Where are we on this?

We released the JFBConnect v9 Beta as Joomla 4 was just about to enter the RC stage. Then, just after we released, Joomla changed their mind and switched from Bootstrap 4 to Bootstrap 5 and made some other underlying changes that pushed out the J4 release.

Originally, we planned to release the final JFBConnect v9 when Joomla 4 released, but that isn't possible anymore as J4 has not gone to RC yet. So, that has held things up a little from being fully finalized.

Going forward, we absolutely are planning JFBConnect v9 to be the mainline version and will be making it the 'stable' release over the coming weeks. There has been some really good feedback to fix some issues that users encountered, but overall, its seeming very stable for both Joomla 3.x and 4.0, which is what we wanted to verify by releasing the beta.

We appreciate your feedback and thank you for helping usher in this next release.

Thanks,
Alex

We're closely following the Joomla 4 release and believe we should line up the release version of JFBConnect v9 with the full Joomla 4 release.

At this point, we are working on some larger updates within JFBConnect for:
* Splitting Facebook into 2 different plugins - 'Facebook' for social authentication and 'Facebook Business' to support automatic posting to Facebook Pages & Groups. This is due to changes in Facebook's API which require 2 different API keys to support those features properly.
* Cleanup and organization to our settings area to improve the workflow and configuration of general JFBConnect features and each social network.
* Bootstrap 5 support

All changes in JFBC v9 are still planned to be backward compatible with Joomla 3. We are taking our time to make sure this is a very solid release and have been listening to feedback through the forums and private messages about issues and improvements we can make.

While JFBC v9 may still have the 'beta' moniker, we've been using it on this site since January and continue to update our site with incremental releases to test. It's the best way we know to put our own product through its paces.

Thanks for your patience, and we look forward to big updates to Joomla and JFBConnect over the coming months!

Alex

Just wanted to send a heads up to this thread that JFBConnect v9 Release Candidate 1 was released last week. It includes an overhauled admin config area and a lot of under-the-hood changes from the beta as well as a lot of testing.

We'll be putting up a blog post and sending out a newsletter about it soon as well.

We're currently estimating that the final Joomla 4 will be released in mid-August. Once Joomla 4 is released, we expect to put out a final JFBConnect v9 release as well (pending no issues crop up in testing or user feedback).

Thanks all for your patience and feedback on this release!
Alex