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3.1.0.2 hot fix, and "bugs" that are not

We are happy to announce that our JomSocial 3.1.0.2 hotfix release is now available. You may retrieve the latest version from your Account

What is new in this version?

We invested a bold effort in this hotfix testing the reported issues in many different environments and outlined issues are hopefully fixed once and for all. here are some highlights for the release

  • We made the description editor in groups more stable, forcing it to show up every time.
  • We stabilized the datepicker even more and,
  • It is now possible to create the groups from back end again.

For a complete list of the changes, please visit the Changelog

Issues that are not

1. Calendar miss by one day ahead or before. In a highly unlikely event that you expierence issue which will manifest as "one day wrong" date after saving the calendar field, please use your favorite editor to open the following file:

ROOT/components/com_community/libraries/fields/date.php and look for this line

$html .= "dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',n";

and replace it with

$html .= "dateFormat: 'yy/mm/dd',n"

Oddly, we did tried to implement this fix into the release, but on every development server of ours it completely breaks the calendar functionality. On the other side, on a sites where the issue happens, seems like the change do the job. These sites are however, very rare and we believe that this issue is actually raised by wrongly configured servers which for whatever reason, do not support yy-mm-dd format.

2. Can't save or create event. Contrary to issue #1, in a highly likely event that you can not edit or create new event while using Joomla template which overrides JomSocial template files, please locate this file

ROOT/templates/YOURTEMPLATE/html/com_community/events.forms.php and just rename it to events.forms.php.bak then kindly contact your template provider to update all JomSocial overrides. Same is true for templates that are located in JomSocial templates folder which is

ROOT/components/com_community/templates/YOURTEMPLATE/events.forms.php

Unfortunately, we can't do anything more then announcing the issue because third-party templates need to be updated by their respective developers.

3. Unable to crop avatars on iPad. This is a bug, and it isn't a bug at the same time. It is because obviously, no one can crop the avatars on iPad's at this moment, but it isn't because jQuery plugin that we use for this purpose do not support touch events. We implemented this plugin back in 2009 when first generations of iPads were available only on Apple's drawing boards, so in order to deal with this bug, we need to change the complete library which is deeply integrated in the current code. Our practice however, is not to avoid such major shifts in minor releases.Our older users will remember the mess that was created when we changed the Datepicker plugin in minor release

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If you hold a valid license, you can download the newest version from your Account area.

If you want to get your hands dirty with upgrade patches, kindly follow this link

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