Release notes

What's new

Please note that JCH Optimize uses the FOF4 library developed by Akeeba.com. They have announced that they will discontinue development of this library and in fact have Joomla 4 native version of all their extensions. Consequently, we are actively developing a version of JCH Optimize that doesn't use FOF which is planned for 7.2.0. In the meantime please do not uninstall FOF4 if you're using JCH Optimize, it will be uninstalled when you install 7.2.0 or if you uninstall JCH Optimize if you're not using any other extensions that uses FOF4. This version provides support for Joomla 4.1.* and allows you to install the package which includes FOF4 on your site.

Please see CHANGELOG for further details of other changes.

Changelog

New features

• Added support for Joomla 4.1

Removed features

• No longer combining Google font files if they're not being optimized

Changes

• Improved caching to reduce number of build up of files
• The Add Image Attributes feature now also searches data-src attributes for urls of images

Bug fixes

• [HIGH] PHP error thrown on Joomla! 4 while saving Exclude settings with plugin disabled.
• [LOW] Fixed issue with optimized files not shown in blue in the file tree on the Optimize Image tab.
• [MEDIUM] Fixed bug with displaying WEBP images when CDN is enabled.

Release notes

What's new

This version has a bug fix for some sites.

Changelog

Bug fixes

• [HIGH] Third party library conflicting on some sites causing 500 errors

Release notes

What's new

This version adds a Page Cache toggle button on the Dashboard for easy access for PRO users, adds ACL controls for the component and combines Basic and Combined files tab into a General tab in the Options configuration page.

Please see CHANGELOG below for list of changes.

Changelog

New features

• Added Permissions tab on the Options configuration page.
• Added setting to remove CSS files from loading
• Added toggle settings for the integrated page cache plugin on the dashboard
• Re-added setting to remove javascript files from loading

Removed features

• No longer collapsing sections with Automatic settings.

Changes

• Combined Basic and Combine files tab in a General tab
• More popovers added to dashboard for better user experience
• Using browser detection to determine when to load WEBP images

Bug fixes

• [HIGH] Fixed error with uninstalling package
• [MEDIUM] Using the Clean Cache button don't always clean page cache

Miscellaneous changes

• Other minor improvements and bug fixes

Release notes

What's new

Please see CHANGELOG below for list of changes.

Changelog

Changes

• Better compatibility with third party installers such as mySites.guru

Bug fixes

• [HIGH] Exclude menu items settings not saving or being excluded

Release notes

What's new

This is a major upgrade from the last version. This version also now supports Joomla! 4. The settings are normally accessed in the plugin under Plugin Manager but now JCH Optimize is a package containing an administrator component, module (in the pro version) and plugin, so the settings are moved to the component. You'll now also find an entry for JCH Optimize in the component's menu in the administrator section.

This installation is now actually a new entry in Joomla!'s extension database so the settings will be imported from the previous installation and the old installation deleted. Please note, it's not possible to downgrade to previous versions, you'll need to uninstall this version first otherwise you'll end up with two installations of JCH Optimize on your site.

Please see CHANGELOG below for list of changes.

Changelog

New features

• Added Utility feature to generate new cache hash
• Added module to toggle plugin state between 'production' and 'development' [Pro version only]

Removed features

• No longer using preload polyfill for asynchronous CSS and optimized Google Font files
• Removed the 'Remove Unused javascript' feature

Changes

• Added support for Joomla!4
• Moved settings from plugin to component

Language fixes or changes

• Language files moved to component from plugin
• Language files keys now properly formatted according to Joomla!'s standards

Miscellaneous changes

• Added support for javascript modules
• Animation keyframes added to critical CSS in Optimize CSS Delivery
• Using icon images instead of font icons on action buttons on dashboard
• Using template elements for Reduce DOM feature rather than HTML comments

Release notes

Changelog:

• Improvement: Added support for older browsers that don't use WEBP images.
• Improvement: Recursing into subfolders while using the Manual Optimize Image section is now optional.
• Improvement: Urls in srcsets are now being processed when using Automatic Optimize Image option and are also now being converted to WEBP images where necessary.
• Improvement: When Lazyload image is enabled, hidden images are also only loaded when they become visible.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

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• Minor bugs fixes and improvments.

