Skip to main content

GPS Tools Changelog

All notable changes to GPS Tools are documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

Legend: 🚀 New Feature | 🔧 Changed/Improved | 🐛 Bug Fix | ⚠️ Breaking Change

Version 7.x (Joomla 5/6)​

7.0.0 (16-Dec-2025)​

🎉 MAJOR RELEASE - Complete Rewrite

GPS Tools 7.0 is a ground-up rebuild of the extension with a modern React 19 architecture, premium minimalist design, and significantly enhanced features.

🚀 Frontend Features​

  • Modern React 19 SPA - Complete rewrite with React 19, TypeScript, and Vite 7 build system
  • Premium Minimalist Design - Swiss-inspired design with stone/slate color palette
  • Dual Map Provider Support - Switch between OpenStreetMap and Google Maps
    • 15+ OpenStreetMap tile providers (Thunderforest, Stadia, custom)
    • Google Maps with 7 style presets (Standard, Silver, Retro, Dark, Night, Aubergine, custom)
    • Provider-specific controls and configuration
  • Enhanced Track Visualization
    • Color-coded tracks by speed, elevation, or heart rate
    • Animated route playback with adjustable speed
    • Multi-segment track support with different colors
    • Customizable track opacity, shadows, and line styles
  • Advanced Chart System (Chart.js 4.5.0)
    • Interactive elevation profiles
    • Speed over distance/time charts
    • Heart rate monitoring visualization
    • Synchronized chart-map interactions
    • Hover to highlight track position
  • Waypoint System
    • 11 waypoint types with color coding (summit, viewpoint, water, rest, food, camp, photo, warning, POI)
    • Interactive markers with InfoWindow popups
    • Waypoints timeline table view
  • Track Splits Analysis
    • Automatic kilometer/mile splits
    • Pace and elevation change per split
  • Photo Gallery Integration
    • Lightbox gallery for track photos
    • Geolocation mapping of photos
  • Responsive Layouts
    • Full, Compact, and Mini layout modes
    • Mobile-optimized touch interactions
    • Dark mode support

🚀 Backend Features​

  • Modern Admin Interface - React-powered admin dashboard and track management
  • Advanced Track Editor
    • Drag-and-drop GPX/KML/TCX upload
    • Live preview with instant feedback
    • Metadata editor with validation
    • Category and tag management
  • Analytics Dashboard
    • Track statistics and trends
    • Popular tracks by views/downloads
    • User activity metrics
  • Waypoint Management - Dedicated waypoint editor with map integration
  • Comment System - Built-in commenting with moderation tools
  • SEO Optimization - Server-side rendering with React hydration for perfect SEO

🚀 Content Plugin Enhancement​

  • Flexible Shortcodes
    • {gpstrack id="123"} - Embed individual tracks
    • {gpstracks} - Display track grids with filtering
  • Granular Control
    • Show/hide map, stats, charts individually
    • Control elevation, speed, heart rate charts separately
    • Toggle waypoints, splits, and gallery
    • Three layout modes: full, compact, mini
  • Smart Defaults - Configurable plugin defaults for consistent site-wide behavior

🚀 Module System​

  • GPS Tools Map Module (mod_gpstools_map)
    • Interactive map showing track start points
    • Marker clustering support
    • Category and featured track filtering
    • Popup previews with track stats
  • GPS Tools Tracks Module (mod_gpstools_tracks)
    • Card-based track listing
    • Filtering by category, difficulty, activity type
    • Sort by date, popularity, distance
    • Responsive grid layouts

🚀 Integrations​

  • Smart Search Integration - Enhanced finder plugin with track metadata indexing
  • Event System - Extensible event dispatcher for third-party integrations

🔧 Technical Improvements​

  • Performance Optimizations
    • Lazy loading for charts and galleries
    • Optimized bundle splitting (vendor: 614KB, site: 150KB, admin: 180KB)
    • Progressive Web App capabilities
    • Efficient track point rendering
  • Modern Build System
    • Vite 7 for lightning-fast HMR
    • TypeScript for type safety
    • Tailwind CSS 3.4 scoped to .gpstools-app
  • Database Schema
    • Optimized table structure
    • Improved indexing for large datasets
    • Better query performance
  • Code Quality
    • Full TypeScript coverage
    • Comprehensive type definitions
    • Modern PHP 8.1+ with strict types
    • Joomla 6 MVC best practices

⚠️ Breaking Changes​

  • PHP Requirements: PHP 8.1+ now required (was PHP 7.4+)
  • Joomla Version: Joomla 5.0+ or 6.0+ required (Joomla 3/4 support dropped)
  • Database: New schema requires migration from v6.x
  • Templates: Custom templates need updating for new React components
  • API: REST API endpoints restructured (see documentation)
  • Module Parameters: Module configuration parameters reorganized

