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Version 3.2.4 Stable
Released on:
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Wednesday, 19 April 2023 |
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Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.2.4 released (2023-04-19)----
- Bugfix
- The update of the view all 10 recipients while sending a newsletter caused, that only 10 mails per step were sent at time controlled sending.
- Version 3.2.2 released (2022-10-15)----
- Bugfix
- At some rare cases subscriber model couldn't load from front end
- Version 3.2.1 released (2022-06-30)----
- Improvement
- Make it possible to import subscribers without selecting a mailinglist.
- Adjust call of getcsv at import of subscribers to prevent php warnings
- Version 3.2.0 released (2022-02-18)----
- Bugfix
- Imported newsletter templates may not have status 'default', even if the exported template was a default template
- At front end view register a container was not closed correctly, if no mailing list was selectable
- Module registration showed subscription instead of 'edit link', if visitor with subscription is logged in
- Improvement
- Better check and repair default value of table columns at restoring tables and check and repair
- Edit subscription now is also shown at view register, if no mailinglist is selectable
- Align subscribers with Joomla! users to prevent mismatch at editing subscription at update of BwPostman
- New
- Add plugin userAccount, which aligns Joomla user ID of with subscribers data, if account is created or deleted after subscription
- Newsletters now show search engine friendly URLs for 'ReadMore'
- Version 3.1.9 released (2021-12-19)----
- Bugfix
- Revert bugfix 'On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error', made more problems than it solved
- Sending to testrecipients unable
- Version 3.1.8 released (2021-12-18)----
- Bugfix
- Package creation took too much media folders at plugins, package was too big
- On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error
- Improvement
- Ensure that a variable not countable at U2S don't produce errors
- Enhance description of # of months of module overview at back end
- Version 3.1.7 released (2021-10-02)----
- Bugfix
- Ensure BwTimeControl settings are written as CDATA to backup
- Ensure CDATA parts of backup are parsed correctly, even if there is only one dataset
- Base64 encode keys of BwTimeControl settings while creating backup and decode at restoring
- Version 3.1.6 released (2021-08-21)----
- Improvement
- Smaller changes to manifest files of package and single parts to meet upgrade needs
- Version 3.1.5 released (2021-06-11)----
- New
- Add option for selecting FE layout to component options
- Bugfix
- Repair pagination at FE
- Correct calculating of start date (February 29/30 problem) at module overview
- Correct tooltip for publish at sent newsletter
- Correct typos at language strings, add missing strings, remove icon of BwLibRegister
- Improvement
- Install plugin BwLibregister as first element of installation package
- Improve filter type at import of subscribers
- Improve selecting of table columns to handle with CDATA at saving tables
- Version 3.1.4 released (2021-03-05)----
- Bugfix
- Check of tables after update did not work with Joomla 3.9.25
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.2.3 Stable
Released on:
Thursday, 15 December 2022
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Thursday, 15 December 2022 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.2.2 released (2022-10-15)----
- Bugfix
- At some rare cases subscriber model couldn't load from front end
- Version 3.2.1 released (2022-06-30)----
- Improvement
- Make it possible to import subscribers without selecting a mailinglist.
