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Details: Category: News; Published: 26 October 2016; Last Updated: 26 October 2016; Hits: 5090

Joomla 3.6.4 has just been released and it fixes two critical security vulnerabilities and a two-factor authentication bug.

This is a very important release and all Joomla 3.4.4 to 3.6.3 sites need to be quickly updated to this new release.

You can read the full Joomla 3.6.4 announcement for more details, but to make things super clear here is a list of recommended actions depending on your installed version:

All sites with Joomla 3.4.4 through Joomla 3.6.3 must update to Joomla 3.6.4 now - this is extremely important as the found vulnerabilities let hackers create accounts on your website and then to promote them to administrator (but not super-administrator ones)
All sites with Joomla 3.x less than 3.4.4 should upgrade as soon as possible to Joomla 3.6.4. These sites are not affected by the two critical vulnerabilities, but there are many other know issues that have already been fixed
All Joomla 2.5.x sites (1.0-2.5 are not affected by these 2 vulnerabilities, but they are by other known ones) should plan to upgrade to Joomla 3.6.4. If not possible soon, they should at least by now have updated to the unofficially security-maintained Joomla "2.5.999" version which includes fixes only for high-level security issues (download zip button at top right) and follow that project on github, while planing to plan an upgrade to latest Joomla.

And, as always, make a full backup of your website before you attempt any upgrade.

Community Builder 2.0.15 and all our latest CB add-ons versions are running fine on Joomla 3.6.4 according to our tests.

Beat, member of both CB Team and of the Joomla Security Strike Team (JSST), insists on the urgency and the importance of this Joomla 3.6.4 upgrade: Stop doing what you are doing and Upgrade Now. If you can't, then take an off-site archive-backup of your site Now. Only the latest versions of Joomla and of all your extensions and add-ons, which are the only ones maintained are considered safe at all times.

Keep your Joomlapolis membership active and your sites up to date at all times!

Some hosters who care for Joomla Security have already implemented WAF modsecurity rules to protect their customers. Joomlapolis Web Hosting Services have also done so, even before the 3.6.4 release!

Details: Category: News; Published: 05 September 2016; Last Updated: 27 October 2016; Hits: 16186

CB Gallery is here and extremely powerfull !

Kyle has been blogging about it, designng and coding it, and now CB Gallery 2.0 nicknamed "Galleries Galleries Everywhere" is ready for download by all paid members.

This is a complete rewrite with many great new features that will make your community website users very happy and excited with the possibilities.
You can experience the new CB Gallery on our demo site and see the many administrative and user facing options.

Here is a list of the main features in CB Gallery 2.0:

Users can upload multiple files at the same time and then provide titles and descriptions (yup, just like facebook does)
All media types are supported (photo, audio, video) as well as file uploads (you can provide filename extension list)
Users can create unlimited albums to better organize their uploads
Media files can be uploaded or linked (configration parameter)
Item quotas can be set for each media type globally or individually (for specific users)
Moderator approvals can be enabled for all media types
Gallery playbacks are now using modal popup
New CB Gallery module lets you display gallery albums, media types, gallery items from specific users (new asset concept) or from all users
Item downloading can be turned off in gallery and in module
New CB Gallery bot lets you put any gallery album or item directly in your Joomla content (articles and modules) and even lets your users create new gallery albums or upload new media directly from article!
Captcha integration for extra security when uploading new items (requires latest CB AntiSpam plugin)
Gallery activity recorded for activity stream (CB Activity and CB Auto Actions required)
Create direct Joomla menu links to specific albums or items
New administrative area lets you quickly see who has uploaded what and all created albums (see this on our demo site)

There are many more built-in features that you can explore on our demo site !

Details: Category: News; Published: 24 August 2016; Last Updated: 24 August 2016; Hits: 5914

Community Builder is here with 9 new features and 15 bug fixes
Download it now - it's free and super stable and Joomla 3.6 ready!

Community Builder 2.0.15 is here and has 9 new features and 15 bug fixes.

The key features include:

Profile editing tab ordering now its own ordering parameter
Internal URL support for direct tab focus for viewing or editing
Forgot login and sign-up links can now be rendered as buttons in CB Login module

The full list of features and bug fixes is available in our discussion thread below.

