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• #951 reworked the mini cart + add2cart behavior to do the next step in getting rid of jQuery in the frontend. This includes also some change in CSS classes in this area.
• #953 removed the usage of jQuery for the swipe functionality of the Ajax lists main image.
• #955 removed the usage of jQuery for the sharing and download buttons.
• #957 removed jQuery from the payment/shipping method selection + from the Braintree payment method.
• #957 removed jQuery from the checkout address form.
• #957 removed jQuery from the cart page.
• #960 the file search plugin for com_search can now display images directly using a new configuration options at the search plugin. If a user clicks a link in the search result, the event page opens and the lightbox shows the image immediately.
• #962 The search plugin can now search for unicode characters. That helps to support Chinese content for example.
• #959 The sharing dialog is now displayed as a modal.

Bug Fixes

• #954 the option "Protect files" for local images still protected the main image folder even if this feature is disabled. That has changed now.

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Major Changes

• #942 It is now possible to have watermarks for image types. This will allow you to sell watermarked images. This works for images stored on Amazon S3 or local images only!
• #948 You can publish Events for a limited amount of time. There are new fields for the start date and the end date.

Minor Changes

• #940 use the constant COM_EVENTGALLERY_IMAGE_NO_ACCESS instead of media/com_eventgallery/frontend/images/locked.png to allow simple overwriting of the dummy image path.
• #945 improved the layout of the pay-now button for stripe by adding bootstrap button classes.
• #939 The return URL for PayPal will show the customer a message that his payment is processed. Usually, it takes some time to receive the IPN and even after the payment, the pay-button is visible. This message should help to avoid customer confusion.

Bug Fixes

• #941 prevent a warning causing a crash of the finder index CLI script when the smart search plugin for Event Gallery is enabled.
• #943 The scrolling function in the add2cart dialog was broken. Clicking on the links to the different image type groups did not work.
• #944 The add2cart dialog for Google Photos in the lightbox did not work.
• #946 For the PayPal basic payment method you can define if the order confirmation mail is send before or after the payment. If you did not configure this option, the default behavior was wrong and mails got send only after payment happened.
• #947 Fixes a crash of the smart search plugin in case the Google Photos update plugin was not active.
• #950 Avoid exception while managing the files for an event if no image type set is published or assigned to an event.

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Bug Fixes

• #938 The add2cart dialog did not work properly if only one image type was available.

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Minor Changes

• #930 added some minior changes to support older PHP versions. Also improved the warning in the backend about outdated PHP and Joomla versions.
• #931 added an additional hint to remind users to publish their Google Apps. If they don't, the tokens are valid for 7 days only. No token, no images. I addition, the tokens are validated and you can see the result in the table of Google Photos Accounts.
• #932 Updated Braintree SDK to version 5.5 to support PHP 8. Minimum PHP requirement now: PHP 7.2
• #933 Updated Stripe SDK to version v7.72.0
• #935 Updated Smarty template engine to 3.1.19.
• #928 With Joomla 4 getting the necessary token for Google Photos was not possible. Now it is. You still need to use HTTPS to get those tokens.

Bug Fixes

• #936 fixes the add2cart dialog in the lightbox on mobile devices. It opens now correctly. While fixing this, the popup does no longer use jQuery.
• #937 If the content plugin is used multiple times on a page with different configurations, the first configuration will win. This is fixes and every tag takes the correct configuration into account. For example, this could make cart icons on thumbnails disappear.