- Adjust call of getcsv at import of subscribers to prevent php warnings
- Version 3.2.0 released (2022-02-18)----
- Bugfix
- Imported newsletter templates may not have status 'default', even if the exported template was a default template
- At front end view register a container was not closed correctly, if no mailing list was selectable
- Module registration showed subscription instead of 'edit link', if visitor with subscription is logged in
- Improvement
- Better check and repair default value of table columns at restoring tables and check and repair
- Edit subscription now is also shown at view register, if no mailinglist is selectable
- Align subscribers with Joomla! users to prevent mismatch at editing subscription at update of BwPostman
- New
- Add plugin userAccount, which aligns Joomla user ID of with subscribers data, if account is created or deleted after subscription
- Newsletters now show search engine friendly URLs for 'ReadMore'
- Version 3.1.9 released (2021-12-19)----
- Bugfix
- Revert bugfix 'On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error', made more problems than it solved
- Sending to testrecipients unable
- Version 3.1.8 released (2021-12-18)----
- Bugfix
- Package creation took too much media folders at plugins, package was too big
- On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error
- Improvement
- Ensure that a variable not countable at U2S don't produce errors
- Enhance description of # of months of module overview at back end
- Version 3.1.7 released (2021-10-02)----
- Bugfix
- Ensure BwTimeControl settings are written as CDATA to backup
- Ensure CDATA parts of backup are parsed correctly, even if there is only one dataset
- Base64 encode keys of BwTimeControl settings while creating backup and decode at restoring
- Version 3.1.6 released (2021-08-21)----
- Improvement
- Smaller changes to manifest files of package and single parts to meet upgrade needs
- Version 3.1.5 released (2021-06-11)----
- New
- Add option for selecting FE layout to component options
- Bugfix
- Repair pagination at FE
- Correct calculating of start date (February 29/30 problem) at module overview
- Correct tooltip for publish at sent newsletter
- Correct typos at language strings, add missing strings, remove icon of BwLibRegister
- Improvement
- Install plugin BwLibregister as first element of installation package
- Improve filter type at import of subscribers
- Improve selecting of table columns to handle with CDATA at saving tables
- Version 3.1.4 released (2021-03-05)----
- Bugfix
- Check of tables after update did not work with Joomla 3.9.25
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.2.2 Stable
Released on:
Thursday, 13 October 2022
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Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.2.2 released (2022-10-14)----
- Bugfix
- At some rare cases subscriber model couldn't load from front end
- Version 3.2.1 released (2022-06-30)----
- Improvement
- Make it possible to import subscribers without selecting a mailinglist.
- Adjust call of getcsv at import of subscribers to prevent php warnings
- Version 3.2.0 released (2022-02-18)----
- Bugfix
- Imported newsletter templates may not have status 'default', even if the exported template was a default template
- At front end view register a container was not closed correctly, if no mailing list was selectable
- Module registration showed subscription instead of 'edit link', if visitor with subscription is logged in
- Improvement
- Better check and repair default value of table columns at restoring tables and check and repair
- Edit subscription now is also shown at view register, if no mailinglist is selectable
- Align subscribers with Joomla! users to prevent mismatch at editing subscription at update of BwPostman
- New
- Add plugin userAccount, which aligns Joomla user ID of with subscribers data, if account is created or deleted after subscription
- Newsletters now show search engine friendly URLs for 'ReadMore'
- Version 3.1.9 released (2021-12-19)----
- Bugfix
- Revert bugfix 'On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error', made more problems than it solved
- Sending to testrecipients unable
- Version 3.1.8 released (2021-12-18)----
- Bugfix
- Package creation took too much media folders at plugins, package was too big
- On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error
- Improvement
- Ensure that a variable not countable at U2S don't produce errors
- Enhance description of # of months of module overview at back end
- Version 3.1.7 released (2021-10-02)----
- Bugfix
- Ensure BwTimeControl settings are written as CDATA to backup
- Ensure CDATA parts of backup are parsed correctly, even if there is only one dataset
- Base64 encode keys of BwTimeControl settings while creating backup and decode at restoring
- Version 3.1.6 released (2021-08-21)----
- Improvement
- Smaller changes to manifest files of package and single parts to meet upgrade needs
- Version 3.1.5 released (2021-06-11)----
- New
- Add option for selecting FE layout to component options
- Bugfix
- Repair pagination at FE
- Correct calculating of start date (February 29/30 problem) at module overview
- Correct tooltip for publish at sent newsletter
- Correct typos at language strings, add missing strings, remove icon of BwLibRegister
- Improvement
- Install plugin BwLibregister as first element of installation package
- Improve filter type at import of subscribers
- Improve selecting of table columns to handle with CDATA at saving tables
- Version 3.1.4 released (2021-03-05)----
- Bugfix