Community Builder continues to be one of the most well maintained projects in the Joomla universe. We continuously release free nightly builds when we fix bugs of add new features. This way our huge community is able to test these changes and give quick feedback. This helps the project produce robust bug free code for the millions of Joomla websites using Community Builder.

All of this is made possible with the financial support provided by paid members. Paid Membership offers great benefits with many powerful add-ons and fantastic forum driven same/next business day responses. A big Thank You to all our paid members and to all contributors of CB!

CB 2.0+ websites can be upgraded to latest CB 2.0.15 using the built-in Joomla upgrader or with a simple install over (precautionary backup always recommended) as all previous settings are kept.

Details: Category: News; Published: 05 August 2016; Last Updated: 16 August 2016; Hits: 7815

Joomla 3.6.2 is here and works fine with Community Builder

Almost one day after a Joomla 3.6.1 security release, the Joomla project released Joomla 3.6.2 as a quick follow-up bug fix release.

The combined releases address nearly 150 bug fixes and some medium/low priority security issues.

Important: Before upgrading to Joomla 3.6.2 make sure that you first upgrade all your components, including core "Joomla! Update Component Update" component. To do so:

go to menu: Extensions / Manage / Upgrade
Click "Find updates" button
Select your extensions to upgrade, but at least "Joomla! Update Component Update" (its latest version at press time is 3.6.1)
Click "Upgrade" button

Once you have upgraded the extensions, you can safely upgrade Joomla to 3.6.2.

In the seldom case where the last stage of the Joomla upgrade (database upgrade) would fail, no worries, go to menu: Etensions/ Manage / Database, then click the Fix button.

In the very seldom case where you are missing extension installation methods tabs, go to menu Extensions / Manage / Discover then click "Discover" button, select the installer plugins and click the "Install" button.

We have been testing Joomla 3.6.2 with our latest Community Builder 2.0.14 and everything works great!
As always, we recomend to upgrade your websites on a cloned environment and test everything before you take a full backup and apply Joomla upgrade on your productions sites.

A great resource you can follow is the Joomla 3.6.2 FAQ article that contains all the latest findings / issues identified by the Joomla project concerning this new release.

Details: Category: News; Published: 20 July 2016; Last Updated: 16 August 2016; Hits: 5990

CB Package Builder with frontend management

This is by far the best download manager for Joomla!

We have developed and used CB Package Builder internally since 3 years for your packages downloads here on Joomlapolis. We are now using it for all your downloads, including all PDF files, showing latest version numbers in Joomla content and showing releases history. As it has become an awesome general-purpose downloads manager, we are now releasing it in its latest version 5.1.

CB Package builder has many features that you can discover in its product page.

Version 5.1 has many awesome new features that let you create and manage your membership downloads.

Here is a list of key features that you can actually experience - first hand - on Joomlapols and our demo site:

Chose from 12 package types to fine-tune your user's download experience (Package, Library, Component, Plugin, Module. Language, Template, CB Plugin, Query, Script, Override, Custom).
Use optional package sub-types to categorize packages when presented to users (e.g., see Free sub-types on our download page).
Configure package version extraction directly from package filename with previous versions download support (e.g. filefolder/cb200-Primer_*.pdf - the * area will be used to extract version - see our Community Builder download version dropdown selection for example).
Create presets comprized of multiple package that your users can download and install on their Joomla site as a single Joomla extension install (try this out on our demo site where you can login as an administrator)
Let your authorized users maintain or add new packages from frontend (without need for administrative area login privileges - experience this also on our demo site and see relevant screenshots included further down).
Drag and drop file uploading and frontend version deletion (experience this on demo site and check out screenshot below)

These are just some of the features avaiable in our latest CB Package Builder which comes with its own Joomla module, Joomla plugin and CB Paid Subscription integration plugin (to require active subscription for package download).

Here are some additional screenshots illustrating some of the previously mentioned features that - once again - you can experience first hand on our demo site and discuss this exciting new release on our forums!

CB Package builder is available to all Developer Members or as a single-item purchase.