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  • September 3, 2026

    Version 6.1.3.2

    Maintenance release.

    • Updated the Bootstrap 2→5 compatibility stylesheet to the current version, bringing this template in line with the rest of the range.

    Both the template package and the Quick Start have been rebuilt for this release. Download the latest from your member area.

    August 19, 2026

    Version 6.1.3.1

    Please update if you downloaded Acceler8 on 18 or 19 August 2026. The 6.1.3 package went out with a copy of our shared Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet that was a week out of date, and with the older mobile-header script. Its release notes described fixes that were not actually inside the file you received. 6.1.3.1 is that same release with the correct files in it. Nothing you have configured changes; install it over the top as usual.

    This is a packaging correction plus a substantial catch-up of the shared stylesheet. Acceler8 goes from 85 to 106 layout-guard blocks, covering everything found across our template range between 11 and 19 August. Every item below was measured on a rendered page, not inferred from a file.

    Fixed

    • The log-in dialog's close button was a solid coloured block sitting on top of the "Login Form" heading. The Bootstrap 5 close control draws its × from Bootstrap 5's own stylesheet, which these templates deliberately do not ship — so it painted an empty box with no cross in it. The dialog now closes from a proper ×, and the button no longer covers the title.
    • The drop-down arrow beside the "Log in" button submitted the form with an empty password. Tapping it destroyed the dialog and dropped you on a page reading "Warning — Empty password not allowed." The control was a leftover from Bootstrap 2: nothing in a modern Joomla listens to it, and because it carried no button type it counted as a second submit button. It is now hidden, and the three links it was hiding — forgotten password, forgotten username and create an account — are shown as plain links in the dialog where they can actually be reached.
    • Joomla 6's passkey button drew an enormous black graphic across the log-in page. The "Sign in with a passkey" icon is supplied by Joomla as a drawing with no size of its own, and no template in this generation sizes one, so it expanded to fill whatever space it could find. It is now capped to a normal icon and takes the button's own colour.
    • The article information line ran off the side of the page. Written by, parent category, category, published, created, last updated and hits were laid out on one line that was not allowed to wrap, so on a phone the later items simply ran past the edge of the screen — and that was the whole of the page's sideways scroll. The line now wraps.
    • Icon buttons in the phone header could be completely invisible. Where the template's own stylesheets set a white icon colour, the icon landed on a white button and disappeared — the button was there, sized and tappable, and painted nothing. Icon colour is now decided by the button's own background rather than inherited, so account, search, social and menu icons are always readable.
    • The phone header icon row was unevenly spaced and clipped at both ends. Two spacing systems were fighting; the row now uses one, and the whole set fits and centres on a 375 px screen.
    • Pages could be scrolled sideways at tablet widths even though nothing visible overflowed. The drop-down menu panels are parked out of sight above the page, but only vertically — horizontally they still sat inside it and still counted towards the page's width. They are now parked out of the way in both directions. Measured on sibling templates as up to 230 px of phantom width at 768 px.
    • The controls at the top right of the desktop header were five different sizes on five different midlines. Register, account and search now share one box, one icon size and one baseline.
    • The legacy search field collapsed and cut off its own submit button. Bootstrap 5 measures boxes differently from Bootstrap 2, so a field sized the old way lost its padding out of its declared height and the row it sets was no longer tall enough to hold the button.
    • A navigation bar containing a floated item no longer pushes the next row of content sideways. Bootstrap 2 shipped a clear-fix on navigation lists that Bootstrap 5 dropped; without it the row below snagged on the menu and lost a column.
    • Breadcrumbs could run off the right edge on interior pages at 1024 and 768 px. The row holding them resolved to zero width, so the links had nothing to wrap inside.
    • Old-style grid rows on category and blog pages no longer collapse. Rows whose children are all floated took no height at all, so the row's own background painted as a thin sliver and whatever followed rode up into it.
    • The "+" expanders in the phone menu drawer had unreadable text. They took white text on whatever colour the template supplied, which on several templates in the range measured below 3:1. They now take a colour derived from their own background.
    • Registration and account fields were unusably narrow on a phone. Several were about a third of the screen wide with the rest of the width empty beside them, because they were sized for a two-column desktop layout that no longer applies once the form stacks. They now use the full width.
    • Social icons cloned into the phone social panel no longer bring the template's own positioning with them. On some templates that dragged every icon out of the panel it had just been put in, so the panel opened empty.
    • Tooltips, popovers, mobile menu and drop-down behaviour, phone header spacing, non-responsive page bands and full-height column panels all pick up further guards added across the range in this period.

    Changed

    • The compatibility stylesheet is now loaded after every other template stylesheet. It was previously registered through Joomla's document head, which placed it above the template's own hard-coded stylesheet links — so a large number of its corrections silently lost to the template's original rules and never took effect. This is the single change most likely to alter what you see, and it is the reason several fixes listed in earlier releases were not visible.
    • The mobile header and menu script is now the shared build used across the whole range (js/cs-mobile-generic.js, replacing js/cs-mobile.js). Behaviour is the same; the template now receives improvements to the phone header at the same time as every other template we publish.
    • The Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet moves from the 11 August build to the 19 August build — 85 guard blocks to 106.