- Check of tables after update did not work with Joomla 3.9.25
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.2.1 Stable
Released on:
Thursday, 14 April 2022
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Thursday, 14 April 2022 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.2.1 released (2022-04-14)----
- Bugfix
- Remove obsolete check_allsubscribers part
- Improvement
- Add setting of missing component parameters at installation
- Ensure getting of parameters has default value
- Improve tooltips and texts at article selection
- Change message of popup when check after update is ready
- New
- Add sorting of selected articles while creating/editing a newsletter
- Add selection of articles for creating/editing by filterable popup
- Version 3.2.0 released (2022-02-18)----
- Bugfix
- Imported newsletter templates may not have status 'default', even if the exported template was a default template
- At front end view register a container was not closed correctly, if no mailing list was selectable
- Module registration showed subscription instead of 'edit link', if visitor with subscription is logged in
- Improvement
- Better check and repair default value of table columns at restoring tables and check and repair
- Edit subscription now is also shown at view register, if no mailinglist is selectable
- Align subscribers with Joomla! users to prevent mismatch at editing subscription at update of BwPostman
- New
- Add plugin userAccount, which aligns Joomla user ID of with subscribers data, if account is created or deleted after subscription
- Newsletters now show search engine friendly URLs for 'ReadMore'
- Version 3.1.9 released (2021-12-19)----
- Bugfix
- Revert bugfix 'On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error', made more problems than it solved
- Sending to testrecipients unable
- Version 3.1.8 released (2021-12-18)----
- Bugfix
- Package creation took too much media folders at plugins, package was too big
- On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error
- Improvement
- Ensure that a variable not countable at U2S don't produce errors
- Enhance description of # of months of module overview at back end
- Version 3.1.7 released (2021-10-02)----
- Bugfix
- Ensure BwTimeControl settings are written as CDATA to backup
- Ensure CDATA parts of backup are parsed correctly, even if there is only one dataset
- Base64 encode keys of BwTimeControl settings while creating backup and decode at restoring
- Version 3.1.6 released (2021-08-21)----
- Improvement
- Smaller changes to manifest files of package and single parts to meet upgrade needs
- Version 3.1.5 released (2021-06-11)----
- New
- Add option for selecting FE layout to component options
- Bugfix
- Repair pagination at FE
- Correct calculating of start date (February 29/30 problem) at module overview
- Correct tooltip for publish at sent newsletter
- Correct typos at language strings, add missing strings, remove icon of BwLibRegister
- Improvement
- Install plugin BwLibregister as first element of installation package
- Improve filter type at import of subscribers
- Improve selecting of table columns to handle with CDATA at saving tables
- Version 3.1.4 released (2021-03-05)----
- Bugfix
- Check of tables after update did not work with Joomla 3.9.25
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.2.0 Stable
Released on:
Friday, 18 February 2022
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Friday, 18 February 2022 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.2.0 released (2022-02-18)----
- Bugfix
- Imported newsletter templates may not have status 'default', even if the exported template was a default template
- At front end view register a container was not closed correctly, if no mailing list was selectable
- Module registration showed subscription instead of 'edit link', if visitor with subscription is logged in
- Improvement
- Better check and repair default value of table columns at restoring tables and check and repair
- Edit subscription now is also shown at view register, if no mailinglist is selectable
- Align subscribers with Joomla! users to prevent mismatch at editing subscription at update of BwPostman
- New
- Add plugin userAccount, which aligns Joomla user ID of with subscribers data, if account is created or deleted after subscription
- Newsletters now show search engine friendly URLs for 'ReadMore'
- Version 3.1.9 released (2021-12-19)----
- Bugfix
- Revert bugfix 'On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error', made more problems than it solved
- Sending to testrecipients unable
- Version 3.1.8 released (2021-12-18)----
- Bugfix
- Package creation took too much media folders at plugins, package was too big
- On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error
- Improvement
- Ensure that a variable not countable at U2S don't produce errors
- Enhance description of # of months of module overview at back end
- Version 3.1.7 released (2021-10-02)----
- Bugfix
- Ensure BwTimeControl settings are written as CDATA to backup
- Ensure CDATA parts of backup are parsed correctly, even if there is only one dataset
- Base64 encode keys of BwTimeControl settings while creating backup and decode at restoring
- Version 3.1.6 released (2021-08-21)----
- Improvement
- Smaller changes to manifest files of package and single parts to meet upgrade needs
- Version 3.1.5 released (2021-06-11)----
- New
- Add option for selecting FE layout to component options
- Bugfix
- Repair pagination at FE
- Correct calculating of start date (February 29/30 problem) at module overview
