Facebook has begun sending out notices to Facebook Application administrators that v2.0 of the Graph API will be deprecated on August 8, 2016. The message can be a bit cryptic on it's own. It's very difficult to know what it means when you're using an extension like JFBConnect for integration, since it's supposed to mask you from the inner workings of Facebook integration for Joomla.

If you're confused, concerned or just curious, read on to understand what the message means and what you need to do.

It can be daunting setting up social networking. Getting everything set up can be a bear, but knowing where to start can be one of the hardest questions. Facebook has Profiles, Groups, Pages and Applications (and more, actually). What are each of these and, most importantly, how can you use each of these on your website best?

After countless hours of development, testing user feedback, we're proud to announce that JFBConnect v7 is now available. The main feature in this release is auto-posting of new content to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We've also touched up some issues with Joomla 3.5, improved integration with JomSocial, EasySocial and Community Builder, and made some large performance improvements in how JFBConnect queries the database.

There is something for everyone in this release.

In early 2014, JFBConnect's 'Channel' feature was released to allow users to quickly post Joomla content from their site to a Facebook Page or Group, Twitter Stream or LinkedIn Company. Almost immediately we heard calls to make the process fully automatic. After a lot of development and refinement, that automation is coming in JFBConnect v7, along with numerous other improvements.

Read on for more details of one of our biggest releases. Ever.