EasyBlog for Joomla 5.4+ and 6+

Crop Cover Image: when one instance is active (entry, showcase, listing) cover can be replaced

Foundry Library updated, code-optimization

Updated Guzzle 6.5.5 → 7.15.5 vendor library

Updated google/apiclient → 2.19.4 vendor library

CRITICAL: Old removeSourceColumn.php maintenance script (28.7.2025/SI) never executed sucessfully, corrected

PHP 8.2+ deprecation warnings (2) fixed

Reconfigure Categories: un-assign, add additional and set new main category for selected posts in one step

Composer "Category move date" schedule post to auto-move to another category after a certain date without unpublishing/archiving

Admin toolbar button "Run Category Move Now" for explicit scheduler-run confirmation

Foundry Library updated, code-optimization

All publishing options scheduler date comparison changed from EB::date()->toSql() to NOW() // timeshift

PHP 8.2+ deprecation warnings (3) fixed

GDPR: Added setting in Layout/General to mask external content for all embeddable-blocks / retrospective out-of-the-box

Link-crawler (http connector) in foundry lib more stable and also accepting non-200 status replies

Foundry Library updated, code-optimization

Slider module optimized image display and media handling as well as layout for all templates

Installer now compares if modules/plugins are byte-identical before removing orphaned duplicates

Tags now display correctly, even if modifications under certain circumstances avoided loading their markup

Tiktok- and X-Icons for composer blocks now display correctly

Further PHP 8.2+ deprecation warnings fixed

TRANSLATIONS: Replaced dead SI-URLs with GitHub raw downloads.xml endpoints and real Weblate-stats

Reset-Button in composer blocks to pragmatically empty contents

Klipy integration: Second Gif-provider Klipy integrated, incl. new Block

NEW Slider module: 5 layouts and a lot of options

Toolbar module search now respects current language on multilingual sites

Installer updates all modules core files automatically

Reverse-migrator/exporter for blog posts to joomla articles

Code cleanup ~35+ occurrences of jimport() calls removed

EasyBlog Crawler: change in admin/includes/crawler/crawler.php to also load protected websites

Joomla 6+ Filesystem compatibility compatibility.php added / native php functions

FontAwesome 6 further improvements, renamed some remaining FA5 instances

K2 migrator and K2-support removed

Fix load-more button in media manager

Composer: cover-image is displaying above content (not only in preview mode)

Drag/crop: if "Crop post cover" option in "Layout" is active, the focal point can be set in composer

Joomla dark mode: font-color in backend changed and now readable (not white on gray anymore)

Instagram-links are sanitized automatically, no matter what parameters are included

Spotify-links are sanitized automatically, no matter what parameters are included

Toolbar-module: Social adapter cleaned, passkey-login works now

Foundry library: adapted, code-improvements

Module installer doesn't create new instances but updates existing ones, clean-up of multiplied modules

Added missing use-statement in view myblog

Rebranding CRE8 Blog

YouTube-Links are always accepted, no matter what additional parameters they contain

Schema.org: Image-URLs after domain-migration are adjusted/set correctly

Schema.org: date format corrected

Unnecessary font files removed

yootheme child-templates are detected → CSS-/uikit-settings are correctly taken into account

Changed from Twitter to X throughout the whole component

EasySocial – getGroups ignored listing_create_button setting

OAuth model – getSystemClients query bug / invalid SQL syntax

Template-Overrides were not taken into account

Code optimization

YouTube covers for blog posts are now also displayed in social stream items

YouTube covers are now also displayed in the featured slider (admin/includes/themes/helpers/featured.php)

MP3 upload syntax error fixed (composer/media/panels/audio.php)

Missing code line for template ID via URL call added

Media validation: walks all composer blocks and rejects if any image, video, gallery, thumbnails, etc. is empty, incl. admin setting

Association validation: rejects sitewide posts (no team/page/group) that have no association. Private posts are exempt, incl. admin setting

Visibility: on publish, requires to pick a visibility value in the privacy dropdown when the privacy field is shown (admin-setting)

Error UX – scroll & highlight: finds failing blocks, adds an error CSS border to their placeholders, and scrolls to the first one.

«See the full list» button: added a collapsible expand button above the associates search in the Author panel

Social adapter – all Photos from the user (CRE8 Social v5.0.4) in Media Manager

Social Media manager – Load more functionality

Media manager grid – always on

Implemented FontAwesome v6

Source view in composer text blocks and headings

Composer block table rows/columns deletion button/functionality

Support webp-format, incl. quality-setting

H1 heading can be deactivated in composer through admin (new setting)

Migrated legacy articles could not be changed/saved.

Improved Joomla article migrator: fulltext and introtext were not migrated due to missing legacy class

Brought back first text block in composer which was removed to improve MariaDB 11.4+ compatibility

Feed Importer corrected (missing factory use-statement)

Corrected template switcher

Fixed pagebreak-plugin for Joomla 6+

Introduces own update-servers/-system, Joomla Standard

Remove obsolete update-sites/-sources

Remove Blog- and Updates-Widgets from Admin-Dashboard

Continue versioning with 7.0.0, adapt Modules-, Plugins- and Library-versioning

Further elmination of deprecation warnings

Optimization of the frontpage-magazine-view

Corrected an issue with the retrieval of the latest published posts on the site

Backwards compatibility fix: Joomla field class alias

Field for unpublishing contained a date entry on composer load

Optimized foundry library

Added compatibility-layer for MariaDB 11.4+ as SQL strict mode is used by default (NULL-values)

Corrected/optimized maintenance scripts for migrations from older EB-versions

Lots of files (∼100): code optimization for PHP8.3+

Elmination of numerous deprecation warnings

Optimized MapModule, corrected errors in the original code

Optimized installer script

Fixed TeamBlogs error

JAccess error (deprecated) fixed

Fixed uikit template reactions reference error

Code optimization, corrected deprecation notices under PHP 8.3+

Migration from Joomla 5.4.x to 6.0.x without deactivating anything EB-related → WORKS! 🥳

Foundry-library and -plugin: codebase reviewed/corrected, both working

Live and working on 5+ websites 🥳

Installer refactored to also install all Plugins as expected

Installer refactored to work on Joomla 6.0.x

Installer refactored to work on Joomla 5.4.x

Component refactored to work on Joomla 6.0.x

Component refactored to work on Joomla 5.4.x