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Sociable Changelog

2.1.0 – 05/Oct/2025

  • Joomla 6 compatibility update
  • Adding support to select locale of the groups ^ Update copyright headers ^ Removed legacy references
  • Fixed issue with PHP notice message
  • Replaced the incorrect language string
  • Fixed issue with closing tags
  • Fixed issue with long usernames

2.0.4 – 07/Jul/2024

  • Added options to customize login redirect
  • New option to customize which social connections to be shown ^ Updates to store MySQL null dates
  • Sociable Questions profile plugin does not work
  • Activity rules asset name filter is not working
  • Authentication error message is not loaded from language file

2.0.3 – 29/Mar/2024

  • Added option to hide social connections page on the registration page
  • Show user points on profile (mobile view)
  • Added option to auto login user after the registration completed
  • Fixed UI issues on user registration form

2.0.2 – 22/Mar/2024

  • Improved activity stream page
  • Fixed issue with user registration

2.0.1 – 13/Jan/2024

  • Added support for Rewardify points
  • Fixed issue auth plugin with backend login
  • Fixed the margin of batch button on admin toolbar

2.0.0 – 24/Sep/2023

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

1.4.3 – 18/Apr/2023

^ Replacing legacy API references ^ Replaced JFile/JFolder deprecated wrappers with respective file system functions

  • Fixed issue with associations helper

1.4.2 – 05/Feb/2023

  • Fixed font icons on the login & registration pages (Joomla 4)
  • Fixed legacy Joomla language strings used in Joomla 4 version
  • Fixed issue with content plugin causing errors with webservices
  • Fixed issue with article plugin not loading articles when using Joomla 3
  • Fixed UX issue with checkbox on the login form
  • Fix issue with PHP warning message on login page
  • Removed unsued language strings

1.4.1 – 07/Nov/2022

  • PHP 8.1 support added
  • Icon beside the notification count is not showing in bootstrap5 layout
  • Login module published on sociable registration menu is not working
  • Page shows error when the component redirect to login/any page

1.4.0 – 27/May/2022

  • Adding integration with Joomla privacy module
  • Fixed issue with error when creating new point entry in backend
  • Fix for the sociable extension review link

1.3.5 – 07/Feb/2022

  • Unable to edit avatar as the select avatar button do not work
  • Social profile icons are not shown

1.3.4 – 06/Feb/2022

^ Show gap between icons in the backend dashboard page ^ Dashboard page enhancements to UI

  • Fixed issue with installer script
  • Fix issue with profile link on the navbar

1.3.3 – 07/Jan/2022

  • Unable to checking sociable groups table from global checkin
  • User is redirected to Sociable login even if sociable registration is disabled
  • Unable to delete the user from users list
  • Fixed issue with deleting the notifications
  • Fixed issue with registration page on Joomla 4
  • Fixed issue with populating fields on Joomla 4 registration form

1.3.2 – 03/Sep/2021

  • Added extension changelog button shown for Joomla 4 and above ^ Replaced references to corejoomla urls with shondalai urls
  • Fixed issue with incompatible method in the user and content plugins
  • Do not load scripts/styles on asynchronous calls in backend
  • Fixed issue with jQuery not loaded on j4 backend

1.3.1 – 19/Aug/2021

  • Allow jQuery loaded always in Joomla 4 ^ Updating references to new shondalai.com domain

1.3.0 – 09/Aug/2021

  • Added new layout based on Bootstrap 5 framework
  • Added Joomla 4 support
  • Added support for PHP8
  • Unable to delete the user after installing Sociable
  • Unable to view form to add new photo album in profile page

1.2.9 – 16/Apr/2021

  • New option in the registration menu item to automatically assign user to selected Joomla user groups
  • Removed duplicate entry of sociable in the points system option

1.2.8 – 11/Apr/2021

  • Photos button on the user profile page not working
  • Pagination in photos page do not load second page
  • Points activity do not show article name instead shows placeholder

1.2.7 – 31/Mar/2021

  • Registration form shows error

1.2.6 – 29/Mar/2021

  • New registration menu item option to automatically add user to a discussion group after registration

