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Sociable Changelog

All notable changes to Sociable will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[3.0.3] - 2026-02-23​

🚀 Added​

  • Made admin email templates menu responsive
  • Enabled left icon on top toolbar to be clickable

🐛 Fixed​

  • Enabled edit profile button to work on profile page
  • Enabled create group button to work
  • Corrected stats percentages in admin dashboard page
  • Made settings page menu responsive
  • Corrected percentages on dashboard page
  • Made login and registration pages mobile responsive

[3.0.2] - 2026-02-22​

🐛 Fixed​

  • Updated notifications module to show bell icon with notifications dropdown
  • Updated members module to show correct UX
  • Updated groups module to display groups with card layout and correct links
  • Updated feed module to display activity feed with correct links

[3.0.1] - 2026-02-22​

🐛 Fixed​

  • Resolved installer error on new sites
  • Enabled plugin events to trigger correctly
  • Corrected styles display issue in backend
  • Restored icon display in backend

[3.0.0] - 2026-02-19​

Major Release: Complete Rewrite for Joomla 5/6

This is a complete architectural rewrite of Sociable, modernizing the codebase for Joomla 5 and 6 compatibility with native APIs.

🎉 Breaking Changes​

  • Joomla 5/6 Native: Complete rewrite using Joomla 5/6 APIs
  • Minimum Requirements: Joomla 5.0+ or Joomla 6.0+, PHP 8.2+
  • Modern Architecture: PSR-4 autoloading, namespaced classes, dependency injection
  • User Profile Fields: Discontinued support for Joomla user profile fields plugins in favor of built-in profile fields.

✨ Added​

Core Features​

  • React 19 frontend with TypeScript
  • 15+ themes selectable with one-click
  • Modern database schema with JSON columns
  • Activity feed with reactions (like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry) and comments
  • User profiles with customizable fields
  • Multiprofile support with auto assignment rules and invite system
  • Groups with public, private, and secret visibility
  • Connections system (friends, followers, blocks)
  • Real-time notifications
  • Badge/achievement system with rule engine
  • Content reporting system with moderation queue
  • Points and gamification system
  • Push notification support
  • Referral system with rewards

Developer Features​

  • RESTful API with full documentation
  • SDK for third-party developers

Integrations​

  • OAuth login with Google, Facebook, Apple

Modules​

  • Activity Feed module
  • Members module
  • Groups module
  • Notifications module

🔧 Changed​

  • Migrated to PHP 8.2+ with typed properties
  • Migrated to Joomla 6 MVC architecture
  • Unified friends/followers into connections table
  • Improved database indexing and performance
  • Complete UI redesign with Tailwind CSS

🗑️ Removed​

  • Legacy PHP 7.x compatibility
  • jQuery dependencies
  • Old template system

[2.1.0] - 2025-10-05​

✨ Added​

  • Joomla 6 compatibility update
  • Support to select locale of the groups

🔧 Changed​

  • Update copyright headers
  • Removed legacy references

🐛 Fixed​

  • Fixed issue with PHP notice message
  • Replaced the incorrect language string
  • Fixed issue with closing tags
  • Fixed issue with long usernames

[2.0.4] - 2024-07-07​

✨ Added​

  • Added options to customize login redirect
  • New option to customize which social connections to be shown

🔧 Changed​

  • Updates to store MySQL null dates

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2024-03-29​

✨ Added​

  • 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​

  • Fixed UI issues on user registration form

[2.0.2] - 2024-03-22​

✨ Added​

  • Improved activity stream page

🐛 Fixed​

  • Fixed issue with user registration

[2.0.1] - 2024-01-13​

✨ Added​

  • Added support for Rewardify points

🐛 Fixed​

  • Fixed issue auth plugin with backend login
  • Fixed the margin of batch button on admin toolbar