- Correct tooltip for publish at sent newsletter
- Correct typos at language strings, add missing strings, remove icon of BwLibRegister
- Improvement
- Install plugin BwLibregister as first element of installation package
- Improve filter type at import of subscribers
- Improve selecting of table columns to handle with CDATA at saving tables
- Version 3.1.4 released (2021-03-05)----
- Bugfix
- Check of tables after update did not work with Joomla 3.9.25
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.1.9 Stable
Released on:
Sunday, 19 December 2021
Maturity | Stable |
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Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.1.9 released (2021-12-19)----
- Bugfix
- Revert bugfix 'On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error', made more problems than it solved
- Version 3.1.8 released (2021-12-18)----
- Bugfix
- Package creation took too much media folders at plugins, package was too big
- On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error
- Improvement
- Ensure that a variable not countable at U2S don't produce errors
- Enhance description of # of months of module overview at back end
- Version 3.1.7 released (2021-10-02)----
- Bugfix
- Ensure BwTimeControl settings are written as CDATA to backup
- Ensure CDATA parts of backup are parsed correctly, even if there is only one dataset
- Base64 encode keys of BwTimeControl settings while creating backup and decode at restoring
- Version 3.1.6 released (2021-08-21)----
- Improvement
- Smaller changes to manifest files of package and single parts to meet upgrade needs
- Version 3.1.5 released (2021-06-11)----
- New
- Add option for selecting FE layout to component options
- Bugfix
- Repair pagination at FE
- Correct calculating of start date (February 29/30 problem) at module overview
- Correct tooltip for publish at sent newsletter
- Correct typos at language strings, add missing strings, remove icon of BwLibRegister
- Improvement
- Install plugin BwLibregister as first element of installation package
- Improve filter type at import of subscribers
- Improve selecting of table columns to handle with CDATA at saving tables
- Version 3.1.4 released (2021-03-05)----
- Bugfix
- Check of tables after update did not work with Joomla 3.9.25
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.1.8 Stable
Released on:
Saturday, 18 December 2021
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Saturday, 18 December 2021 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.1.8 released (2021-12-18)----
- Bugfix
- Package creation took too much media folders at plugins, package was too big
- On some rare cases default setting for text columns at tables made installation/update error
- Improvement
- Ensure that a variable not countable at U2S don't produce errors
- Enhance description of # of months of module overview at back end
- Version 3.1.7 released (2021-10-02)----
- Bugfix
- Ensure BwTimeControl settings are written as CDATA to backup
- Ensure CDATA parts of backup are parsed correctly, even if there is only one dataset
- Base64 encode keys of BwTimeControl settings while creating backup and decode at restoring
- Version 3.1.6 released (2021-08-21)----
- Improvement
- Smaller changes to manifest files of package and single parts to meet upgrade needs
- Version 3.1.5 released (2021-06-11)----
- New
- Add option for selecting FE layout to component options
- Bugfix
- Repair pagination at FE
- Correct calculating of start date (February 29/30 problem) at module overview
- Correct tooltip for publish at sent newsletter
- Correct typos at language strings, add missing strings, remove icon of BwLibRegister
- Improvement
- Install plugin BwLibregister as first element of installation package
- Improve filter type at import of subscribers
- Improve selecting of table columns to handle with CDATA at saving tables
- Version 3.1.4 released (2021-03-05)----
- Bugfix
- Check of tables after update did not work with Joomla 3.9.25
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.1.7 Stable
Released on:
Saturday, 02 October 2021
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Saturday, 02 October 2021 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.1.7 released (2021-10-02)----
- Bugfix
- Ensure BwTimeControl settings are written as CDATA to backup
- Ensure CDATA parts of backup are parsed correctly, even if there is only one dataset
- Base64 encode keys of BwTimeControl settings while creating backup and decode at restoring
- Version 3.1.6 released (2021-08-21)----
- Improvement
- Smaller changes to manifest files of package and single parts to meet upgrade needs
- Version 3.1.5 released (2021-06-11)----
- New
- Add option for selecting FE layout to component options
- Bugfix
- Repair pagination at FE
- Correct calculating of start date (February 29/30 problem) at module overview
- Correct tooltip for publish at sent newsletter
- Correct typos at language strings, add missing strings, remove icon of BwLibRegister
- Improvement
- Install plugin BwLibregister as first element of installation package
- Improve filter type at import of subscribers
- Improve selecting of table columns to handle with CDATA at saving tables
- Version 3.1.4 released (2021-03-05)----
- Bugfix
- Check of tables after update did not work with Joomla 3.9.25
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.1.5 Stable
Released on:
Friday, 11 June 2021
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Friday, 11 June 2021 |
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Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.1.5 released (2021-06-11)----
