ARTIO JoomSEF for Joomla! 1.5 Version History

v3.5.5
(18.2.2010)

• New - JoomSEF cache now uses standard Joomla! cache system (you can use memcache to cache your URLs and further improve your site performance)
• New - Option to use only date/ID for article title
• Improved - Default meta tags values settings made more SEF
• Improved - Main language is used for domain that is shared by several languages
• Improved - Purging of URLs is now confirmed by JavaScript
• Improved - URLs with tmpl=component not SEFed by default
• Fix - Saving of the same SEF URLs is now possible
• Fix - Itemid for 404 page is handled correctly now
• Fix - Areas of searching in Search component
• Fix - Quotes escaping in page title
• Fix - Characters escaping in extension parameters (fixes | handling in regular expressions)

v3.5.4
(24.1.2010)

• New - Automatic canonical link generation for URLs with nonSEF variables present
• New - Options to set layout handling in Content extension
• New - Option to add category to page title in Content extension
• Improved - Cache file locking mechanism
• Improved - Handling of duplicated Itemid records
• Improved - .htaccess redirects now accept relative URLs
• Fix - Trailing slash toleration for 301 redirects
• Fix - Problem with saving URLs after last upgrade

• v3.5.3
  (21.12.2009)

• Fix - Parse error - missing argument

• v3.5.2
  (21.12.2009)

• Improved - Translation of global configuration (sitename, global metatags etc.)
• Improved - Destination character in non-ASCII replacement can be empty, thus removing the character
• Improved - Compatibility with PHP 4 and PHP 5.3
• Fix - Content extension - links from mod_archive, links for blog layout
• Fix - User extension - forgotten password link
• Fix - RewriteBase option in .htaccess created during JoomSEF installation

v3.5.1
(24.11.2009)

• New - Added JoomSEF plugin option to disable base href generation
• Improved - Variable filters management (just variables non matching filter can be forced non-sef)
• Improved - Minor GUI improvements in extension management
• Fix - Problems when installing/upgrading via FTP layer
• Fix - Notice level messages fixes

v3.5.0
(10.11.2009)

• New - URL variable filtering - increase your site security!
• New - Custom URL variables filters
• New - List of accepted SEF variables for better SEF results with complex extensions

• New - Unified extenstion management and upgrades, enhanced extension setting options
• New - Added optional "stop filters" to prevent specific URL SEF creation
• New - Optional URL source tracing for easier problems debugging
• New - Status of Joomla global SEO settings monitorable and changeable from JoomSEF Control Panel
• New - Online and easier free to paid version migration
• New - Online extension installation or purchase
• New - Filter by language in URL management option added

v3.4.3
(23.10.2009)

• New - Language translations for FI and CZ added
• Improved - url_fopen is no longer needed for online upgrading
• Improved - Upgrage information shown before upgrade is attempted

• Fix - Added missing translations
• Fix - Problem prevention with long URLs
• Fix - Meta-data escaping problems fix

v3.4.2
(20.10.2009)

• Improved - Further improved pagination handling
• Fix - Extensions uninstallation bug

• Fix - Wrapper SEF URLs not generated correctly bug fixed
• Fix - Canonical links generation bug fix

v3.4.1
(19.10.2009)

• Fix - reduced number of submenu items
• Fix - Password field in configuration made non-clear text
• Fix - add missing files to installation XML

v3.4.0
(16.10.2009)

• New - Automatic meta description and keywords generation for standard extensions (extra extensions will be added soon)
• New - Optional support of UTF-8 characters in SEF URLs
• New - Easy-to-use duplicates management
• New - JoomSEF can now easily import URLs from sh404SEF and AceSEF components
• New - You can now set Title/Alias usage on per extension basis
• New - .htaccess editor allowing you to create .htaccess redirects easily
• New - Added URLs Update function which automatically updates all URLs in database to match the current configuration
• New - Extensions can now contain any number of generic parameter groups (more intuitive)
• New - Extensions can now be installed directly from the Joomla Installer
• New - Filters in URLs administration support regular expressions
• Improved - Control panel GUI and configuration layout improvement
• Improved - Further improved Content pagination
• Update - Cache file moved to standard Joomla! cache location
• Fixed - Quotes replaced by HTML entities in meta tags
• Fixed - Upgrade was not able to create new directories
• Fixed - JoomSEF now correctly handles the case when no ASCII character replacements are set

v3.3.6
(15.9.2009)

• Fix - menu title / alias usage bugfix
• Update - SEF extension framework will load parameters automatically now

v3.3.5
(1.9.2009)

• Fix - URL import/export compatibility with older versions and import bugfix
• Update - documentation update

v3.3.4
(25.8.2009)

• Fix - redirection to index2.php with no params, caused 404 Page not found error (fixes bug e.g. with FacilieForms component)

v3.3.3
(7.8.2009)

• Fix - fixes cases when multiple menu items point to same target although such behaviour was not intended
• Update - added menu parameters auto-loading new in Joomla 1.5 (relates to VirtueMart, Porflio and other components)

v3.3.2
(17.6.2009)

