Compatibility : all versions of Joomla 1.0.x and Joomla 1.5.x stable (in Native mode!).
Acajoom News 5.1.0, Acajoom Plus 5.1.1, and Acajoom PRO 5.1.2
Release date: December 10, 2009
Bug Fixes and Modifications
1. Acajoom CB integration (bug fixed) -- to be able to edit CB profiles in the frontend and backend when AcajoomCB plugin is published. Fixed variable conflict between Acajoom 5.0.1 and Community Builder (CB).
2. (Rename) hidden passwordA field in the administrtor's side to prevent spammers to subscribe users via url. It needs to append &passwordA=Pas$word to be able to add subscribers via url.
The default value for passwordA is Pas$word. Please change your password immediately.
Sample url: http://yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_acajoom&act=subscribe&name=name&email=
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
&listid=3&receive_html=1&passwordA=Pas$word
The hidden password variable was renamed to passwordA to avoid the conflicts between the password variable passed by Acajoom and CB (Community Builder) when Acajoom CB Plugin is published.
This hidden password is also being encrypted so that if ever you use firebug add-ons the password is encrypted.
3. Bug fix for blank page after the installation of Acajoom 5.0.x
- PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /srv/www/htdocs/administrator/components/com_acajoom/subscribers.acajoom.html.php on line 529
- Parse error:syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting T_FUNCTION in /srv/www/htdocs/administrator/components/com_acajoom/config.acajoom.html.php on line 1469
Acajoom News 5.0.0, Acajoom Plus 5.0.1, and Acajoom PRO 5.0.2
Release date: November 30, 2009
New Features
1. Send Subscription Notification to the email address supplied in the confirm bounce address field (PRO).
2. Additional 5 fields/columns for subscriber details (PRO).
3. Captcha functionality (Plus & PRO).
Improvements and Bug Fixes:
1. Modified and improved Automatic Synchronization Plugin. The registered Joomla users will be automatically subscribed to the list wherein the subscription is set to "New users."
2. Modified and added translation files (Turkish, French, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Italian, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Brazilian).
3. Added hidden password field in the administrator's side to prevent spammers to subscribe users via url. It needs to append &password=123456 to be able to add subscribers via url.
4. Improved tagging system -- additional tags for newsletters.
The additional columns for your subscribers' details can be used also for newsletter tagging system.
These are the following tags for newsletters:
[COLUMN1]
[COLUMN2]
[COLUMN3]
[COLUMN4]
[COLUMN5]
You can use these tags in your newsletters and these will be replaced by the value/detail of your subscriber under Column 1, Column 2, Column 3, Column 4, and Column 5.
Modified Export function (the name, email, received html and registered paramets are modified to name, email, received html and confirmed parameters)
Modified and improved Automatic Synchronization Plugin ( the Registered Column from the Acajoom Subcribers Menu are now marked properly when new registered users are sync as Acajoom Subscribers)
Fixed text only version of mailing particularly the blank page issue before the message.
Modified and fixed added translation files from versions 4.1.0, 4.1.1, and 4.1.2 : (arabic, brazilian_portuguese, french, german, germani, hebrew, hrvatski, hungary, romanian, rusian, and swedish).
Fixed the oldest and the unnoticed bug in Acajoom (the duplicate sent of scheduled newsletters particularly on autoresponder issue with SMTP Mailer method used)
Acajoom News 4.1.1, Acajoom Plus 4.1.2 and Acajoom PRO 4.1.2
Release date: July 31, 2009
New Features
Automatic Synchronization Plug-in (for optimization purposes which will directly add your registered users as Acajoom subscribers).
Acajoom Module Loader (to load modules from the site to newsletters with the use of this tag: {module=id} ex. {module=34} 34 is the id of the module you want to load into your Newsletters which can only be triggered from the frontend with a cron running in your site.)
Encoding Format (option to select encoding format – either UTF-8 or ISO-8859-2 – to support special characters recognition)
Added Translation Files (all in all there are 24 translation files included in the Acajoom Package)
Bug Fix:
Fix the bug on copying list (the sql version compatibility error when copying list has been fixed and improved)
Acajoom News 4.0.0, Acajoom Plus 4.0.1 and Acajoom PRO 4.0.2
Release date: June 30, 2009
New features
Integration with jLinks to track urls
Integration with jBounceBack to handle the bounce message
The uninstall now does not delete the Acajoom Module, it will be simply unpublished so that you can upgrade without having to reconfigure it! (that will be available only for an update from 3.2.3 to any future version)
Added a max size for the intro text if the fulltext is not set and you want to include a description. You can set up a number of characters in the Acajoom configuration page and Acajoom will cut the text.