📦 Migration Notes​

  • Automatic Migration: Database schema is automatically updated on install
  • Data Preservation: All tracks, waypoints, and comments are preserved
  • Settings Reset: Component configuration resets to defaults (backup before upgrade)
  • Custom CSS: Review and update custom styling for new CSS class names
  • Third-party Integrations: Update any custom code using GPS Tools API

🔗 New Documentation​

  • Complete rewrite of user and developer documentation
  • Interactive code examples and use cases
  • Video tutorials (coming soon)
  • API reference guide
  • Migration guide from v6.x

Version 6.x (Joomla 5/6)​

6.4.0/1 (05-Oct-2025)​

  • 🚀 Joomla 6 Compatibility Update

6.3.1 (02-Aug-2025)​

  • 🐛 Fix issue with custom start icon size

6.3.0 (05-Jul-2025)​

  • 🚀 New plugin: Smart search plugin for tracks
  • 🔧 Update copyright headers
  • 🔧 Removed legacy references
  • 🐛 Unable to checkin the tracks table
  • 🐛 Category Tracks are not ordered as per the selected option
  • 🐛 Move track suggestions above comments
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with closing tags
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with PHP warnings on navigation block

6.2.0 (25-Dec-2024)​

  • 🚀 Add tracks navigation on track details page
  • 🐛 Tracks list shows empty when MySQL null dates are used

6.1.6 (22-Oct-2024)​

  • 🐛 Download permission set at track level does not work
  • 🐛 Search filter cleared out when moving to next page on tracks listing

6.1.5 (07-Oct-2024)​

  • 🐛 Fixed issue with MySQL null checks

6.1.4 (10-Aug-2024)​

  • 🐛 Max speed is calculated incorrectly when the distance between points is too small
  • 🐛 Total ascend, descend stats are not shown

6.1.3 (30-Jun-2024)​

  • 🚀 Added locate me control for OSM
  • 🚀 Added new stats Total Ascend and Total Descend

6.1.2 (11-May-2024)​

  • 🐛 GPX Tracks module uses http version of the tiles layer
  • 🐛 OSM Tiles layer is not showing after update

6.1.1 (09-Apr-2024)​

  • 🚀 Added option to customise the marker image shown when hover on the charts
  • 🚀 Added print/download button on the map (OpenStreetMap)
  • 🚀 Added an option to disable clustering at the selected zoom on GPX Tracks module
  • 🐛 Editor is not shown correctly on front-end
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with editing an existing track

6.1.0 (28-Jan-2024)​

  • 🚀 Added total distance in the track pin popup in GPX Tracks module
  • 🚀 Add full screen icon to the map in GPX Tracks module
  • 🚀 Add an option in GPX Tracks module to show markers in groups of clusters
  • 🚀 New options to add start and end markers of the track
  • 🚀 Improved options to show global value in category and track menus
  • 🚀 New smart search plugin added
  • 🚀 New option to customize OSM layers

6.0.4 (14-Jan-2024)​

  • 🚀 Added support for Rewardify Points
  • 🚀 Google Maps JS API update
  • 🚀 Added support for marker clusters on GPX Tracks module
  • 🚀 Added support to show tracks in alphabetic order in GPS Tools module
  • 🐛 Category description and image are not showing
  • 🐛 Category marker icon is not used when displaying waypoints
  • 🐛 GPX Tracks module does not show Google Maps RoadMap

6.0.3 (28-Oct-2023)​

  • 🐛 GPS Tools editor button is not showing
  • 🐛 Fixed the margin of batch button on admin toolbar
  • 🐛 Fixes issues related to PHP strict standards

6.0.2 (26-Sep-2023)​

  • 🐛 Package installation issue fixed

6.0.1 (25-Sep-2023)​

  • 🐛 Fixed issue with backend track edit form

6.0.0 (24-Sep-2023)​

  • 🚀 Breaking Change: Added support for Joomla 5
  • 🔧 Breaking Change: Removed legacy layer for Joomla 3

Version 5.x (Joomla 3/4)​

5.3.8 (15-Aug-2023)​

  • 🔧 Updated SQL installation file to support null dates
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with GPX tracks where sudden increase in speed is not detected

5.3.7 (16-May-2023)​

  • 🐛 GPX Tracks module causing SQL error

5.3.6 (12-May-2023)​

  • 🐛 Fixed installation error with prev version

5.3.5 (10-May-2023)​

  • 🔧 Removed deprecated code
  • 🔧 Replaced JFile/JFolder deprecated wrappers with respective file system functions
  • 🐛 Fixed error when loading a new track that does not have waypoints
  • 🐛 Changed the tiles URL from http to https
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with gpxtracks module showing yet to publish tracks
  • 🐛 Form layout menu shows error when SEF is disabled
  • 🐛 CjForum tracks plugin do not use proper styling