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• Bug Fix: Resolve PHP error when optimizing images in subfolder.
• Bug Fix: Fixed error handling in script that stopped optimize images without any messages.
• Bug Fix: Webp formats weren't genereated for multiple copies of images.
• Bug Fix: Add Item button wasn't working for some sites.
• Bug Fix: Time out issues when optimizing images.
• Bug Fix: Fix issues with restore backup images on some sites.
• Improvement: Added support for ttf filis in Http/2 feature.
• Other minor bugs fixes and improvments.

Release notes

Changelog:

• New Feature: New Optimize Image feature to optimize images on a per page basis and to convert images to webp formats. Pro Version
• New Feature: Option to restore images after they've been optimized or to delete directory of back-up images if optimization is satisfactory
• New Feature: Smart Combine feature to produce smaller combined files promoting browser caching across page loads, reduces chances of excessive cache generation and takes advantages of better files delivery offered by Http/2 servers. Pro Version
• Improvements: Better implementation to maintain aspect-ratio of images in Lazy-load courtesy of f_liva.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

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Changelog:

• Improvements: A slightly better layout (hopefully) of the settings page since the last release.

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• New Feature: Basic settings for Http2 feature now available in Free Version.
• New Feature: Optimize Google Fonts feature to speed up loading of Google Fonts Pro Version
• New Feature: Ability to add files to the Http2 Push if critical files are being loaded dynamically so cannot normally be accessed by the plugin. Pro Version
• New Feature: Added preconnect resource hints settings for CDN domains.
• Improvements: Improved method to generate key hash for Optimize CSS Delivery to avoid incorrect critical CSS being loaded on page, so improving Cumulative layout shift across pages.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Bug Fix: Some sites using PageBuilder were seeing css incorrected rendered.
• Bug Fix: All images in srcset attributes were not loaded by CDN on some sites.
• Bug Fix: Too many backgrounnd images loaded y http/2 when Optimize CSS Delivery feature is disabled. Can cause trouble with loading of site.
• Improvement: No longer removing font-face from combined css when Optimize CSS Delivery is enabled as only the font-face used above the fold is included in critical css.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Improvements: Dynamic CSS Selectors will add CSS to critical CSS even if Remove Unused CSS is disabled.
• Improvements: In the Http/2 push feature, the plugin will now only push woff files or woff2 files instead if present. This avoids pushing font files that are not being used.
• New Feature: Added settings to Lazy-load background images and Audio and Video elements. Pro Version
• New Feature: Added settings to add files loaded over CDN to the Link header, and to exclude files in the Http/2 Push feature. Pro Version
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Bug Fix: Font files weren't being pushed by http/2 unless Optimize CSS Delivery is enabled.
• Bug Fix: Font files of typ woff2 were not being pushed via http/2 at all.
• Bug Fix: Add Image Attributes weren't working for images using self closing HTML tags.
• Bug Fix: Compressed files were being downloaded from some servers creating errors in combined files.
• Improvement: Re-add the CSS Dynamic Selectors setting although implementation is different and not as much CSS needs to be declared.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

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Changelog:

• Improvements: Optimize Htaccess button will update codes in .htaccess files if already exists rather than simple reporting code already existing.
• Improvements: Modified the implementation of Remove Unused CSS so as to obviate the need for configuring the Dynamic CSS setting.
• New Feature: Added 'beta' feature Reduce Dom to reduce size and loading time of large sites.
• New Feature: Added setting to remove unused javascript files.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

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Changelog:

• Improvements: Add Image Attributes will ignore images with both height and width attributes present. If one attribute is present the other will be added based on aspect ratio.
• Bug fix. Fixed error in combined CSS files caused by media type in file being different to type in media attribute on the LINK tag.
• Bug Fix. 'Add item' button sometimes not showing for multi-select exclude options.
• Bug Fix: Lazyloading images with srcset attributes broke W3C HTML validation.
• Bug fix: Updating from v5.4.3 generated a PHP error.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Changed avaliability of some features. Some features that were Pro only are now free.
• Renamed tabs in Settings page.
• Corrected W3C validation issue with Lazyload.
• Corrected and modified mime type in codes to optimize .htaccess.
• Added option to remove unused CSS. This is added as an additional setting in the Optimize CSS Delivery feature.