- New
- Add option for selecting FE layout to component options
- Bugfix
- Repair pagination at FE
- Correct calculating of start date (February 29/30 problem) at module overview
- Correct tooltip for publish at sent newsletter
- Correct typos at language strings, add missing strings, remove icon of BwLibRegister
- Improvement
- Install plugin BwLibregister as first element of installation package
- Improve filter type at import of subscribers
- Improve selecting of table columns to handle with CDATA at saving tables
- Version 3.1.4 released (2021-03-05)----
- Bugfix
- Check of tables after update did not work with Joomla 3.9.25
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.1.4 Stable
Released on:
Friday, 05 March 2021
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Friday, 05 March 2021 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.1.4 released (2021-03-05)----
- Bugfix
- Check of tables after update did not work with Joomla 3.9.25
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.1.3 Stable
Released on:
Friday, 26 February 2021
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Friday, 26 February 2021 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.1.3 released (2021-02-26)----
- Bugfix
- In some rare cases tables are lost at check and restore of tables
- Link to manual at screen after installation/update didn't work correctly
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.1.2 Stable
Released on:
Wednesday, 03 February 2021
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Wednesday, 03 February 2021 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.1.2 released (2021-02-03)----
- Bugfix
- Moving subscribers to another mailing list by batch processing did not work
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.1.1 Stable
Released on:
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Wednesday, 20 January 2021 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.1.1 released (2021-01-20)----
- Bugfix
- CSS files of component not copied to media folder
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.1.0 Stable
Released on:
Thursday, 14 January 2021
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Thursday, 14 January 2021 |
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Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.1.0 released (2021-01-14)----
- New
- Small and large modal layout and bootstrap layouts for registration module added
- Call of css file moved to layout to enable separated css files for each layout
- Support for bootstrap 2 + 4 added to front end files
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)----
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-17)----
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Improvement
- Sending mails by BwPostman without correct sender now nearly impossible
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.0.3 Stable
Released on:
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Thursday, 26 November 2020 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.0.3 released (2020-11-27)
- New
- Provide custom header List-Unsubscribe for newsletter (email)
- Bugfix
- Modal window changes of disclaimer to bootstrap reverted
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-19)
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.0.2 Stable
Released on:
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Thursday, 19 November 2020 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.0.2 released (2020-11-19)
- Bugfix
- Make IDs of edit_mailformat and gender select list of registration module unique
- Add required star to available mailinglists
- Repair display of special field
- Switch to get mailinglists by access level up to user access level (including lower levels)
- Format gender select list
- Repair saving of gender male
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.0.1 Stable
Released on:
Monday, 07 September 2020
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Monday, 07 September 2020 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.0.1 released (2020-09-08)----
- Bugfix
- Correct query for attribute at restoring tables
- Ignore and report unprocessable user groups at restore tables
- Catch some exceptions to prevent white screen on dashboard
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML/DOM for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
- *********************************************
- *** last version that supports Joomla!2.5 ***
- *********************************************
- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)
- Bugfix
- for updating version number
- Improvement
- installation script revised
- Version 0.9.6.1 released (Sept-02-2013)
- Bugfix
- registering to newsletter
- Version 0.9.6 released (Aug-22-2013)
- New
- css-asset for module added
- Version 0.9.5 released (Aug-21-2013)
- New
- field 'firstname' inserted with separated option for show/required to field 'name'
- personalization for HTML- als text-newsletters inserted
- Bugfix
- error while copying newsletter eliminated
- Apr-05-2013 Romana Boldt, Version 0.9.1
- general changes to Joomla! 2.5
Version 3.0.0 Stable
Released on:
Saturday, 05 September 2020
Maturity | Stable |
Released on | Saturday, 05 September 2020 |
Viewed | 0 times |
Release notes
- *********************************
- Changelog for BwPostman Component
- *********************************
- This is a changelog for the Joomla!3.3.6+ component BwPostman
- Many thanks to all those people who have contributed bug reports and code fixes.
