[21-Oct-2025] Events Booking 5.3.0 Released – Now Fully Compatible with Joomla 6

Dear customers !

I’m happy to announce the release of Events Booking version 5.3.0! This update brings official Joomla 6 compatibility, several new features, and a range of improvements and bug fixes to make the best the already great events registration extension even better .

1. Official Joomla 6 Support
Joomla! 6 was officially released last week. We have been testing and updating Events Booking since the early Joomla 6 Alpha, Beta, and Release Candidate versions to ensure full compatibility.
With version 5.3.0, Events Booking is now officially Joomla 6 compatible. Before upgrading your site to Joomla 6, please make sure you first update Events Booking to version 5.3.0 to ensure a smooth upgrade.

2. New Plugin: Event Managers
When you allow users to manage registrants from the frontend, you may want to assign multiple managers to each event. By default, only the event owner (the user set as Created By in the event) can manage registrants.
If you want to allow more than one manager, simply enable the new Events Booking – Additional Event Managers plugin and select the additional managers you want to assign for each event on the add/edit event screen.

 3. Enhanced Google Structured Data Plugin
The Events Booking – Google Structured Data plugin has been improved to provide better SEO and richer Google search results. This update adds support for additional recommended fields such as Organizer, Performer, Event Status, URL, and Valid From. These extra details help Google better understand your events and can improve how they appear in search results.

4. Other Improvements
 - Coupon Import: You can now include the category column in your import file to assign imported coupons to specific event categories.
 - Coupon Export: Exports now include all coupon data fields for easier management and backups.
 - Auto Coupon Generation Plugin: Now supports assigning automatically generated coupons to specific event categories.
 - Mass Mail: Added a new option called Prevent Duplicate Mass Mail. When enabled, if multiple registrations use the same email address, they will receive only one message instead of duplicates.
- Ticket Types Plugin: Now supports Discount by Percent in addition to fixed discounts.
- Monthly Calendar & Full Calendar: You can now display events from multiple locations instead of a single one.
- Frontend Registrants Management: Added a new filter to view registrants by Registrant Type.

5. Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where exporting registrants from the frontend did not work when filtering by category.
- Fixed the Location Filter not working correctly in the Full Calendar view.
 
Please update your site to Events Booking 5.3.0 to enjoy these new features, improvements, and fixes. Thank you for continuing to use and support our products — your feedback helps us make Events Booking better with every release !

Best regards,

Tuan

By chnce I saw this update and installed it on a version of site we are preparing to run Joomla 5
NICE new features - THANK YOU!!

But - after installation, if we go to "Configuration", we get an error saying:

"3 arguments are required, 2 given"

Hi Finn

This usually causes by language package of your site (not language package of Events Booking) is not up to date. So please update the language package of your to latest version (maybe you forgot to do that when update your site from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 or from Joomla 4 to 5) and the issue will be gone

Regards,

Tuan

I updated our language and that fixed it I think

THANK YOUUUUU

Of course . I have so much experience with this issue, so I knew exactly the reasons when you posted it

Thank you very much Tuan!
I love the continues improvements and how fast you listen to feedback. 

I have not used any other extension or plugin that had such good support

Thanks Joris for your nice words. I will continue working hard to make it better

I am unable to update for some reason and when I click the Manual install it gives me a 403 error page..
joomdonation.com/index.php?option=com_dm...ckage&document_id=56

Thanks

Hi Ben

It could happen because you haven't configured Download ID yet? OR the current Download ID is used for a different site (like dev site). Could you please follow instructions at docs.joomdonation.com/eventsbooking/gett.../installation#update , configure Download ID and try again? Generate a new Download ID if needed

If it still does not work, submit a support ticket sending us super user account of your site so that we can check it for you

Regards,

Tuan

The ID is in there. I'll create a ticket.