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Changelog-archive

 

Version 2.4.2 - Security Update (11-October-2016)

SummaryStatus
A potential security vulnerbility found in 2.4.1FIXED
Filtering did not work in multi-lingual sites when there was no translation in current language and sef was enabledFIXED
Some errors in the sef processFIXED

 

Version 2.4.1 (3-October-2016)

SummaryStatus
Remove backwards compatibility with Joomla! 2.5 and Virtuemart 2.6.
Now the extension works only with Joomla! 3.5 and Virtuemart 3.x
IMPR
The results layout breaks with VM 3.0.18 and later, with templates released for older versions of VirtuemartFIXED
Searching with more than 1 word could return all the products of the shop, when the sku was enabled as searchfieldFIXED
Multi-Lingual shops: Categories and Manufacturers were not loaded in the filtering module, when there was no translation in the current languageFIXED
Multi-Lingual shops: Products were not returned as results when there was no translation in the current languageFIXED
Code refactoring and removal of deprecated functionsIMPR

 

Version 2.4.0 (11-July-2016)

SummaryStatus
The results view breaks with VM 3.0.17 and later due to changes in the Virtuemart view's variablesFIXED
Search for part of skus as well (PRO)IMPR
Search phrase should be at least 2 characters. Front-end and back-end validation added (PRO)ADDED
Order by drop-down fixes for VM3.0.17 and higherFIXED
A js error in the free edition of the module was causing problems to the the module's backend (FREE)FIXED

 

Version 2.3.2 (5-April-2016)

SummaryStatus
Dynamic price ranges did not work correctly when we change currencyFIXED
The module's tabs can be broken under circumstances in Joomla! 3.5FIXED
Fix of sevaral notice messagesFIXED
Update of the language filesIMPR
Addition of Slovak languageADDED

 

Version 2.3.1 (12-February-2016)

SummaryStatus
Cache categories even when they use counter - makes the categories loading at least 3x fasterIMPR
Load only subcategories when a parent category is selected/visited (setting)ADDED
Removal of some duplicate sql queries execution to make it even faster when it returns results.IMPR
Compression of scripts makes them half lighter in page loadingIMPR
Dynamic price ranges did not work (PRO)FIXED
Clear in search did not clear all the filters, if the component is configured that way (PRO)FIXED
Fixing of warning messages and code cleanupIMPR
 

Version 2.3.0 (15-December-2015)

SummaryStatus
A new layer for more advanced securityADDED
Sef urls in the pagination links alsoIMPR
Wrong urls in subcategories including also the parent category in some casesFIXED
Use of calendars with date format m-d-Y was generating an error (PRO)FIXED
Important refactoring of several classesIMPR

 

Version 2.2.12 (30-October-2015)

SummaryStatus
Shopper groups were not taken into account, when used in the latest versions of Virtuemart  (PRO)FIXED
Untraslated string COM_VIRTUEMART_ORDERING,PRODUCT_NAME in the ordering drop-downFIXED
More advanced securityIMPR
Did not sort the products by the "Ordering,Product Name" fieldFIXED
The counter in the categories was showing 0, when another filter was selected and the empty categories were set to be displayed as enabledFIXED
Range sliders styling was distorted in some cases (PRO)FIXED
Minor fixesFIXED

 

Version 2.2.11 (04-September-2015)

SummaryStatus
Empty custom filters generate some reduntant markup/html in the module  (PRO)FIXED
When no counter is used, the same category remains always selected because of cachingFIXED
Price range now takes into account only the tax rules (Vat. VatTax). That makes it more accurate in most cases (PRO)IMPR
Empty categories are displayed in drop-downs even when they are set to be hidden  (PRO)FIXED
Range inputs did not take decimal numbers (PRO)IMPR
Dynamic price range takes into account the type of the searchable products (parent/child) (PRO)FIXED
Code cleanup and minor improvementsIMPR

 

Version 2.2.10 (06-August-2015)