1.2.5 – 23/Jan/2021

  • New field on user registration page to allow users select allowed profiles
  • Assign user to a selected Joomla user group when profile is assigned
  • Sorting profiles on profiles list page on Joomla 3 does not work
  • Duplicating a group from backend shows error

1.2.4 – 16/Jan/2021

  • Notice message shown on groups page when debug mode enabled
  • The content of the group should be hidden to non-members

1.2.3 – 15/Jan/2021

  • Added new option to disable social connections buttons of user profile

1.2.2 – 13/Jan/2021

  • Redirect the guest user to registration page when try to access unauthorized group URL
  • Added Groups menu in backend main menu
  • When associations are enabled, editing group is not possible
  • Added missing language strings for associations tab
  • Disallow accessing unauthorized user group by directly accessing URL

1.2.1 – 06/Jan/2021

  • Added support for switch Sociable profile fields to Joomla User component fields
  • Added new module Events
  • Fixed issue with saving HTML descriptions on server with no tidy

1.2.0 – 29/Nov/2020

  • New option in login menu to redirect to a URL or menu item
  • Support for OpenStreetMap as default maps provider. Google Maps will be used only for GeoCoding, if the API key is provided.
  • New permission setting to allow/disallow viewing profiles ^ Joomla 4 Beta 5 support ^ Allow admin change default profile of the user from backend ^ Removed Google+ references
  • Unable to change avatar when the modern routing with remove URLs option is enabled
  • Show the first table enabled by default in backend user edit page
  • Registration form do not show on first page
  • Login form misaligned on bootstrap 4 layout
  • User data is not cleared from Sociable tables after a user is permanently deleted

1.1.0 – 21/Jun/2020

  • New Komento plugin for adding activities/points to Sociable
  • New JComment plugin for adding activities/points to Sociable
  • Added remove activity API function
  • Joomla 4 beta 1 support added ^ Show topic details in a card-body for better visibility ^ Show topic details in a boxed layout for better visibility
  • Pagination in groups listing is not responsive
  • The like/dislike button is too big on bootstrap4 layout
  • User is autoactivated with social login even if admin approval is enabled
  • Event map do not show after saving the event, shows only after refresh
  • Group access level does not restrict users from seeing groups
  • Page is not redirected to groups listing after creating a new group
  • Users are not restricted to create the groups with same title of an existing group
  • Clicking on cancel button on group form page takes nowhere
  • Unable to use events without having Google Maps Key
  • When editing the group, new group is created instead of saving it

1.0.7 – 19/Apr/2020

  • Send notification to the user when a friend request is made or accepted
  • Added support for selecting and showing event location on Google Map
  • Wrong friend status shown on the members' list page
  • Unable to delete the groups permanently
  • Edit group link is shown to all users with creating group permission
  • Feature button in profiles listing page is not working
  • User cannot logout from the system when using Users - Logout menu item
  • Comments on photos are not saved when clicking on the post button
  • Like/dislike buttons on photos do not work

1.0.6 – 25/Mar/2020

  • Added option to select the default profile in the registration form

1.0.5 – 20/Mar/2020

  • Added support for showing privacy policy agreement system field

1.0.4 – 18/Mar/2020

  • Added new Sociable login page

1.0.3 – 23/Feb/2020

  • Added support for User profile plugins in the registration form

1.0.2 – 22/Feb/2020

  • Added new registration page for replacing Joomla registration form
  • Added new option to configure the date format of events
  • Avatar's "original" directory is not created by installer causing errors
  • Points rules and activity rules buttons in backend dashboard are not working
  • Fixed the typo in a language string
  • Pagination in groups list is not shown when navigating page directly
  • Edit group button is hidden to the group owner

1.0.1 – 26/Dec/2019

  • Added new option to restrict allowed file types on the media forms ^ Addjusted privacy selection box width to automatically adjust the content ^ Joomla 4 compatibility updates
  • Points rules are not scanned automatically
  • Activity like/dislike buttons do not work with bootstrap2 layout
  • Labels on Photos/album form are not translated
  • Unable to edit profile type in the backend when multi-language enabled
  • Profile URLs do not load properly when SEF URLs enabled

1.0.0 – 15/Aug/2019

  • First release