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Published: 11 February 2022

Last Updated: 11 February 2022

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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.

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Published: 03 February 2022

Last Updated: 03 February 2022

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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.

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Published: 24 January 2022

Last Updated: 24 January 2022

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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.

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Published: 17 December 2021

Last Updated: 17 December 2021

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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.

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Published: 08 December 2021

Last Updated: 07 April 2022

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CB Paid Subscriptions (CBSubs) 4.5.3 comes with an important compatibility fix for another unexpected Paypal.com API change that happened a few days ago!
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) 4.5.3 is a compatibility and maintenance release, with some minor but noteworthy improvements. CBSubs 4.5.3 improves massively filters for searching and filtering payments in the payments management in the administration area. It also improves the flexibility of texts in payment method selections, by adding possible conditionality on the auto-recurring status of the basket and of the selected payment method when using radio-type selection.

Finally, CBSubs 4.5.3 is a compatibility release, bringing full compatibility with Joomla 4 and 3.x, with other extensions using same libraries as CBSubs but in different versions, improves API usage with Paypal, Stripe and latest AcyMailing.

CBSubs 4.5.3 also addresses a major API bug of Paypal.com affecting completion of some payments if any payment-related description text is non-ASCII (which can happen when using username substitution in the item description text).

CBSubs 4.5.3 is a highly recommended upgrade for all sites, especially for sites using Paypal (standard), Stripe and/or AcyMailing.

CBSubs 4.5.3 is fully compatible with Joomla 4.0, PHP 8.0 and MySQL 8.0, in addition of Joomla 3.x, PHP 7.x/5.6 and MySQL 5.5-8.0.

CBSubs 4.5.3 is available in our Downloads section and simply requires an active subscription to CBSubs. It is a highly recommended upgrade and requires and works great with latest CB 2.6.4 and Joomla 3.x-4.0.

Please note that the next features release of CBSubs, which will be 4.6, and will require PHP 7.4, like already announced since quite some time for CB 2.7.

Full changelog with the over 10 improvements and 20 bugfixes is available, and CBSubs 4.5.3 is also installed on our demo site.