SummaryStatus
Can return parent products while searches into the child products  (PRO)ADDED
At east 2x faster loading of the categories filterIMPR
Could not save the "input_slider" display type for a custom filter PRO)FIXED
Could not open the advanced settings for the "input_slider" display type for a custom filter  (PRO)FIXED
Clear option was missing from the color buttons (PRO)IMPR
Use of special characters, in the custom field value field (default value) could create a problemFIXED
The filters were not displayed in the Manufacturers List viewFIXED
Code cleanup and minor improvementsIMPR

 

Version 2.2.9 (12-June-2015)

SummaryStatus
Javascript issues in Virtuemart 3.0.x when ajax is used (PRO)FIXED
Much faster ajax functionality  (PRO)IMPR
Drop-down lists when used with ajax they did not updating the address bar using sef urls  (PRO)IMPR
Using Manufacturers image links with ajax and search buttons caused an error when sef urls were enabled (PRO)FIXED
Logger added. Now all the messages (errors, warnings) are strored in a log fileIMPR
Code cleanupIMPR

 

Version 2.2.8 (28-May-2015)

SummaryStatus
Markup error in the drop-down lists. Generated by the spans within the option tagFIXED
Multiple parent categories can be selected when checkboxes  (PRO)FIXED
Both parent and child categories can be selected when checkboxes (PRO)FIXED
Order by "order, product name" (VM 3.0.9) causes fatal errorFIXED
Advanced settings are not saved in the component with the "range_input_slider" display type  (PRO)FIXED
Manufacturers do not display images. When the image display type is set  (PRO)FIXED
Code cleanup and php notices fix  (PRO)IMPR
Addition of ARIA properties that makes it easier for persons with disabilities to use the filtering moduleADDED

 

Version 2.2.7 (08-April-2015)

SummaryStatus
Problem with the price search in HTTP loading mode and sef urls(PRO)FIXED
Custom values were not searchable when they were more than 1 word (PRO)FIXED
"Range Inputs and Range slider" display type in the component (PRO)ADDED
Improvements to the events related with the module update, when the button is used to return results (PRO)IMPR
Less database tables used by the component, to generate filters in the backend (PRO)IMPR

 

Version 2.2.6 (10-March-2015)

SummaryStatus
Using the search field in ajax mode, sometimes the module's filters were not in accordance with the displayed results (PRO)FIXED
When there were custom filters selected and the "order by" field was used, an error produced (PRO)FIXED
Did not take into account the user's shopper groups when he/she was logged in (PRO)FIXED
Optimizer was returning a server error when it was trying to set an index in a non-existent table (PRO)FIXED
Order by the MPN field was producing an error (PRO)FIXED
Improvements to the module's layout (PRO)IMPR
Completion/Improvement of the German and Ducth translation (PRO)IMPR

 

Version 2.2.5 (06-February-2015)

SummaryStatus
Using more than one range filters, or a range with a price range, was returning wrong results (PRO)FIXED
Some code cleanup (PRO)IMPR

Version 2.2.4 (18-December-2014)

SummaryStatus
After selecting parent categories without products, the module was loading the filters of their sub-categories (Starter, PRO)FIXED

 

Version 2.2.3 (12-December-2014)

SummaryStatus
The search procudes an error when it searches also into the categories (category name) (PRO)FIXED

Version 2.2.2 (08-December-2014)

SummaryStatus
Child products are searchable and filterable even when they have no category/manufacturer (PRO, Starter)ADDED
Dynacmic calculation of the min and max price ranges in the module (PRO)ADDED
Lighter and faster especially with Virtuemart 3 (PRO, Starter)IMPR
Selection of custom filters from the module was not  working (PRO)FIXED
Error in the backend (Virtuemart 3) when a custom filter had advanced options. The categories were missing (PRO)FIXED
Was not loading some scripts and styles that Virtuemart 3 uses (PRO, Starter)FIXED

 

Version 2.2.1 (11-November-2014)

