CRE8 Social: EasySocial fork for Joomla 5.4+ and 6+

Combo Search Bar now prefills current cat./loc. for all entities, so a refined search keeps context

SEO footer "Location Hub" cat. views now list all states of the default country as crawlable, localized drill-down silo, incl. zero-result states

Multi-language region names: country/state names (About tab, chips, footer, dropdowns, breadcrumbs) now display in the visitor's language

Region/State chip added alongside District/Municipality in the About tab and Marketplace item display

OpenStreetMap provider now supports a custom endpoint + API key (e.g. LocationIQ, self-hosted Nominatim), for sites hitting the public rate limit

OpenStreetMap provider throttle mechanism to not send more than 1 req./s

Full Unicode emoji set: library expanded from 86 to 3944 entries (compl. Unicode standard), no bundled image assets

NEW searchable emoji picker: Admin "Browse Emojis" now supports search-by-name and grouped categories

NEW "Import All Emojis" one-click batched, resumable import of the full emoji set into Emoticons, button added

Story "Mood" icons modernized: Feeling/mood selector now renders the same Unicode emoji

Sidebar category counts now render from a single cached, signature-validated map; counts still update instantly on add/edit/delete

Search bar autocomplete now shows sub-subcategories (previously stopped at 2 levels)

Region taxonomy resynced from GeoNames: corrected ~40 countries with outdated or wrong-tier state/region data

Migration scripts for region/translation data now run in resumable batches to prevent timeouts on slower hosts

Region-alias index size reduced (~22% smaller) by switching to a prefix index

Refactored installer: to address even more weaknesses 

Field data-poisoning bug (critical): Leaving fields with multidropdown empty silently saved "1" instead of blank, backfill / SI-bug!

Category field's primary cat. wasn't written to category_id when saving from the admin backend (frontend was unaffected)

Multi-Cat. / Multi-Region chips vanished after an AJAX category/filter click (reappeared only on full page reload)

Combo Search Bar and Geomap stayed frozen/stale after clicking a sidebar filter instead of updating with the new results

Country/state-level region filtering returned 0 results in most cases

Search bar layout broken on mobile (search field collapsed to a 240px-tall box)

"Only Show Regions With Listings" setting emptied the entire location dropdown

Category + Location combo search failed under SEF URLs due to missing region aliases (backfilled for existing installs)

New event/group/page/marketplace notifications showed the raw, untranslated language key instead of the actual message

Deprecated imagedestroy() calls in the bundled image library leaked warning output into the AJAX response

Geomap now showing all entries, not limited to page-items

Added translation keys+strings for Combofilter to all 34 languages

guzzlehttp vendor library updated to v7.15.5 in component and foundry

google/apiclient vendor library updated to v2.19.4 in component and foundry

Region hierarchy silent corruption bug (critical): Editing/saving region silently reset internal uid

Refactored installer: to address some weaknesses 

Fixed 7 PHP8.5+ deprecation notices

Router's $views registry was missing marketplaces, breaking plural SEF URLs for that content type

Geomap mergePoints toggle optimized (doesn't vanish anymore on click / Thank you Stephane for reporting)

Catgory bypass now supports multiple workflows (main-cat. swap only possible when using same workflow), workflow picker

Address field: Refactored to support district/municipality, locale-aware formatted address string

Address field: Generates direct-filter "chips" on cards, in about-tab/item-detail display

NEW Admin backfill tool: auto backfill localization-data for existing items (all entities)

Combo Search Bar: Search term/category + region for Marketplace/Events/Groups/Pages / per-entity display setting

Geomap Leaflet upgraded to version 1.9.4

NEW Maps: fullscreen-mode, configurable map height (px or vh), Users map enabled

NEW Maps Module displays Users, Events, Groups, Pages, Marketplace-items

Multicluster for multiple items at one address (≤7 spider display, >7 list in bubble), events sorting by date

SEF URLs for category+region browsing (/categories/{id}-{slug}/{region-alias}), unified across the Address field and Multi-Region field

SEO location pages: category+region browsing now show "{Category} in {Location}" in page title + header

SEO footer drill-down (Region → Districts, District → Municipalities) with item counts, for Address and Multi-Region field

FontAwesome code-refactoring to deliver stable results in Foundry and component

Code improvements in Foundry, new version!

Removed old, obsolete FontAwesome files

Minor CSS polish (data-table marketplace, admin dark mode readability etc.)

