This is actually a question regarding Akeeba LoginGuard. I hope you don't mind. My question is about upgrading Joomla from 4.1.5 to 4.2.1 with regard to LoginGuard. In the Pre-Check for upgrade to 4.2.1 . It says that LoginGuard needs to be updated from 6.1.0 to 7.0.0. I've tried to updated LoginGuard to 7.0.0 while still in Joomla 4.1.5 and it won't update. Will Joomla still update without updating LoginGuard to 7.0.0 so that I could update LoginGuard after the update of Joomla?
#37665 Joomla 4.2.1 Question
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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 04 September 2022 11:53 CDT
Friday, 02 September 2022 14:10 CDT
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Sunday, 04 September 2022 11:53 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
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Yeah, that's the unfortunate way Joomla's pre-update check works. It's stupid, it does not reflect reality, I have complained about it a year before Joomla 4.0 was released and nobody is willing to change it.
Upgrade to Joomla 4.2, then install LoginGuard 7.
Joomla 4.2 includes Multi-factor Authentication itself. We contributed LoginGuard's code to Joomla. Installing LoginGuard 7 will migrate the MFA settings from LoginGuard to Joomla. Remember to enable the new MFA plugins (“multifactorauth” plugin group) after you're done.
The only thing the new LoginGuard package provides is two plugins: code by PushBullet and code by SMSAPI. These are the two plugins which use third party services and for this reason could not be accepted for inclusion in Joomla itself.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
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