SummaryStatus
Clearance of the filters after a new search did not work with ajax (PRO)FIXED
Auto-expand the subcategories having products after a search (PRO)ADDED
The search had some problems with non-latin characters (PRO)FIXED
Clear option was not displayed in the search, when the search button was used (PRO)FIXED
Products rating was not loaded in the results (PRO)FIXED
The tabs in the module settings were not working with the Spanish language (PRO)FIXED

 

Version 2.2.0 (22-September-2014)

SummaryStatus
New Search Engine that searches products in a sophisticated way (PRO)ADDED
A new Module solely for Products Search (PRO)ADDED
A search functionality added to the Filtering Module as well (PRO)ADDED
The result pages are more SEO friendly by adding meta tags where possible  (PRO)ADDED
Canonical urls added where possible to avoid duplicate pages for the search engines (PRO)ADDED
Several fixes to be compatible with bootstrap/jquery and Joomla 3 (PRO)FIXED
The Joomla's Permissions (a.k.a A.C.L.) were implemented in the component's backend (PRO)ADDED
Ability to select specific custom filters for each filtering module. Usefull in case of different filtering modules for different user/shopper groups (PRO)ADDED
Faster filtering and stronger security (PRO)IMPR
Several javascript errors fixed (PRO)FIXED

 

Version 2.1.1 (11-August-2014)

SummaryStatus
The options in the filters were not returned in some cases (PRO)FIXED

 

Version 2.1.0 (15-July-2014)

SummaryStatus
Ability to work with Virtuemart's shopper groups (PRO)ADDED
Joomla's live update integrated (Starter, PRO)ADDED
At least 1.5x faster and cleaner code in the module and the component (Starter, PRO)IMPR
The counter of the filters was not always the same with the number of the returned results (Starter, PRO)FIXED
Works with Virtuemart 2.9.8 RC and fixes issues with Joomla! 3. Do note that we cannot still guarantee stability with 2.9.8 RCFIXED
Follows the settings of Virtuemart about the ordering direction of the products (Starter, PRO)FIXED
Smart search returns also the unexpanded subcategories of a category tree (PRO)IMPR
Manufacturers were not displayed in some cases (Starter, PRO)FIXED

 

Version 2.0.0 (6-June-2014)

SummaryStatus
Fully compatible with Joomla! 3 (Starter, PRO)ADDED
Works with Virtuemart 2.9.x (developer versions for VM3). (Starter, PRO)
This support cannot be guaranteed, since these versions are not stable
ADDED
The "sort by" drop down menu was not working when ajax was used for loading the results (PRO)FIXED

 

Version 1.9.8 (2-June-2014)

SummaryStatus
Changes to incorporate the new pattern of VM2.6 and later concerning the use language files. Fixes the issue where the language strings where not loaded (Starter, PRO)FIXED

 

Version 1.9.6 (17-March-2014)

SummaryStatus
Pagination was ignoring the total products found (PRO)FIXED
Missing language strings in some languages (PRO)IMPR

 

Version 1.9.5 - "Speed first" (11-March-2014)

SummaryStatus
Optimizer tool in the backend. This tool is checking the database tables of your shop and optimze them to work as efficiently as possible. This can boost the speed of the filtering extension and the whole shop (PRO)ADDED
Code refactoring to become even faster. Every function and query is executed only once (Starter, PRO)IMPR
Categories filter is cached when no counter is used. This can improve performance in case of a long category trees. (Starter, PRO)IMPR
More precise price filtering, taking into account all the calculation rules (Only tax was used before).
It also takes into account the calculation rules per categories and shopper groups (only globals were used) (PRO)
 IMPR
Fixes to the ajax calls for the module. In some cases it produced errors (PRO)FIXED
Ordering by featured product produced an sql error (Starter, PRO)FIXED
When scrollbar and checkboxes that exceed a number, show the selected options on top (PRO)ADDED
Trim whitespaces from the end of the custom field values (erps and other systems are adding trainling spaces) (PRO)IMPR
Czech language added (Starter, PRO)ADDED