5.3.4 (11-Dec-2022)​

  • 🐛 Fixed issue with editor button plugin not inserting content into the editor
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with Track Info toggle option when using content plugin

5.3.3 (18-Nov-2022)​

  • 🐛 Fixed issue with track selection field on single track menu item
  • 🐛 Removed unused language strings

5.3.2 (07-Nov-2022)​

  • 🚀 Added support for PHP 8.1
  • 🚀 Added options to show/hide statistics and waypoints table
  • 🐛 Tags are not saving in Joomla 3.10 or later versions

5.3.1 (27-Jun-2022)​

  • 🐛 Show Track Information & Show Waypoints Fields values cannot be unselected
  • 🐛 Page shows error when the component redirect to login/any page

5.3.0 (26-Feb-2022)​

  • 🐛 Track form page shows error to guest users
  • 🐛 Editor button plugin causing issue with Joomla 4
  • 🐛 Fix issue with loading CjForum app to display tracks list
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with installation script when using mysql strict mode
  • 🐛 Editor button plugin does not open correct modal window
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with single track menu item selection modal in Joomla3

5.2.5 (08-Dec-2021)​

  • 🚀 Updated the Google Charts API to use latest version
  • 🔧 Added padding to rating block display on track details page
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with author name wrapped below the avatar
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with hits shown twice on listing page
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with uploading tracks with invalid latlon points
  • 🐛 Categories page shows warning message on Joomla 4

5.2.4 (01-Sep-2021)​

  • 🚀 Adding component changelog support for Joomla 4
  • 🚀 Sociable integration added
  • 🐛 Track type radio button is non-functional on Joomla 4 track form

5.2.3 (10-Aug-2021)​

  • 🐛 Waypoints are shown only to administrators and not others

5.2.2 (06-Aug-2021)​

  • 🐛 Fixed issue with komento plugin with deleted comments
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with OpenStreetMap not showing for guest users

5.2.1 (02-Aug-2021)​

  • 🔧 Change mile markers to use distance instead of fixed numbers
  • 🔧 Display tweaks with toolbar on Bootstrap 5 layout
  • 🐛 Editor button does not insert correct shortcode into the editor

5.2.0 (18-Jul-2021)​

  • 🚀 New feature: Show mile markers for each X meters, customizable globally, category or track level
  • 🚀 Automatically detect and use category in GPX Tracks module when published on a GPS Tools category page
  • 🚀 New feature: Choose waypoint as track start point shown on GPX Tracks
  • 🚀 New layout based on Bootstrap 5 library
  • 🚀 Joomla 4 RC4 support added
  • 🚀 PHP 8 support added
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with administrator menu items not showing on sidebar
  • 🐛 Points are not awarded for new track when using easysocial

5.1.10 (25-Mar-2021)​

  • 🚀 PHP 8 support added
  • 🐛 Download button does not work when the track is shown using content plugin

5.1.9 (01-Mar-2021)​

  • 🐛 Map does not show on KML tracks with empty elevation in their points
  • 🐛 The elevation starts at 0 for tracks with rte points
  • 🐛 Minimum and maximum elevations are incorrectly shown for tracks with rte points
  • 🐛 Unable to save single track menu item

5.1.8 (23-Jan-2021)​

  • 🚀 Joomla 4 beta 2 support added
  • 🚀 Added full screen button on OpenStreetMap on the form page
  • 🚀 New field to define the downloaded track filename on the track page
  • 🐛 Moved the track selection to below the category to avoid category selection reset the track
  • 🐛 Editing a track from backend resets the hits
  • 🐛 Custom field values are not saved when editing track from front-end
  • 🐛 KML files with multiple placemarks do not show all waypoints

5.1.7 (16-Jun-2020)​

  • 🚀 Joomla 4 beta support added

5.1.6 (08-Jun-2020)​

  • 🐛 Charts are not loaded in content plugin after last release

5.1.5 (21-May-2020)​

  • 🐛 Charts are not loaded when using Google maps
  • 🐛 List limit option does not work
  • 🐛 Disallow Google to follow certain ajax links to index nonexistent content

5.1.4 (1-Jan-2020)​

  • 🚀 New configuration option to show/hide categories list
  • 🚀 Added new module positions (see documentation for updates)
  • 🐛 Added missing language string for EasySocial user points setup
  • 🐛 Unicode urls are not created when saving the items