- Version 3.0.0 released (2020-09-05)----
- New
- Enhanced mail verification at registration and import of subscribers, both optionally
- Block links at subscriber fields name, first name and special
- Import of Joomla classes by php 'use'
- Sending of newsletters switched to ajax handling, improved look and feel
- Log level of BwPostman selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Avoid error message at deinstallation by not loading logger at deinstallation
- Add own sql update method to ensure these updates are handled correctly
- Error message at sending of newsletters resolved, if gzip compression is set at Joomla settings
- Use of group ids in place of english group names at restoring tables
- Reduce block size of writing assets at maintenance from 1000 to 200 to prevent memory error
- Reduce writing of rules at assets to only needed ones to reduce file size and prevent memory error
- Improvement
- Memory usage, time consumption and error handling at restoring tables improved
- Input data at front end and back end made more secure
- Import of subscribes secured, information texts improved
- Check of imported user groups at restoring tables enhances by default user groups
- Adjust name of media folder of BwPostman to Joomla default
- Personalization of managing mails introduced (i.e. confirmation mail)
- Use of SimpleXML for creating and restoring tables and creating subscriber export
- Inline javascript moved to files to improve security and loading time
- Lot of code optimization (smaller methods, less code duplication, helper classes extended, …) as preparation for Joomla 4
- Add menu parameters to frontend layouts
- Version 2.3.1 released (2019-06-08)----
- Bugfix
- Multiple problems with language strings corrected
- Version 2.3.0 released (2019-04-26)----
- New
- Message at front end, that new activation needed, if subscriber changed mail address
- Plugin to show mailinglists/usergroups and optionally number of recipients of a newsletter at the footer of the newsletter
- Language files moved to Transifex and except english and german removed from installation package to save installation package space and installation time. Installation separately.
- Bugfix
- Error after click on icon for multiple attachments at front end
- Improvement
- Trigger for events added for future use
- Rendering of newsletter before preview and sending modularized (internal work)
- BwLibRegister library file moved from component folder to plugin folder
- Version 2.2.1 released (7-Feb-2019)----
- New
- Dutch language files
- Bugfix
- Mail to webmaster at unsubscription doesn't work
- Wrong inheritance of sample user groups
- Improvement
- Switch update server to package naming
- Version 2.2.0 released (25-Jan-2019)----
- New
- Export subscribers only from selected mailing list possible
- Content templates for newsletters
- Specific help links to online documentation at backend
- Bugfix
- SQL syntax error at newsletters list at front end
- Restore of tables with zip file doesn't work
- Export subscribers always exports all subscribers
- Improvement
- Up to 20 attachments possible
- Version 2.1.2 released (14-Dez-2018)----
- Improvement
- Output checked for valid HTML
- Table check at update moved to modal box
- Comma at salutation at activation mail hard coded, sometimes a not needed space is set
- Bugfix
- Missing media images at installation package
- Captcha doesn't work
- Version 2.1.1 released (16-Nov-2018)----
- New
- All texts of options are multi-language capable
- Modal box for disclaimer at front end, selectable at options of component
- Bugfix
- Update crashes, if one of the Plugins U2S or B2S is activated
- Compression/Decompression of saved tables only works for Joomla! 3.8.1+
- SQL error at newsletter overview at front end
- Internal mailinglists are not accepted as recipients
- Update from 1.3.2 to 2.0.x lets display unpublished articles of Joomla
- Version 2.1.0 released (26-Oct-2018)----
- New
- Component option for 1-click-unsubscribe
- Component option mail to webmaster at unsubscription
- Button Save & Copy for all sections
- Button Save & New for all sections
- Possibility to print subscriber data at subscriber details (GDPR)
- Component option to pack file at save tables (ZIP)
- Export for templates added
- Component option to publish newsletter by default after sending
- Additional optional checkbox with individual text directly before subscribe button (for GDPR)
- Bugfix
- SQL error at newsletter list view at front end
- Error at upload file at attachments at edit newsletter
- Link to forum changed to new target
- Improvement
- Delete uploaded backup file after restoring tables
- not needed images removed
- Version 2.0.2 released (19-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Routing after save changes of subscription at FE
- Edit subscription only stored one mailing list
- Everlasting spinner at permission change at newsletters and subscribers
- Impossible to save assets of subscriber without gender selected
- Display of calculated permissions if permission changed corrected on item level
- Improvement
- Description of mailing list can be shown if only one mailing list to select exists
- Description of mailing lists can be shortened, full description with tool tip for component, module and plugin
- Permission create now hidden on item level, makes no sense
- selecting gender changed to select list with 3 specific values (male, female, not specified)
- Version 2.0.1 released (2-May-2018)
- Bugfix
- Saving changed subscription with error
- Version 2.0.0 released (1-May-2018)
- With this version BwPostman only is distributed as package, that contains all that BwPostman contains for free. With this
- version there is only this changelog available, separate change logs for modules and plugins are not longer updated.
