Changelog

Added

• Independent student course-completion emails that can be sent with or without an EasyLearn certificate.
• A separate optional completion notification for instructors, with its own subject and HTML message and protection against duplicate recipients and deliveries.
• Inheritable completion-email settings and templates at global, category and course level, with placeholders for student, course, website, score and certificate information.
• Self-service certificate renewal during a configurable period before expiry, with options to reset all course progress or selected lessons and quizzes.
• Per-lesson delayed access in whole days, calculated either from course enrollment or from the student's first lesson start.

Improved

• Certificate renewal keeps the student's enrollment and current certificate intact while the course is retaken. The old certificate is superseded only when a replacement is issued, and the new validity period starts from the new completion date.
• Course descriptions no longer have a 500-character limit. The catalogue and course hero use compact, Unicode-safe excerpts, while the full description is available in an expandable section on the course page.
• Delayed lessons show clearer availability information and are enforced consistently for direct links and progress requests.
• Frontend primary, secondary, success and outline buttons now consistently use the inherited EasyLearn colour theme in normal, hover, focus and active states without changing buttons elsewhere on the website.
• Course and lesson headings now use predictable EasyLearn sizes while retaining the active website template's font styling.
• Lesson navigation now uses consistent 1rem typography for current, available and locked lessons. The current lesson uses a subtle background and EasyLearn-coloured left border without an additional status dot.
• Existing unpublished category and instructor assignments remain visible and clearly labelled when editing a course, while new or replacement assignments must be published.
• English, Danish, German and French language resources have been updated for the new settings, information and validation messages.

Fixed

• Completion-email fields now show readable default or inherited content when enabled or set to inherit, and placeholder previews no longer display raw HTML tags.
• The Next button no longer opens a time-locked lesson and redirects the student to an access-denied message. Locked lessons are skipped where allowed, and the button is hidden when no later lesson is available.
• Course saving now validates required category and instructor selections in both Joomla backend and frontend administration. Missing, deleted, stale or invalid records produce a localised EasyLearn message instead of a raw database foreign-key error.
• JCE's image browser and Link file browser now resolve $course and $subfolder to the current course's lesson upload directory in both backend and frontend editing, including after switching directly between courses.
• The EasyLearn 3.5.0 database migration now adds the required completion-email, certificate-renewal and delayed-lesson data structures during upgrades.

Fixed

• The “Enroll users” dialog now includes all eligible users, including users beyond the first 250 Joomla accounts.
• Added pagination with 25 users per page in both backend and frontend administration.
• User selections are preserved when navigating between pages or performing additional searches.

Added

• Course administrators can enroll one or more existing Joomla users in a course from the Statistics view. Users can be searched, selected in bulk, and optionally receive the standard enrollment email.
• Course administrators can reset a learner’s course progress from both the backend and frontend administration.
• Multiple Joomla users can now be linked to the same instructor in both the backend and frontend.

Improved

• Resetting course progress keeps the learner enrolled, allowing them to retain access and restart the course at 0% progress.
• A reset removes lesson progress, block progress, and quiz attempts, closes pending reset requests, and preserves existing certificate history.
• All active Joomla users linked to an instructor receive individual emails about new reset requests. Duplicate email addresses receive only one notification.
• Instructor editor help texts have been updated in English, Danish, German, and French.
• The frontend Administration button now has consistent, clearly visible contrast across all administration pages.

Fixed

• The “Single Course” menu item now opens the selected course instead of returning a 404 error or redirecting to the website’s root URL.
• Existing Single Course menu items created with previous EasyLearn versions remain supported.
• New answer options added to multiple-choice questions in the frontend editor are now immediately displayed as checkboxes. Saving and reopening the lesson is no longer required.

Fixed
- Fixed Joomla 5.1 compatibility for automatic enrollment and the LolkV Updates plugin.

Bridge release for domain-aware protected updates. Installs and enables the LolkV Updates installer plugin. No changes to existing import or export behaviour.