  Pro Version
• Added separate setting to lazy-load iframes in Lazy-load Images feature.

  Pro Version
• Different hash generated for multiple combined files.
• All excluded and combined javascript files are placed at the bottom of the page with settings Premium and above.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Added more options to cache lifetime setting allowing for longer cache times.
• Improved compatibility with LiteSpeed Cache.
• Adds the 'font-display: swap;' CSS declaration when the Optimize CSS Delivery feature is enabled.
• Fixed bug in Optimize CSS Delivery feature handling CSS declarations that describes HTML attributes.
• Now only pushes font files of type woff/tff in the Http/2 feature.

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Changelog:

• Added cache lifetime setting so this can be reduced to help manage the amount of cache files generated on the server.
• Added option to autosize images in Lazy-load. This was hardcoded in but caused problems on some site so it's now optional.
• Fixed bug in HTML minifier library.
• Now loads CSS file using the preload attribute instead of using javascript in the Optimize CSS Delivery setting. CSS file is also now loaded in the HEAD section.
• Fixed bug with Optimize Image feature not working on Safari

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed bug in HTML minifier library.
• Fixed bug in Lazy-load feature.
• Fixed bug with fonts not showing correctly on some sites.
• Fixed bug with showing XML pages.
• Improved compatibility with Page Cache plugin and the HTTP/2 push feature.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Added http/2 push feature.
• Added capability to handle responsive images and iframes to the Lazy-load feature.
• Improved efficiency of caching policy of static assets.
• Removed font-face from combined CSS file when Optimize CSS Delivery is enabled.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvement.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed issue with Optimize Image sometimes stopping.
• Added ability to mark and skip optimized images in subfolders.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvement.

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Changelog:

• Improved handling of async/deferred javascript files.
• New Lazyload library.
• Fixed bug in javascript minification library.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvement.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Javascript files loaded asynchronously are ignored by the plugin, deferred files are not combined but placed below the last combined file and combined file will be deferred in Optimum setting.
• Fixed issue with Optimize Image function timing out.
• Other Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed PHP error on some sites.
• Integration with LiteSpeed Cache.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Improved caching mechanism to prevent issues on some sites.
• Improved compatibility with Joomla! Page Cache plugin.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed issue with load issues on some sites.
• Fixed bug in javascript minifier
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed issue with randomly losing CSS on some sites.
• Fixed issue deprecating error with each function on PHP7.2.
• Added option to exclude urls.
• Added minifier for json.
• Other bug fixes and improvements.

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Changelog:

• Fixed bug in calculating cache lifetime that was preventing expired cache from being flushed daily.

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Changelog:

• Resolved errors on some sites caused by the last release.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Major improvement in the Optimize Image feature, handling a much higher number of images more effectively and quickly.
• Static combined files are now loaded from the media folder rather than the cache folder.
• Codes are added to .htaccess file to gzip compress static files.
• Expired cache are flushed automatically once daily.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Minor bug fixes since the last release.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Minor bug fixes since the last release.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Ability to exclude files while maintaining original execution order for all Automatic Settings added.
• 'Exclude javascript dynamically' setting removed.
• Ability to select static files for combined css and js files added.
• Cache lifetime hardcoded to 1 day and setting removed.
• Compliant with Amp pages.
• Ability to select file type for each CDN domain added.
• CDN feature will use base element to determine the base url for relative urls.
• Automatically exclude images above the fold from Lazy-load feature to avoid css render-blocking issues.
• Improvements in the Optimize CSS Delivery feature.
• Various bug fixes and improvements.

