We regularly release new versions of FOF to fix known issues and introduce new features. You can find an overview of this version's changes below.

Very important changes

This version of FOF brings several major changes with it. Please read the UPGRADE NOTES.md document in the FOF GitHub repository for detailed information.

Joomla! versions supported

We only officially support using our software with the latest Joomla! release branch, 3.9. We strongly advise you to run the latest available version of Joomla! for security reasons. Older versions of Joomla! have known major security issues which are being actively exploited to hack sites.

Our software should run on Joomla 4.0 which is currently in Beta. Please note that Joomla 4 is not stable yet. It should not be used on production sites. Some breakage is expected; we are working on fixing issues on Joomla 4 but it may take a while since it's still changing, albeit not at the rate it was changing pre-Beta.

PHP versions supported

We only officially support using our software with PHP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 or 7.4. We strongly advise you to run the latest available version of PHP on a branch currently maintained by the PHP project for security reasons. Older versions of PHP have known major security issues which are being actively exploited to hack sites and they have stopped receiving security updates, leaving you exposed to these issues.

Please note that earlier PHP versions including but not limited to PHP 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and 7.0 are no longer supported and our software no longer works on them.

Changelog

Bug fixes

• [LOW] Joomla 4 broke b/c with the Controller's setRedirect

New features

• Joomla 4 console application now treated the same way as a Joomla CLI application
• Platform now has an isApi() method to detect the Joomla! 4 API application

Miscellaneous changes

• Drop support for PHP 5.6, 7.0
• Drop support for PHP Joomla! 3.8
• Renderer changes

Removed features

• Removed deprecated Form package and Scaffolding feature
• Removed mcrypt support
• Removed obsolete CLI tool
• Removed the HAL package and the ability of the JSON view to render HAL documents natively
• Removed the LESS package