Akeeba Subscriptions 2.2.0

Akeeba Subscriptions 2.2.0 just released.

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Akeeba Subscriptions 2.2.0 Stable, a regular release in our 2.x series.

Akeeba Subscriptions 2.2.0 brings a wealth of new features and a few fixes to known issues.

Compatible with Joomla! 1.5 and 2.5, it allows you to easily sell subscriptions on your site. Sounds too good to be true? Akeeba Subscriptions is the subscriptions management component for choice for major Joomla! component developers such as NoNumber, Compojoom and ACL Manager – and it's completely free of charge!

As always, you can get it from our Downloads page. If you have an older version installed, you can simply use the integrated Live Update feature, or Joomla!'s extension updater, to upgrade to the new version painlessly.

While the software is free, its support is not. If you wish to receive support for the software, you will need to buy a MINISUPPORT subscription at 7.79 Euros for an 8-day pass to our dedicated forum section. Alternatively, if you are a subscriber to AKEEBADELUXE or SUPPORT you can request support either through the dedicated support forum section or by submitting a private support ticket.

Supported versions

Our support policy is to provide support only to the latest published stable release of Akeeba Subscriptions, as well as to the latest published preview (alpha, beta or release candidate) release, if one is available. As of this release, only 2.2.0 is supported. If you have 1.x or any older 2.x version installed on your site, please upgrade as soon as possible.

Moreover, we only support the Joomla! versions officially supported by the Joomla! project. Due to the plethora of active Joomla! versions, we have consolidated the support terms for different Akeeba Subscriptions and Joomla! version combinations in the table below:

* Only the latest 2.x release is supported at any time.

** If a new Akeeba Subscriptions series (i.e. 2.3) is released before August 2013, Akeeba Subscriptions 2.2.x will cease being supported, per our support policy stated above.

*** Future versions will drop Joomla! 1.5 support. Users running the latest published version of Akeeba Subscriptions 2.2.x on Joomla! 1.5 will continue to be supported until August 1st. After that point, no support will be provided to Joomla! 1.5 users.

WARNING! Joomla! 1.6 and 1.7 are end-of-life. At the time of this writing, they are affected by a HUGE privilege escalation issue which can be used to easily hack your sites. Unfortunately, we can not support end-of-life, insecure versions of Joomla!. As a result, we strongly recommend upgrading your Joomla! 1.6 and 1.7 sites to the latest published release of Joomla! 2.5.

Changelog

New features

• Import from AEC
• You can reload stats graphs using an arbitrary starting date in the backend
• New upgrade type, % of last payment (% of net_amount)
• New payment plugin: RBKMoney (experimental)
• New payment plugin: Verotel (experimental)
• New payment plugin: Moneris eSelect Plus (experimental)

Please note that payment plugins marked as experimental have not been tested on live sites. If you spot a bug, please report it using our Contact Us page. Thank you!

Miscellaneous Changes

• Now using the official SOAP API for VIES VAT validation, since the isvat.appspot.com RESTful API died in April 2012
• Improved Agora integration, now supports Agora Pro (version 4) as well
• Adding the ability to choose between cached or forced selection in the Agree to TOS plugin

Bug fixes

• The asrestricted plugin would show limited content to people with cancelled/incomplete subscriptions
• The default payment option would not be selected when using the image list

• Automatic discounts don't work under some circumstances
• The aslink plugin would produce invalid links (missing Itemid) under Joomla! 2.5 (thanks Daniel!)
• Nooku Framework's plugin was removed during uninstallation, even though it's no longer installed or used by Akeeba Subscriptions
• Wrong redirect in login when the site is in a subdirectory
• Skrill payment notifications would never succeed due to a typo
• Google Checkout: wrong amount in checkout when using tax rules.
• Plugins would send a URL with /administrator/ in it if they were fired from the back-end of your site and your site  was in a subdirectory (not the root) of its domain
• Zero-amount subscriptions, usually gifts, were counting towards the stats (thank you, Peter!)
• You could not come back and re-apply for a "Forbid Renewals" subscription if you never completed paying for it
• The Administrator Emails plugin would throw an error if you did not specify any administrator email addresses