[2.0.0] - 2023-09-24​

🎉 Breaking Changes​

  • Added support for Joomla 5
  • Removed legacy layer for Joomla 3

[1.4.3] - 2023-04-18​

🔧 Changed​

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

🐛 Fixed​

  • Fixed issue with associations helper

[1.4.2] - 2023-02-05​

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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 unused language strings

[1.4.1] - 2022-11-07​

✨ Added​

  • PHP 8.1 support added

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2022-05-27​

✨ Added​

  • Adding integration with Joomla privacy module

🐛 Fixed​

  • Fixed issue with error when creating new point entry in backend
  • Fix for the sociable extension review link

[1.3.5] - 2022-02-07​

🐛 Fixed​

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

[1.3.4] - 2022-02-06​

🔧 Changed​

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

🐛 Fixed​

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

[1.3.3] - 2022-01-07​

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2021-09-03​

✨ Added​

  • Added extension changelog button shown for Joomla 4 and above

🔧 Changed​

  • Replaced references to corejoomla urls with shondalai urls

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2021-08-19​

🔧 Changed​

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

[1.3.0] - 2021-08-09​

✨ Added​

  • Added new layout based on Bootstrap 5 framework
  • Added Joomla 4 support
  • Added support for PHP8

🐛 Fixed​

  • Unable to delete the user after installing Sociable
  • Unable to view form to add new photo album in profile page

[1.2.9] - 2021-04-16​

✨ Added​

  • New option in the registration menu item to automatically assign user to selected Joomla user groups

🐛 Fixed​

  • Removed duplicate entry of sociable in the points system option

[1.2.8] - 2021-04-11​

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2021-03-31​

🐛 Fixed​

  • Registration form shows error

[1.2.6] - 2021-03-29​

✨ Added​

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

[1.2.5] - 2021-01-23​

✨ Added​

  • New field on user registration page to allow users select allowed profiles
  • Assign user to a selected Joomla user group when profile is assigned

🐛 Fixed​

  • Sorting profiles on profiles list page on Joomla 3 does not work
  • Duplicating a group from backend shows error

[1.2.4] - 2021-01-16​

🐛 Fixed​

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

[1.2.3] - 2021-01-15​

✨ Added​

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

[1.2.2] - 2021-01-13​

✨ Added​

  • Redirect the guest user to registration page when try to access unauthorized group URL
  • Added Groups menu in backend main menu

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2021-01-06​

✨ Added​

  • Added support for switch Sociable profile fields to Joomla User component fields
  • Added new module Events

🐛 Fixed​

  • Fixed issue with saving HTML descriptions on server with no tidy

[1.2.0] - 2020-11-29​

✨ Added​

  • New option in login menu to redirect to a URL or menu item
  • Support for OpenStreetMap as default maps provider
  • New permission setting to allow/disallow viewing profiles

🔧 Changed​

  • Joomla 4 Beta 5 support
  • Allow admin change default profile of the user from backend
  • Removed Google+ references

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2020-06-21​

✨ Added​

  • 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

🔧 Changed​

  • Show topic details in a card-body for better visibility
  • Show topic details in a boxed layout for better visibility

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2020-04-19​

✨ Added​

  • Send notification to the user when a friend request is made or accepted
  • Added support for selecting and showing event location on Google Map

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2020-03-25​

✨ Added​

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

[1.0.5] - 2020-03-20​

✨ Added​

  • Added support for showing privacy policy agreement system field

[1.0.4] - 2020-03-18​

✨ Added​

  • Added new Sociable login page

[1.0.3] - 2020-02-23​

✨ Added​

  • Added support for User profile plugins in the registration form

[1.0.2] - 2020-02-22​

✨ Added​

  • Added new registration page for replacing Joomla registration form
  • Added new option to configure the date format of events

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2019-12-26​

✨ Added​

  • Added new option to restrict allowed file types on the media forms

🔧 Changed​

  • Adjusted privacy selection box width to automatically adjust the content
  • Joomla 4 compatibility updates

🐛 Fixed​

  • 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] - 2019-08-15​

🎉 Initial Release​

  • First release of Sociable