 

Version 1.9.4 (2-December-2013)

SummaryStatus
Wrong display of sub categories at the top of the results page (Starter, PRO)FIXED
Minor fixes concerning some notices (Starter, PRO)FIXED

 

Version 1.9.3 (21-November-2013)

SummaryStatus
The component was crashing with the Virtuemart 2.0.24b because of changes in the Virtuemart's category functionality (Starter, PRO) importantFIXED
The ajax add-to-cart functionality was not working, if used in the Virtuemart category and the filtering results pages  (Starter,PRO)FIXED
Incorrect counting of products and filtering options, when the "out of stock" products are set not to be displayed in Virtuemart (Starter,PRO)FIXED
Counting of products was not taking into account the "Booked, ordered products" (Starter,PRO)FIXED
When the user is logged in and belongs to multiple shopper groups, no products returned  (Starter,PRO)FIXED
Price filtering can now work with different prices per shopper groups (PRO)IMPR
Price filtering can now work with different prices per quantity ranges (PRO)IMPR
Modifications and removal of obsolete code, to work better with the latest Virtuemart versions (Starter,PRO)IMPR

 

Version 1.9.2 (5-November-2013)

SummaryStatus
Smart search was not displayed in 1.9.1 (PRO)FIXED
Price filters had problems when used together with the currency change module (PRO)FIXED
Better indexing by the search engines, improving some html attributes (Starter, PRO)IMPR
French language added to the core (Starter, PRO)ADDED

 

Version 1.9.1 (12-September-2013)

SummaryStatus
Smart search did not work in 1.9.0 (PRO)FIXED
Filters ordering was not working in starter version(Starter)FIXED
In thumbnail images display type (manufacturers) the links were displayed twice (Starter, PRO)FIXED

Version 1.9.0 (7-September-2013)

SummaryStatus
Generation of filters from some plugins is possible. For example Customfields For All plugin (PRO)ADDED
Shorter sef urls ommiting some parts where possible (Starter, PRO)IMPR
4 New display types - buttons single, buttons multi, color buttons single, color buttons multi.  (PRO)ADDED
Display of range filters (Sliders, Range inputs, Calendars) to specific categories (PRO)ADDED
Clicking on input elements such as checkboxes and radio buttons will generate the same urls as clicking on their link label  (PRO)IMPR
Fixes to the ajax functionality. Some problems were detected in IE and in some templates (PRO)FIXED
Custom filter options were not translated (PRO)FIXED
When certain variables were selected from other modules e.g. The VM category module, and the appropriate filters were not displayed e.g. The category, then the selected var is not stored and is lost in the next searches (PRO)FIXED
The code of the whole extension is refactored to be even faster  (Starter, PRO)IMPR
New language Brazilian Portuguese in the coreADDED

Version 1.8.3 (7-August-2013)

SummaryStatus
Custom filters did not display the 1st empty option when they were displayed as drop-down lists (in some cases) (PRO)FIXED
Pagination of the results page is now configured from the result's page menu item (Starter, PRO)ADDED
Some undefined variables when the module was empty or hidden in some pages (Starter, PRO)FIXED

Version 1.8.2 (25-June-2013)

SummaryStatus
The pagination was stripping part of the custom field value, when the encoded custom field value contained letters (a-zA-Z) (PRO)FIXED

Version 1.8.1 (6-June-2013)

SummaryStatus
When the button is used together with AJAX the results are not following the limit (PRO)FIXED
When the button is used with AJAX, when the page is changing it looses all the filters (PRO)FIXED
Range callendars display type is always visible in the back-end of the cf component (PRO)FIXED
CSS improvements (Starter, PRO)IMPR

 

Version 1.8.0 (21-May-2013)

