[02-March-2026] Events Booking version 5.5.0 released

Dear customers !

I’m happy to announce the release of Events Booking version 5.5.0! This release contains below improvements:

1. Improve Events Booking - Auto Event Data plugin

The plugin automatically calculates important event dates of event based on Event Date. In earlier releases, it only support Cancel Before Date. This version extends the plugin so that the following dates are supported:
- Registration Start Date
- Cut Off Date
- Cancel Before Date
- Registration Edit Close Date
- Publish Up
- Publish Down
- Early Bird Discount Date

Each of these dates contains parameter allow you to decide whether it should be auto calculated, what's the offset (for example, 5 days before event date) and what's the unit (Days/Hours). This make the plugin and flexible if your events allow you to setup dates like that.

2. Improve Events Booking - Joomla Groups Plugin

The plugin allow you to assign registrants of an event to the user groups of your choice. In this release, we add a new parameter called Remove From Groups When Registration Cancelled. If set to Yes, when registration is cancelled, registrants will be removed from the assigned user groups

3. Improve Timeline Layout

New parameters are added to Category and Upcoming Events Timeline layout to allow you to show Capacity, Number Registrants and Available Places of each event if needed. In the past, you will need to make layout override to have that, but now, it is configurable

4. Improve Categories Menu Item Types

The categories menu item types now have new parameters to allow you to control ordering of categories displayed in the view. It can be ordered by Ordering (default), Title or ID and in ASC or DESC direction

5. Improve Search Filters

The search filters (displayed above events list) on category and upcoming events views now only show categories configured in menu items (if configured) instead of all categories as before. 

6. Improve Improved Events Booking - Related Events Plugin

The plugin is used to set and display related events of an event under event details page. It now has parameters to allow you to turn of the information you do not want to display the plugin if required.

7. Improve Upcoming Events Module

Allow you to show event end date in default layout if needed.

8. Improve Registration History

Do not display and allow registrants to download certificate if the event they registered for was cancelled

9. Improve Registration Form

The GPDR layout is refactored to make it clear that users need to accept to GPDR to register for events and the GDPR fields also look consistent with other fields on registration form

10. Improve Monthly Calendar Menu Item Type

New parameter added to allow control position of Calendar Legend on the page

11. Improve Multilingual

In some cases, you have multilingual website but do not wish to translate Events Booking data to all languages. Currently, you will have to copy data from default language to allow other languages and it is time wasting. In this new release, if you do not need to translate data, and only use data from default language, you can set Disable Multilingual config option to Yes

12. New EB Authorize.net Accept Hosted Payment Plugin

A new paid payment plugin called EB Authorize.net Accept Hosted is added in this release. Authorize.net recommends users to migrate from Authorize.net SIM to Authorize.net Accept Hosted. Authorize.net SIM was deprecated, it is not reliable anymore because it's Slient Post (which is used to notify system about payment) is not reliable, usually blocked by Web application firewall of server. So if you are using EB Authorize.net SIM, we recommend going to  joomdonation.com/payment-plugins/events-...payment-plugins.html , purchase and install EB Authorize.net Accept Hosted payment plugin and use it instead.

Please update your site to this updated package of Events Booking to uses these improvements. Thanks for continue using our products and support our development

Regards,

Tuan