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SpambotCheck Release History

Please always make a backup of your Website before you update the SpambotCheck!

5.2.0

Maturity: Stable
System Requirements: Joomla 5.x, Joomla 6.x, PHP 8.1 to PHP 8.4
Date: October 14, 2025

New Feature

  • PHP 8.4 Compatibility
  • Joomla 6 Compatibility

Bug fix

  • Fix: Admin menu looses focus

5.1.0

Maturity: Stable
System Requirements: Joomla 5.x, PHP 8.1 to PHP 8.3
Date: November 12, 2024

New Feature

  • PHP 8.3 Compatibility
  • Allow for Regular Expressions for whitelists and blacklists (IPs and emails).
  • Add Regular Expression Examples.
  • Add SpambotCheck IP Test-Helper Plugin to develop and test Regular Expressions for IP whitelist and IP blacklist.
  • Add documentation for new feature: Automatic support for CDNs like 'Cloudflare'

Bug fix

  • Fixed Fatal Error: SpambotCheckHelper::cleanUserSpambotTable(): Argument #1 ($userIP) must be of type string, null given

5.0.0

Maturity: Stable
System Requirements: Joomla 5.0 or higher
Date: January 29, 2024

New Feature

  • Joomla 5 Compatibility
  • PHP 8.2 Compatibility
  • Automatic support for CDN 'Cloudflare'

4.0.4

Maturity: Stable
System Requirements: Joomla 4.0 or higher
Date: July 17, 2023

Bug fix

  • Fix Error on suspicious registration detection: "SpambotCheckHelper::getDateDiff(): Argument #1 ($firstDate) must be of type Date, string given."

4.0.3

Maturity: Stable
System Requirements: Joomla 4.0 or higher
Date: Apr. 14, 2022

Bug fix

  • Fix Error on all three backend views (Users/Logs/About): "Error 404: View not found"

4.0.2

Maturity: Stable
System Requirements: Joomla 4.0 or higher
Date: Feb. 17, 2022

Bug fix

  • Fix Warning in Joomla Database Maintenance: "Table has the wrong type or attributes for column 'COLUMN' "

4.0.1

Maturity: Stable
System Requirements: Joomla 4.0 or higher
Date: Feb. 16, 2022

Bug fix

  • Fix Error during installation: "Typed property pkg_spambotcheckInstallerScript::$versionInstalled must be string, null used" on php 7.4 and 8

4.0.0

Maturity: Stable
System Requirements: Joomla 4.0 or higher
Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Feature

  • First version for Joomla 4

3.1.0

Maturity: Stable
System Requirements: Joomla 3.9 or higher
Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Feature

  • Make Spambotcheck a Package Installation with Plugin and Component
  • Make compatible with Joomla 4 Pre Update Checker

3.0.1

Maturity: Stable
System Requirements: Joomla 3.9 or higher
Date: Nov 206h, 2018

New Feature

  • Support Joomla! Privacy Tool Suite

Code Refactoring

  • Use modified Joomla! library. Avoid depracted 4.0 functions
  • Clean Administration HTML
  • Improve component search filter

Others