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Xeno Energize Themes Templates Changelog

  • August 18, 2026

    Version 6.1.3

    Xeno 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, brings the Bootstrap compatibility stylesheet up to the current shared build, and corrects the version badge shown on the template's own settings screen. 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. Xeno 6.1.3 is the build for Joomla 6.1.3. The previous release of this template was numbered 6.1.2.5. This is a numbering change only — Joomla still treats 6.1.3 as newer than 6.1.2.5, 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.
    • Fixed: the version badge on the template's settings screen was out of date. The badge that appears at the top of Xeno's own options page in the Joomla administrator had been left reading 6.1.2.3 while the template itself was 6.1.2.5, so it under-reported the version you actually had installed. It now reads 6.1.3 and is set from the same place as every other version surface, so it cannot drift again.

    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.
    • Fixed: the Quick Start registered ten content types against tables that do not exist. Ten of the entries Joomla uses to describe its own content types — the Module type, and the tag and author lookups used by the article, contact, news feed and category types — had been recorded during our internal staging process pointing at staging copies of the modules, tags and users tables rather than the real ones. On a site built from the Quick Start those staging tables were never created, so version history could not resolve tag or author names and module version history did not work. They now point at the correct tables. This defect was present in the 6.1.2.5 Quick Start and earlier; if you built a site from one of those, we recommend rebuilding from this one. Sites where the template package was installed onto an existing Joomla site were never affected.
    • 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 6.1.2.5. These were found and fixed on other templates in our range during August, and are included here as a preventative update so that Xeno 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 and the version surfaces changed between 6.1.2.5 and 6.1.3. Everything shipped in the 6.1.2.x line — the Joomla 6 native rebuild, the removal of the leftover calls to slideshow and jQuery plug-ins that are no longer bundled, the compatibility layer for the three jQuery methods the slideshow controls and parallax bands depend on, the log-in dialog that now always opens fully visible, the mobile sideways-scroll and drawer sizing fixes, the password show/hide eye that was invisible against the template's white button styling, and the drop-down menus that no longer draw themselves open before you hover them — 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 6.1.2.5

    • 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 6.1.2.4

    • 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 6.1.2.3

    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.

    • Removed a leftover call to a slideshow plugin that is no longer bundled with the template.
    • 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 7, 2026

    Version 6.1.2.2

    Same-day maintenance release.

    • Fixed: the password show/hide eye on registration and profile forms was invisible — the template’s white button styling hid the white eye icon; the toggle now uses the standard dark button so the eye is clearly visible.
    August 7, 2026

    Version 6.1.2.1

    Same-day maintenance release on 6.1.2.

    • Fixed: the Register button in the login pop-up pointed at a VirtueMart account page this template does not ship, producing a 404 — it now opens the standard Joomla registration form. The two hidden VirtueMart menu aliases left over from the original donor were removed as well.
    August 7, 2026

    Version 6.1.2

    Joomla 6 Native release. XENO now installs and runs natively on Joomla 6.1 — no compatibility plugin required. From this release the template version follows the Joomla release it ships against.

    Upgraded — Joomla 6 native

    • Complete legacy-API modernization: 101 Joomla 2.5/3-era class references rewritten to the modern Joomla namespaces (JText → Text, JURI → Uri, JRoute → Route, JModuleHelper → ModuleHelper, JFactory → Factory, JHtml → HTMLHelper, JDocumentHTML → HtmlDocument, JRegistry → Registry, JPluginHelper, JComponentHelper) across index.php, component.php, error.php and the module overrides; all legacy jimport() calls removed.
    • The removed JError API in the error page replaced with a native Exception, preserving the error code and message.
    • Deprecated Factory::getDocument() calls modernized ahead of their Joomla 7 removal.
    • Verified running with Joomla 6’s Backward Compatibility plugin fully disabled and class aliases off — every menu view, article, category, login and error page renders clean, with zero browser-console errors on desktop and phone.
    • Zero template-owned deprecated-API calls (measured against Joomla’s own Cassiopeia template over an identical page walk).

    Added

    • Favicon tab in the template settings with a built-in square-crop tool: select any image and the template generates the complete device icon set — a real favicon.ico (16/32/48) published at your site root, 32/192/512 pixel PNGs and a 180 pixel Apple touch icon, all cache-busted automatically. No FTP, no external service.
    • Modern package manifest declaring Joomla 6.1 as the target platform (the Joomla 2.5-era manifest header is retired).
    • Bridge stylesheet additions: the legacy Bootstrap 2 icon sprite is disabled (it painted behind modern glyphs), Joomla core icon classes now map to Font Awesome 6, and the password-visibility toggle uses the centred-pupil SVG eye.