- New
- Plugin for enhanced personalization
- Plugin for subscription to a mailing list while creating a Joomla! account
- Additional field "Custom CSS" at standard templates added
- Buttons for enhanced personalization inserted at editing templates and newsletters
- Bugfix
- Link to Boldt Webservice now totally removed when selected not to show
- Typos corrected at language files
- Table check at attribute NULL corrected
- Form check by javascript corrected
- Saving gender without entry (=gender unknown) now possible
- Change back to no gender now possible
- Table campaigns_mailinglists was not deleted at uninstall
- Check for module specific params corrected
- Improvement
- Collation of tables changed from utf8 to utf8mb4
- Access management of component enhanced
- Table column archived_by changed to integer
- Email check at module subscription enhanced to meet new TLDs
- CSS styles for radio buttons module subscription modified
- Version 1.3.2 released (14-Apr-2016)
- Improvement
- Trigger for enhanced personalization modified.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some problems while registering or change subscribers mail address
- If folder for media was renamed, there occurred problems with attachment and thumbnails of templates
- If a user was logged in, which has no subscription, there occurred problems at register form
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 building of some language strings have changed
- "male" was not shown in back end list of subscribers.
- Version 1.3.1 released (7-Apr-2016)
- New
- Trigger for enhanced personalization inserted.
- Bugfix
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 sending newsletters failed
- Since Joomla 3.5.1 some php warnings arise while creating or editing newsletters or campaigns
- Handling of specific table permissions while updating BwPostman throws php warnings
- Version 1.3.0 released (29-Mar-2016)
- New
- Possibility to import external created mail templates.
- Selection for gender of subscriber, at options configurable.
- Additional field for further purpose for subscriber, display and obligation configurable at options, label and description for label of additional field configurable also in options by language strings.
- List of newsletter at back end displays, whether an attachment belongs to newsletter.
- Assets of tables of BwPostman and their corresponding user groups will now be backed up and restored.
- Improvement
- Runtime at restoring tables up to 120 times faster.
- Needed memory at update to new version of BwPostman drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- Needed memory at restoring tables drastically reduced by changing internal workflow.
- View of restoring and checking tables now continuously shows the working steps.
- Asset handling at restoring tables revised.
- Language files revised.
- Bugfix
- Selecting attachment while creating/editing a newsletter was not possible
- Version 1.2.4 released (17-Dec-2015)
- Bugfix
- User-defined CSS file some times not read
- Faulty calling of icon font for user-defined css file
- Faulty function call in helper class
- Unable to delegate actions in BwPostman to other user groups
- Improvement
- Select lists for available and selected content at creating/editing newsletters broadened
- Error message at missing inputs while creating a newsletter specified
- Version 1.2.3 released (22-Sep-2015)
- Bugfix
- Edit form subscriber in front end: click on a button does nothing, if one of the fields first name or name is not obligatory.
- On some installations updates to BwPostman were shown even update was already installed
- improvement:
- Javascript noscript message added
- Version 1.2.2 released (2-Sep-2015)
- Improvement:
- CSS of html templates improved to better fit Outlook specifics
- Version 1.2.1 released (17-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Adding subscriber without name is not possible, even option is set to no obligation
- Version 1.2.0 released (9-Jul-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters, that only contains free content without articles from Joomla, did not use the template
- Access control in view archive does not work properly
- Pagination in back end view of newsletters did not work properly
- Anchor links in newsletters did not work
- New
- Selecting campaign moved up to General Information at edit newsletter tab Generals
- Recipients of campaigns now selectable at campaigns, not at newsletters
- Publish up and publish down for newsletters, concerns visibility in frontend
- Status, description and publishing times of sent newsletters editable
- Delay time between sending of newsletter packages selectable
- Access to attachment of a newsletter in front end, selectable by global option and menu item option
- Extended options for view newsletters list in front end
- Filter newsletters in front end list view by mailing lists, usergroups, campaigns, month and year enable by global option and menu item option
- More additional filters in back end list views
- improvement:
- Improved loading time and stability while editing newsletter in back end
- Improved work flow at import and export of subscribers
- Progress bar while sending newsletters
- Improved and modernized look in front end
- CSS files for front end now contains all elements used by BwPostman (most of them empty to fill by user)