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Changelog:

• A few bug fixes since the latest release

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Changelog:

• Improved compatibility with PHP7.
• Added Chinese (zh-CN) language translation
• Several minor bug fixes and improvements

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Changelog:

• Fixed bug in last version that was creating some javascript errors in some browsers on some sites.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Grouped settings related to the combine CSS/javascript feature together to make it more intuitive to configure and added setting to disable/enable this feature
• Added feature to add missing height and width attributes to img elements
• Added Polish and Hungarian translations
• Fixed bug with lazy-load feture that was affecting other javascript libraries
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed issue with the CSS Optimize library that was causing some pages to load slowly

Release notes

Changelog:

• NO LONGER SUPPORTING JOOMLA 2.5
• The settings in the backend are rearranged in a more logical and intuitive manner.
• Option to 'Leverage Browser Cache' for common resource files.
• Option to correct permissions of files/folders in plugin.
• Ability to remove files from loading on the page for eg., if you have more than one jQuery libraries or libraries you're not using like Mootools.
• Psuedo-cron script that flush expired cache daily to reduce the build up of excess cache
• Support for those pesky Google font files that are always blocking on PageSpeed
• Added translations for Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Hebrew
• Support for up to 3 CDN/Cookieless domains and the ability to select the file type to load over CDN (PRO VERSION)
• Exclude images from Lazy Load based on the folder (useful if you want to exclude all images from an extension), or by the CSS class defined on the image (PRO VERSION)
• Improved compatibility with slideshows and ajax content with the LazyLoad function and also support for non-javascript users (probably some mobile) (PRO VERSION)
• Developed our own API for optimizing images so we'll no longer be using Kraken.io (PRO VERSION)
• Added functionality to recursively optimize images in subfolders (PRO VERSION)
• Can scale images during optimization if image dimensions are larger than required. (PRO VERSION)
• Optimized/resized images will be automatically backed up in a folder. (PRO VERSION)
• Other improvements to existing features and various bug fixes.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed bug in Autoloader function that conflicts with other plugins that have classes beginning with 'JCH'.
• Fixed bug with HTML Minify removing spaces from inside pre elements when it contains other HTML elements.
• Fixed issue with Optimize Images not working with open_basedir setting (PRO VERSION)

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed issue with plugin not downloding files from external domain on some servers.
• Bug fixes and improvement in the HTML Minification library.
• Improvements with the Optimize Images feature now using kraken.io API

Release notes

Changelog:

• Now using Kraken.io API to optimize images.
• Fixed issue with the new setting 'Use url rewrite - Without Options+SymLinks' not working properly.
• Fixed issue with 'Invalid Token' error when caching and Ultra HTML Minification level are enabled.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed issue with plugin not running on a few sites.
• Installation fails if minimum requirements are not met.
• Organize plugin admin parameters in groups so easier to configure, possibly.
• Add option to wrap javascript files in try catch blocks if there are javascripts errors on the site.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements

Release notes

Changelog:

• Added lazy load images function.
• Now loading JCH Optimize generated combined files via the media folder
• Fixed issue with 'Optimize Images' function freezing on large folders and added activity log.
• Fixed bug with Javascript Minification library affecting some sites
• Fixed bug with HTML minification affecting XHTML templates
• Added levels of HTML minification
• Added visual indicator for which pre-configured setting is enabled.
• Added workaraound for sites getting 'Failed fetching links..' error in backend.

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed issue with plugin not running on some sites with outdated PCRE library
• Improvements in the CDN/Cookie-less domain feature
• Improvements in Sprite Generator
• Size of images in sprite now restricted to 50px x 50px
• Improvements in the minification libraries
• Fix link to update stream to enable Joomla! automatic updates

Release notes

Changelog:

• Expanded the 'Cookieless domain' feature to full CDN support and all static files will be loaded on the specified domain, including background images, generated sprite and the JCH generated javascript and CSS
• Fixed bug causing 404 errors in the Optimize Images feature on some sites.
• Fixed bug with Sprite generator that changes the order of images on sprite if you add additional images.
• Improved quailty of sprite image for sites running GD2
• Now only using png image type for sprite as this offers the highest quality and widely supported.