SummaryStatus
Shorter sef urls creating a menu item for the results page. Read Here (Starter, PRO)IMPR
Settings for the sliders from custom fields added in the backend of the CF componentADDED
When a custom field is a list, order the values as a they are in the list. Not in alphabetical order (PRO)IMPR
Nofollow was not added in the options, having as a result the indexing of all the links from the major search engines (Starter, PRO)FIXED
List items displayed after using the smart search could not be selected (PRO)FIXED
Highlight matches in smart search (PRO)IMPR
Setting icons for categories is now also in the free version (Starter)IMPR
The Sliders are now working in mobile devices (PRO)IMPR
Italian and Spanish translations were added (Starter, PRO)ADDED

Version 1.7.1 (4-April-2013)

SummaryStatus
Setting to return or not the child products (Starter, PRO)ADDED
New display types: Image links for Manufacturers, Date range using callendars for the date custom fields (Starter, PRO)ADDED
Fatal error when there is only text input but not slider for the filters that use ranges (PRO)FIXED
The clear option was not displayed in the categories when checkboxes and the ordering was other than tree (Starter, PRO)FIXED
On category selection reset all selections , setting (Starter, PRO)IMPR
Improve the way the category tree works whith checkboxes (PRO)IMPR
Fixes for the RTL direction (Starter, PRO)FIXED
Improvement of the results page to load also plugins and some other variables that concern a selected category (Starter, PRO)IMPR
Improvements to the generated HTML code in order to be valid (Starter, PRO)IMPR

Version 1.7.0 (4-February-2013)

SummaryStatus
AJAX for loading the results (PRO)ADDED
Unpublished and out of stock products are not included in the counting (Starter, PRO)IMPR
The foldable category tree was not working correctly when parent categories were links (PRO)FIXED
The vars from the Virtuemart pages were not used by the module when it was loaded with ajax (PRO)FIXED
Reset should not reset the category, when the category filter is unpublished (Starter, PRO)IMPR
Do not display empty or null values in filters (PRO)FIXED
MySQL error when the results order was set to 'ordering' (Starter, PRO)FIXED
Get the default list limit from the VM settings (Starter, PRO)IMPR

Version 1.6.1 (7-January-2013)

SummaryStatus
2 new display types for the custom filters. Input Range and Slider Range
With these display types is possible to filter the products using ranges for the integer custom fields (PRO)
ADDED
The ajax module loading did not work when the module was assigned on specific pages (PRO)FIXED
Expanded/collapsed state of categories had some problems when there were a lot of parent categories (Starter, PRO)FIXED
VatTax was not calculated in the price filtering. (PRO)FIXED

 

Version 1.6.0 (28-November-2012)

SummaryStatus
Expandable/Collapsible category tree (Starter, PRO)ADDED
Advanced Category tree settings - expand/collapse icon, parent as link etc (PRO)  ADDED
Strore the collapsed/expanded state of each filter (Starter, PRO)ADDED
Dependency direction setting (Starter, PRO)ADDED
Multiple instances of ajax type modules in a page (PRO)FIXED
"Empty options display" as setting in each filter (Starter, PRO)IMPR
Hide the clear button from the price search when there is no price set (PRO)IMPR
Spinner icon on AJAX requests to stay where the mouse is ,when an element is clicked (PRO)IMPR
On "Reset All" return all products, did not work (Starter, PRO)FIXED

 

Version 1.5.3 (7-November-2012)

SummaryStatus
Filters were not displayed in the VM search page and some other pages when they were set to be displayed on "Other Virtuemart Pages" (PRO)FIXED
The Module was returning no ajax results when there was at least 1 drop-down llist of custom filters and the search was done using a button (PRO)FIXED

Version 1.5.2 (30-October-2012)

SummaryStatus
Search also using a button and load the dependencies using AJAX  (PRO)ADDED
Smart search at the top of each filter for searching easily within the filter's options (PRO)ADDED
Set a filter to be displayed as collapsed or expanded (PRO)ADDED
Scrollbar after a height (Starter, PRO)ADDED
Ability to use multiple module instances within a page (Starter, PRO)ADDED
When there were 2 options with the same id attribute, IE was always selcting the 1st one (Starter, PRO)FIXED
The counter was also counting the unpublished products (Starter, PRO)FIXED

