Akeeba Admin Tools PRO 7.5.3

CHANGELOG​

Admin Tools 7.2.1​

• Changed Joomla 4.2 changed the togglable inline help without documenting it (b/c break); worked around.
• Fixed [HIGH] Some Joomla Tasks are broken
• Fixed [HIGH] Importing settings could reply with "No active transaction" in some cases
• Fixed [LOW] Wrong grammatical case (nominative instead of genitive) in months in some languages e.g. Greek

New features​

• You can now choose User Notes category while saving the IP used during sign-up

Removed features​

• Removed PHP version warnings. This is now included in Joomla itself.
• Removed the PHP Easter Eggs option from the .htaccess Maker and similar features

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] In some server configurations, the IP of the user was never saved, even if requested to

Miscellaneous changes​

• Changed all Control Panel warnings to much more compact DETAILS elements
• Password Protect Administrator: improve compatibility with Apache 2.2 and 2.4
• Requires Joomla 4.2 or later
• Requires PHP 7.4.0 or later
• The “Exclusive Allow IP List” setting in Quick Setup is now Off by default

New features​

• Help buttons

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Critical Files and Custom Critical Files may result in a PHP Warning if you upgraded from Joomla 3 but never visited and saved the WAF Configuration under Joomla 4
• [MEDIUM] Password-protect Administrator: Fixed disabling this feature from the web interface

Miscellaneous changes​

• Improved component menu with relevant quick actions
• Save and Save & Close buttons are now separate, as per Joomla 4.2 UI guidelines

New features​

• Add Show Inline Help support in component options for Joomla 4.1
• Added .xsl to the allowed file types in front- and backend directories in the .htaccess Maker, NginX Conf Maker and web.config Maker

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Fixed displaying Rescue URL info inside message shown to blocked users
• [LOW] Rare concurrency issue saving critical files into the database could cause an exception during a page load

New features​

• Automatically allow TinyMCE plugins when “Disable client-side risky behavior in frontend static content” is enabled.
• Better message when Allowed Domains kicks in to help you figure out what went wrong and how to fix it

Bug fixes​

• [MEDIUM] Defining redirections with query parameters could result in the wrong redirection taking place
• [MEDIUM] Nginx Maker: Fixed fatal error under PHP 8 and "Reverse Proxy / Load Balancer IPs" are used
• [MEDIUM] Upgrading from Admin Tools 6 with non-empty Allowed Domains would break the migrated site

Miscellaneous changes​

• Improved handling of empty multi-selection fields in the Configure WAF page

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Many emails are not sent by the plugin
• [LOW] Fixed choosing the correct option in "Browser cookie override for the administrator secret URL parameter"
• [MEDIUM] Cannot ban/unban an IP in Blocked Requests page because of backwards incompatible changes in Joomla 4.1.1

New features​

• Export/Import the list of blocked User Agents

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Database update might fail on some servers

fix bug for joomla4

fix bug

Removed features​

• Removed “Convert all links to HTTPS” feature; it has stopped making sense since circa 2015.

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Cannot edit component Options on PHP 8 if the site had Admin Tools 5.1.0 to 5.7.2 installed in the past
• [HIGH] Emails not being sent on security exception (gh-260)
• [LOW] PHP File Change Scanner: Marked As Safe filter not applied viewing scan results (ak-36399)
• [MEDIUM] 404Shield: PHP 8 error when legacy data is stored in the configuration