5.1.3 (07-Oct-2019)​

  • 🚀 Improved star rating system to rate tracks, removed raty plugin
  • 🚀 Show user rating along with track rating on track details page

5.1.2 (17-Sep-2019)​

  • 🐛 Track cannot be submitted after upgrade

5.1.1 (17-Sep-2019)​

  • 🔧 Joomla 4 alpha 11 compatibility updates
  • 🐛 Fixed installation errors

5.1.0 (15-Aug-2019)​

  • 🚀 New gpx chart type: Pedalling Cadence
  • 🚀 New tracks listing plugin for CjForum profile
  • 🚀 Responsive waypoints table
  • 🚀 New option to customize the columns displayed on the waypoints table
  • 🚀 New option to show logged-in user stats in Tracks Stats module
  • 🚀 Show description up to <hr id="system-readmore"/> in gpxtracks module
  • 🔧 Removed references to Google+ service
  • 🐛 Hover on tooltips disappear elements when mootools loaded on the page

5.0.4 (15-Jun-2019)​

  • 🚀 New option to configure separate Google Elevation API key with front-end API key and allow restrictions at key level
  • 🚀 Added option to configure max width of popup in GPX Tracks module
  • 🔧 Redirect guest users to login page when access is denied
  • 🐛 Guest users unable to submit tracks
  • 🐛 Multilanguage categories are not shown on tracks form

5.0.3 (08-May-2019)​

  • 🐛 Unable to save track after changing the category
  • 🐛 Rating shows 4.5 stars when the rating is 5
  • 🐛 Name is not shown in waypoints table when description is empty

5.0.2 (03-Apr-2019)​

  • 🚀 Added rating number text on track details page
  • 🚀 Added support to capture waypoint names from gpx files
  • 🚀 Added support to edit waypoint description on the track page
  • 🚀 Track stats are now responsive to mobile devices, without tables
  • 🚀 Added jsitemap plugin
  • 🚀 Added total tracks, distance and time statistics on user tracks page
  • 🔧 Updated layer control library version
  • 🐛 Points not awarded to the user for liking a track
  • 🐛 Remove IDs configuration option button style is not shown
  • 🐛 Few language strings are not loaded in configuration options
  • 🐛 Tracks with route points are not loaded properly
  • 🐛 Tooltip plugin causes issue when loading track in an article
  • 🐛 Editor button to insert track shortcode is not working
  • 🐛 Waypoint name is not being captured during track processing
  • 🐛 Clean Cache button on tracks page do not clear waypoints

5.0.1 (02-Dec-2018)​

  • 🚀 Added option to enable/disable layers control for OSM
  • 🐛 Advanced search form is not shown when using bootstrap3 layout
  • 🐛 Feature button on backend listing page is not working

5.0.0 (30-Nov-2018)​

  • 🚀 Joomla 4 compatibility: Revamped the entire code base and rewritten many functions to make the extension fully compatible with Joomla 4
  • 🚀 Bootstrap 4 support: New layout for supporting Bootstrap 4 based templates including Joomla 4 default template
  • 🚀 New Router: Modern URLs with removal of IDs in the URLs
  • 🚀 New option to override the default colors in GPX file
  • 🚀 Added full screen control to the OSM map
  • 🚀 New feature to select layers from available providers when using OSM maps
  • 🔧 Updated search plugin for new API support
  • 🐛 No error shown when the track upload was unsuccessful
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with the PHP warning on categories page
  • 🐛 Elevation measurement option is not reflected on the track page
  • 🐛 Charts are not shown on content plugin
  • 🐛 Category flat list is not properly aligned
  • 🐛 Unable to edit track when associations are enabled
  • 🐛 Backend dashboard page shows warning
  • 🐛 Marker popup width and height are not properly aligned when using OSM
  • 🐛 Google Maps not working with GPX Tracks module
  • 🐛 Speed chart is not showing even through data is available in gpx file

Version 4.x (Joomla 3)​

4.3.0 (04-Jun-2018)​

  • 🚀 Added several new options to support OpenStreetMap in addition to Google Maps
  • 🚀 Added support for MapBox and OSRM as directions provider when using OSM
  • 🚀 Added support for MapBox and Nominatim as Geocoding/places provider when using OSM
  • 🚀 Edit track waypoint description/details, add custom descriptions for waypoints
  • 🐛 Track elevation data is not updated when there is no elevation data present in the gpx file
  • 🐛 Waypoint popup title and description are on the same line on the map
  • 🐛 JavaScript errors fixed on some templates which do not load Joomla libraries
  • 🐛 Content plugin options are ignored
  • 🐛 My Surveys link shows on home page menu item
  • 🐛 Track suggestions do not show
  • 🐛 Old URLs from v3 are not redirecting properly

