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We are happy to announce that Solidres CORE v4.0.0 ALPHA – the latest major future-proof release – is now available for download. It has been rewritten using the latest Joomla API and MVC framework to fully support Joomla 5+ without using the “Backward compatibility” plugin. This version also integrates with Joomla 5 RESTful Web Services API natively, the API documentation can be found here. Our target is not only to make a native Joomla 5 extension but also to lay down a good foundation for the upcoming Joomla 6.

This is an ALPHA release, please use it for testing only and report any issues you find. Our plan for the upcoming months is to improve and stabilize it while rewriting all Solidres extensions (plugin/module) to be compatible.

We’re pleased to announce that Solidres 4.0.2 is now available for download.

This is a maintenance release that includes numerous bug fixes and performance improvements to ensure a smoother and more stable experience. The release has been tested up to Joomla 6.1.0 RC, ensuring compatibility with the latest platform updates.

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.

Solidres 4.2.0 is out. It is a big one — not because of a single headline feature, but because it is the release where several things we have been building in the open all summer finally land in the stable channel at the same time: 25 languages, the new date picker, dark mode across the board, a spreadsheet-style Inventory grid — and the foundation the brand-new Solidres Channel Manager runs on.

Solidres 4.3.0 is out. It is a polish and hardening release: cleaner URLs, better headings and accessibility, a smoother booking flow and two security fixes. The Hub, Experience and Feedback add-ons also now ship as packages. Every fix is in Solidres itself, so every site benefits, whichever template it runs.

Solidres 4.4.0 is out, and its headline is tourist tax. Until now a property had one tourist tax setting: an adult rate, a child rate and a night cap. That fitted some towns and not many others. It could not hold two levies, every new rate had to be typed in on the day it started, and two of its charge types did not compute what they promised.

In 4.4.0 tourist tax is a feature of its own, built into Solidres itself. The release also brings a set of booking and payment fixes, two security fixes, and pages that print properly from a device in dark mode.

Solidres 4.5.0 is out, and its headline is a Reports screen. Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and revenue are worked out night by night, so a stay that runs across the end of a month counts in both months, as an accountant or a revenue manager would count it. Every figure can be charted, compared with the period before and exported to CSV.

It also puts online booking on the website a property already has: Solidres can now run as a booking site beside that website, and the booking form that sends guests to it is free.

The release also gives Solidres a place in Joomla’s own administrator menu and a dashboard that opens on today’s arrivals and departures, moves every Solidres update to Joomla’s updater, and makes Solidres pages follow your template’s light or dark mode. It fixes a security issue with bookings made without an account, so we recommend updating. And it starts a clear-out: Complex Tariff and Statistics leave in 4.6.0, and support for Falang is on its way out.

In May 25 2018, the new European law called GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)  on personal data protection will become enforceable. At Solidres, we are committed to make our products GDPR compliance. Our current work on GDPR compliance is almost completed and it will need to be tested carefully, then it will be released as new minor version. When the new version is readsy, all users are recommended to upgrade to ensure that your site comply with GDPR.

We should let you know about our integration with this cool feature of Joomla 3.2 sooner, if you’ve not heard about it, Joomla 3.2 allows you to install 3rd extensions from within your Joomla website without having to download the installation package manually. This feature with the Two Factor Authentication are among our favorite features of Joomla 3.2, big thanks to those who make them available!

At this time last year, the Solidres app was officially featured in the Android Play Store, and now we are very happy to announce that it is officially available in the iOS App Store. But it is not just the only great news: the Solidres app is now free for all Solidres users (both Android and iOS platforms).

We’ve just released new updates for Emerald, Orient and Lamour templates, including support for Solidres for Joomla v1.7.0 and latest plugins, their quick start packages are also updated to run latest Joomla 3.6.2 release. We are working on other templates to keep them up to date too. All active subscribers can download from our Download section.

Solidres for Joomla v1.8.0 is almost completed and it should be released next month, there are many improvements/bug fixes/new features in this version, one of the notable change is that Bootstrap 3 will be supported. There will be 03 new plugins to be released with this version as well, some existing plugins will also be updated and among them is Experience v0.3.0 which got the most updates and new features.

Have a nice weekend!

Solidres v2.13.0 is under heavy development with a lot of changes, we’ve reached a state where it is not possible to support both Joomla 3 & 4 in a single code base. We decided to drop Joomla 3 support in Solidres v2.13.0 and focus only on Joomla 4+ from now on.

From our own experience, upgrading from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 is not always a straight forward process, so please plan for the upgrading carefully, always make a full backup before upgrading. Upgrading should not be done in your live/production site, you should perform the upgrading in a staging/cloning site first.

We also have a good news for our template users: Greenery v2.0.0 with Joomla 4 support is 90% done, we are finalizing the last details as well as testing it against Solidres v2.13.0. Please check our blog regularly for more news.

We want to share an overview of the next major Solidres 3.2.0 release which has a lot of new features, improvements, and bug fixes:

• New router: The Solidres router is refactored, removing the ID from the automatically generated URL. The code is also cleaner and more maintainable. The new router is also applied to the Hub and Experience plugin.
• Tourist tax new charge type: Per person per stay
• Venox 2 replaces the old and out-of-date Colorbox JS library

Experience 1.11.0

• New thumbnail generation feature for Experience Slideshow and Gallery for better appearance and consistency

We are also constantly replacing deprecated Joomla API calls with the ultimate goal of making Solidres fully compatible with Joomla 5 natively without the need for the Backward Compatibility plugin.

2015 has been going well for us. There are still 4 months to go with many exiting things ahead and today we’d like to give an overview of them:

Channel Manager: yes we are working on Channel Manager feature for Solidres and it will be a killer feature for Solidres’s users, especially for those who have been waiting for a long time. We hope to introduce a beta phrase soon, please check back regularly for more news.

Solidres for Joomla 1.8.0 has been released with a lot of new features, improvements and bug fixes. We also introduce 03 new plugins and 01 new back-end module: Facebook Pixel plugin, Google Adwords plugin, ResCode plugin and Quick Search module. There are also updates for existing plugins/modules/templates (Luxuria, BlueBee, Adora) for Joomla, please check the change log and our download page for more information:

Solidres for Joomla v1.9.0 stable is now available for download. This release has many new features, improvements as well as bug fixes. In this release we have 01 new plugin (Housekeeping) and 01 new backend module (Statistics module) as well as updates to existings plugins/modules/templates (Adora, BlueBee, Emerald, Infinity, L’Amour, Luxuria, Orient), please check the change log below and the download page for more information:

Solidres for Joomla v2.0.0 is now available for download. This release marks an important milestone for our project with a lot of exciting new features, bug fixes and improvement as usual. Many existing templates/modules/plugins are also updated, we also have 01 new plugin called Flex Search and 03 new modules including : Surrounding, Experience Filter and Clocks (back-end module)

Solidres for Joomla v2.10.0 is finally here, after many delays. We’d like to share more info about new features/bugs fixes and improvements in this release below:

We’ve shipped maintenance releases for Solidres and RMS, the change log can be found below:

Solidres for Joomla 2.11.0 has been released, it is a major version which has many new features, bug fixes and other improvements. Details can be found below: