6.5.1 - August 15, 2026

Changes

• Settings > Notifications now uses the same tab style as the other settings pages - CP
• Search settings tabs are readable again inside the settings search panel - CP

Fixes

• Fixed tab panels rendering empty on pages whose tabs use hyphenated names, including Settings > Notifications and the Paid Listings pricing plan and order screens - CP
• Fixed tabs keeping a focus outline after being clicked with the mouse - CP

6.5.0 - August 14, 2026

New

• Early access: listing detail pages can be laid out in tabs, and add-ons can add their own sections to the detail page
• Early access: listing forms can be laid out in tabs, and a category can ask for a tabbed form
• Early access: visitors can change or remove a click to search filter from the filters widget
• New hooks for add-ons and templates covering listing detail sections, the listing detail layout, the listing form layout, and the data passed to each view

Changes

• Notification emails are sent in the recipient's language, with translations for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese
• Early access: photos and videos open in a single lightbox, and a review's photos and videos share it
• Early access: videos can be captioned in the lightbox the same way photos are
• Early access: scoped filters are shown on every directory and category page
• Early access: the adaptive grid fills its columns at any container width
• Early access: checkbox field options are laid out to fit the field instead of the browser window
• Early access: site tabs use a segmented control, with the current tab filled in the brand colour
• Early access: the Hidden setting can remove the review title from the review form
• The Setup Issues page names the PHP functions your host has disabled that JReviews needs, and what stops working without each one - CP
• The Logs page shows cron health, including how many scheduled tasks are registered - CP
• The Categories page shows which categories are not set up in JReviews and the repairs available - CP
• Importing a legacy module into a Site Widget now carries the search theme fields and the filter module's own field toggles, and reports what a theme cannot carry - CP
• The control panel is always displayed in English regardless of the CMS administrator language - CP
• Media uploads are checked against the file's actual contents instead of what the upload claims
• The legacy media upload endpoints are rate limited, and guest submissions go through the abuse guard
• Guest submitted listing media and review photos are attached to the account the listing or review went to
• Add-ons install atomically, so a broken add-on cannot take the others down with it
• Only one click to search default is offered, the one the site already renders
• The background tasks help link points at the documentation for the version you are running
• Owner reply administrator recipients are taken from the owner reply setting
• Frontend asset caches update when a file changes rather than when the version changes

Fixes

• Early access: fixed the Favorite Users listing type widget not showing on the detail page
• Early access: fixed the Main Media Thumbnail setting having no effect on the detail page, and the main media and video layout settings not matching their labels
• Early access: fixed the photo count including photos the gallery does not show
• Early access: fixed unclosed checkbox field list items
• Early access: fixed invalid custom field listing order
• Early access: fixed the comparison drawer in fullscreen maps
• Early access: fixed review fields hidden by the settings still being accepted on submit
• Early access: fixed the selected option not being highlighted in the filters sidebar
• Early access: fixed missing styles in the media gallery
• Fixed importing a legacy widget losing its settings, placement and layout - CP
• Fixed posted form values being overwritten on pages using SEF URLs
• Fixed a blank page on the legacy listing detail page
• Fixed a blank page on the category settings pages when an assignment row was missing
• Fixed the metadata gate protecting everyone except the user it targeted
• Fixed sanitized field values saving the rejected text instead of the cleaned text
• Fixed the expiration date permission not being applied to the expiration date
• Fixed captcha not working when no captcha secrets are configured
• Fixed email fields not rendering as mailto links
• Fixed website fields rendering without their http prefix
• Fixed review permalinks not going through listing URLs (Joomla)
• Fixed invalid category IDs in field lookup
• Fixed a page hanging on a DNS lookup when fetching a remote address
• Fixed the click to search format falling back to empty
• Fixed listing claims not being cleaned up when a listing is deleted
• Fixed listings whose category has no listing type returning fields they should not have
• Fixed the listing owner not being notified of new comments
• Fixed registered reviewers not being notified of replies
• Fixed the owner reply administrator notification
• Fixed review administrator emails using the wrong address, and removed the IP address from them
• Fixed notification recipients not being resolved from user accounts
• Fixed discussion notifications not being sent for guest authors, and discussion updates not notifying anyone
• Fixed guest names and listing and comment display names missing from administrator emails
• Fixed claim descriptions, moderation notices and other details missing from administrator emails
• Fixed inquiry custom fields not being saved and the inquiry recipient not being recorded
• Fixed the reporter's identity missing from abuse reports
• Fixed video encoding notifications not being linked to the uploaded media
• Fixed the listing title and links in updated comment emails
• Fixed a JReviews URL segment being dropped from articles and pages
• Fixed the create listing URL carrying the category it was reached from
• Fixed field SEO on click to search pages, and click to search URLs naming a field that does not exist now return a 404
• Fixed the user reviews page returning a 404 on both platforms
• Fixed the my media URL containing a double slash (WordPress)
• Fixed search URLs not being absolute when used outside the page
• Fixed a custom.css override path that took Joomla sites down (Joomla)
• Fixed Theme Explorer opening the original file instead of the override
• Fixed uploads being refused from ordinary public hosts
• Fixed the administrator body text colour - CP
• Fixed a class name clash with other extensions
• Fixed a fatal error on Joomla 6 when a request value matched an internal filter name (Joomla 6)

