Akeeba Kickstart 3.1 released

22 July 2010 Last updated on 16 January 2012

Akeeba Kickstart 3.1 (Stable) is out. Major bug fixes and new features.

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Akeeba Kickstart 3.1 stable package. This version fixes severe bugs found in the 3.1 release and adds new features. All users are kindly advised to upgrade to the new release. As of today, Kickstart 3.0 and previous releases are considered obsolete and no support will be provided for them.

 

As always, you can download the latest release of Akeeba Kickstart in our download section. Translation files are included in the ZIP package. If you get stuck, you can read the documentation on-line, or file your support request for free on our support forum.

Be involved!

Kickstart is Free and Open Source Software. The "free" part is not just about price; it's about Freedom, more speciffically your freedom of choice and your freedom to influence its development. We kindly ask you to provide your feedback, even the negative one, back to us so that we can improve our software. If you have a bug report, complaint, question, suggestion, improvement, or if you have written or recorded a tutorial, feel free to contact us. We greatly value your feedback and we are very keen to incorporate it in the next releases of our software.

Be involved today and help shape tomorrow's Kickstart! All you have to do is drop us a line in the support forum.

Changelog

  • Stealth Mode feature added. It allows to transparently redirect web visitors to a temporary static HTML page while you are restoring your site.
  • Restoration of the file modification date and time in ZIP and JPA formats. This feature requires JPA archives produced with Akeeba Backup developer release SVN189 or later. It works with all ZIP files produced by any version of Akeeba Backup and/or JoomlaPack.
  • The "Auto Mode" wasn't working correctly. This release fixes those issues, but the "Auto Mode" will only work with archives produced by Akeeba Backup 3.0 Stable or later.
  • The FTP Mode wasn't working, at all.
  • Kickstart would not work on PHP < 5.2.0 or if json_encode wasn't available.
  • Kickstart wouldn't handle .htaccess and php.ini renaming with ZIP archives.
  • Wrong redirection to administrator/index.php instead of installation/index.php when you clicked on the "Start Installer" button.
  • Wouldn't remove the translation files on cleanup.
  • Outstanding issues with FTP mode when open_basedirs was set