We would like to thank Daniel Dimitrov and Michael Babker for their code contributions to this release. A big thank you goes out to all people who reported bugs and helped us reproduce and solve them!
Added features
+ Minimum stability level in the Latest Releases view
Modified features / miscellaneous improvements
~ Massively improved the loading speed of the Log page by optimising slow queries
~ Simplified the component's Control Panel page
~ Massively improved the loading speed of the Control Panel by removing statistics queries which took a very long time to complete
~ Improved rendering engine to properly support template overrides
~ Removed anti-leech protection
~ #32 Do not list unpublished Bleeding Edge releases in drop-downs
~ Using CSS classes instead of inline styles for Bleeding Edge releases' changelogs
Bug fixes
# JParameter is deprecated in Joomla! 1.6/1.7; applying workaround
# SQL file didn't run on upgade on Joomla! 1.6/1.7; applying workaround
# Live Update: Using authentication with non-SEF URLs always resulted in an error message that the download of the update package was impossible (thank you Daniel for the heads up!)
# Filtering by access level in Categories view wouldn't work
# Bug in access control checks of Bleeding Edge releases
# Wouldn't load frontend.css due to typo in helpers/include.php
# Update XML streams would not allow Joomla! 1.7 to pick up any updates
# Fatal error thrown when accessing the component parameters
Live Update changes
# Live Update: would not reload the update information after installing an update
# Live Update: would not support package, library and file extension types for Joomla! 1.6/1.7