Added an "insert" button for the Content Integration so that you don't have to copy/paste the content tag any more.
Automatically delete the detailed statistics after X days
Added an ordering option for the SmartNewsletter
Ability to include several sections/categories in the SmartNewsletter
Automatically confirm the subscribers if you import them and don't require a confirmation in your Acajoom Configuration page
Ability to delete all subscribers at once (select all users with a simple checkbox)
New frequency for the SmartNewsletter : twice a day
Added an option to embed images in the e-mail itself (so that you don't have to click on "accept images" to really dispay them on the client website)
Bug fixes
Fix a bug in the embed images option.
Removed completely the tooltip if the option "remove tooltip" is set to true in the Acajoom Configuration page
Fixed one link which was not working with sh404SEF
Fixed the bug of having an antislash before a quote in the list name or list description
Added the + character for validating e-mail addresses
Acajoom GPL 3.2.6
Release date: June 2, 2009
Important modification
Fixed a security hole about access to privacy data, we highly recommend to upgrade.
Acajoom News 3.2.0, Acajoom Plus 3.2.1 and Acajoom PRO 3.2.2
Release date: May 3, 2009
New features
Added a router file to handle the SEF mode in Acajoom properly with Joomla 1.5, please report any bug report about links on our ticket system
Bug fixes
Handle the timeoffset properly on Joomla 1.5
Improved the synchronisation with Joomla users so that an account is not created if the user changes his e-mail address
Acajoom News 3.1.6, Acajoom Plus 3.1.7 and Acajoom PRO 3.1.8
Release date: March 5, 2009
New features
Added new security checks on the program, that should reduce the attacks and the fake subscribers on the Acajoom component.
Added the read more link in the Acajoom translation files so users can translate it properly and don't use the Joomla one which was not working all the time (depending if the Newsletter is sent from the front-end or back-end)
Improved the check on the e-mail so if the domain name is not a correct one, the e-mail will be automatically removed from the Acajoom queue (Acajoom Plus and PRO).
Added a field "next date" for the SmartNewsletter so the user can easily see and change it if needed (this date indicates the next time Acajoom will generate a new Newsletter)
The hidden lists are checked in the module and in the CB integration so you can add hidden lists and visible lists which are not checked. So the user will be automatically subscribed to the hidden lists and will have the choice to subscribe to visible lists.That enables Acajoom to stay compliant with some new country rules about mailing list.
The e-mail and name field are automatically set by default when you send a test e-mail with the current logged in user.
The unsubscribe links are replaced properly when you send a test Newsletter so you can easily test the entire process.
Added a report when you process the queue (Acajoom Plus and PRO) so you get a clear information about what is in the queue and when it will be sent. Acajoom will also display when the next SmartNewsletter will be sent.
Added clear error messages for the CB integration so if you make a mistake in one CB tag in your Newsletter, Acajoom will tell you exactly the error (Acajoom PRO).
Bug fixes
Added a close div when displaying the Acajoom pages on the backend.
Improved the synchronisation with Acajoom users (fixed the bug of synchronisation with quotes in the name)
If the user is already confirmed, Acajoom won't send a confirmation e-mail the second time and will directly subscribe the user properly.
Improved some translations to be more clear (only the english one)
Added HTML comments around the JS module so the JS is xHTML compliant.
Added the CSS of the module in the header (only Joomla 1.5) to avoid validation errors.
Acajoom News 3.1.0, Acajoom Plus 3.1.1 and Acajoom PRO 3.1.2
Release date: January 11, 2009
New features
[DATE] tag can be used in the subject too
Clean automatically the queue (Acajoom Plus/PRO)
Added a dropdown option to display the lists in the Acajoom module
Added a check on the e-mail after an error in the queue so the user is automatically removed if it's not a valid one
Added an automatic synchronisation if a user is registered in Joomla and logs in so he's recognized immediately by Acajoom as a subscriber
Bug fixes
Added a fixed width to avoid a problem with some editors while writing a Newsletter
Improved the integration with sh404SEF
Fixed the receiver of the log which is now the latest user who modified the list
Fixed the "read more" link for Joomla 1.5.x in native
Improved the Joomla 1.0.x compatibility bot to include some Joomla Modules in your Newsletter (only on Joomla 1.0.x)
Fixed a problem while saving the log with Joomla 1.5.x
Acajoom News 3.0.7, Acajoom Plus 3.0.8 and Acajoom PRO 3.0.9
Release date : October 8, 2008
The upgrade is recommended if you use Acajoom PRO and Joomla 1.5.x in native.
