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.

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[3.1.0] - 2026-03-14

🚀 Added

• Enabled preview of activity from admin interface
• Allowed editing groups from admin groups page
• Introduced new feature for group categories
• Added config option to restrict Sociable to logged-in users
• Implemented advanced media handling with protected URLs
• Applied frontend validations to media uploads
• Provided new activity configuration options for media uploads

🐛 Fixed

• Included missing site language strings
• Removed duplicate language strings

[3.0.8] - 2026-03-13

🚀 Added

• Enabled lightbox display when users clicked feed images or gallery images

🐛 Fixed

• Added missing language strings

[3.0.7] - 2026-03-10

🚀 Added

• Added option to customize activity card border thickness
• Added support for customizing theme colors
• Enabled Open Graph meta previews of external URLs
• Showed extension version on admin dashboard
• Allowed selecting publishing status during field creation

🐛 Fixed

• Enabled viewing second page of activities on group page
• Resolved issues with email notifications
• Displayed user avatar in email notifications
• Enabled deletion of profile field

[3.0.6] - 2026-03-08

🚀 Added

• Added show all comments link when many comments were present on activity
• Showed first two comments by default when loading feed or group activities
• Sent notification to target user when someone mentioned them in posts
• Allowed moderation of reported content from group admin page

🐛 Fixed

• Displayed comment added to activity when more comments were present
• Enabled deletion of posts or status from backend
• Allowed editing of comments

[3.0.5] - 2026-03-06

🐛 Fixed

• Fixed issue preventing group creation from backend
• Resolved mobile menu blockage by toolbar in mobile view
• Corrected container max width conflict with some templates
• Fixed issue saving terms and privacy URLs
• Eliminated false positives in Joomla database checker

[3.0.4] - 2026-03-05

🚀 Added

• Enabled complete email variable mapping for group join/request templates with legacy aliases
• Enabled activation-aware registration response fields for frontend handling
• Enabled frontend/public config wiring for new embed/autolink toggles
• Enabled admin-configurable feature toggles for auto-link URLs and rich embeds
• Integrated reusable URL embed rendering flow into activity/rich-text rendering
• Enabled rich link embeds in activity content with internal preview cards and external link support

🔧 Changed

• Only admins should be allowed to unban users
• Notification and email links now resolve to valid, navigable destinations consistently.
• Auth and activation flows now align with Joomla account policy settings.
• Guests are restricted to public-only visibility where applicable.
• Privacy enforcement is now server-side for feed and direct activity retrieval (public/friends/group/private rules).

🐛 Fixed

• Enabled report button functionality
• Enabled Add User button on backend Users page
• Prevented moderators from managing other moderators or admins
• Corrected notification profile navigation for friend/user notifications
• Enforced visibility checks on single-item loads to prevent privacy bypass
• Prevented friends-only posts from appearing publicly in feed/group contexts
• Prevented unintended auto-login for accounts requiring activation
• Ensured registration respects Joomla user activation mode with blocked-until-activation flow
• Prevented mentions API backend crash by handling undefined response helper
• Enabled Edit profile button on profile page
• Enabled Create group button functionality

[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

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[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