Fixed

• Deleted lessons no longer appear as empty "No Content Available" lessons in the module navigation while working through a course. They were already hidden from the course outline and backend; the lesson viewer now hides them too.
• Corrected lesson counts and progress percentages that could be inflated by previously-deleted lessons.
• On completion-based courses, a leftover empty lesson could stop a course from reaching 100% and block automatic certificate issuance — this is now resolved.

Fixed

• Several admin screens (course and lesson editors, content blocks, the "Add block" menu, file and image upload, video/audio blocks, quiz editor, categories, and certificate renewal) displayed Danish text regardless of the site language. All admin strings are now translatable and default to English on en-GB installations.
• Reordering modules and lessons by dragging the handles in the course editor now works — previously the handles were shown but had no effect.
• Fixed a few admin labels and tooltips that displayed raw language keys (file Download/Delete tooltips, upload help text, certificate expiry label).

Changed

• da-DK, de-DE, and fr-FR language packs updated with all new admin strings (bumped to 3.3.1).

Added

• Auto-Enrollment: Pair a usergroup with one or more courses (EasyLearn → Auto-Enrollment). Users are enrolled automatically when they join the group — works with Membership Pro, Frontend UserManager or plain Joomla, no custom integration needed.
• Per-group option to send an enrollment email (customisable subject/body with placeholders).
• Only courses the group can actually access are selectable, preventing dead enrollments.
• New easylearn:sync-enrollments CLI command (with crontab guide in Options) as a safety net for systems that assign groups directly in the database.

Lessons containing an embedded video block (YouTube/Vimeo) could not be marked as completed, even after the video had been viewed. Embedded blocks are now correctly counted toward lesson completion.

The delete-confirmation for content blocks now uses the installed language instead of hardcoded Danish text — affects both the backend block editor and the frontend admin lesson editor.

Released May 2026

Added

• Joomla 6 compatibility — The same package now installs and runs on both Joomla 5.4+ and Joomla 6.0/6.1 without relying on Joomla's Backward Compatibility 6 plugin.
• One-click JCE Editor setup — A new button under Options → JCE Editor automatically creates or updates a JCE profile named "EasyLearn" with the correct file path variables. The profile is scoped to com_easylearn only and will not affect your other JCE profiles. Safe to run multiple times.

Changed

• Modernised internal APIs (input handling, filesystem operations, database access, table instantiation) to work cleanly on both Joomla 5.4 and Joomla 6.
• JCE Path plugin refactored — rewritten with modern plugin architecture (namespaced classes, Service Provider, SubscriberInterface). The plugin folder is renamed from easylearnjce to easylearn_jce; the old folder is cleaned up automatically during the upgrade.
• Frontend administration now explicitly loads Bootstrap JavaScript components (modal, tab, dropdown, collapse, alert). This fixes broken buttons, tabs and dropdowns on templates that do not expose window.bootstrap globally — including Joomla's default Cassiopeia template.
• Course settings: colour theme dropdown now uses language strings and exposes the correct presets (Standard, Green, Dark, Warm, Custom).
• All extension manifests (component, plugins, language packs) now declare targetplatform="5.4|6.0" and phpminimum="8.1" so Joomla's pre-update checker can verify J6 compatibility.

Fixed

• "Add module", "Add lesson" and "Add block" buttons did not work on Cassiopeia and other templates that do not load Bootstrap modal/dropdown globally.
• Tabs in the frontend category editor (certificate tab) and in the statistics view did not switch on Cassiopeia.
• Colour theme dropdown contained Danish hardcoded labels and two invalid preset values.

Requirements

• Joomla 5.4+ or Joomla 6.0+
• PHP 8.1 minimum (Joomla 6 itself requires PHP 8.3+)
• MySQL 8.0.13+ / MariaDB 10.4+ (when running on Joomla 6)

Upgrade notes

• Upgrade is in-place — no data migration required.
• If you use JCE Editor, click Configure JCE profile under EasyLearn Options after upgrading.
• Language packs (da-DK, de-DE, fr-FR) have been re-released as 3.2.0 with J6 manifests — reinstall them if you use them.

