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CMS Africa has become one of the premier technology events in Africa that brings together people across the globe including web developers, online marketers, software engineers, online retailers, web administrators, online banking admins and company owners. Initially, it all started with a small event called Joomladay Kenya - an event about Joomla!-the CMS. But then people in the tech-world weren’t  just using Joomla, they were also using other CMS’s like WordPress, Drupal among others. This idea eventually led to first CMS Africa Summit that was held at Strathmore Univerisity, Nairobi in 2014.

CMS Africa Summit 2018 is going to be held at the Kigali Marriott Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda on 16th-17th March, 2018. The event will feature hackathons and sessions by key speakers from people across the CMS world along with interactions and knowledge sharing between the event attendees on a variety of topics. 

Read on for more details and some amazing news for event attendees.

We always aim to keep our customers’ sites free from any vulnerabilities, so our security team is continuously trying to make Techjoomla products safer. As a part of this, we recently discovered some issues with JGive, JTicketing and Invitex. An updated version for these 3 products is now available, and all our customers are requested to immediately upgrade to the newer versions.

Along with the security fixes, a few minor enhancements are included in some of the extensions. With these releases, we’re also making it easy for you to know if you’re using an old version. Additionally, we’re also making a bug-fix release for JBolo.

Read on for more information regarding the exciting renewal discount.

The wait is over! We are super excited to announce the release of Shika 1.2 which brings Bootstrap 3 support, User Hierarchy awareness and a plethora of reporting enhancements with TJ reports integration. Between TJ Reports and Hierarchy awareness it is now possible for managers to view reports of a user reporting to them. What’s more, the reporting now also understands the concept of ownership and allows Course creators to view reports about the courses created by them.

Please note that this is a major release and involves a migration which is however painless. Also since the layouts have been revamped to support Bootstrap 3, any overrides you have done might need some rework. On installation do not forget to click the ‘Fix’ buttons on both Shika and Jlike Components. Detailed instructions are given in the release notes. Make sure you read them carefully before you upgrade !!

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The Techjoomla Team has been striving hard to churn out security releases that have been lined up for a number of extensions. This is our 4th security release this month as we had already done minor releases for JBolo, JTicketing and Invitex. We are happy to bring you yet another security and maintenance release for JGive, JGive 2.0.8. We recommend you to upgrade ASAP to ensure you are using a secure version of JGive. Initially we had released JGive 2.0.7 but an issue was reported by one of our clients. Hence we have released JGive 2.0.8 with fixes for the issue reported by the client along with certain security fixes. Read on for the installation instructions and detailed changelog.

In keeping with our commitment to ensuring our products are secure and bug free, we bring you a security and maintenance release for JTicketing v.2.0.14. Besides fixing issues found in our audits, we have also fixed a few bugs. Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading to the latest version. It is recommended you upgrade to this vers...

We are happy to release JBolo v3.2.9 which is primarily a maintenance and security release. Our team is always aiming to ensure that our products are free from exploits and this release is a result of some internal audits we ran to ensure that our products are secure. It is highly recommended that you upgrade ASAP to ensure you are on a secure version of JBolo.

A small UX improvement to let the admin choose the default behaviour for the User list has been added as well. The issue where Joomla based live updates were broken has been fixed as well. Read our changelog for the complete details.

The Techjoomla team always strives to make sure that our products are secure and free from exploits. We are in the midst of a regular security audit to better the security of our products and are rolling out maintenance releases for the same. You can expect maintenance releases for most of our major products in the next few days.

We are happy to bring you Invitex v3.0.5 with updated clickatell sms plugin providing the facility to use both old and the new clickatell APIs along with security fixes and minor bug fixes. Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading to the latest version. It is recommended you upgrade to this ASAP to ensure you are on a secure version. Read on for the complete changelog.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday is just around the corner. Techjoomla would like to wish all its subscribers a happy Black Friday and Cyber Monday and we are grateful for being with us throughout our journey with Joomla!

In order to celebrate Black Friday and Cyber Monday with you, we’re getting you some awesome deals on our extensions and bundles. No better way to celebrate Black Friday and Cyber Monday other than shopping for your favorite extensions and bundles. We have clubbed Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals together to make the celebrations even more special!

Get 20% off on Single Packages & Upto 50%* off on Bundles (Bundles are already discounted up to 30%)

Use Coupon Code: TJBF2K17

Validity: 23rd Nov to 28th Nov, 2017

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The Joomla World Conference is a key annual event for all Joomlers/people associated with Joomla in way or another.

Techjoomla has been working in the in the Joomla space since the days of Mambo and we are all extremely passionate about working with and contributing to this fantastic project.

We are delighted to be a sponsor for the Joomla World Conference 2017, back to back for 3 years now !

Joomla World Conference 2017 is going to be held in Sheraton Roma Hotel & Conference Center, Rome, Italy, on 17-19 November, 2017.  Parth, our CEO shall be attending the event and talking about Rapid development with Horizontal / infrastructure extensions in Joomla. If you are planning to attend the event, do say hi !  

Do not despair if you missed our Diwali sale ! Halloween is just around the corner and we are offering a flat 15% off on all products and bundles. This is one Halloween that won’t scare you at all !!

Use the coupon code TJHALL17 at the checkout to get a 15% discount. Note that the coupon code is only valid till 2nd November, 2017.

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Also listing the best deals that some of our partners are offering as well, so you get everything under one roof.

Techjoomla is happy to announce our new collaboration with Themexpert for integration of our popular Joomla LMS- Shika with the Academia v3.0 Joomla template from Themexpert.

Academia v3.0

Academia is a 100% responsive educational Joomla template, that is perfect for any type of educational organization. It is crafted with 3 homepage variations and 20 built-in pages.

If you are looking for a beautiful template that offers an official Shika LMS integration, then this is the one we highly recommend.

Shika users can use the coupon code ACADEMIA3 to get a 30% discount on Academia. Note that the coupon code is valid till 31st October, 2017.

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Read on to get details of what the integration offers.  

We are happy to bring you Shika 1.1.13 which brings an updated Box API integration which is used for rendering document type lessons.

The older version of our plugin was using legacy Box view APIs which will be having their EOL late this year. Hence the older version is being deprecated. You can find out more about the EOL announcement from box here : https://blog.box.com/blog/new-box-view. Make sure you update and migrate your documents to the new BOX API ASAP. Not migrating can break your lessons using BOX in the future. 

This new release is a HUGE step as it opens the doors to several new document types to be supported in the near future as the new API allows for high-fidelity, interactive viewers for documents, images, videos, 360 images and videos, 3D files and dozens of other file types. We will be working on bringing these new enhancements to you as we extend our tracking capabilities to the new file types.

Read on for details and instructions on setting up and migrating to the new plugin.

Joostock is the first Joomla unconference to be held in the Netherlands at Eindhoven on the 7th and 8th October, 2017. As a Joomler, you might have plenty of new ideas along with vast knowledge that you are eager to share. Apart from knowledge and ideas, you also have your own share of problems with Joomla that you tackle everyday.

We are happy to release Shika 1.1.12 with feature support for AltaUserPoints and some bug fixes. We recommend you to upgrade to Shika 1.1.12 as soon as possible. Also don’t forget to read the release notes before upgrading for instructions related to backward compatibility breaks. Read on for the complete changelog.

We are happy to release Shika 1.1.11 with some new features, improvements and bug fixes. We recommend you to upgrade to Shika 1.1.11 as soon as possible. Also don’t forget to read the release notes before upgrading for instructions regarding backward compatibility breaks. Read on for the complete changelog.