    Changed

    • Template CSS and script links now carry automatic file-based cache busters — template updates are no longer pinned for up to 30 days by CDN edge caches.
    • Akeeba Backup Core updated to 10.3.7 in the quickstart.
    • The quickstart is a standard Joomla 6.1.2 wizard install: flat package, no Kickstart, and you create your own administrator account during installation.

    Fixed

    With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to this maintenance pass across our templates. These fixes were prepared as 5.4.0.2 and ship for the first time in this release.

    • Search-module icon rendering as a stray character — the retired Joomla 3 icon font is gone; the icon is now a self-contained SVG.
    • Pagination arrows (first/previous/next/last) rendering as empty squares — now self-contained SVGs.
    • Featured/blog articles showing only their title — tall single-column intro articles were being clipped by the blog layout CSS.
    • Google Fonts on component pop-up views still loading through the retired WebFont JS loader — fonts now load with a direct stylesheet link everywhere.
    • Dead VirtueMart menu items removed (they pointed at a component this template does not ship).

    Removed

    • The retired Joomla 3 Search component, module and search plugins — site search is powered by Joomla’s built-in Smart Search, keeping the same look.
    • The old .jpa quickstart and Akeeba Kickstart files from the Joomla 6 download area, replaced by the standard wizard quickstart.

    Quality gates

    • The published package contains zero legacy-API references (verified inside the shipped zip).
    • Visual output measured numerically identical to the previous release at desktop and phone widths on home, article and category views; all three included template styles verified.
    July 22, 2026

    Version 5.4.0.1

    Maintenance release — fixes for issues found in real-world use on a live production site. With thanks to Michael Mullan, whose Expression bug report led to this maintenance pass across our templates.

    • Fixed: search-module icon rendered as a stray character — the Joomla 3 jui icon font was removed from Joomla core in Joomla 4, so the glyph fell back to a literal character and the dead font reference 404'd on every page. The icon is now a self-contained SVG.
    • Fixed: pagination arrows (first/previous/next/last) rendered as empty squares — Joomla 4+ uses newer icon class names the template never mapped. Now self-contained SVGs.
    • Fixed: featured/blog articles showing only their title — tall single-column intro articles were clipped by the blog layout CSS.
    • Fixed: the parallax (Stellar) script erroring on every page under Joomla 5's jQuery 3 — parallax backgrounds work again.
    • Improved: search button sits snug against the search input.
    • Fixed: the template version shown after install now tracks the real release version.
    July 16, 2026

    Version 5.4.0

    Compatible with: Joomla 5.1 – 5.4.x · PHP 8.3 (minimum 8.1) · Bootstrap 5.3 · Font Awesome 6
    First Joomla 5 native release. XENO has been rebuilt for Joomla 5.4 + PHP 8.3 + Bootstrap 5.3 + Swiper 11, with no carry-over of the Camera slideshow library, the Superfish/Supersubs menu plugins, jQuery 1.8, or the IE-era polyfills that earlier releases depended on. It ships a from-scratch mobile experience, modern 13-network social support, a hardened output-escaping pass across the template's admin-controlled options, and Joomla 5 native form controls throughout the Template Style settings.

    Added

    Bootstrap 5 foundation

    • Joomla's bundled Bootstrap 5.3 stylesheet is now the layout foundation, loaded ahead of the template's own CSS.
    • New bs2-bs5-bridge.css compatibility layer so existing module content and third-party output keep rendering pixel-accurate to the original design: the classic 1170px grid re-implemented as responsive percentages (columns fill any container and stack on mobile), grid gutters, offset classes, pull-left/right, hidden-/visible-phone/tablet/desktop responsive utilities, legacy button colour aliases, and list-style resets for menus, product lists and social strips.
    • Content width locked to the original 1170px centred canvas on large screens (Bootstrap 5's wider 1320px container is capped), while section backgrounds remain full-bleed.
    • A small script mirrors Bootstrap 5 class names emitted by Joomla back to the template's legacy selectors, so Joomla core and extension output styles correctly without overrides.
    • Universal image aspect-ratio protection (images with hard-coded dimensions no longer stretch inside flexible layouts).