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Major Changes

• #977 move the cache folder for local images to /images/eventgallery_generated. This will prevent deleting the thumbnail cache if you install a Joomla update. If you changed the the folder already using the constants COM_EVENTGALLERY_IMAGE_CACHE_PATH and COM_EVENTGALLERY_IMAGE_CACHE_WEB_PATH, you are not affected by this change. Please double check if your images load properly. If you configured the dynamic image generation (default setting), there is no need to worry. If you pregenerate your images, make sure they are completely generated.
• #974 changes the ALT attributes of images to show the image title first. Also, the HTML title of a single image page changes in the same way.
• #975 allow new elements in cart connector link pattern: ${categoryId},${categorySlug} and ${categoryTitle}

Minor Changes

• #972 refactored the template for the singleimage view to allow customization of the title/description section without the need to overwrite the whole template.
• #974 changes the ALT attributes of images to show the image title first. Also, the HTML title of a single image page changes in the same way.
• #975 allow new elements in cart connector link pattern: ${categoryId},${categorySlug} and ${categoryTitle}
• #981 for new tables, the row format is not set to dynamic to work around some install issues on MariaDB 10.5 (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/34847)

Bug Fixes

• #963 Joomla 4 // Image Type Set for an image is no longer mandatory
• #964 Joomla 4 // Watermark for an image type is no longer mandatory.
• #965 Joomla 4 // publish_down for a folder is no longer mandatory.
• #966 Joomla 4 // improved layout of an order in the backend.
• #969 Download links did not use HTTPS protocol. Not they use the protocol which was used to call the webpage.
• #970 Access to AWS S3 buckets failed because of the usage of the wrong API endpoint. Might have worked with global unique bucket names.
• #956 There was a left over in the table eventgallery_file. The column allowcomments will be deleted automatically now.
• #968 It is possible to manipulate the URL so you can see an event below every category. This has a SEO impact since it makes moving an Event from one category to another impossible. Search engines would crawl the old and the new URL. This is fixed.
• #973 Prevent JavaScript exceptions cause trouble in the modal and the add2cart dialog.
• #979 fixes the Google Albums selector for Joomla 4. It will open now if you click the button.
• #980 iOS and Safari had an issue opening the sharing and the add2cart dialog while the lightbox is running.

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Major Changes

• #106 Images hosted locally or on Amazon S3 can have a different price than the Event. It is now possible to assign an image type set to images, too.
• #923 It is now possible to use precalculated images for local images. In the components options you can switch from dynamic image generation to static file delivery. This will help with performance on smaller servers since it reduces the number of parallel PHP requests.

Minor Changes

• #915 The modules have a new switch to show the add2cart-icon. To make that work, you need to add a cart module on the page, too.
• #922 The PayPal Basis plugin has a new option which allows to stop sending order confirmation mails for unpaid orders. Once the order is marked as paid, the order confirmation is send.
• #929 Bootstrap 5 adjustments to support Joomla 4 Beta 7
• #918 Some code fixes and a Smarty Template Engine update to 3.1.38 to support PHP8 a little more.

Bug fixes

• #919 the percentage value of a surcharge is not taken into account.
• #920 (re)added IE11 support. I'll not test with IE11, please get rid of this stupid old browser! All the workarounds make the JS ~60KB larger.
• #926 Fixes an issue with Joomla 4 Beta 6 and Yootheme. An exception could happen when the content plugin is initialized without parameters. J4 uses an unexpected default object type.

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Bug Fixes

• #857 Fix ParseError in library/common/s3file.php for PHP version older than 7.4.

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New Features

• #841 Amazon S3: you can upload images directly to Amazon S3 using Event Gallery. No separate client needed anymore. You can also delete images directly. On top, thumbnails are generated automatically while uploading files. Since this takes a while, the upload is slower than the one for local images.
• Enhanced support for Joomla 4 Beta 1. The backend layout is adapted, many error pages which sneaked in during the Joomla 4 Alpha phase are fixed. If you encounter any trouble, please let me know!

Minor Changes

• #833 Update the slider library GlideJS to 3.4.1
• #834 Update the PhotoSwipe to 4.1.3
• #835 Show the dedicated download button in the lightbox, too.
• #836 adds an option to share the link to the current article instead of the event. This allows being more independent from the main component if you use the content plugin.
• #817 Reworked the cache clear page to avoid using jQuery.
• #817 Rebuild the selection dialog for the image content plugin to avoid the usage of jQuery.
• #839 Avoid concurrency exceptions during updates of Google Photos albums.
• #843 improved UI for the sync database process and the thumbnail creation.

