Admin Tools 2.1.14

07 December 2011 Last updated on 16 January 2012

Admin Tools 2.1.14 just released

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Admin Tools 2.1.14, a maintenance release.

This release fixes some minor bugs affecting all previous versions of Admin Tools Core and Professional, up to an dincluding 2.1.13. Pelase consult the changelog at the end of this release announcement for more information.

We officially support using Admin Tools under Joomla! 1.5 and 1.7 only. We will not support users of Joomla! 1.6 for anything else than using Admin Tools Core or Professional to update to Joomla! 1.7.

Joomla! 1.6 was a Short Term Support release of the Joomla! CMS which has been declared end-of-life since mid-August 2011. If you have a site still based on Joomla! 1.6, please do upgrade. All Joomla! 1.6 versions are affected by a security vulnerability which can be used by attackers to hack your site when using an older version of PHP, commonly installed on commercial servers, especially the lower- and mid-end shared hosts. While Admin Tools may install on this obsolete version of Joomla!, we have not tested it and we regret to inform you that we can no longer provide support for it.

As always, you can download the free version, Admin Tools Core, from our Downloads page without any charge. If you are a Professional subscriber you can download the Admin Tools Professional release from the same page; just make sure you are logged in before visiting the download page. Alternatively, you can use the integrated Live Update feature of our software to update it automatically on supported server environments.

Since July 7th, 2011, support is provided only to subscribers. We have created a cheap (7.79€) subscription, FORUMACCESS, which gives you access to our Support Forum for eight days, with the same priority as all subscribers to any subscription level. If you are an AKEEBADELUXE or SUPPORT subscriber, you can get top priority, confidential support through our Private Ticket support system.

Do you want the maximum protection for your Joomla! site without spending a fortune? Admin Tools Professional can do that, with a flat cost of 20 Euros – or just 10, if you bought an AKEEBAPRO subscription the last three moths. An ATPRO subscription allows you to use the component on as many sites as you want, for as long as you want (even after your subscription expires) and receive updates and support for a whole year. For the price of a cheap dinner you can get the maximum protection for all your Joomla! 1.5 and 1.7 sites. Go Professional today!

Changelog

Minor changes

  • Layout improvements under Joomla! 1.7
  • Small improvements to DFIShield, making sure that the use of numerous ../ instances won't throw it off
  • The Post-Installation wizard is no longer shown in the Core release, as it's not relevant
  • CSS improvements to the Post-Installation wizard
  • Fix Permissions will automatically skip over the contents of the cache (front- and back-end), tmp and log directories

Bug fixes

  • Joomla! red error text displayed when updating Joomla! w/out Akeeba Backup installed (thanks, Fotis, for the heads up)
  • The Advanced mode of CSRFShield would also run the basic mode (referrer filtering), causing troubles on many sites
  • Notices thrown in the post-installation wizard (thank you @ot2sen!)
  • #166: Array upload fields break UploadShield
  • Under Joomla! 1.7, with "Disable editing back-end users" enabled, you could edit a back-end user and remove him from the Manager/Administrator/Super Administrator group
  • Use of wrong constant could throw a warning message in the post-installation wizard
  • Joomla! 1.7 session storage could overflow when using the Fix Permissions feature, locking you out of your site until you cleared your browser's cache and cookies