Marketplace "save as copy" wiped listing owner, entry invisible on frontend

Category bypass mode wasn't displaying subcategories under a parent container

LinkedIn business-profile links showing as personal profile links

Marker icons for OSM were missing on the map during item creation/editing

Multi-Region field item counts were silently ignored on Marketplace listings

Event creation/cat. page: If $categoryId is empty/invalid (0, null, empty string) → query returned invalid SQL

Profile reg. returned PHP-exception if it points at a profile type whose workflow is broken or incomplete // now reload initial reg.page

Multi-category is now possible for Pages, Groups, Events, Marketplace items (new multicat-field)

Conditional display: Additional categories are only displaying if used/present

Localization refactored: Implemented retrieval from geonames.org for countries, states, districts, municipalities

Localization: Added districts/municipalities

Maps-implementation changed throughout the whole component, no more static map img-retrieval

Multi-region is now possible for Pages, Groups, Events and Marketplace-items (new multiregion-field)

Clustered map display for Pages, Groups, Events, Marketplace items (new admin-setting for all entities)

Location retrieval optimized: use real location (if allowed, pc and mobile), fallback to profile-stored location

"Nearby" filter shows correct distances (optimized radius-filter) for Pages, Groups, Events, Marketplace items *

Address display in listings/cards and popbox (Profiles)

NEW: Friend suggestion proximity module added alongside the existing mutual-friend one (sorting best-match/distance)

NEW Categories Field – multi-select with star-marked primary category, replaces traditional step-1 category picker during entity creation / for Pages, Groups, Events and Marketplace items

Per-entity admin setting: bypass category selection in step 1 (new category field must be present in the workflow, assign 1 workflow per entity)

Per-entity admin setting: hide subcategories during entity creation (step 1)

Per-entity admin setting: hide category badge from item header

Per-entity admin display settings: show/hide category/region badges (tags)

About-tab now always shows "all categories" – either via the new field, or a fallback row for workflows that don't have it

Categories filters for all entities refactored: they now correctly count/show all assigned categories

New Facebook field (incl. privacy options)

Toolbar: Added setting to display Profiles as main entity (not hidden in dropdown)

Adapted Video-Link retrieval for Stream composer to accept nearly every URL

Small code improvements in Foundry, new version

Optimized mobile menu display

Minor CSS polish (data-table-spacing, address field map margin etc.)

Additional fields for users, groups, pages and events: Linkedin, X (former twitter), YouTube channels, Tiktok, Instagram

Link preview cache now honours links.cache.cleanup duration TTL, stale entries are deleted

Stream / Gallery: per-device photo display limit default to phone=4, tablet=9, desktop=12

CB Migrator: custom fields now appear for mapping, fully functional

PHP8.5 deprecation fixes

Joomla 6 compatibility fixes, table-methods

WEBINARS: Initial release of the webinar group app (Jitsi, BigBlueButton, PlugNmeet) 🥳

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

Klipy integration: Second Gif-provider Klipy integrated

Toolbar module search now respects current language on multilingual sites

Map Items in Stream are loading directly (without click) for OSM and Google Maps

Delete video from stream also deletes video from cluster

Delete audio from stream also deletes audio from cluster

Following filter includes clusters groups/pages the user has joined now appear in the following stream filter

Installer updates all modules core files automatically

Remove abandoned story-photos from db + physical  24h after story creation on a per-user basis / on story post

Remove abandoned story-photos once per day for any user / full site sweep, catches every abandoned account as well

Story-photos remain in unpublished state (invisible) as long as story form is not filled out completely

Stream portrait videos – properly sized and visible instead of collapsing to zero height

Video item page portrait videos – constrained width matching the stream card, not stretched full-width

Video mute state on the item page – survives scroll-away/scroll-back without being reset

Code cleanup ~80+ occurrences of jimport() calls removed

Joomla 6+ Filesystem compatibility system-plugin rewritten, compatibility.php added / native php functions

FontAwesome 6 further improvements, renamed some remaining FA5 instances

Story photo persistence – photos survive cluster/location switches in the composer

Text avatar font size – 64px → 118px for readable initials

Card listing uses avatar – getCover() → getAvatar() in card helper

Map size – min-height: 240px in Map stream items

Gallery in stream is now displaying nicely as grid

K2 userapp and K2-support removed

Page-as default – viewas defaults to 'page' instead of 'user'

Fixed pagination: object, router adapters (SEF URL builders) and controllers → views and template

Alerts for new marketplace entries, new pages, new groups and new pages are now triggered correctly

Task creation in the group app Tasks was not possible (only milestones) due to a typo

Cover used thumbnail – $size → 'thumbnail' in cover table / REVERTED, quality issue, img looked too blurry

Video module: additional options display/hide category, user

Base64 decode security fixes (Akeeba AdminTools)

