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We’ve replaced the ageing jQuery UI date picker with a fast, dependency-free, OTA-style range picker — the same single-tap check-in → check-out flow your guests already know from the major travel-booking sites.

For years, every date field in Solidres — the booking funnel, the search modules, the admin reservation screens — was powered by the jQuery UI date picker. It did the job, but it was showing its age: two separate calendars for check-in and check-out, a heavy pile of JavaScript, no dark mode, and accessibility gaps that never sat well with modern web standards.

So we rebuilt it. Meet the modern date picker — and the unified search bar it now lives in. Available in Solidres v4.2.0.

It’s official: Solidres 4.1.0 has landed. Over the last few weeks we previewed the three tools we’d been rebuilding from the ground up — and they’re all here now. Rate Plan, Front Desk and Dashboard cover the three things you do most: set your prices, run your day, and check how the business is doing.

Each one replaces an ageing, end-of-life foundation with modern, framework-free code that’s faster, dark-mode ready, and accessible to WCAG 2.1 AA. Here’s the short version.

For years, one plugin called Statistics quietly ran two of the most important screens in Solidres: the daily booking calendar your front desk lives in, and the reports you check to see how the business is doing. Those are two very different jobs — so we’ve split them into two purpose-built tools, and rebuilt both from the ground up. Say hello to Front Desk and Dashboard — arriving with the upcoming Solidres 4.1.0 release.

Pricing is the engine room of every booking site. So we rebuilt Solidres’ most important pricing tool — the Complex Tariff editor — completely from scratch. Say hello to the new Rate Plan plugin: same powerful rates, a faster and far friendlier editor — arriving with the upcoming Solidres 4.1.0 release.

Speedy Translate 2.0.0 is here, and it’s a big one. We’ve rebuilt the extension from the ground up on Joomla 6’s modern architecture, so building a multilingual Joomla site is faster, cleaner, and ready for what comes next.