Akeeba Release System 1.0.1 just released!
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Akeeba Release System 1.0.1 Stable, a big improvement over the first stable release of our software distribution and file repository component!
Akeeba Release System (ARS) is a unique component. It's the only file repository component built from the ground up with software distribution and ease of use in mind. It's in use not only by us, but other major component vendors. Recently, VirtueMart announced that they will be using ARS for their upcoming VirtueMart 2.0 release. ARS also comes bundled with Live Update, our magical automatic update system for Joomla! components. Integrating it with your component or template is dead easy and allows you to provide the same kind of automatic updates that have been available for Akeeba Backup and Admin Tools ever since their inception.
This release addresses a number of issues discovered in the first stable (1.0) release of the component and brings these two very important improvements:
- Major speed improvement. We got down to analysing the slow database queries ran by the component and refactored them. The result is 2x speed increase in loading the Control Panel page and 100x (yes, one hundred times!) speed increase in loading the Download Log page on sites with several millions of downloads, like this one. Less waiting, more power; they way we like it :)
- Improved rendering engine. The rendering engine in the previous release was not fully compatible with Joomla!'s template overrides. If you decided to override only one layout file in a given view, the component would throw a blank page or an Internal Server Error 500 error. This was due to the rendering engine requiring all layout files of each view to be always present in the same directory. This release addresses this major issue and you're now able to do template overrides exactly just as you would with any other component.
The best things in life are free and Akeeba Release System is no exception to that! You can download it from our Downloads page without any charge.
While the component is free, support is not. If you would like to receive support for ARS, you need an AKEEBADELUXE, SUPPORT or our special-priced (7.79€) FORUMACCESS subscription to be able to access the Akeeba Release Section of our support forum. That said, we want to help other developers succeed, giving more awesome powers to Joomla!. So, if you are a developer who wishes to use the component for distributing his Joomla! software, please contact us about the possibility of a reduced fee or free subscription to our support services. We'd also like to note that if you contribute a non-trivial bug fix or feature addition, you will automatically earn a free lifetime subscription to our AKEEBADELUXE plan.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer, AkeebaBackup.com