4.2.2 (14-Jan-2018)​

  • 🚀 Allow changing the gpx file/content of the track
  • 🚀 Added description parameter to the editor plugin placeholder
  • 🔧 Updated default character set of tables to utf8mb4_unicode_ci
  • 🐛 Track description cannot be hidden when using content plugin
  • 🐛 Display popular tracks sorted by number of hits

4.2.1 (28-Dec-2017)​

  • 🐛 Unable to update extension using automatic updates, package is corrupt

4.2.0 (27-Dec-2017)​

  • 🚀 Added support for handling gpxx:displayColor to show track color
  • 🚀 Customize gpxtracks module start point marker icon in category options
  • 🚀 Added support for Joomla! Fields and Field Groups
  • 🚀 Added KML layer support
  • 🐛 Popular tracks link do not show tracks sorted by hits
  • 🐛 Download track link do not work after upgrading to Joomla 3.8.3
  • 🐛 Backend button icons gets duplicated when load bootstrap option enabled
  • 🐛 Tracks Order option label is incorrect

4.1.8 (29-Oct-2017)​

  • 🚀 Show track file name on tracks listing page
  • 🔧 Updated line colors option description to state the usecases of the option
  • 🔧 Changed the line colors option first color to blue to match single color option
  • 🐛 KML files do not show on map
  • 🐛 Content plugin do not show description even the option is present

4.1.7 (15-Oct-2017)​

  • 🐛 Marker icon on map is not showing when hover on the chart points

4.1.6 (12-Oct-2017)​

  • 🚀 Show waypoint icons based on symbol name (<sym> tag handling)
  • 🚀 Show multiple tracks of the gpx file in different colors
  • 🐛 The map shows incomplete track when there are multiple tracks present in single gpx file

4.1.4/5 (02-Oct-2017)​

  • 🔧 Changed permission label "View" to "View Tracks"
  • 🐛 Untranslated string in component settings
  • 🐛 Search form ignores search term when clicking on links in pagination
  • 🐛 All track segments are not rendered when there are multiple track segments in a gpx track file
  • 🐛 Waypoints are not displayed on the map
  • 🐛 Unable to hide empty categories
  • 🐛 Cannot go to second page of the track search results

4.1.3 (02-Sep-2017)​

  • 🐛 Wrong label for Elevation measurement admin option
  • 🐛 Elevation value of the first waypoint is always 0
  • 🐛 Categories are not shown in selected order in tracks listing page
  • 🐛 Cannot hide the tracks count on categories listing
  • 🐛 GPS Tools using admin translation rather than frontend translation value of "Meters"

4.1.1/2 (12-Aug-2017)​

  • 🚀 New Option to show/hide star rating box on track details page
  • 🚀 Show tracks from subcategories when searching for tracks
  • 🔧 Remove unused directories from previous versions
  • 🐛 Downloaded track file has missing file extension
  • 🐛 Description of category is not shown in list layout

4.1.0 (30-Jul-2017)​

  • 🚀 New option to show/hide individual statistics of track
  • 🚀 New option to show/hide total track distance in tracks listing page
  • 🚀 New option to show/hide total track duration in tracks listing page
  • 🚀 Use track alias name for downloaded track file name
  • 🚀 New options to show/hide rating block on listing and track pages
  • 🚀 New option to show/hide author block on track details page
  • 🐛 Corrected language errors
  • 🐛 Clean Cache button do not prompt to select tracks
  • 🐛 Incorrect search criteria option in advanced search page
  • 🐛 Remove unused views files from older versions
  • 🐛 Advanced search page shows error when searching for small words
  • 🐛 GPX Tracks module does not filter tracks by selected language
  • 🐛 GPS Tools listing module does not filter tracks by selected language
  • 🐛 Space showed when all track metadata is hidden
  • 🐛 When using the menu type Category, search functionality is not working

4.0.4 (09-Jul-2017)​

  • 🚀 New option to show/hide toolbar
  • 🚀 New option to show short description in listing page
  • 🔧 Updated copyright year
  • 🐛 Listing page links contain invalid HTML
  • 🐛 Tracks migration from v3 produces wrong category assignments
  • 🐛 User display name option is not working
  • 🐛 Track stats module do not use global settings
  • 🐛 Corrected typos in language file
  • 🐛 Komento plugin throws error after upgrading to new version

4.0.3 (20-Mar-2017)​

  • 🚀 Reposition map along the path when hovering on charts
  • 🔧 Added missing permission setting to allow/disallow track likes
  • 🐛 Inadequate filtering in request parameters
  • 🐛 Corrected wrong plugin name
  • 🐛 Track could not be displayed if the kml file has coordinates not properly aligned

