Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents

Version numbering
Testing

This Joomla extension is intended to introduce some security into the users’ access into Joomla. Currently as released Joomla only has a simple user name and password mechanism but there is no checking of the password itself once it is defined and it could easily be the same as the user name.

Figure 1.1. Password Control icon

Password Control icon

This was originally introduced as a system plug-in, with later additions to make it become a more comprehensive product. It was originally written for Joomla version 1.7, although early testing upon Joomla version 1.6 showed that it worked successfully at that time in the development cycle. With the dropping of support for Joomla 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5 it is no longer actively supported on those platforms. Release 0.1.4 and earlier run upon Joomla 2.5 but there is limited support available. The current release version works upon Joomla 3.4.

[Important]Important

Note that release 0.1.5 has not been tested against Joomla 2.5.

Table 1 - Latest Release Versions

Type

Version

Comments

System plug-in

0.1.6

Current released version.

User Profile plug-in

0.0.5

Current released version.

Component

1.0.0

Not on general released.

Versions are released when they have been through internal testing and no known problems exist.

Version numbering

The component version number was decided to begin at release 1.0.0 and the earlier releases of the plug-ins thus start at version 0.0.1. This does not imply that they are incomplete or ‘pre-release’.

For transparency and insight into our release cycle, and for striving to maintain backward compatibility, our Joomla components will be maintained under the following Semantic Versioning guidelines as much as possible.

Releases will be numbered with the following format: <major>.<minor>.<patch>

And constructed with the following guidelines:

  • Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major (and resets the minor and patch)

  • New additions without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor (and resets the patch)

  • Bug fixes and miscellaneous changes bumps the patch

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Joomla! Debug Console

Session

Profile Information

Memory Usage

Database Queries