Today I'm really excited to announce one of the most anticipated extensions for Joomla: AceSEF 1.5! I know some of you waited quite a while for this announcement. This is the start of a blog post series about the new AceSEF 1.5. Today I want to give you some insight into the AceSEF 1.5 development and changes in the upcoming version.

Dear AceSEF users.
We have just released another improved version of AceSEF component. New version removes the most painful requirement for automatic upgrade, fopen function, and fixes known bugs.

Dear AceSEF users,

We have just released another significantly improved version of AceSEF component. Again, it introduces several new major features. Most important is Sitemap (XML), that can help increase your site's SEO by generating a sitemap for ALL components without plugin obligation. This new version release brings 17 updates and fixes.

DO NOT forget to upgrade your installed AceSEF extensions too after upgrading AceSEF.

We've also released 9 new extensions for 3rd party components that enables AceSEF to generate & manage SEF URLs and adjust SEO options for these components.

Ho-ho-ho, and happy holidays to everyone. To begin the celebration, we have a special gift for you.

We are giving a 15% discount this holiday for all Joomla! extensions. This program will expire on midnight 2nd January, 2010 so don't miss this opportunity to get our useful extensions at great discount. The coupon code is joomace2010

We've also released a new Joomla! component, AceSubscriptions. AceSubscriptions is a powerful component that extends the Selling Downloadable Products functionality of the leading shopping cart extension for Joomla!, VirtueMart. Click here to learn more about AceSubscriptions component.

Dear AceSEF users.
We have just released another significantly improved version of AceSEF component. This new version release brings 12 updates and fixes. We've also released 15 new extensions for 3rd party components that enables AceSEF to generate + manage SEF URLs and adjust SEO options for these components.

After not even a week, there is another version of AceSEF - the new SEF URL and metadata generating SEO component for Joomla!. Again, it introduces several new major features. Most important is the new Extensions user-interface that includes automatic upgrades. Also Extensions and Routers pages has been united to simplify the management.

We consider this version as the most stable-mature version of AceSEF so users are highly recommended to upgrade to this version. Do not forget to uninstall ALL 3-rd party extensions, dowload the new versions and install them again.
From this version extensions upgrades will be performed automaticly without the need to uninstall-install them.

Dear AceSEF users.
We have just released another significantly improved version of AceSEF component, that will make your Joomla! URLs look nice and Search Engine Friendly (SEF). This new version release brings 13 brand new features, 2 improvements and several updates and fixes. The upgrade structure is too easy, just download the new version and upload it in the Upgrade section of AceSEF component.

AceSEF 1.2 Features

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We're looking for translators to translate our AceSEF component, expecially in these languages:

- Finish
- Hindi (Indonesian)
- Netherlands
- Romanian
- Thai (Thailand)

Language file has 358 phrases, is well-organized and is compatible with Translations Manager component.
We'll give AceSEF Plus 6 or 2 AceSEF extensions as gift to each translator

You can use our Forums or Contact form if you're interested.

After we released AceSEF, we recieved too much questions asking about why we needed to develop a new SEF component because of there were great SEF components avaliable. Well, yes, there were SEF components but they either were just generating SEF URLs (sh404SEF) OR didn't fullfil the needs (JoomSEF).

Here it is the comparison table of the most used sh404SEF and JoomSEF components versus AceSEF.