4.0.2 (26-Feb-2017)​

  • 🐛 Inadequate filtering in request parameters
  • 🐛 Corrected wrong plugin name
  • 🔧 Added missing permission setting to allow/disallow track likes

4.0.1 (05-Dec-2016)​

  • 🐛 Download track link not working for guests
  • 🐛 Cannot override the permissions to deny a permission
  • 🐛 Tags are not migrated with migration script
  • 🐛 Download link not working when track showed using content plugin
  • 🐛 Elevation value is empty in waypoints details
  • 🐛 File upload form is not shown on few templates

4.0.0 (01-Nov-2016)​

  • 🚀 New routing system
  • 🚀 Tags Migration to Joomla! tags system
  • 🚀 Track Form Enhancements
  • 🚀 Back-end Track Creation
  • 🚀 Track Data Enhancements
  • 🚀 Backend UI Enhancements
  • 🚀 New Permission System
  • 🚀 New Layout System
  • 🚀 One Click Updates

Version 3.x (Joomla 2.5/3)​

3.8.0 (25-Mar-2016)​

  • 🚀 New GPS Tools tracks statistics plugin
  • 🐛 Exported track file cannot be shown on Google Maps
  • 🐛 Error shown in feed link
  • 🐛 The track shows only partial information in speed chart

3.7.5 (04-Oct-2015)​

  • 🚀 Switched Elevation API to Google Maps Elevation API
  • 🔧 Changed the Google Maps URL to https version
  • 🐛 Modal dialogs do not show on few sites
  • 🐛 Advanced search with username produces error

3.7.4 (26-Jun-2015)​

  • 🚀 Configuration option to filter related tracks only by tags or by all
  • 🐛 Search should be case insensitive
  • 🔧 Updated sharing tools to use AddThis async function
  • 🔧 Switched http version of maps to https version

3.7.3 (21-Feb-2015)​

  • 🐛 Edit links on backend dashboard does not work
  • 🔧 Removed legacy code

3.7.2 (28-Jan-2015)​

  • 🐛 KML file downloads with GPX extension with download track link

3.7.1 (15-Jan-2015)​

  • 🐛 CSS conflicts for track rating

3.7.0 (15-Jan-2015)​

  • 🚀 Now supports KMZ (compressed kml) files (only track data and no attached files in kmz)
  • 🚀 Rate the tracks and show star ratings of tracks on listing pages
  • 🚀 Added title for the waypoint markers
  • 🐛 Track color option have no effect on the front-end track display
  • 🐛 Button icons conflict with Joomla bootstrap icons in Joomla 3
  • 🐛 Feed is always showing empty result
  • 🐛 RSS Feeds always shows empty results
  • 🐛 Line color, width and opacity cannot be changed from options
  • 🐛 Approval link from dashboard page results in error

3.6.8 (24-Oct-2014)​

  • 🐛 Typo in table name as gostools_trackdetails causing error

3.6.4 (18-Dec-2013)​

  • 🚀 EasySocial User Avatar and User Profile linking support
  • 🚀 EasySocial Activity Stream support
  • 🚀 EasySocial User Points support

3.6.3 (29-Nov-2013)​

  • 🔧 Removed deprecated code
  • 🐛 Links in suggestions are wrong

3.6.2 (18-Nov-2013)​

  • 🐛 No related tracks shown on track details page

3.6.1 (13-Nov-2013)​

  • 🐛 Search do not produce any results

3.6.0 (12-Nov-2013)​

  • 🚀 Configuration option to restrict number of related and category tracks displayed
  • 🔧 Google Visualization new version update
  • 🔧 GMap3 plugin update
  • 🐛 Track information not updating properly

3.5.22 (19-Sep-2013)​

  • 🐛 Incorrect link is posted in JomSocial activity stream
  • 🐛 Waypoints are not rendered correctly
  • 🐛 Modal boxes are not shown properly on few templates

3.5.21 (02-Sep-2013)​

  • 🐛 Global check box not working on tracks page
  • 🐛 Search box is too small
  • 🐛 Pagination limit not working

3.5.20 (19-Aug-2013)​

  • 🐛 Redirected error page after unpublish/publishing tracks
  • 🐛 Approval mails are not being sent
  • 🐛 Komento plugin fixes

