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Joomla 5 Notice

We are pleased to announce that as of January 29, 2024, all of our Joomla extensions are compatible with Joomla 5.

For all who are still updateing from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4: Joomla 4 Migration instructions are available here:

There is now a separate Documentation for Visforms for Joomla 4 and for Visforms for Joomla 5!

Details

Visforms 5.3.0 Release

After 3 months of intensive development work, we are pleased to now be able to offer you a new version of Visforms.

The development work had 3 main focuses:

  • Improvement of work in administration
  • Feature development
  • Code Refactoring

Improvement of work in administration

Over the years, Visforms has been continuously expanded with new features.
Each new feature has also added one or two new options and setting options.
The administration has become more and more extensive over time.

Each option is provided with a detailed explanation (inline help) in Visforms.
The inline help texts were always visible and additionally bloated the administration views.

All configuration views have been fundamentally revised with the aim of making the use of the administration clearer and more intuitive.

In detail this includes:

  • Show/hide online help
  • Structuring through content grouping, additional tabs, sub-tabs and headings
  • Revision of names and texts
  • Visual labeling of the options in which Visforms placeholders can be used

Feature development

The release again contains several interesting new features from different areas.
In particular, a completely new Webforms interface for data connection to external systems.

Webforms and data connections

Spam protection

Documentation Spamschutz Plugin

  • Spam protection plugin: Additional option for creating an IP blacklist
  • Spam protection plugin: Use of regex in email and IP black and white lists
  • Captchas: Native support of Google Recaptcha V2 (box and invisible)

Data protection

  • Upload files only temporarily and do not save them permanently on the server

Default values ​​in the form

  • Use the logged in user's data to set the default selected status in checkboxes, radio buttons and list boxes in the form

In addition, this release also includes all new features that are already available with Visforms 5.2.0 Beta has been released.

Code Refactoring

We are continually working to keep the Visforms code base current and modern.
With regard to current and future PHP versions.
With regard to current and future Joomla versions.
With regard to web standards and current browser technologies.

The release of Joomla 6 is announced for the end of 2025.
With Joomla 6, Joomla completes a major code restructuring process that was started in Joomla 4.
Code restructuring is a long-term process with long transition phases.
New structures are developed and tested and then completely phased out after a transition period.
Joomla 5 is the stage where everything old still works and everything new already works.
So now is the time when we can rework the Visforms code so that it will work smoothly with Joomla 6.
The first adjustments have already been made and are included in this release.

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