10.9 are recommended easy upgrades.
Community Builder 2.7.2 latest build and all Joomlapolis add-ons run just fine on all of these solid new Joomla releases.
You can learn more about these new features by reading the Joomla 4.1.3 and 3.10.9 announcement.
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CB Paid Subscriptions (CBSubs) 4.6.1 comes with one major new CBSubs Options plugin, 1 new features and 3 minor bug fixes.
In this picture, you can see an example of a plan with 2 options and 4 different pricing and duration.
CB Paid Subscriptions (CBSubs GPL) 4.6.1 is a features and maintenance release that is a recommended upgrade for all sites.
CBSubs 4.6.1 includes one major new CBSubs Options plugin, 1 new feature, an improved payment service provider gateway and 3 minor bug fixes. Main new items are:
- CBSubs Options plugin allows to propose various duration and price possibilities for user subscription plans. It also allows to offer various options to membership subscriptions or to merchandise products. This allows to offer options to users while selecting their plan or product, and then to manage them right from their user profile.
Letting users choose their subscription duration and corresponding price is a major help to users, and thus to sales volume,
Letting users add options to their subscription plans and merchandises and then to manage them allows to offer and sell added value services and options seamlessly right within the product/subscription plan, which is beneficial to users and to the average sale price.
Kyle has a detailed blog with many screenshots about this new CBSubs Options plugin. - User Subscription plans have now an Allow Login setting (default is on), which is available when the "Allow Free Registered Users (without subscriptions)" global setting is set to No. This allows to control in a fine-grained way which plans cannot provide login, and to accordingly propose possible re-activations when a user with expired plans attempts to login.
A big Thank you to Kyle (krileon) for the implementation of the new CBSubs Options plugin. Thank you also to our community member michelq for his suggestion 2 months ago, as well as to his generous donation, and to Beat for implementing this nice new feature within a month, that got immediately available in the nightly releases and now in CBSubs 4.6.1 stable.
CBSubs 4.6.1 also fixes 3 minor bugs and improves the compatibility and reliability with the QuickPay payment services provider.
CBSubs 4.6.1 is a recommended upgrade for all sites, and is very stable, as all changes were released continuously in our nightly releases. It is also a highly recommended upgrade for sites using the QuickPay payment processor.
CBSubs 4.6.1 requires latest Community Builder 2.7.2 release or later.
CBSubs 4.6.1 is fully compatible with Joomla 3.10-4.1, PHP 7.4-8.1 and MySQL 5.6-8.0,
CBSubs 4.6.1 is available in our Downloads section and simply requires an active subscription to CBSubs or a Developer membership.
Kyle's latest blog details the new CBSubs Options plugin.
Full changelog is available, and CBSubs 4.6 is also installed on our demo site. Last but not least, many thanks to Kyle for his redevelopment of the CBSubs Options plugin!
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CB Paid Subscriptions (CBSubs) 4.6 comes with 10 new features and 14 minor bug fixes.
In this picture, you can see an example of an order with a staged discount, a markup and time-based sales tax.
CB Paid Subscriptions (CBSubs GPL) 4.6 is a compatibility and maintenance release.
CBSubs 4.6 includes 10 new features, of which the four most important are:
- Support for Joomla 4.1 and PHP 8.1.
- Possibility to display specific modules, including up-selling and cross-selling information (in content modules) and other modules in all payment phases, like for “Payment basket” display, “Invoicing address”, “Payment information entry”, “Payment complete” and “Cancel basket” pages. This is done through thanks to new Joomla menu items for CB Paid Subscriptions, leveraging the power of Joomla menus. Joomla menu items allow to display specific modules and content and to perform other menu-dependent actions on corresponding pages.
To use this new feature, simply add new Joomla menu entries of type “Community Builder - plugin”, choose plugin “CB Paid Subscriptions” and for “Do” just below, choose one of the new “Internal” pages of CB Paid Subscriptions, listed above, for the menu item. The menu item does not need to be, and in most cases should not be, visible (it can be in a hidden menu). Then create or edit corresponding Joomla modules, and in “Menu assignment” tab, assign the menu items when the module should display. Modules will then automatically display as the user goes through the payment process.
Hint: You can use the CB Content module to display conditional content that can depend on user profile fields, or include one of many substitutions and other possible conditions. This allows for a truly individual checkout experience.
A big Thank you to our community member liaskas for his suggestion 3 weeks ago and to Kyle (krileon) for implementing this great new feature next day, that got immediately available in the nightly releases and now in CBSubs 4.6 stable.
For sites with auto-recurring payments, there are two noteworthy improvements in this release:
- A user can now cancel the auto-recurring payment without cancelling the subscription. There is also a new setting in main CBSubs settings, “Display”/“Unsubscribe” tab called `Show “Cancel Auto-recurring Payments” button', which defaults to ”Yes”, where you can disable this new feature if needed.
- From now on, when a user is deleted from the admin area or by our GDPR feature "Delete user account", all auto-recurring payment subscriptions on payment processors are stopped too.
CBSubs 4.6 also fixes 14 minor bugs and improves the compatibility and reliability with the QuickPay payment services provider.
