jAnswers Factory 4.2.6 released on March 17, 2020.
- New feature: added option to enable dark mode for ReCaptcha.
jAnswers Factory 4.2.5 released on October 23, 2019.
- Fixed issue regarding SEF question link.
jAnswers Factory 4.2.4 released on September 10, 2019.
- Fixed issue regarding free question updates, guests not allowed to make purchases, featured questions highlighted, redirect after payment, etc.
jAnswers Factory 4.2.3 released on June 24, 2019.
- New feature: automatically fix photos orientation (requires the exif php module).
- Optimization: added option to hide or show question tabs (Asnwer, Vote, etc.) by customizing the Questions menu item tabs parameter.
- Optimization: improved user experience when performing AJAX requestes by adding clear visual cues.
- Optimization: Responsive layout.
- Optimization: updated the about component view.
- Optimization: added progress bar when uploading a new avatar.
- Optimization: highlighted more cleary open tab on profile page on mobile display
- Optimization: do not show the Credit tab on the Profile page if no payment item is enabled
- Optimization: added option to change the number of latest activity entries displayed on the profile page.
- Optimization: added a "Login to answer" button for guests when guests are not allowed to answer questions.
- Optimization: profile avatar caching workaround.
- Fixed some issues regarding RSS feed header content, handling case when trying to view question with an id of 0, answers RSS feed link on questions page on desktop size missing, backup and restore, missing social media buttons on question page, strip HTML tags when displaying a question description excerpt, caching the profile avatar photo after changing it from the profile page, hide RSS feed links when disabled from backend, missing language strings from the language file.
jAnswers Factory 4.2.2 released on April 4, 2019.
- Compatibility to Joomla! 4.x.
- Optimization: hide the ROOT category when inserting or updating a question.
- Optimization: reset op_cache after saving settings to prevent issues by misconfigured op_cache.
- Optimization: ReCaptcha is now being displayed only to unregistered
users.
- Fixed issues regarding redirect to original page after accessing a section that requires a logged in user, redirect to previous page when accessing a section that requires a logged in user, updated ReCaptcha display and validation, responsive on Ask a question and Search pages, display 5th hidden tab on answers list.
jAnswers Factory 4.2.1 released on April 9, 2018.
- Fixed several issues including text formatting for questions and answers, categories counter, watchlist, tag cloud module, formated answers.
jAnswers Factory 4.2.0 released on March 15, 2017.
- Implemented online update system.
jAnswers Factory 4.1.0 released on September 14, 2016.
- Code cleaning and framework.
- Fixed some issues with slider menus in question backend, notices in framework code, PHP 7 compatibilty.
jAnswers Factory 4.0.3 released on May 14, 2015.
- Stylized all back-end listings.
- Change jooanswers name part to standard jAnswers Factory name.
- Removed Sample Data from the kit; it will be available on the Forum only.
- Fixed issues regarding menu item for add question, saving events settings.
jAnswers Factory 4.0.2 released on August 14, 2014.
- Compatibility with Joomla 3.3.x.
- Added new branding.
jAnswers Factory 4.0.1 released on December 2, 2013.
- Fixed issue regarding featured questions.
jAnswers Factory 4.0.0 released on March 11, 2013.
- Support for Joomla 3.0.x.
jAnswers Factory 3.2.0 released on October 2, 2012.
- New feature: Facebook and Twitter integration.
- New feature: Comments for questions and answers.
- New feature: RSS feeds for questions and answers.
- New feature: Filter for answered or unanswered questions.
- New feature: Search plugin.
- New feature: set minimum length of a question.
- SEF, ACL, Frontend & Backend improvements.
jAnswers Factory 3.1.1 released on July 20, 2012.
- Added new product template.
jAnswers Factory 3.1.0 released on February 22, 2012.
- Support for Joomla 2.5.x.
- Fixed several issues including edit/save profile, open question from backend, enable/disable payment items and gateways, XLS export, level display, user status, manage tags, title on notifications, etc.
jAnswers Factory 3.0.0 released on November 25, 2011.
- New Product Concept.
- Fixed issues regarding pay2_checkout save settings, admin model events, missing publish/unpublish images in backend.
jAnswers Factory 2.1.0 released on September 19, 2011.
- Support for Joomla 1.7.x.
jAnswers Factory 2.0.0 released on January 11, 2011.
- Redeveloped for Joomla 1.6.x.
- New feature: display level and point beneath the avatar.
- New feature: extended watching category options.
jAnswers Factory 1.3.2 released on January 25, 2011.
- Improved install/uninstall code (resolving issues with FTP layer).
- Fixed several issues regarding questions category and tag filtering, building links in Tag cloud module, displaying user's description in his profile, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.3.1 released on November 16, 2010.
- Fixed issues regrading filter questions by category, html formatting modified on admin edit question page, filters were not kept from one page to another (when listing search results), several listing problems (when filtering questions on frontend and backend).
jAnswers Factory 1.3.0 released on October 28, 2010.