Bug Fixes

• #818 prevent too many images in the lightbox while using the slider. The lightbox picked up images from the clone slides.
• #837 set the creation date of an event correctly if created via back office.
• #840 Thumbnails in order confirmation mails do no longer go through the SEF process. This might avoid loading issues if parts of your site are protected.
• #844, #846 remove some major errors on Joomla4
• #849, #848 make the content plugin buttons for images and events work with Joomla 4
• #850 Allow HTML in the additional title and description fields for categories.

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New Features

• #823 Allow file upload from the frontend. There is a new upload button in the frontend if you're logged in and have sufficient permissions.

Minor Changes

• #817 reworked file upload to remove jQuery usage
• #817 reworked sync database feature to remove jQuery usage
• #817 reworked the Amazon S3 thumbnail generation. jQuery is gone and wow it can generate thumbnails for local images, too.
• #827 removed the crop mode for local images to reduce the number of thumbnails. Cropped thumbnails do not exist for Flickr, Google Photos and Amazon S3. Now they are gone for local images, too. Don't worry, you can still show square sized images in the frontend. Only the image source data changes, not the presentation.
• #828 updated PEL library to 0.9.8
• #832 updated Smarty template library to 3.1.34

Bug Fixes

• #822 Saving title and caption of a file in the inline edit panel did not work.
• #825 Remove content from the ucm content tabled on uninstall.
• #826 Fix warning while publishing/unpublishing a category.
• #829 Prevent exception if one use the save2copy button for an event and the smart search plugin for Event Gallery is active.

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Minor changes

• #916 You can select between a default and the us address format in the checkout configuration. Don't forget to adjust your email templates!

Bug fixes

• #914 The content plugin lost its configuration if used multiple times on the same page while using older versions of Joomla.
• #917 Events using Picasa albums are broken. Actually a good time to move away from this since two years deprecated connection. But the page should not break, so here is a fix.

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Bug fixes

• #913 The missing lazy loading includes made images on the tiles layout invisible.

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Major Changes

• #901 Added support for Joomla 4 CLI commands. You can run the CLI scripts now using cli/joomla.php. The separate CLI files are not longer supported while using Joomla 4 and are deleted automatically. Please adjust your jobs.
• #893 Reworked lazy loading behavior. It is now much faster and uses modern browser APIs.

Minor Changes

• #896 There is now a configuration which allows to show the image title and caption in the checkout. This will work for newly added items only since the title and caption are copied to the line item to keep it even if you delete the image later.
• #903 Use the max image width as parameter for the lightbox to avoid showing zoom capabilities when there are actually none. Right now the lightbox knows about the original size of the image. So if you upload a 4500px image, the lightbox will zoom into a 1600px image. Images hosted on Flickr and Google Photos are not effected by this change.
• #900 Allow default values in the image selection dialog for the content plugin. Check the component options for the available configuration values.
• #906 It is now finally possible to hide the subcategories headline with a simple option instead of custom CSS.
• #907 If you share an image and use the mini sharing page, then this page uses the title if the shared images as title-tag content. This will allow Facebook grabbing the image title. It seems to ignore the og:title tag.
• #911 updated PEL library to read/write EXIF data.

Bug fixes

• #854 Joomla 4 // fixes the slider on the blog layout. Before the fix, the slider expanded the page with and broke the layout. Thumbnails use the Bootstrap 4 img-thumbnail class. The cart and checkout forms support the Bootstrap 4 classes.
• #904 Avoid exception of the number of events per page is configured to zero and the back button is enabled.
• #908 fixed PHP Notice statements in route.php. They appeared while rebuilding the search index.
• #912 The Google Photos album selector closed itself while using Joomla 4. That has been fixed.