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p8pBB comments Changelog

24 Nov 2023 - ver. 3.2.0:

  • Feature: new advanced setting "Auto-merge Topics" to merge duplicated topics.

18 Oct 2023 - ver. 3.1.0:

  • Feature: Joomla 5 compatibility.
  • Change: PHP 8.1 as min.

18 Jul 2023 - ver. 4.0.0:

  • Change: Joomla 3 support dropped.
  • Change: PHP 8.0 as min.

12 Dec 2022 - ver. 3.4.1:

  • Fix: multiple topics created in Joomla 4.

02 Febaruary 2021 - ver. 3.4.0:

  • Change: Joomla-style button class "readon readmore" changed to "btn btn-default btn-small".
  • Feature: Joomla 4 compatibility.

14 March 2020 - ver. 3.3.0:

  • Feature: new setting 'Content - Posting > Auto-Update First Post' allows to auto-update phpBB topic first post on article update.

03 March 2020 - ver. 3.2.0:

  • Feature: new advanced setting 'User Match Method' helps to choose how to auto-find phpBB poster from Joomla user, either by username or email.
  • Changes: Joomla 3.9.15, PHP 7.0 and phpBB 3.2 as minimum.
  • Feature: new setting "Comments Order".

15 January 2017 - ver. 3.1.6:

  • Fix: highlight of safe-deleted posts.
  • Feature: new setting 'Post-Text' allows to display custom HTML after comments buttons on article page. Suitable for i.e. short comments rules.
  • Feature: phpBB 3.2 compatibility.
  • Note: this is last version to support phpBB 3.0

05 Octover 2016 - ver. 3.1.5:

  • Fix: K2 settings missed.

03 October 2016 - ver. 3.1.4:

  • Feature: new setting 'Convert IFRAMEs to URLs' helps to display links instead of iframes in phpBB post.
  • Feature: deprecated social links.
  • Feature: Show Comments link is not displayed if there are 0 comments on article page. New setting 'Hide 'Show Comments (0)' Link' controls this behavior for category pages.
  • Fix: Joomla 3.6.2 compatibility for K2 handler.

17 July 2016 - ver. 3.1.3:

  • Feature: new setting 'Comments Per Page' allows to setup number of comments page (phpBB's posts per page setting was used before). Note that 1st page will always have minus one comment because(the first topic post with article details is not displayed.
  • Feature: new setting 'Topic Title Pattern' allows to add prefixes/suffixes for auto-created phpBB topics.
  • Fix: phpBB 3.1 pagination of comments.

04 June 2015 - ver. 3.1.2 for Joomla 3.3 and 1.2.5 for Joomla 2.5:

  • Fix: phpBB 3.0 issue with wrong comments count for new topics. Please re-count posts in phpBB once updated.
  • Feature: Joomla 2.5 support dropped.

03 Nov 2014 - ver. 3.1.1 for Joomla 3.3 and 1.2.4 for Joomla 2.5:

  • phpBB 3.1 compatibility.

10 July 2014 - ver. 3.1.0 for Joomla 3.3 and 1.2.3 for Joomla 2.5:

  • Feature: no more MooTools, only jQuery for Joomla 3.3.
  • Fix: link to article is missed on forum if post trim is applied.

28 March 2014 - ver. 3.0.6 and 1.2.2:

  • Feature: global plugin setting 'Enable Comments'.
  • Feature: Joomla article settings 'Enable Comments' and 'Forum' for individual article comments tuning.

27 January 2014 - ver. 3.0.5:

  • Feature: 'Discuss in forum' link.
  • Joomla 3.2.1 compatibility.

19 Nov 2013 - ver. 3.0.4:

  • Fixed issue with missed comments info in featured articles listing.
  • Fix: issue with incorrect links to [url] parsing.
  • Fix: issue with apostrophes in K2 article title.
  • Feature: new setting 'Check Topic Presence' - if enabled, no new topic will be auto-created if forum already has a topic with article title.
  • Joomla 3.2 compatibility.

26 July 2013 - ver. 3.0.3:

  • Added editor button 'No p8pBB Comments' for auto-inserting {NO COMMENTS} tag into article text.
  • Fixed issue with wrong readmore link using https protocol.
  • Fixed issue with Joomla 3.1.4

28 Apr 2013 - ver. 3.0.2

  • Fixed issue with Joomla 3.1.x

15 Apr 2013 - ver. 3.0.1

  • Fixed issue with absent links in category blog view

08 Dec 2012 - ver.3.0.0 for Joomla! 3.0