3.5.19 (29-Jul-2013)​

  • 🐛 Average speed fixes

3.5.18 (19-Jul-2013)​

  • 🐛 Ignore unexpected and erroneous spikes in average speeds on speed charts

3.5.17 (16-Jul-2013)​

  • 🐛 Unable to select category in GPS Tools Default Layout menu configuration

3.5.8 (01-Apr-2013)​

  • 🐛 Language check button style on admin pages is corrupted
  • 🐛 Restrict assigning the parent category to itself to avoid DB crashes
  • 🐛 Tags and other menu items on toolbar produce 404 error if SEF urls not enabled in Joomla
  • 🐛 Unable to enter utf characters in tags input box
  • 🐛 Can't select list limit value other than 20
  • 🐛 Search form redirects to home page if SEF urls not enabled in Joomla

3.5.7 (26-Feb-2013)​

  • 🚀 New Joomla Editor button to insert track easily in an article
  • 🐛 Collapse navigation opens main collapse on bootstrap templates on mobile devices

3.5.6 (18-Feb-2013)​

  • 🚀 Debugging mode available
  • 🚀 Tags now support UTF-8 characters
  • 🐛 Unable to create track if magic quotes is enabled (recommended to switch it off)

3.5.5 (04-Feb-2013)​

  • 🚀 Now you can view the track on Google Earth in 3D
  • 🚀 New module positions added
  • 🐛 Validations not working on form
  • 🐛 Content plugins not working on description

3.5.4 (27-Jan-2013)​

  • 🚀 Backend option to delete JS cache
  • 🚀 Mouse movement tracker for chart and map

3.5.3 (25-Jan-2013)​

  • 🐛 Average speed statistic is incorrect
  • 🐛 Users unable to edit their own tracks

3.5.2 (24-Jan-2013)​

  • 🚀 RSS Feeds support
  • 🐛 Follow link not working
  • 🐛 Admins not able to see publishing/editing options on front-end

3.5.1 (22-Jan-2013)​

  • 🐛 File extension check should be case insensitive

3.5.0 (21-Jan-2013)​

  • 🚀 Full rewrite of front-end and back-end with Joomla 3 support
  • 🚀 No need to have GPX/KML files - Users can directly draw tracks on maps and app will create gpx tracks for you
  • 🚀 Improved load time by caching all javascript code generated to files (pages load up to 80% faster for second requests)
  • 🚀 Zoom and detailed view support for elevation/speed/hr charts
  • 🚀 Chart and map tracker support - move mouse over the chart to see where the point located on map
  • 🚀 More track statistics
  • 🚀 Tagging support - Now add tags to your tracks instead of just the categories
  • 🚀 Categories list on main page is back with polished look
  • 🚀 New advanced search page for more user friendly search
  • 🚀 New toolbar with new listing types shortcuts (most downloaded tracks)
  • 🚀 Email subscriptions of new tracks (category and global)
  • 🚀 My Tracks and My Subscriptions pages
  • 🚀 Slick sharing tools
  • 🚀 Spam track reporting feature

3.1.0 (03-Dec-2012)​

  • 🚀 Configuration option to hide categories
  • 🚀 Road map/Terrain support
  • 🚀 Option to hide checkpoint table

3.0.5 (21-Nov-2012)​

  • 🐛 Error in Joomla 1.5 installer, prevents from installing component

3.0.4 (21-Nov-2012)​

  • 🚀 Link to edit track from front-end provided

3.0.3 (21-Oct-2012)​

  • 🐛 Pagination not working on listing page

3.0.2 (13-Oct-2012)​

  • 🐛 Installer unable to create default category on new installations

3.0.1 (10-Oct-2012)​

  • 🔧 Do not show charts which do not have any data available

3.0.0 (05-Oct-2012)​

  • 🚀 Major Release: New Google Maps v3 and Charts v3 support
  • 🚀 Content plugin to display tracks in Articles
  • 🚀 Automatic Elevation Retrieval: Missing elevation data in your GPX/KML files? The component will automatically get them from the webservices and stores in cache
  • 🚀 Caching System: Data files will be processed once and used for subsequent requests, greatly reducing system resources and improving performance
  • 🚀 New Track information table to display important information about the track
  • 🚀 New elevation profile and placemark details table for KML files
  • 🚀 Revamped UI: New look and feel for front-end
  • 🚀 Disqus Comments, Intensedebate Comments, Facebook Comments, JAComment, JComment support
  • 🚀 CoreJoomla Library (CJLib) component support
  • 🚀 Selecting theme right from the configuration
  • 🚀 WYSIWYG and BBCode editor support improved
  • 🚀 Simplified configuration
  • 🚀 BBCode editor support
  • 🚀 Editing submitted track details support (from front-end)
  • 🚀 Add/modify track alias support from front-end
  • 🐛 Many bugs were fixed during rewrite phase