• Fix - broken page layout in administration
• Fix - prevention of division by 0 when paginating

v3.3.1
(16.6.2009)

• Fix - SEF URLs including non-SEF variables with & are valid now
• Fix - cacheFlock not defined bug fix
• Update - automatic translation of page string when paginaiton is used
• Update - improved pagination counter

v3.3.0
(18.5.2009)

• New - Added possibility to define canonical links
• New - Renamed table to remove sh404 incompatibility problems
• New - Auto backuping tables on uninstall

v3.2.12
(13.5.2009)

• Fix - Fixed base href issues causing problem with e.g. images dissapearing on subpages

v3.2.11
(29.3.2009)

• New - Free extension for SectionEx
• Fix - FImproved 3rd party extension compatibility

v3.2.10
(18.3.2009)

• New - Added option for specifying main site language on base domain
• Fix - Joomla native SEO routing problems
• Fix - POST variables overwriting problem
• Fix - backlink plugin problem
• Fix - Page separator in page title removal problem

v3.2.9
(19.2.2009)

• New - Added parameters to set custom site name for each extension
• New - Added Apply button to configuration and extension parameters pages
• Update - Improved filtering of invalid URLs stored in database
• Update - Improved links to homepage recognition
• Fix - Fixed Breezing forms and JoomFish compatibility

v3.2.8
(18.2.2009)

• Fix - Fixed IIS compatibility

v3.2.7
(16.2.2009)

• Fix - Fixed compatibility problems with Breezing forms

v3.2.6
(9.2.2009)

• New - Added support for meta tags and page title creation in VirtueMart extension

v3.2.5
(8.2.2009)

• Fix - Fixed compatibility with some PHP4 version broken in 3.2.2
• Fix - Fixed links to RSS generation

v3.2.4
(5.2.2009)

• Update - Improved variables filtering options
• Fix - Fixed links to RSS not working with some configurations
• Fix - Fixed extension version comparison on Upgrade page
• Fix - Fixed storing of invalid 404 links

v3.2.3
(17.1.2009)

• New - Added possibility of base href definition
• New - Added configuration options for search extension; new version is 2.0.3
• Update - Prevention of creation of invalid SEO links on redirection from non-SEF URLs
• Update - Improved JoomFish compatibility (please, also check for JoomFish 2.0.1 patch at JoomFish site)
• Update - Default index file set to empty string (nicer URLs)
• Update - Checking id variable validity in content extenstion
• Update - Code optimization
• Fix - Added stronger cache file integrity checking (no more parse errors)
• Fix - Fixed non-SEF to SEF redirect when variables were sent using POST method
• Fix - Fixed JoomFish default language

v3.2.2
(6.1.2009)

• New - Added subdomains for different languages support
• New - Variables validity check (URLs with invalid option, id, task or view won't be stored)
• New - Added option to select file locking mechanism for cache saving
• Update - Extensions parameters rewritten (custom nonSEF variables option in each extension)
• Update - Improved homepage links recognition
• Fix - Proper error page is now shown when database error encountered

v3.2.1
(15.9.2008)

• New - Added option to set if default index file should be appended to sections and categories links
• New - Added option to determine new visitor's language according to his browser settings
• New - JoomSEF now creates the <base> tag similarly to Joomla's core SEO
• New - Added option to create 301 Redirect directly from 404 URL
• Fix - Content extension uses pagetext for page numbers now
• Fix - HTML entities in URL variables (fixes duplicate URLs for VM when diacritics used)
• Fix - non-SEF to SEF URLs redirection

v3.2.0
(6.8.2008)

• New - Added option to select custom ItemID for Default 404 Page

• New - Added option to set server's QUERY_STRING (fixes VM 1.1.2 redirection problem)
• New - Added Compatibility mode option to Content extension parameters
• New - Extended import / export functionality (better control over URLs to export)
• Fix - Notices not shown anymore when new component installed
• Update - Improved duplicities avoiding in Wrapper extension
• Update - Added option to parse standard Joomla SEO links

v3.1.2
(9.7.2008)

• Fix -  compatibility with PHP4 running as CGI (fixes some warnings and fatal errors)
• Fix - handling of spaces in URLs ("+" can be used as replacement character now)
• Fix -  usage of title alias for menu items

v3.1.1
(27.6.2008)

• New! - Added option to generate numbers for Google News in articles to Content extension parameters
• Fix - Fixed some bugs causing fatal errors under certain circumstances
• Fix - Fixed search in VirtueMart
• Fix - Improved compatibility with legacy components when using JoomFish
• Fix - Improved URLs to menu items to limit duplicities
• Fix - Improved trailing slash toleration
• Performance - Improved performance with JoomFish by decreasing number of DB queries

v3.1.0
(14.6.2008)

• New! - a native version of the component for Joomla! 1.5
• Extensions have been rewritten, every extension needs to be of version 2.0.0 or higher in order to work correctly.
• Fix - Many minor fixes and improvements have been made

v3.0.2
(7.4.2008)

• Fix - reported bugs fixingservice release

v3.0.0
(12.3.2008)

• New! - initial release for Joomla! 1.5, runs in legacy mode