New features
Added the tag [USERNAME] in the subject too
Bug fixes
Fixed a problem with paths on Joomla 1.5.x
Fixed a bug during the optimize table on Acajoom PRO and Joomla 1.5.x native
Fixed the confirmation e-mail sent in text format
Acajoom News 3.0.4, Acajoom Plus 3.0.5 and Acajoom PRO 3.0.6
Release date: September 22, 2008
New features
Acajoom is now compatible with Joomla 1.5 native!
Added the username tag ([USERNAME])
Added an option in the mail configuration to be compatible with mini_sendmail (used by SiteGround)
Added an option to disable the Joomla tooltip to avoid a javascript error with Flash
Bug fix
Fixed the optimize table launched too often in Acajoom PRO
Acajoom News 2.1.0, Acajoom Plus 2.1.1 and Acajoom PRO 2.1.2
Release date: September 6, 2008
New features
The attachments are displayed on the archive section of Acajoom
Bug fixes
Fixed the problem of inserting an existing entry in the queue for the following autoresponder.
Added indexes in the Acajoom subscribers table to optimize the synchronisation.
Improved the synchronisation process
Fixed the import of Yanc tables
Changed the text format into longtext to store the e-mail in the database
Fixed minor bug which displayed 'Array' with Joomla 1.5.x
Fixed bug of statistics in the smartNewsletter
Improved the schedule process for a SmartNewsletter and a Newsletter, process successfully tested with 200 000 subscribers
Removed the extra space at the top of the Acajoom CB Plugin
Acajoom News 2.0.6, Acajoom Plus 2.0.7 and Acajoom PRO 2.0.8
Release date: April 18, 2008
The upgrade is recommended if you use Joomla 1.5.x but not necessary if you use the free version on Joomla 1.0.x The upgrade is recommended for our commercial version, Acajoom Plus and PRO as we improved the autoresponder process.
New features
You can now include Static contents in your Newsletter
Bug fixes
Fixed a problem with the Acajoom CB Plugin and Joomla 1.5 (JRoute...)
The subscribe icon is not displayed if the user is not logged in and Acajoom not allowed for non-registered users
Fixed the problem of reply-to field with Joomla 1.5
Modified the access rights so the user only see the right lists (Acajoom PRO)
Modified the smartNewsletter feature to don't change the send date (15/30 minutes each time)
Fixed the problem of sending error report with Joomla 1.5
Removed the Itemid if there is no value specified in the configuration (for Joomla 1.5 and SEF Mode)
Show errors during the installation on Joomla 1.5
Encode the text in utf-8 for the menu (during install) for Joomla 1.5
Fixed a problem of accents in Joomla 1.5 (you do not have to download an other language file any more, Acajoom will automatically convert the language file in utf-8!)
Fixed the problem of follow-up (Acajoom Plus and PRO), you can now automatically subscribe a user to an other autoresponder list after an autoresponder list
Fixed the problem when you update a list of autoresponders (the autoresponders in the queue were unpublished) (Acajoom Plus and PRO)
Fixed an error '400' after the send process (Acajoom Plus and PRO)
Fixed the problem of sending the autoresponder more than one time to the same user (Acajoom Plus and PRO)
The text version is not created any more until the Newsletter is sent
Acajoom News 2.0.1, Acajoom Plus 2.0.2 and Acajoom PRO 2.0.3
Release date : February 12, 2008
We highly recommend to upgrade as some security issues has been discovered
Important modifications
Fixed a security hole about access to privacy data, we highly recommend to upgrade.
New features
Added an Itemid in the Acajoom configuration that you can change to avoid any error like 'You are not authorized to...' when a user subscribes through the module or change his subscription.
Modified the Acajoom Mambot/Plugin to offer a new powerful feature to easily write your CSS Newsletter (please read the documentation about the CSS in your Newsletter ). This is very important improvement for PRO users using the SmartNewsletter feature!
The Newsletters are now ordered by issue number, the newest first.
You can now redirect the user to your own page after he confirmed his subscription with the confirmation e-mail.
Bug fixes
Fixed the problem with SEF turned ON when you subscribe through the module with Joomla 1.0.x.
Fixed the problem with the autoresponder when you edit an existing one. The send date is not set to 0 any more.
Fixed the problem of calling the Mambot if you try to include an image using mosimage mambot, that could cause fatal errors depending on your Mambots installed on your site.
Fixed lot of compatibility problems with Joomla 1.5 stable.
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