Version 1.5.1 (26-September-2012)

SummaryStatus
Dependencies are not working well for custom filters, when the "Empty Options Display" is set to "hide"  (PRO)FIXED
Custom filters are still displayed when all the options are empty ,the "Empty Options Display" is set to "enabled" and the "Display filter if empty or disabled" is set to "No" (PRO)FIXED

Version 1.5.0 (20-September-2012)

SummaryStatus
Much faster  (in most cases) (Starter, PRO)IMPR
Counter beside each option (Starter, PRO)ADDED
"Reset All" button (Starter, PRO)ADDED
Better multi-language functionality (Starter, PRO)IMPR
When there is only 1 "sorting by" field and is default. The order by field is disappeared (Starter, PRO)FIXED
Loading of the correct css and js files to collaborate with the template overrides (Starter, PRO)IMPR
Slider did not work in RTL sites (PRO)FIXED
Price Filter did not take into account the "" (PRO)FIXED

 

Version 1.4.2 (10-July-2012)

SummaryStatus
Javascript error "from_price" is null when the price filter is not displayed (Starter, PRO)FIXED
Warning message when the global tax is zero (PRO)FIXED
If we have only 1 category selected, check if it has children and display them at the top of the results (Starter, PRO)ADDED

 

Version 1.4.1 (5-July-2012)

SummaryStatus
Price filter returns no results when there is no global tax (PRO)FIXED
Results page ItemId setting in the module (Starter, PRO)ADDED
Order By does not include the price filter vars (PRO)FIXED
Order By does not include the custom filters vars (PRO)FIXED
Order By creation date produces an SQL error (Starter, PRO)FIXED
Display of some PHP notices (Starter)IMPR

Version 1.4.0 (19-June-2012)

SummaryStatus
Price range filter with text boxes and slider (PRO)ADDED
More conditions for the filters display (PRO)ADDED
Spaces missing in the category tree. So some subcategories are displaying as parent categoriesFIXED
Filters ordering module setting. Set which type of filter you want to be displayed 1st, 2nd etc.ADDED

Version 1.3.3 (23-May-2012)

SummaryStatus
Filters are not displayed in the Starter (FREE) versionFIXED
Minor fixes and improvement to the speedFIXED

Version 1.3.2 (10-May-2012)

SummaryStatus
Problem with the "display custom filters if exist: manufacturer" module settingFIXED
In some cases category ordering is not correct in the tree modeFIXED
Excluded Categories setting in the categories filterADDED
Modification of some language strings in order to work with joomla's language overridesIMPR
Manufacturer filter conditional display (if category or custom filter is selected)ADDED

Version 1.3.1 (7-April-2012)

SummaryStatus
Load of mootools-more in the module. This way the accordion effect will always workIMPR
Modifications to be compatible with VM2.0.4IMPR
Imrovements to the js code to avoid conflicts with the jquery libraryIMPR
Imrovements to the multi-language functionalityIMPR
Version check to the backend. It shows if the current version is updatedADDED

 

Version 1.3 (28-Feb-2012)

SummaryStatus
Removal of some deprecated functions (In the 12.1 joomla framework)IMPR
Fixes to be compatible with VM2.0.2FIXED
Products display based on Shopper GroupsADDED
Fix to the results page paginationFIXED
Pathway (breadcrumbs) to the results pageADDED

 

Version 1.2 (3-Feb-2012)

SummaryStatus
Clear option when used checboxesADDED
"Hide empty options" does not work in drop-down listsFIXED

 

Version 1.1 (2-Feb-2012)

SummaryStatus
Problem to the custom filters conditional display, when "category or manufacturer"FIXED
Problem to the router.php when category_id[1]=something but category_id[0] does not existFIXED
ASC ordering of the custom optionsADDED

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