Version 2.x (Joomla 1.5/1.6/1.7)​

2.0.2 (15-Mar-2012)​

  • 🐛 Saving configuration deletes the HTML content of options
  • 🐛 Points not awarded for new tracks

2.0.1 (20-Jan-2012)​

  • 🐛 Hotpatch

2.0.0 (21-Jan-2012)​

  • 🚀 New GPS Categories Module
  • 🚀 GPX Tracks module can now have default latitude, longitude and zoom options
  • 🚀 Activity Stream Update: JomSocial can have like and comment
  • 🚀 Limit activity stream length and add read more link
  • 🚀 Points system update
  • 🚀 Email notifications: New track notification to administrators
  • 🚀 Moderation and automatic approval link in email
  • 🚀 Unicode aware SEF urls
  • 🚀 Moderation of Uploads
  • 🚀 Multiple plugin instances or filtered views with categories and restrict upload to certain cats
  • 🚀 Share track on Facebook
  • 🚀 Independent modules
  • 🚀 Remove Root
  • 🚀 Plugin to share routes
  • 🐛 Space in file name
  • 🐛 Category name not displayed when viewing category listing

Version 1.x (Initial Release)​

1.7.1 (14-Nov-2011)​

  • 🐛 Bug in installer
  • 🐛 Bug in configuration page

1.7.0 (13-Nov-2011)​

  • 🚀 Automatic updation of waypoint data when a track is submitted
  • 🚀 GPX Tracks module to display all track start points on single map
  • 🚀 Rewrite of workflow
  • 🚀 Rewrite of configuration page to easy maintenance
  • 🚀 New maintenance tab in admin component
  • 🐛 Error occurred while installing afresh in Joomla 1.7
  • 🐛 Configuration page produces 404 error when clicked on save button
  • 🐛 Several bug fixes related to Safari and IE

1.5.6 & 1.6.2 (01-May-2011)​

  • 🐛 Space in filename issue

1.5.5 & 1.6.1 (30-Apr-2011)​

  • 🚀 GPS Tools module to display latest and popular tracks
  • 🐛 Language strings hard coded - moved to language file
  • 🐛 Space in file name causes track not being loaded

1.5.4 & 1.6.0 (15-Mar-2011)​

  • 🚀 Joomla 1.6 support
  • 🚀 jQuery plugin v1.5.0 & v1.6.1 support
  • 🐛 Performance improvements

1.5.3 (16-Feb-2011)​

  • 🐛 Category count is not updated while submitting new track
  • 🐛 Unable to update category in backend
  • 🐛 Wrong version number in installer page

1.5.2 (07-Feb-2011)​

  • 🚀 Option to configure Google Map & Charts width
  • 🚀 Option to configure Google Map height
  • 🐛 Error occur while loading file in servers where cURL is not installed

1.5.1 (06-Feb-2011)​

  • 🐛 Search functionality is not working properly

1.5.0 (05-Feb-2011)​

  • 🚀 Complete rewrite of component
  • 🚀 Configurable options to enable/disable map type buttons on map
  • 🚀 Measurement type can be configured
  • 🚀 Speed scale can be configured
  • 🚀 Google search bar inside the map to search map locations
  • 🚀 Zoom and scale control options
  • 🚀 Overview map control
  • 🚀 Speed chart and Elevation chart implemented using Google charts
  • 🚀 Configurable Track lines
  • 🚀 Configurable check point colors
  • 🚀 Templates to better use of all options for Check Point Tables
  • 🚀 Configurable Gpx waypoint template
  • 🚀 Server side processing of gps files
  • 🚀 Multilevel categorization of tracks
  • 🚀 Added category column to tracks list
  • 🚀 Track Terrain
  • 🚀 Calculate Estimated Time To Complete Track
  • 🚀 Edit tracks in frontend & delete them in backend
  • 🚀 Choose map type and buttons to change it on display
  • 🐛 Slow loading of tracks
  • 🐛 Tracks don't show up
  • 🐛 Problems with IE8 and IE9
  • 🐛 Single clicks recording double hits

1.0.1 (19-Nov-2010)​

  • 🚀 Extra features/buttons for profile of maps & chart
  • 🚀 WYSIWYG editor support for description field
  • 🚀 More human friendly date formats
  • 🚀 Improved UI and layouts
  • 🐛 Show map and stats in fluid width
  • 🐛 Cursor in maps is not functioning under IE

1.0.0 (Initial Release)​

  • 🚀 First release of GPS Tools

Compatibility Matrix​

VersionJoomlaPHP
6.x5.x/6.x8.1+
5.x3.x/4.x7.4+
4.x3.x7.0+
3.x2.5/3.x5.4+
2.x1.5/1.6/1.75.2+
1.x1.55.2+