Module installer optimized obsolete module discovery

Whole component: 28 swiper touch (mobile) scripts refactored as .js-files were faulty, test ok

Search index: typo in table name #__social_cluster → #__social_clusters fixed

Filter function for search results fixed

Foundry library: adapted, code-improvements

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

Backwards-compatibility fix for some apps not adapted for joomla 5/6 yet

Option added to hide the profile header in video item view

Code adaption to allow loading user-media in Blog media manager

Corrected avatar crop function

ConverseKit: added table use-statement alias

Links in invitation emails were incorrect

Deprecation warning in Advanced Search for users fixed

Missing use-statement added to /administrator/components/com_easysocial/includes/ad/ad.php

Repost function in /tables/stream.php fixed

Error during page creation on Joomla 6 corrected

Photo module did not respect privacy settings

Removed obsolete "ENGINE=MyISAM" from .sql-files

Corrected URL-segmentation for pages, currently active menu item is now taken into account

Corrected URL-segmentation for groups, currently active menu item is now taken into account

Bunny CDN implementation v2 (additional webhooks etc.)

Bunny Player v2

Twitter → X: full rename in OAuth, UI, CSS, Icons

+ Config. cover image height for users, sites, groups and events

Passkey (Webauth) passwordless Login implemented incl. configuration for the users

Start date for events: additional column (sortable) in admin backend

Implementation of FontAwesome 6.7.2 (old .eot and .woff-files removed)

Notifications for new pages, groups, events, marketplace-entries

Integrated Kunena user app refactored to work with Kunena v7.0.2

Re-Branding CRE8 Social: logos, icons, etc. (left com_easysocial for the sake of compatibility)

Adapted Foundry Library (FontAwesome, Twitter)

Events are loading from every entity

Installer refactored and changed appearance

Code refactored for file-field (PHP compatibility)

Changed versioning for pkg_toolbar

Toolbar notifications showed only date, no content

Corrected frontend passkey-generation

Restoration of the module-manager in admin: no more api-calls to old si-server, unpublish-option

Videos Mobile: Autoplay, User-Input (Pause) are now respected even if «Autoplay if in Viewport» is active, integrated player

Debug for Videos (Option for Admin)

Implemented own update-server/-logic

Software Update Widget: corrected to work with new server

Extensions + component: versioning unified to be v5.0.0 → old modules/plugins can be detected easier

Obsolete update sources are removed

Blog in admin widget removed

Deprecated Photo-Resizer linking to SI removed

Log: mail-warning in content-retrieval fixed (cron-hook)

In some configurations/environment, user registrations failed, code corrections

In some configurations/environment, user editing from the backend triggered an error

With SEF-URLs in some languages, album-creation for groups/sites did not work

Corrected logic error, which avoided albums-listing under pages/groups in certain settings (error was present since years)

Revision of the mail logic

Implementation of a master switch → activate/deactivate alerts

Mails have a footer to directly load alerts-configuration or trigger master-switch

Improved Foundry Library

Finder plugins → code-revision

Fixed some deprecation warnings in PHP 8.2+

16.1. Fixed further deprecation warnings

Bunny CDN Stream Implementation

Additional Player-Options Autoplay, Autoplay on Viewport, Autoplay Muted und Loop Video

Improved view for portrait mode smartphone videos

Implemented additional checks for copying and batch-creating events, now ALL fields' contents are copied.

Some PHP 8.5 compatibility-improvements

Installation process (for low-performance servers) reset due to problems encountered by several customers

Fixed some deprecation notices

Fixed further deprecation notices

Fixed toolbar-login with email-address instead of username

Events: recurring events creation/update works now, all custom fields are written down correctly. This was never working in the original version!

Fixed further deprecation notices

Refactored ConverseKit Plugin to work in Joomla 5.3+, 5.4+ and 6+ and included it

Tested and included marketplaces-apps for users, pages and groups

Updated some library-files

All youtube-sharing links are accepted now (changed link-validation)

Fixed Google auth deprecation notice

Fixed further deprecation notices (dynamic property creation)

Corrected wrong path in the internal apps-installer

Included modernized, refactored Foundry-Library installing with the pkg_toolbar

Fixed alert-error

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

Admin-views and -modules adapted

Event-, Group- Marketplace- and User-Apps and -Fields refactored and working

Full theme wireframe with all functional parts refactored

Live and working on 3+ websites 🥳

Installer refactored to also install all Plugins as expected

Installer refactored to work on Joomla 5.4.x and 6.0.x

Component refactored to work on Joomla 6.0.x

Component refactored to work on Joomla 5.4.x