6.4.0 - July 28, 2026

Changes

• Added French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, European Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese translations
• Early access: redesigned the listing detail header, with a new layout for listings that have no cover image and a logo plate for listings that have a logo
• Early access: the listing detail header can now be restyled from custom.css
• Early access: a listing type's Language settings now apply on the modern listing pages and lists, so a hotels directory shows "Add new hotel" instead of "Add new listing"
• Early access: the Listing Type Language screen now states which wording cannot be overridden on the modern pages - CP
• Early access: the listing main photo now appears in the detail film strip
• Early access: unified the media details and sharing controls
• Early access: administrators can force the legacy listing detail page by adding ?legacy=1 to the URL
• Improved responsive layouts on comparison pages, on both the legacy and the modern pages
• The media upload limit message now states the allowed maximum
• JReviews now captures errors that Joomla would otherwise discard, throttles repeating conditions, and no longer records other extensions' errors as its own
• Improved YOOtheme detection so the template no longer has to be resolved during routing
• Media storage status is now shown without querying the storage service first - CP
• Reworded a number of messages for clarity, including the sign in button, delete confirmations, and reply labels

Fixes

• Early access: fixed the listing logo not appearing in the detail header when a listing has a logo but no cover image
• Early access: fixed a media list losing its page and media type when an edit refreshed it
• Early access: fixed Load more not advancing when a paginated list carries its page as a property
• Early access: restored the media count icons and refreshed the video play button on the listing detail page
• Fixed media preview refresh and gallery handling
• Fixed modals opened from native fullscreen, including the flash when exiting fullscreen and incorrect text color afterwards
• Fixed nested components staying stuck in a loading state after a failed request
• Fixed business hours day labels shifting by one on locales where the week starts on Sunday
• Fixed weekday names not following the selected language
• Fixed a misconfigured field output format taking down the listing page
• Fixed background processing failing on hosts that restrict certain PHP functions
• Fixed a fatal error on the Joomla error page when JReviews was only partially loaded (Joomla)
• Fixed template link transitions interfering with JReviews buttons
• Fixed a request for a comment on a missing listing not returning a 404
• Fixed CMS widget titles being overridden
• Fixed custom queries being validated in a different context than the one they were built in
• Fixed the media storage status response being applied to the wrong element - CP
• Fixed missing text in addons that reuse core translation keys
• Fixed hand-built URLs not using the site's own search engine friendly segments

6.3.0 - July 22, 2026

New

• Added guest-submission abuse protection with rate limiting, honeypot detection, and duplicate-submission guards across report, inquiry, comment, review, listing, media upload, and vote forms
• Added a scheduled-task framework with background email and webhook commands that run without blocking the request
• Added an email and webhook Logs channel so background notification and webhook activity is recorded - CP
• Early access: core notification emails now sent through a durable background queue
• Early access: listing owners can move a listing to any category they are allowed to add listings in
• Early access: modern Related Comments widget with its own settings
• Early access: windowed infinite scroll for long activity and listing streams

Changes

• JReviews Logs now captures errors from Yoyo/HTMX (AJAX) requests on Joomla and WordPress
• Improved directory alphabetical index navigation, routing, and interaction states
• Improved widget custom query setup with clearer admin feedback, safer result limits, and plain-language help - CP
• Listings shortcodes now support any-match custom parameters
• Media owners are no longer counted in listing view counts
• Improved fullscreen gallery display controls and audio track ordering
• WordPress now preserves Yoyo (AJAX) HTTP responses correctly (WordPress)

