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Today has been a big day with lots happening and lots of news. First up - it has been a little over two months since my husband Bill suffered his temporary brush with death after a cardiac arrest, and after everything that has happened to him in the intervening weeks - he finally returned to work on light duties. Bill's survival and full recovery has been considered a bit of a miracle by his specialists, and I'd like to say a big thank you to all of my clients and site visitors who emailed me messages of support and kept my family in their prayers. I know you all made a difference.
While I've had Bill at home I have also been working on the EZ Autos 5.2.0 upgrade, and I know everyone will be really pleased to hear it has now been released. EZ Autos 5.2.0 will now run on Joomla 1.5x in legacy mode, and the beta testing that has been done over the past couple of months indicates it is stable on the system. New in EZ Autos 5.2.0 are profiling privileges, an increase to 24 images and image descriptions, data export file functions for Google and Vast sites, multiple-selector features list to replace the old system of yes/no radio buttons for lists, new configurable options to turn data sections off, support for rental/lease vehicle pricing, new fields for the display of finance information associated with a vehicle, new module to display all of the vehicle makes with hyperlinks leading to those listings, a new multilayout consisting of quick search boxes, top categories and random featured listings, leads manager has been extended to a VIP Buyer's register with unsubscribe link and email function to automatch listings with lead data, email sellers their listings reports and more.
Version 5.2.0 of EZ Autos is a moderately large upgrade, and a new user guide has also been written to provide an extensive overview of all new site functions and product addons. My customers who've been beta testing on both the Joomla 1.0x and 1.5x systems have found it full of features - and they've done a great job helping to identify bugs and user-related issues. I'd like to say a big thank you to all of my beta testers, because such extensive pre-release testing always helps to produce a better quality release.
Also available today is EZ Realty version 5.2.5. This version has a number of bug-fixes to resolve a couple of issues Joomla 1.5x users have encountered, and it's also now fully-functional on Joomla 1.5x in legacy mode. The RSS feeds and data export functions are all working on J1.5x now - as is the Realty Map component. As those final couple of features have been been updated to work on the J1.5x system - EZ Realty is now classified as stable on J1.5.
As usual - customers can access upgrade packages from their customer account.
I'm also part-way through the EZ Rider upgrade to enable it to run on Joomla 1.5x, and it should be available sometime in the next 2-4 weeks.
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