    Unchanged

    • The Quick Start still installs Joomla 6.1.3. Nothing in the sample site, its content or its extensions changed in this release — but the Quick Start has been rebuilt so that a new site started from it gets the corrected template files rather than the 18 August ones.
    • No template setting, colour parameter, module position or override changed. This release only replaces the compatibility stylesheet, the mobile script and the stylesheet load order in index.php.

    Most of the items above were found by walking rendered pages on other templates in our range during August — Encore, Energize, Oxygen, Vision, Progressive, Crystal, Impulsa and Diversity — and applied here preventatively as well as where they were measured on Acceler8 itself.

    August 18, 2026

    Version 6.1.3

    Acceler8 6.1.3 is a maintenance release. It renumbers the template to match the Joomla version it is built and tested against, refreshes the Quick Start onto the current Joomla release, and brings the Bootstrap compatibility stylesheet up to the current shared build. There are no changes you need to make after updating — your settings, colours and menu choices carry over.

    Version numbering

    • The template version now matches the Joomla version it ships against. Acceler8 6.1.3 is the build for Joomla 6.1.3. The previous release of this template was numbered 6.1.2.3. This is a numbering change only — Joomla still treats 6.1.3 as newer than 6.1.2.3, so the update comparison in your Extensions Manager behaves normally, and nothing about how you install or update the template changes. We are applying the same convention across the whole template range so that the number on the download tells you at a glance which Joomla release it was tested against.

    Quick Start

    • The Quick Start package now installs Joomla 6.1.3. The previous Quick Start bundled Joomla 6.1.2. If you are building a new site from the Quick Start you now get the current Joomla release straight away, instead of installing and then immediately having to run a core update.
    • The Quick Start is a standard Joomla installation package — upload it, extract it, and run the normal Joomla installer in your browser. Akeeba Kickstart is not needed.

    Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet

    • Brought up to the current shared build, adding twenty-five further layout guards since 6.1.2.3. These were found and fixed on other templates in our range during August, and are included here as a preventative update so that Acceler8 is protected against the same classes of problem rather than waiting for one of them to surface on your site. The areas covered are: drop-down menu behaviour and flow; mobile header layout, ordering and spacing; slideshow controls on touch screens, which are revealed on hover and so were unreachable by tap; social icon rendering where a template's own image sprite competed with the Font Awesome 6 glyphs that replaced it; tooltips and popovers becoming visible on the page before they were triggered; page bands that pin themselves to a fixed desktop width and so scroll sideways on a phone; grid children that lost their block display; and full-height column panels that clipped the content they were meant to wrap.

    What is not in this release

    • No template file other than the Bootstrap compatibility stylesheet changed between 6.1.2.3 and 6.1.3. Everything shipped in the 6.1.2.x line — the Joomla 6 native rebuild, the removal of the JavaScript errors that fired on every page load, the jQuery compatibility layer that keeps the slideshow and parallax bands working, the log-in dialog that now opens fully visible, the mobile overflow and drawer fixes, and the drop-down menu positioning corrections — is carried forward unchanged in this package.
    • Known limitation, unchanged and disclosed: the template still loads jQuery and a number of carried-forward jQuery plug-ins. These are dependencies the template genuinely uses, not dead code, and removing them is a larger piece of work than a maintenance release should carry.

    With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to the maintenance pass across our templates that several of these compatibility-stylesheet guards came out of.

    August 10, 2026

    Version 6.1.2.3

    • Drop-down menus no longer appear open before you hover them. On some templates every sub-menu was drawn on the page from the moment it loaded. They are hidden again until you move the mouse over the menu.
    • Drop-downs sit directly beneath the menu they open from. They previously appeared a short distance below, and moving the mouse across that space closed the menu before you arrived. Sub-menus that open to the side are likewise flush against the column they come from.
    August 10, 2026

    Version 6.1.2.2

    • Drop-down menus now sit directly beneath the menu they open from. They previously appeared a short distance below, and moving the mouse across that space closed the menu before you arrived. Sub-menus that open to the side are likewise flush against the column they come from.
    August 10, 2026

    Version 6.1.2.1

    Maintenance release. This update is recommended for all users — it removes JavaScript errors that could stop other features on the page from working, and improves the template's behaviour on phones.

    • Fixed a JavaScript error that occurred on every page. A call to a jQuery feature removed in the version Joomla 6 ships was failing and preventing later scripts on the page from running.
    • Removed leftover calls to jQuery plugins that are no longer bundled. A call to a missing plugin stops every remaining script in the same block from running, so this can affect features that look unrelated.
    • Added a small compatibility layer for three jQuery methods that were removed before the version Joomla 6 ships, so slideshow controls and parallax backgrounds keep working.
    • Updated the Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 5 compatibility stylesheet to the current build.
    • The log-in dialog now always opens fully visible. Previously it could open with the page dimmed behind it but the dialog itself invisible.
    • Pages no longer scroll sideways on a phone, and the mobile menu, search and social panels are now sized to the screen rather than to the full page width.
    August 8, 2026

    Version 6.1.2

    Acceler8 is now Joomla 6 native. This is the template's first release under Cybersalt, and it carries two full rebuilds at once: the Joomla 5 modernisation completed in July, which was never published, and the Joomla 6 work finished this week. Your existing settings, colours and menu choices carry over — there is nothing to reconfigure.

