What's new?

Joomla! 3.7 compatibility. Unfortunately, Joomla! 3.7 was released with severe issues in several of its fundamental core APIs. While this is a series of bugs in Joomla! itself we did our best to work around them in a way which will minimise the probability of our software being affected by similar issues in the future.

Removing the automated update CLI script. This happens for two reasons. First, very few people were using it. Second, and most important, Joomla! broke the session handling which in turn breaks all CLI scripts. The only workaround to that is rewriting the application to NOT use any Joomla! core code that can even remotely touch JSession. Unfortunately, fetching and applying extension updates falls into the category of affected code. While we could write our own installation library for CLI updates this is expressly forbidden by the Joomla! Extension Directory (JED) terms of service. In other words, if we tried to fix the problem in Joomla's code — a problem which didn't originate from us, a problem we didn't and still don't have a say on — we would be kicked out of the JED, suffering a detrimental impact to our business. All we could do is discontinue this feature forever. Why forever? Because we want our software to work. The only way to do that is to avoid any third party code with a history of breaking without a fix being offered for weeks or months at a time.

Caching issues could cause strange issues when you are logged in. Now the pages of the component are not cached -or at least we ask Joomla! to not cache them- when you are logged in. This is the same behaviour as Joomla's Articles component: if you're logged in you are never served cached pages.

Bug fixes. Some relatively benign issues were addressed in this release.

PHP 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 or 7.0 is required

This version requires PHP 5.4.0 or later including 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 or 7.0. PHP 5.3 is no longer supported. We strongly advise you to use PHP 5.6 or 7.0. Support for older versions of PHP will be dropped in the next few months.

Joomla! 3.x up to 3.4 does NOT run on PHP 7.0. We only support using our software on PHP 7.0 with Joomla! 3.5.

Joomla! 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 is supported

This version of our software can be installed on Joomla! 3.4.x, 3.5.x or 3.6.x. It is not compatible with end-of-life Joomla! 1.x, 2.5, or 3.0 to 3.3 releases (inclusive). If you are using an old Joomla! version please upgrade to the latest Joomla! 3 version available from Joomla.org.

Changelog

Bug fixes

• [LOW] Latest Open Tickets page would display "0 y ago" if a ticket was last replied to over 60 days ago (thanks Crystal!)
• [LOW] Redirections to canonical URLs would use the wrong HTTP status and print a confusing message "1"
• [LOW] Workaround for Joomla! Bug 16147 (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/16147) - Cannot access component after installation when cache is enabled
• [MEDIUM] "Akeeba Ticket System - Tickets info" throws fatal error
• [MEDIUM] Canned reply view throws fatal error
• [MEDIUM] Creating the same ticket from email all over again when there is a failure processing attachments
• [MEDIUM] Fixed PHP warning in Tickets backend view
• [MEDIUM] Fixed fatal error in "Credits and time information" module
• [MEDIUM] Multiple attachments were not supported when creating tickets or replying to tickets via email
• [MEDIUM] Remove X-MSMail-Priority header from emails to prevent SpamAssassin from misidentifying our emails as spam.

New features

• Additional email addresses per user, for use with ATS [gh-181]
• Automatically create plain text email to send along the HTML email (reduces spam score, adds compatibility with users who prefer not to receive HTML email)
• Full HTML editor for the ticket system signature (requires Joomla! 3.5 or later)
• Latest Open Tickets lets you select the ticket status (so you can see, for example, Pending tickets)
• Workaround for Joomla! bug "Sometimes files are not copied on update"