- Fix: Our widget won't render, when the theme doesn't supports it.
- Fix: Post meta comparison does not work with 'exists' or 'not exists' compare method.
- Fix: Randomize first causes PHP error, when a slider doesn't have any slides.
- Fix: Ignite gallery generator has an error with SVG images.
- Fix: Firefox cannot handle the background parallax without lagging, so we won't use this feature in Firefox browsers anymore.
- Fix: YouTube layer's video won't start on mobiles when the video is started before the page completely loaded.
- Fix: Row and Column background colors can create an error message in PHP 8.1+, when their color codes only contain numbers.
- Fix: The path of some images created PHP errors.
- Fix: iOS devices opened parent element links twice, when a text layer was clicked on them.
- Feature: Iframe Title option for Vimeo layer.
- Other: Black Friday sale notification added.
- Other: Spanish translation update. Thanks Rodrigo!
- Removed: A fix for an old Safari bug won't be needed anymore, as it got resolved quite a while ago.
- Removed: Joomla Module layer got deprecated in Joomla 4 and 5.
- Fix: WP Grid Builder conflict, which made WP Grid Builder's checkbox filtering not work.
- Fix: Gutenberg compatibility for WordPress 6.3
- Fix: Extra mouse buttons (like "back" button) won't open links in sliders any longer.
- Fix: PHP8 compatibility.
- Fix: Sliders did not show up on websites using Perfmatters plugin.
- Fix: Wrong slider titles were written out within SiteOrigin Page Builder.
- Fix: Sliders sometimes did not load on websites using WP Meteor plugin.
- Feature: VirtueMart generator's language fields became dropdowns instead of text inputs.
- Feature: The "Image Width" setting of arrows and autoplay buttons are now available in the Free version too.
- Feature: Playsinline attribute added to all videos, to avoid them being opened fullscreen by default on iOS devices.
- Removed: Twitter generator got deprecated, because its API creation price became $100/month.
- Removed: Facebook generator was already deprecated, but just with a notice. Now its codes were finally removed.
- Feature: Google font list got updated.
- Feature: Norwegian language update.
- Fix: Jetpack conflict could cause 500 Internal Server Error, or PHP error message appear.
- Fix: When multiple background videos are used in one slider and vertical main animation is used, scrolling away stops the not-active videos.
- Removed: JetPack Photon image optimizer option got deprecated, because it creates too many possible issues.
- Feature: Database managing codes got updated.
- Feature: Norwegian translation.
- Feature: Hebrew translation.
- Feature: Joomla articles generator code updated to avoid input setting caused errors.
- Fix: Gutenberg plugin conflict.
- Fix: PHP8.2.4+ compatibility code.
- Fix: Image layer alt tag and title was encoded twice.
- Fix: Show editor icon option did not work in Text Editor mode.
- Fix: Some database column length limitations got increased.
- Fix: Meta (FB, Instagram) image files don't always have the extension, which is indicated in their filenames. This caused issues with the Resize and Convert to webp options.
- Feature: PHP 8.2 compatibility.
- Feature: Options for lightboxed videos.
- Feature: Analyze & Repair option for Joomla, to handle database issues.
- Fix: Touch JS codes won't affect one slide sliders, for better scrolling experience.
- Fix: Shortcode sanitization to strengthen security.
- Fix: Run Joomla update codes, even if you don't enter Smart Slider's dashboard.
- Fix: Downgraded Smart Sliders create a database error, which made the latest Smart Slider not work either.
Warning: Due to MySQL 8.0 compatibility related changes in the database this version is not backwards compatible.
- Feature: Google font list is updated.
- Feature: New Repair HTML error option for the HTML layer.
- Feature: The lottie-player tag added to the tag validation of the HTML layer.
- Feature: Adding enablejsapi=1 parameter to YouTube videos in lightbox.
- Feature: Added support for a couple of HTML tags in the heading and text layer to allow WooCommerce to display the on-sale product's price properly.
- Feature: Image description, class and caption are now available as variables at the Joomla article generator.
- Feature: Better ordering at the Images from Folder generator and and "exclude resized images" code updated for better result.
- Feature: RSS generator will ask down namespace attributes too.
- Feature: Youtube layer will support youtube-nocookie.com urls too. But you should note, that still the YouTube And Vimeo Privacy Enhanced Mode setting defines, whether your videos come from youtube.com or from youtube-nocookie.com!
- Feature: Private Vimeo url support for Lightbox.
- Fix: Not selecting a slider in Avada Builder could cause PHP errors.
- Fix: Joomla update codes were updated to ensure that every database update runs properly and not cause errors.
- Fix: The Events Calendar Pro compatibility fix after their huge update, that caused the events not being accessible with default WordPress functions.
- Fix: Compatibility fix for WoodMart theme.
- Fix: Actions will now work properly on the Slide Link.
- Fix: MySQL 8.0 compatibility fix, where "system" is a reserved keyword so we'll no longer use it as a column name.
- Fix: The custom play button was not exported with the slider.
- Fix: Divi module to ensure that Divi sets the proper slider. (You might need to re-pick your sliders, if you haven't changed the default value at the Divi module, as in that case your slider was not saved.)
- Fix: Compatibility fix for Events Manager generator to avoid trying to create image variable when no image is selected.
- Fix: Avada Builder compatibility fix to ensure that the slider loads properly into the builder.
- Fix: On the Smart Slider admin area the shortcode did not appear correctly when Gutenberg's "edit slider" button was leading you to the slider settings page.
- Other: Polish translation added for the Countdown layer.
- Other: Russian translation update.
- Removed: MijoShop and K2 generators got deprecated.
- Removed: Facebook generator got deprecated, due to their user and developer-unfriendly application management.
- Fix: Improved security during slider import