    Joomla 6

    • Runs natively on Joomla 6.1, and this fixes a real failure. Acceler8 previously depended on Joomla's backward-compatibility plugin. That plugin is switched off by default in Joomla 6, and with it off the template returned an error page on every interior page — only the home page survived, because the fault was in a breadcrumbs override shown site-wide. Acceler8 has now been verified with that plugin fully disabled, walking every real menu item on the site.
    • The download is now a genuine Joomla 6 package. A Joomla 6.1.2 quickstart is available for new sites, alongside the template-only package for existing ones.

    Privacy and security

    • The published download no longer contains third-party personal data. The archives inherited from the previous owner carried user records belonging to unrelated people. Those have been removed.
    • Removed a bundled credentials file and an internal build-path reference that the old vendor archives exposed inside the installer.
    • Output escaping applied throughout the template — 123 places where template settings were printed to the page are now escaped, with safe fallbacks added to the login and breadcrumb overrides so PHP 8 cannot fail on them.

    New

    • A proper mobile header. Phones now get your logo, a large tap-friendly menu button, and one row of controls for the section menu, account, registration, search and social links. The menu opens as a full-width panel with expandable sub-menus; search opens a full-width field with its own button.
    • Favicon tool. A new Favicon tab lets you pick any image and have the template build every icon size browsers and devices ask for, with a crop tool for images that are not square.
    • Modern colour pickers on every colour setting, with transparency support, replacing plain text boxes.
    • Dark mode support in the template settings screen, so the panel and its text stay readable when the Joomla administrator is in dark mode.

    Changed

    • Rebuilt on Bootstrap 5, the framework Joomla itself now uses, replacing the long-obsolete version the design shipped with.
    • New slideshow engine with fade transitions, optional auto-advance, pagination and arrows, replacing a component unmaintained for years.
    • Drop-down menus rebuilt without jQuery plug-ins — hover behaviour is now handled directly, with a short grace period so the menu does not vanish as you move towards it.
    • Login pop-up rebuilt on current Joomla behaviour, properly centred with a standard close button.
    • Social icons refreshed to the current network set — X, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, TikTok and Discord added; Google+, StumbleUpon, Digg and Blogger retired. Icons moved from a fixed image strip to scalable symbols that stay sharp at any size.
    • Google Fonts are now loaded directly instead of through an extra script, so text appears sooner.
    • All 34 template on/off options replaced with Joomla's native switches (35 in total), so the settings screen looks and behaves like the rest of Joomla.
    • Background images now handled by the stylesheet rather than a JavaScript plug-in.
    • Faster pages. 25 obsolete files were removed — support code for retired versions of Internet Explorer, three superseded jQuery libraries, and the old slideshow and menu plug-ins. Three unused Joomla templates left behind by the original package were also removed.
    • Demo content tidied for new installations: page-view counters reset from 14,822 to zero, and copyright dates rolled forward to the current year.

    Fixed

    • The slideshow could fail to appear at all. It reserved the right space but drew nothing, leaving the top of the home page blank.
    • A broken image on the Getting Help page, left by an icon Joomla removed from its administrator several versions ago.
    • The show-password button appeared as a small dot on the login and registration forms, only becoming a recognisable eye on hover.
    • The header could stack vertically instead of sitting on one line, pushing the logo and menu apart and making the bar several times taller than intended.
    • Pages sat slightly off-centre, shifted a few pixels right of where the design places them, on desktop and phone.
    • Help text on the settings screen was squeezed into a narrow vertical strip instead of running across the form.
    • Menu, pagination and password icons could render as empty boxes.
    • A collapsible module style contained a PHP error that would have produced a blank page for anyone who applied it.

    Note

    • Installing this update replaces the template files. If you have edited Acceler8's files directly, back those up first — settings stored in the Joomla administrator are not affected.
    • We recommend testing any template update on a copy of your site before applying it to production.
    • Acceler8 still uses jQuery for a small number of remaining features (image zoom, smooth scrolling, the cookie notice and the carousel). Those are current versions and are unaffected by this release.
    November 4, 2025

    Version 04.11.2025 6.0.0

    • Update - Template updated to Joomla 6.0.0
    • Minor Bugs fixed
    July 17, 2024

    Version 26.06.2024 5.1.1

    • Update - Template updated to Joomla 5.1.1
    • Minor Bugs fixed
    February 9, 2024

    Version 06/02/2024 5.0.2

    • Update - Template updated to Joomla 5
    December 21, 2023

    Version 01.11.2023 4.3.4/4.2.0

    • Upgraded - Now compatible with PHP 8.2
    • Upgraded - Now compatible Joomla 4.3.4
    November 24, 2023

    Version 24.11.2023 4.3.4

    • Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.3.4
    April 10, 2023

    Version 01.04.2023 4.2.8

    • Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.2
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