Fixes

• Fixed a fatal error in JReviews SEF routing when the Eventy facade was unavailable (Joomla)
• Fixed Joomla legacy route registration after route preloading (Joomla)
• Fixed advanced search category options failing to load
• Fixed advanced search field states and capped the numeric range control width
• Fixed autosuggest multiselect fields on listing, review, and search forms, including stale responses while typing
• Fixed field relations not restoring on the frontend review form
• Fixed temporary media not being preserved when a listing or review form refreshes
• Fixed guest cookie and internal parameters leaking into search filter chips
• Fixed listing card abstracts to honor the on/off setting and never show a bare ellipsis
• Fixed empty media-type sections showing on the listing form
• Fixed the video player in swapped-in lightboxes and the inline gallery action bar
• Fixed stream media downloads and embedded playback
• Fixed YouTube Shorts linking, allowed links without metadata, and rejected non-embeddable videos
• Fixed video playback not stopping when galleries close, including a Firefox teardown issue
• Fixed CAPTCHA modal recovery and block rendering
• Fixed the review submission completion flow and the post-submit review media lightbox
• Fixed duplicate temporary review media
• Fixed canonical titles in listing inquiry emails
• Fixed guest report and abuse report duplicate handling
• Fixed clipped control panel form controls, headings, and top bar overflow on phones - CP
• Fixed control panel widget editing layout, routing, and comment filters - CP
• Fixed listing detail main photo overflow on full-width templates
• Fixed listing aliases shadowing WordPress pages (WordPress)
• Fixed the WordPress category relation key and widget preview metadata (WordPress)
• Fixed preservation of WordPress XML textarea content (WordPress)
• Fixed assets not migrating correctly with Joomla cached pages (Joomla)
• Fixed vote icons being affected by host theme styles
• Fixed graceful handling of missing media files and thumbnails
• Fixed background queue failure persistence and scheduler lock contention
• Fixed multi-value custom fields not honoring Blade output overrides

6.2.0 - July 1, 2026

New

• Added guest account auto-creation during frontend submission, so guests can be registered as they submit listings, reviews, comments, and media
• Added a Browse → Logs admin log viewer that captures and displays application logs, including full email delivery detail and failed database queries - CP

Changes

• Highlighted your own vote, equalised the appearance of unvoted icons, and explained why blocked votes cannot be cast
• Added a Results Theme Suffix option to the modern Listing Search, Listing Filters, and reviews filters widgets, and honored the V5 tmpl_suffix results theme on V6 list and search pages, with a Theme Explorer indicator
• Improved custom field spacing on listing cards
• Made all listing-filter fields collapsible except the content block
• Joomla Smart Search indexing for listings now runs through scheduled reindexing instead of during listing save/delete requests; sites using Smart Search should schedule php cli/joomla.php finder:index (for example hourly), and listing changes will appear in Smart Search after the next reindex (Joomla)

Fixes

• Fixed the redundant listing header showing on single-listing review views
• Fixed the control panel not degrading gracefully on a transient database failure during bootstrap menu load (Joomla)
• Fixed empty-rendering fields returning null instead of an empty string
• Fixed primary-dependent switch, range, and checkbox color styling leaking outside JReviews content
• Fixed status badges not rendering in the default card layout on list views
• Fixed the claim button showing on already-claimed listings
• Fixed voting on your own media, restoring V5 parity
• Fixed tooltips rendering behind high z-index modals and lightboxes
• Fixed the searchable select fields firing spurious init events
• Fixed custom-field validation rules not being preserved on frontend save
• Fixed the category not being derived from the listing when editing
• Fixed the review discussion edit form losing its stored text
• Fixed the config cache being cleared from the wrong directory
• Fixed the review discussion-post count getting out of sync
• Fixed the date custom field picker not opening in the listing search widget by registering its flatpickr asset
• Fixed the per-field Clear not clearing the keywords and author fields in the listing search widget
• Fixed duplicate listings on paginated list views by correcting the pagination criteria URLs
• Fixed duplicate reviews on paginated review views by correcting the pagination criteria URLs
• Fixed the active-count badge showing for single-value filter fields
• Fixed the PeepSo profile hover card not appearing in the v6 author UI, including on author names in media galleries
• Fixed custom widget and template positions not re-emitting in v6 templates
• Fixed free-text filter inputs reacting to native change-on-blur events
• Fixed range inputs picking up legacy textbox styling
• Fixed a duplicated "below 4th listing" position label in the Blogview widget (WordPress)
• Fixed the Results Theme Suffix not applying to live search results
• Fixed guest vote and review identity by using a signed cookie, made guest vote highlights cache safe, and added a vote write rate limiter
• Fixed unvoting on modern media likes
• Fixed a not-null violation when storing non-IPv4 addresses by storing 0
• Fixed the JReviews autoloader not being loaded in the WordPress activation hook before recording the installed version (WordPress)

