• Home
  • Get help
  • New releases

Releases and security

Short posts about new releases made and security-related information.  To get this information on a timely manner, you can subscribe to the RSS feed, or follow us on Twitter, where each post will be relayed.

sh404SEF version 4.22.0 released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.22.0. This is a maintenance release with a couple of bug fixes. 

Important: sh404SEF now requires Joomla 3.9.0 or more recent. It won't install or update on older Joomla versions.

Important: As per previous notices, all our extensions now require PHP 5.6 as a minimum PHP version. sh404SEF or wbAMP will not install or update if a lower PHP version is detected.

Here are the highlights:

  • Use sh404sef_qrcode anywhere on your site to display a QRCode of current or any other URL
  • Prevent deprecation warning when running under PHP 8
  • Added fbclid to the list of automatically stripped query variables
  • Added a specific id and class to QRCode inserted into pages for custom size and styling
  • Added sh404sef_url_before_store filter to modify URLs on the fly before they are stored to the database
  • Better handling of Joomla errors other then 404, now passing them back to Joomla error display in all cases
  • Incorrectly formed script tag in head when social tracking is enabled
  • SEO management features can sometimes remove some parts of the HEAD section of a page

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

wbAMP version 1.16.0 released

Hello,

We are pleased to announce the release of wbAMP version 1.16.0. It adds a new filter and brings PHP 8 compatiblity. It also requires PHP 5.6 and Joomla 3.9.0 as a minimum.

wbAMP brings Accelerated Mobile Pages to Joomla. Please read our blog post for more details.

Here are the highlights:

  • Added a filter to enable/disable standalone mode on a page by page basis
  • Updated shLib library for PHP 8 compatibility
  • Enforcing strict PHP 5.6 minimal version. Won't install with a lower PHP version
  • Strict minimal Joomla version is now 3.9.0
  • sh404SEF connector wrongly setting the title using the description meta
  • Installing back Community version over full version prevents future one-click updates as wbAMP still tries to install full version.

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

sh404SEF version 4.21.0 released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.21.0. This is a maintenance release with a couple of bug fixes. 

Important: sh404SEF now requires Joomla 3.9.0 or more recent. It won't install or update on older Joomla versions.

Important: As per previous notices, all our extensions now require PHP 5.6 as a minimum PHP version. sh404SEF or wbAMP will not install or update if a lower PHP version is detected.

Here are the highlights:

  • Enforcing strict PHP 5.6 minimal version. Won't install with a lower PHP version
  • Added 3 filters, sh404sef_meta_page_title, sh404sef_meta_description and sh404sef_meta_robots to allow programmatically updating page title, meta description and meta robots on the fly
  • Added support for sh404sef_social_buttons_disable tag which blocks display of social sharing buttons if found in a page
  • Only use Joomla router strict mode for com_content
  • Do not use getHostByAddr to build security log files, can cause PHP warnings
  • Only use the Share API on actual mobile devices. Some desktop browsers offer it now but sharing experience is bad with nearly no sharing targets available
  • Smaller padding around sharing buttons
  • Analytics Top URLs not displayed if some pages are reported by Google but have zero views
  • Possible fatal error if creating a link to a category which has been deleted permanently
  • PHP warning on 404 errors page when sharing buttons are enabled

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com

sh404SEF version 4.20.3 released

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of sh404SEF version 4.20.3. This is a maintenance release with a couple of bug fixes. 

Important: sh404SEF now requires Joomla 3.9.0 or more recent. It won't install or update on older Joomla versions.

Important: From June 1st, 2020, all our extensions will require PHP 5.6 as a minimum PHP version. Extensions released after this date will not install or update if a lower PHP version is detected.

Here are the highlights:

  • If Show publishing options is disabled on Joomla edit page, characters counter in page title and meta description fields are not displayed but cause a javascript error
  • The duplicate URL management popup is empty when opening in the backend.

Please see this page for a full changelog. This release is immediately available both from the download area and using the one-click Joomla! updater of your web site.

Best regards

Weeblr.com