- Version 1.1.0.1 released (14-Apr-2015)
- Bugfix
- Pagination does not work since Joomla 3.3.4
- Confirmation date of subscriber was set on actual date on each saving
- Newsletters to usergroups are not shown in front end
- Improvement
- Templates added to statistics
- Styles for pagination in front end added
- Version 1.1.0 released (21-Mar-2015)
- Bugfix
- Newsletters without articles of Joomla have not used CSS styles
- New
- Template system for newsletters (Karl)
- dropped support for Joomla 2.5
- Improvement
- Extended and improved filtering in back end
- Version 1.0.8 released (Mar-05-2015)
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- New
- Filtering for mailing lists in view subscribers implemented
- Batch processing for add, remove or move subscribers to/from/between mailinglists
- Icon set for back end joomla menu entries extended
- Improvement
- Subject of a newsletter now may be used several times
- Description for newsletter added
- Version of BwPostman in file name of saved tables
- List of newsletters in front end now ordered by date descending as default
- List of mailing lists while creating/editing a newsletter now ordered by title ascending
- Version 1.0.7 released (Feb-18-2015)
- Bugfix
- Corrupt language file
- Read more link in newsletter causes error 404 - file not found - if language of the article does not meet the language of the website on multi-language sites
- Archived recipients were not deleted from queue
- Improvement
- Code is more valid
- Icons in back end menus of Joomla
- Version 1.0.6 released (Jan-05-2015)
- Bugfix
- Editing newsletters step 3 preview not shown, sending of newsletters not possible
- Version 1.0.5 released (Dec-18-2014)
- Bugfix
- User-defined css file not read
- In some cases error 1052 while editing subscribers
- Improvement
- Checkall implemented in back-end subscribers at tab unconfirmed subscribers
- Version 1.0.4 released (Oct-29-2014)
- Bugfix
- selecting attachment others than images is not possible
- sorting newsletters list in front-end is not possible
- In view newsletters in back-end at tab Sent newsletters nothing shown as marked at check all
- Search phrase in newsletters list at front-end was not reset in some cases
- Page title at front-end views not always set correctly
- Version 1.0.3 released (Oct-14-2014)
- Bugfix
- problem while browsing pages with subscribers and newsletters in backend
- false error message "invalid email address" while importing subscribers, no import possible
- no items visible in queue
- Value for "Number of newsletters per step" in tab "Step5: Send newsletter" was not used
- some compatibility issues with javascript
- editor not accessible in tab "Step2: HTML newsletter"
- Version 1.0.2 released (Sep-20-2014)
- Improvement
- spam check revised
- error messages revised
- Bugfix
- revised, corrected and updated language strings
- sending newsletters to joomla usergroups was not possible
- Version 1.0.1 released (Aug-07-2014)
- New
- works now with Joomla!3.3
- maintenance with check and repair tables, save tables and restore tables
- new icon set
- integrated help accessible in toolbar
- easy migration from one Joomla! installation to another conditionally possible
- improvement:
- better overview of basic settings by improved layout of options
- disclaimer now also selectable from Joomla! articles or Joomla! menu
- conversion from _all/_single file and class naming to Joomla! conventions
- table engine changed to InnoDB
- list(s) renamed to mailinglist(s) in tables, controllers, models and views
- mostly revised and simplified code
- Bugfix
- Minor discrepancies in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.8.1 released (Apr-13-2014)
- Bugfix ERROR 500 - Unknown column 'attachment' in 'field list' SQL=INS…
- Version 0.9.8 released (Apr-09-2014)
- New
- Significant is the improvement of protection against spam entries in the registration forms (component and module).
- The administrator has now the option to integrate in the registration form:
- a user-defined control question
- or a captcha with a simple math question
- Improvement
- The display of the article author and the creation date in the newsletter can be controlled in the options.
- Bugfix
- Minor bugs in the client-side and server-side validation of form fields has been corrected.
- Version 0.9.7 released (Mar-08-2014)
- New
- Sending an attachment with the newsletter is now possible
- There is a new tab Advanced Settings added to options/settings for:
- Legal information
- A title in the activation mail
- Various texts for the activation mail
- You are able to set, that you will be informed at each confirmation per mail
- A user-defined CSS-File named com_bwpostman.css, located in [your template]/css, will be used and overrides the css-styles predefined in BwPostman
- Improvement
- If name und first name are set to required, then the fields will be displayed at registration even if you forgot to set to display these fields
- All elements shown in frontend are individually selectable by CSS now
- Revised installation routine
- Version 0.9.6.4 released (Jan-23-2014)
- Bugfix
- Can't register in component register form, when only one mailing list is available
- When component register form and module form are displayed at same time, one has to fill both forms to be able to register
- Version 0.9.6.3 released (Sept-07-2013)