6.1.0 - June 13, 2026

New

• New Site Widgets system to build JReviews widgets — comments, media, directories, fields, totals, reviewer rank, favorites, and calendar — and place them in CMS module and widget positions, with visual setup, live preview, and "where used" tracking - CP
• New live filtering for listing and comment pages with a visual Filter Builder, active filter chips, URL-synced state, and a mobile filter drawer
• New listing search widget with cascading fields, keyword scope toggles, and live results
• Early access: new V6 directory page
• Early access: new V6 media list page
• Early access: new V6 advanced search page with numeric range and date range fields
• Early access: new V6 versions of the listing, review/comment, and discussion list pages, the comment detail page, and the photo and video gallery pages
• Redesigned Early Access settings as a grouped features grid - CP
• Addons can now register their own Early Access features
• RSS feeds for listings, reviews, and comments with legacy URL compatibility
• Structured data enrichment with additionalType and additionalProperty schema settings - CP
• Added Schema.org structured data to the comment detail and "view all reviews" pages

Changes

• Refreshed the V6 frontend theme and control panel with refined cards, footers, and comprehensive dark mode support
• Redesigned review cards and the action footers on comments, discussions, and media
• Redesigned the media photo and video galleries with a Swiper-based viewer offering fullscreen, zoom, likes, reporting, and uploader info
• Redesigned listing attachments as file cards with download counts
• Added per-category and per-menu theme suffix support on the V6 frontend
• Added an origin-served social image endpoint for more reliable Open Graph images
• Upgraded the Trix rich text editor
• Added PHP 8.4 compatibility
• Hardened media uploads from URLs against SSRF and restricted them to allowed targets
• JReviews now repairs its version records during installation

Fixes

• Fixed YOOtheme Pro pages and routes failing to load with S2Framework on-demand loading (Joomla)
• Fixed SEF URL routing incorrectly stripping path segments (Joomla)
• Fixed stale frontend assets after updating (Joomla)
• Fixed JReviews assets being lost under Joomla conservative and module caching (Joomla)
• Fixed Open Graph and canonical tags being lost on Joomla 4 and 5 (Joomla)
• Fixed CAPTCHA being enforced when no provider secret is configured, and fixed Cloudflare Turnstile in legacy forms
• Fixed fatal errors during AJAX requests returning a 502 instead of a clean error message
• Fixed addon installation by validating package manifests and deriving the addon name from the package
• Fixed media imports aborting when a video's duration could not be determined
• Fixed listing creation failing when titles are auto-generated (WordPress)
• Fixed review list sorting failing (WordPress)
• Fixed unapproved media being visible in comment and review views
• Fixed crashes when liking or reporting media on listings without a listing type
• Fixed the rich text editor disappearing after a form validation error
• Fixed the discussion reply form closing when validation failed
• Fixed the replies link being hidden on comment cards outside the detail page
• Fixed default field values not being applied on new listing and comment forms
• Fixed the listing search widget highlighting the first option on open and missing a clear link for multi-select fields
• Fixed the date picker calendar grid collapsing for months that start on Sunday
• Fixed clickable elements inside listing cards being blocked by the whole-card link
• Fixed invisible text in the sign-up modal in dark mode
• Fixed errors when confirming deletions in modal dialogs
• Fixed structured data output for multi-value custom fields

JReviews

6.0.1 - February 17, 2026

New

• Brand new comparison page available via early access setting admin.

Changes

• Implement S2Framework on-demand loading integration for Joomla (Joomla)
• Allow addons to register Early Access features via filter hooks - CP
• Lighten poster card background gradient
• Improve App Store download error messages with more actionable guidance - CP

Fixes

• Fixed comparison view PHP deprecation warning, URL encoding issues, debug alert, and compare checkbox initialization in AJAX/live search responses
• Fixed comparison drawer and comparison page crashes and sync issues, handled invalid requests gracefully, added CSS-targetable data attributes to the comparison table, and corrected WordPress script ordering
• Fixed TypeError on non-article pages when V6 listing detail early access is enabled (Joomla)
• Fixed early access settings being saved with incorrect keys - CP
• Fixed addon translation namespace race condition that caused raw keys to appear in output
• Fixed V6 listing detail action buttons to match V5 permission gating
• Fixed multi-select separator showing when no options are selected
• Fixed switch toggle visual jank during htmx swaps - CP
• Fixed JReviews assets not loading with Joomla conservative caching (Joomla)
• Fixed null field warning in FieldOutput component