- New feature: Upload files as attachments for questions and/or answers.
- New feature: Tags management in administration area.
- New feature: Extending questions expiry date.
- New feature: change Time format.
- New feature: Topic Contributors module.
- Optimizations: several database query improvements.
- Fixed issues regarding category module links, jquery-mootools conflict in category module, visible buttons according to user's group rights, editor instead of textarea when allowing html in answer was set to "No", router.php (selecting wrong Itemid), category search, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.1.5 released on July 28, 2010.
- New feature: added 2checkout payment gateway.
- New feature: min. and max. length for tags to be displayed (as Tag-Cloud module options).
- New feature: on backend, for undecided questions, a new button for each answer, so it can be chosen as best answer.
- Fixed several issues including Tag-cloud, category module (items counter), backend counting answers, display frontend "best answer chosen by", frontend question countdown, voting buttons, add/remove from favorites, search by tag, wrong display for question status, watch category when SEF enabled.
jAnswers Factory 1.1.4 released on May 25, 2010.
- Fixed several issues including CRON services, display for UTF-8 characters in category-tree module, redirect for guests (when adding questions to favorites), wrong input processing on systems with "magic quotes" enabled, fatal error on "remove from watchlist", display for "watchlisted" questions, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.1.3 released on April 28, 2010.
- New feature: reCAPTCHA validation on questions/answers submit.
- New feature: anti-spoofing tokens in forms that submit questions/answer.
- New feature: allow HTML tags in questions' details field or in answers; added settings values to allow only the desired HTML tags and attributes for those tags (white-list filtering), this way preventing XSS forgeries.
- Fixed several issues including adding new category, editing user profile in backend, inserting embedded code in questions/answers (youtube movies), multi-language sites compatibilities, truncated diacritics in questions and saved wrong into the db, mis-replacing diacritics when building the SEF links, saving T&C in admin not working for texts with quotes (unescaped input), uninstall all files, reCaptcha on asking questions, preview on answering and editing, deleting answers, date on listing questions, back button on upload avatar.
jAnswers Factory 1.1.2 released on March 23, 2010.
- New feature: send a email notification to the administrator when a new questions is asked.
- New feature: Watch categories.
- Fixed several issues regarding email notifications, delete mail table on restore, listing questions order by start_date desc, MySQL 4 incompatibility, template set_css, report question/answer, vote answer, editing non-existing profile, user level calculation, payments, set featured (in admin), import csv, upload avatar, edit category backend, category list module, total questions, filtering according to the selected category in module, upgraded JQuery version and JQuery tree version plugin for module.
jAnswers Factory 1.1.1 released on March 18, 2010.
- New feature: Backup/Restore
- Fixed several issues regarding reported questions/answers, events, levels, sql install.
jAnswers Factory 1.1.0 released on March 3, 2010.
- New feature: Points/Events system.
- New feature: Permissions/Levels (according to the number of points).
- New feature: nested set Category model (for a higher scalability).
- New feature: added possibility to implement own plugins based on the component predefined events (at this time 5 events are implemented).
- New feature: Answer more then once; users are allowed to answer a question several times (administrator option, enable/disable).
- Improved code and SQL queries for better performance.
- Fixed some issues regarding SQL, saving answers, display date answers, choose best answer, favorites, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.7released on February 9, 2010.
- Fixed issues regarding SEO and non-seo links behaviour, permissions, user notification on own question, profile saving, table indexes, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.6 released on July 5, 2009.
- XHTML 1.0 transitional compliant
- Improved SQL queries
- Improved search after TAGS
- Fixed issues when "select" multiple tags (with lots of "options", like those for users or categories), edit questions containing ' and " (on frontend and backend), treeview module (changed from YUI to jquery), install of treeview module, tagcloud module (if no tag exists).
jAnswers Factory 1.0.5 released on June 26, 2009.
- New feature: "voting answers" permissions (public, registered, special); for "voting answers" set on public: option to store the guest vote in a cookie, preventing multiple voting.
- Fixed issues regarding "escaped" question on display, voting system, terms and conditions link, user rights notice, admin edit question containing '"' in the title, db tables indexes, some xhtml compliances.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.4 released on June 16, 2009.
- Fixed issues regarding SEF and router.php file, about page on backend, improved coding, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.3 released on June 3, 2009.
- New feature: Public/Registred/Special statuses for different actions.
- New Feature: CB Plugin.
- Added possibility for users to edit their questions and add/remove answers from the backend for administrator.
- Fixed several issues including categories display, cb issues, formatting of answers, username display, TAG search and SEF, etc.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.2 released on May 28, 2009.
- Fixed several issues including saving profile information, status fields, removed notices.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.1 released on May 18, 2009.
jAnswers Factory 1.0.0 released on April 17, 2009.