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Changelog:

• Improved the Optimize Images function. Wasn't working well on some sites.
• CSS Minify now supports font-family name with multiple words that are unquoted
• Fixed bug that affected sites with broken links to files

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed PHP warnings when either Combine Js/CSS is disabled
• Add ability to add items to multi-select exclude options
• Improved support for popular editors
• Significantly improved the 'Optimize CSS Delivery' option
• If 'url rewriting' is set on auto (default), plugin will detect support and automatically select Yes or No so this check is not made on every download
• Scripts with 'document.write' will only be excluded by default if they are in the body of the page.
• Other minor improvements

Release notes

Changelog:

• Fixed Errors in backend affecting the layout.
• Fixed bugs in javascript minifier library that was breaking a few javascript files.
• Improved error handling in the backend.
• Fixed several PHP notices and warnings that were showing.
• Links in multiselect exclude options were not changing when a different menu item was selected and global cache was on due to a bug in Joomla. A workaround was coded in.
• Added support for Internet Explorer 9 and earlier.

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Changelog:

• Fixed 'File not found' error on some sites regarding the link toi the combined file that caused sites to appear without CSS and Javscript.
• Fixed Backend not showing correctly in some sites dur to the addition of the multiselect exclude options.
• Improved error handling in the backend.

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Changelog:

• Regexes optimized to enable the plugin to run much faster
• Support for cURL added to access files on external server and php generated CSS/Js files.
• Multiselect options now available in backend to select files/extension to exclude from aggregation. This requires cURL or allow_url_fopen to be enabled, otherwise you'll get a textarea to type in the file/extension names.
• Update server added for automatic updates.
• Using Joomla! API to access the cached combined file. This is an attempt to make the plugin compatible with extension that changes the default cache location eg. MightySites.
• Added support for deflate to compress combined file if supported by server and browser.
• Default option to automatically detect support for url rewriting on installed server so query can be removed from the JCH generated link to combined file to enable proxy caching.
• Support for data URIs added.
• Support for Google Maps improved.
• Support for email cloaking added.
• [Pro-Version] Can automatically correct the published order of the plugin to ensure correct operation.
• [Pro-Version] Option to clean plugin and page cache from the backend added.
• [Pro-Version] Six pre-configured settings now available to simplify configuration of plugin on various sites.
• [Pro-Version] 'Optimize CSS Delivery' option added. When enabled the plugin will attempt to load only the CSS required to render the page in the head. All other CSS will be loaded aysnchronously by javascript.

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Changelog:

• Fixed issue with plugin failing if urls is non-existent.
• Other bug fixes and enhancement.

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• Fixed issue with CSS minification on some website.
• Improved editor support.
• Fixed issue with some files inside IE conditional tags being combined.
• Other bug fixes and enhancements

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Changelog:

• Fixed issue with responsiveness affected on some websites.
• Fixed issue with some websites not showing properly in Internet Explorer.
• Improved Exception handling and error logging.
• Various bug fixes and improvements.

Release notes

What's new

This is a major upgrade and complete rewrite of plugin codes from the previous version to make the plugin more efficient and maintainable. The url to the settings page has also changed. On upgrade, depending on which method is used, the links to the settings page may not work initially until the admin page is refreshed.

Please see CHANGELOG below for list of changes.

Changelog

New features

• Added Reduce DOM feature [Pro version only]
• Added Remove javascript/Remove CSS setting
• Added Smart Combine feature [Pro version only]
• Added Utility feature to generate new cache hash

Changes

• Complete redo of Admin Configuration page to be more user-friendly and aesthetic

Miscellaneous changes

• Using icon images instead of font icons on action buttons on dashboard