CBSubs 4.6 is a recommended upgrade for all sites, and is very stable, as all changes were released continuously in our nightly releases. It is also a highly recommended upgrade for sites using the QuickPay payment processor.
CBSubs 4.6 requires latest Community Builder 2.7.2 release or later, and thus, as announced since a year, also requires Joomla 3.10+, PHP 7.4+, and MYSQL 5.6+ (or MariaDB 10.x). This will now allow for code modernization and exciting new features and add-ons.
CBSubs 4.6 is fully compatible with Joomla 3.10-4.1, PHP 7.4-8.1 and MySQL 5.6-8.0,
CBSubs 4.6 is available in our Downloads section and simply requires an active subscription to CBSubs or a Developer membership.
CBSubs 4.6 also deprecates the authorize.net and SwissPostFinance payment gateways, as authorize.net AIM and ARB are deprecated not supported anymore by authorize.net, and SwissPostFinance has completely changed its own proprietary payment providing system. Users are invited to consider other supported payment processors. This is a smooth task as CBSubs can handle multiple Payment Service Providers simultaneously.
Full changelog with the over 10 improvements and 20 bugfixes is available, and CBSubs 4.6 is also installed on our demo site. Last but not least, many thanks to Kyle for his help on CBSubs!
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Joomla 4.1.2 and Joomla 3.10.8 are here!
The Joomla! Project is ticking like a Swiss watch and agile like a leopard!
Right on schedule, Joomla 4.1.2 and Joomla 3.10.8 have been just released, 6 weeks after Joomla 4.1 and 3.0.6!
Both are security and maintenance releases for previous Joomla <4.1.1 and <3.10.7 releases.
It is delighting to see Joomla picking up momentum and confirming its dependability and agility.
With Joomla 4.2 alpha 1 around the corner, the future is bright. Kudos to the Joomla Production and Security Strike Teams (of which our Beat is also member)!
Joomla 4.1.2 includes 7 low level security vulnerabilities fixes (see full announcement below for security details) and addresses several bugs and improvements:
- Language strings behaviour fix in TinyMCE
- Fix switch for syntax highlighting in TinyMCE
- Show failed tasks in scheduler
- Correct usage of parameters of Jooa11y integrated accessibility and quality assurance tool
- Codemirror HTML text editor enhancements
- Several PHP 8.1 improvements (some contributed by Beat)
Joomla 3.10.8 contains 5 low level security vulnerabilities fixes (see full announcement below for security details) and several bugfixes and welcome improvements:
- Backport JQuery UI security patch for CVE-2021-41184 (Joomla core, CB and our add-ons were not affected)
- Disable Google Fonts setting for new Joomla 3.10.7+ installations only
- [Regression] Fixes redirect values updating automatically unintentionally changed
- Removes FLoC setting as FLoC has been abandoned
- E-Mail Cloak: TLDs longer than 10 are no longer truncated
- Privacy Consent wording clarifiaction: I agree/No reply is now: I agree / I do not agree.
As previously mentioned, both Joomla 4.1.2 and 3.10.8 are security releases and highly recommended upgrades. If you are still on Joomla 3.9 or below, or 4.0, it is time to upgrade to Joomla 3.10.8 and 4.1.2, both versions being smooth upgrades for their respective series.
Community Builder 2.7.2 and all Joomlapolis add-ons run just fine on all of these new Joomla releases.
You can learn more about these new features by reading the Joomla 4.1.2/3.10.8 announcement.
You may ask: what happened to 4.1.1 and 3.10.7? A few hours after release a last-minute regression for a small minority of websites using alternate authentication plugins for logins has been reported. The 4.1.1 and 3.10.7 releases got quickly removed from the updates servers, the Joomla team worked hard to fix the issue, and a few hours later Joomla 4.1.2 and Joomla 3.10.8 have been released without the corresponding change, thus fixing this regression in a safe way! Community Builder is using Joomla's standard APIs, and was thus not affected by this regression of Joomla 4.1.1 and 3.10.7.
A few personal words about the 4.1.1 and 3.10.7 short-lived Joomla releases: Bugs and mistakes can happen in great teams. But what sets aside an awesome team, like Joomla, from a great team is how mishaps are handled. Joomla has quickly and openly acknowledged its bug, and swiftly fixed the issue, provided a FAQ to help the very few people that got affected by the regression bug. Additionally, discussions are looking into how to improve the processes. While very few loose time pointing fingers or laughing, we can only say: Kudos Joomla! Team! and then continue moving ahead full speed on our next CB Paid Subscriptions release 4.6 which should come soon, with a nice surprise included!
- Community Builder 2.7.2 Released
- Joomla 4.1 released!
- Community Builder 2.7 and 2.7.1 Released
- Joomla 4.1 RC2 released!
- Joomla 4.0.6 and 3.10.5 released, 4.1 is next!
- Joomla 4.0.5 and Joomla 3.10.4 are here!
- CB Paid Subscriptions 4.5.3 Release!
- Joomla 4.0.4 and Joomla 3.10.3 are here!
- Community Builder 2.6.4 Release!
- Community Builder 2.6.3 Release!