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Category: News

Published: 17 October 2017

Last Updated: 18 October 2017

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CB Connect 7.1 with 16 new features and 7 bug fixes is here!

CB Connect now supports a total of 25 Social Networks opening up your community website to millions of users!

Here is the list - count them - of the now 25 supported networks:

1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. LinkedIn
4. Windows Live
5. Google
6. Instagram
7. Foursquare
8. GitHub
9. VKontakte
10. Steam
11. Reddit
12. Twitch
13. Stack Exchange
14. Pinterest
15. Amazon
16. Yahoo
17. PayPal
18. Disqus
19. WordPress
20. Meetup
21. LINE (new)
22. Spotify (new)
23. SoundClound (new)
24. Flickr (new)
25. Vimeo (new)

Join the forum discussion to see full change log.

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Category: News

Published: 05 October 2017

Last Updated: 05 October 2017

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Joomla 3.8.1 is here - a bug fixes release!

The Joomla project team has released version 3.8.1 that contains 29 bug fixes found since the Joomla 3.8 feature release.

Community Builder 2.1.3 and all Joomlapolis add-ons work just fine with Joomla 3.8.1.

This is a recommended upgrade for all Joomla 3.8 sites. As always, before any Joomla upgrade on your live website, take a backup just in case anything goes wrong.

You can learn more about these bug fixes by reading the Joomla 3.8.1 announcement.

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Category: News

Published: 27 September 2017

Last Updated: 27 September 2017

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CB AntiSpam 3.1 is here with 7 new features!

Protecting your website forms from spambots just got easier and more powerful.

CB AntiSpam 3.1 has a total of 7 new features, but the 4 most noteworthy ones are:

• New math mode that lets you define the complexity and range of the math challenge.
• Honeypot mode lets you trick spambots into identifying themselves.
• Use Joomla mode to utilize existing Joomla captcha protection.
• New Joomla plugin lets you use CB AntiSpam protection in Joomla and third party components.

You can read Kyle's latest blog to learn more about these new features.

There are of course many great existing features that let you automatically block users based on failed attempts (e.g., number of failed logins) or the blocking can be manually imposed by a moderator.

See everything in action on our demo site!

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Category: News

Published: 22 September 2017

Last Updated: 22 September 2017

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Joomla 3.8 is here with over 300 improvements!

The Joomla project team has released version 3.8 with many improvements and some important security fixes.

The highlighted new features include:

• Improved Routing System provides cleaner, shorter and more friendly URLs (no more IDs) for Content, Contacts, Users, and Newsfeeds.
• Joomla 4 compatibility layer has been added to pave the way for changes that are planned for Joomla 4.0.
• Sample data is now always installable and multilingual. Up to now you could only include sample data during the initial installation of Joomla. This is no longer the case.
• Encryption support for PHP 7.2. The core encryption library supports the new sodium extension which will be added to PHP 7.2.

You can learn more about these key features and other Joomla 3.8 improvements by visiting the What's new in Joomla 3.8 site.

Joomla 3.8 also has 2 very important security fixes:

• Inadequate escaping in the LDAP authentication plugin can result into a disclosure of username and password.
  If you are using LDAP authentication on any Joomla site, you need to upgrade to Joomla 3.8.
  Discover more about this LDAP authentication bug.
• A logic bug in a SQL query could lead to the disclosure of article intro texts when these articles are in the archived state.
  Discover more about this SQL logic bug.

Community Builder 2.1.3 and all Joomlapolis add-ons work just fine with Joomla 3.8.

However, there are reports of other components and templates having problems. So, as always, before rushing to do a one-click Joomla upgrade on your website, take a backup and do your research with all third-party products you have installed. And before upgrading on your live site, go through the process on a cloned backup site and test before you tackle your production environment.

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Category: News

Published: 18 September 2017

Last Updated: 18 September 2017

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Our CB Paid Subscriptions (CBSubs) solution now supports the Stripe payment method!

This brings the total number of gateways supported by CBSubs to 18!

All existing CBSubs subscribers can download and install the Stripe Payment Gateway and start collecting single payments.

Stripe is becoming very popular and competitive and as they state on their website: "We help power 100,000+ businesses in 100+ countries and across nearly every industry".

And CBSubs is extending this commitment to its users!