Added: Activate pending Joomla user accounts from the frontend user list.
Changed: Account activation and enabling login are now separate actions.
Fixed: Enabling a user can no longer bypass pending account activation.

Fixed
- Fixed Joomla 5.1 compatibility for the LolkV Updates plugin.

Bridge release for domain-aware protected updates. Installs and enables the LolkV Updates installer plugin and includes User Import & Export 1.0.1. No changes to existing user management, ACL or import/export behaviour.

Frontend UserManager now includes the complete User Import & Export component.

• CSV and XLSX import and export — transfer Joomla users, user groups, standard fields and custom fields.
• Integrated workflow — start imports and exports directly from the Frontend UserManager user list or use the Joomla administrator interface.
• Guided and safe imports — visual column mapping, reusable profiles, full-file validation before changes, batch processing and detailed result reports.
• Secure delegated access — imports and exports respect Frontend UserManager permissions, hidden groups, protected memberships and Joomla Super Users.
• Username equals email support — the setting is enforced throughout mapping, validation, import and export.
• Password migration — optionally transfer compatible Joomla password hashes between trusted sites. Hash export is disabled by default.
• ACL correction — fixed permission saving that could incorrectly store inherited Public permissions as Denied.
• Translations — updated English, Danish, German and French language support.
• Compatibility — supports Joomla 5.4 and Joomla 6.x without the Backward Compatibility plugin. The combined package requires PHP 8.2 or later.

Updating the Frontend UserManager package automatically installs User Import & Export. Existing users, groups, settings and Frontend UserManager data are preserved.

Added

• Instant EasyLearn auto-enrollment. When you create or edit a user in Frontend UserManager and assign them to a user group that is linked to one or more EasyLearn courses, the user is now enrolled immediately — no longer waiting for EasyLearn's periodic sync task to catch up.

Notes

• This works automatically when EasyLearn is installed and its auto-enrollment plugin is enabled. If EasyLearn is not present — or auto-enrollment is switched off — nothing changes and Frontend UserManager behaves exactly as before.
• Enrollment remains idempotent: users already enrolled are skipped, and enrollment emails are only sent for genuinely new course enrollments.

Released May 2026

Added

• Joomla 6 compatibility — The same package now installs and runs on both Joomla 5.4+ and Joomla 6.0/6.1 without relying on Joomla's Backward Compatibility 6 plugin.

Changed

• Modernised input handling across all frontend controllers (user, user group, view level and display) to work cleanly on both Joomla 5.4 and Joomla 6.
• All extension manifests (component, package, sync-mail plugin, language packs) now declare targetplatform="5.4|6.0" and phpminimum="8.1" so Joomla's pre-update checker can verify J6 compatibility.
• The sync-mail plugin (plg_user_userfrontendsyncmail) is bumped to 1.1.0. No behavioural changes — its internal structure was already J6-ready (namespaced class, Service Provider, SubscriberInterface, DatabaseAwareTrait).
• Build script now produces a versioned package filename (pkg_userfrontend_1_3_0.zip) so multiple releases can coexist on disk.

Requirements

• Joomla 5.4+ or Joomla 6.0+
• PHP 8.1 minimum (Joomla 6 itself requires PHP 8.3+)
• MySQL 8.0.13+ / MariaDB 10.4+ (when running on Joomla 6)

Upgrade notes

• Upgrade is in-place — no data migration required.
• The bundled sync-mail plugin is updated automatically and stays enabled.
• Language packs (da-DK, de-DE, fr-FR) have been re-released as 1.3.0 with J6 manifests — reinstall them if you use them.

Fixed
- Fixed Joomla 5.1 compatibility for the LolkV Updates plugin.