Nächsteend Smart Slider Pro / Smart Slider 3 PRO 3.5.1.33

• Feature: Alt tag for lightbox images.
• Feature: PHP8.5 compatibility.
• Feature: Respect reduced motion option to allow prefers-reduced-motion setting of the operation system to turn down animations and background videos.
• Feature: Aria-hidden attribute added to Shape dividers for better accessibility.
• Fix: Wrongly stored unpublish on values won't be used in the Free version.
• Fix: The image selector of Lightbox returned undefined value.
• Fix: Vulnerability improvements.
• Fix: Better transparency handling with Convert to WebP and Resize options.
• Other: Minimum required PHP version increased.

update

v3.5.1.31​

• Feature: Gutenberg block updated to v3 API.
• Fix: Vulnerability improvement for the WordPress Pro version.
• Fix: Background video did not work with Slide hide on.
• Other: Black Friday notification added.

v3.5.1.30​

• Feature: Joomla 6 compatibility codes.
• Feature: Event Booking generator location variable.
• Feature: Alt tags for video cover images and play buttons.
• Feature: Aria-hidden attribute added to not active slide backgrounds.
• Feature: VirtueMart generator new variables and options.
• Feature: Mp4 file upload support in Joomla.
• Feature: Better error reporting in Joomla for file upload issues.
• Fix: Lightbox js error when empty line was used.
• Fix: Instagram generator album's first image didn't appear.

• Feature: webGL background animation image smoothing can be turned off using custom js codes.
• Fix: Vulnerability fix.
• Fix: Empty lines at Posts by IDs generator will be filtered out.
• Fix: PHP 8.2+ compatibility fixes.
• Fix: Vimeo layer, YouTube layer videos couldn't be started in some cases.

3.5.1.28​

• Feature: Lightbox Videos In New Tab On Mobile will affect tablets too.
• Feature: Accessibility improvements on bullets.
• Fix: Better handling for Alias slide switch combined with Maintain slide session.
• Fix: Filtering out unnecessary data from WordPress post generators.
• Fix: Numpad enter triggers clicking actions too.
• Fix: Follow curl redirection in Joomla.
• Fix: Thumbnail images will use their settings given size in their width and height html attributes.
• Fix: RSS generator group variables were wrong.
• Fix: RSS generator removing special characters from variable names.
• Fix: On dynamic slides, the Youtube layer's Cover image field turned its variable into the value.

3.5.1.27​

• Feature: New Instagram generator. On December 4, Meta deprecated the Instagram Basic Display API, and because of this, we needed to develop a completely new generator using a different API. With this change, you will need to create a new API following the documentation's steps.
• Feature: The latest background animation limitations are hardcoded now, to avoid wrong usage.
• Feature: Joomla articles generator new variables.
• Feature: Title attribute for slide thumbnail.
• Fix: Slide title arrow width calculation can be wrong.
• Fix: WooCommerce generator PHP warning when product has empty gallery.
• Fix: At WordPress Posts generators taxonomies with the same name overwrote each other.
• Fix: Divi won't display Smart Slider module names, which are within groups.
• Fix: Input layer's text is rendered incorrectly by Safari during typing.
• Fix: Counter layer's numbers aren't always updated by Safari.
• Fix: Alias slide switching and Maintain session compatibility.

• Fix: Custom posts generator supressed PHP notice fixed.
• Fix: Customizer breaks in some cases.
• Fix: Sliding main animation doesn't moves slides together.
• Fix: Animated heading layer has unwanted margin, when a h tag is selected.
• Other: Black Friday sale notification removed.

Feature: Improved accessibility.
Fix: Custom posts generator supressed PHP notice fixed.
Fix: Customizer breaks in some cases.
Fix: Sliding main animation doesn't moves slides together.
Fix: Animated heading layer has unwanted margin, when a h tag is selected.
Other: Black Friday sale notification removed.

Feature: Hide layer when variable is not empty option at dynamic slides.
Feature: Asset (css, js) injector code improved.
Feature: New category variables for Event Booking generator.
Feature: Active thumbnails will get aria-current="true" attribute.
Feature: Container element of bullets will get role="group" attribute.
Feature: Aria-label option for the container element of bullets.
Feature: Blockquote option for Heading layer.
Fix: At Carousel slider type if "single switch" is turned off, and "fade" main animation is being used, then some slides disappear upon window resizing.
Fix: VirtueMart generator will watch image ordering to define which is the main image.
Fix: Some background animations are buggy in Chrome, so we rewrote them to use a different animation system.
Fix: Eshop generator compatibility with latest Eshop.
Fix: Post IDs option cleared the given post's cache at every page visit.
Fix: WordPress free installer will include unminified js and css files.
Fix: Generic font family names won't have quotemarks around them.
Fix: Autoplay button didn't have width and height attributes.
Fix: The Events Calendar generator created a PHP notice.

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• Fix: Security improvements for image uploads.
• Fix: Joomla's Legal MIME Types setting will be used to check, if a file can be uploaded or not.
• Fix: The Resize and Convert to webp features could have issues with images from certain external servers.

• Fix: Instragram generator token requesting doesn't work. We needed to change the Callback Url to fix this, so after updating Smart Slider, go to your application and do step 14, 15 and 16 again!
• Fix: Convert to WebP does not convert some external images.
• Fix: Symlinked folders did not work with our Joomla media manager.
• Fix: Nextgen Gallery generator update.
• Fix: Ignite Gallery generator update.
• Fix: Joomla 5 compatibility.
• Fix: Joomla article frontend editing in some cases changes shortcodes into slider html codes.
• Fix: VirtueMart generator's default language changed to the language set in VirtueMart.
• Feature: Youtube videos cannot be started until they fully loaded, but from now on, we will detect early click actions on them and try to start the video once it loaded, as long as it is not prevented by a browser limitation.
• Feature: Smart Slider module support for custom error pages (like 404 pages) in Joomla 4 and 5.
• Feature: New JoomShopping generator for Joomla 4 and 5.
• Feature: Handling manually messed up lightbox links better.
• Removed: Black Friday sale notification removed.