    Swiper 11 slideshow

    • The jQuery Camera slideshow is replaced by Swiper 11 — same template options (auto-advance, slide time, transition speed, pagination, navigation arrows) now drive a modern, touch-friendly fade slider.
    • Slide height honours the existing Slideshow Height / Minimum Height template options; slide images use top-centre cover cropping exactly as the original renderer did; captions are a full-slide centred overlay.

    Mobile & tablet experience (all screens below 980px)

    • Main-menu hamburger in the header's top-right corner opens the site menu as a full-width panel that pushes the page down (no overlay-on-slideshow).
    • Accordion sub-menus with single-branch-open behaviour and circular chevron indicators that rotate when a branch is open.
    • Centred utility icon row — side-menu, account, register and search icons evenly spaced on one centreline under the logo.
    • Full-width slide-down search bar (the old desktop-style dropdown collapsed to an unusable sliver on phones).
    • Full-page-width account login modal.
    • Centred footer with comfortable edge padding; footer link-list markers tidied for centred text.
    • The vendor's non-functional tablet-band menu toggle is retired in favour of the new header pattern.

    Social networks (13-network parity)

    • New options for Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, TikTok and Discord; Twitter rebranded to X (existing saved settings keep working).
    • Icons render with Font Awesome 6 brand glyphs, with screen-reader labels and rel="noopener" on every external link.

    Other additions

    • Font Awesome 6.5.2 with v4 compatibility shims — replaces the retired Font Awesome 4 CDN, so both old and new icon class names work.
    • Google Fonts load via a direct stylesheet link with preconnect (the render-blocking WebFontConfig JS loader is gone).
    • Package manifest (pkg_xeno.xml) with update-server configuration for in-admin template updates.

    Changed

    • All 61 legacy on/off checkboxes in the Template Style settings converted to Joomla 5 native Yes/No switchers.
    • Account login modal migrated to Bootstrap 5 markup: proper trigger attributes, centred dialog with backdrop, working close button — and the legacy jQuery toggle that raced the modal open/close cycle is removed.
    • Mega-menu rendering updated for the Joomla 5 menu API (protected property access and flat item lists handled correctly; only top-level items render as roots), and the menu-source option now points at a valid menu out of the box.
    • Desktop drop-down menus use a dependency-free hover handler with the same 500ms close delay the old Superfish plugin provided.
    • Body background image option now applies via CSS background-size: cover instead of the jQuery Backstretch plugin.
    • Template settings tabs and section headers renamed to clean noun-only labels (no more redundant “Settings” suffixes).
    • Version string unified to pure semantic versioning — 5.4.0 — across the manifest, the settings screen and the source header.

    Fixed

    • Copyright bar: copyright text and payment icons now share one row as originally designed — a Joomla 4+ API change had silently broken the vendor's side-by-side condition, stacking them for years.
    • Full-width parity: footer columns, the payment strip and every full-width block now reach the complete 1170px content edge (previously they could bunch left or stop short).
    • Feature tiles and footer columns no longer drop their last column to a new row (sub-pixel grid rounding).
    • Slideshow spans the full viewport width with a 400px minimum height.
    • Header layout restored to the exact original metrics (230px logo column, menu block beside it), including the sticky-on-scroll dark header.
    • “Back to top” button is a true circle with a centred arrow.
    • Mobile polish: utility icons no longer overflow onto the slideshow; icons vertically centred; search icon centred in its box; breadcrumb location icon padded off the screen edge; side-menu close (×) and expand arrows centred in their circles.
    • Testimonials slider no longer inflates its section width (a legacy-grid/flexbox conflict).
    • Demo content typos corrected (“OUR SEREVICES” → “OUR SERVICES”; a stray character above the services section).
    • Fresh-install hygiene: canonical .htaccess and robots.txt, tightened default text filters, and the correct five Joomla onboarding notices visible after install.

    Security

    • Output-escaping hardening pass: 176 admin-controlled option echoes in the template now pass through validating escape helpers (HTML, colour and CSS-dimension contexts).
    • _JEXEC execution guard added to the template entry point.
    • External links in the social block carry rel="noopener".

    Removed

    • jQuery 1.8.1 and the entire legacy plugin stack: Superfish, Supersubs, Backstretch, Dropkick, Camera slideshow, jquery.mobile.customized, and the jQuery.browser IE-detection shim.
    • Internet Explorer support scaffolding: conditional comments, Modernizr, Selectivizr, html5shiv-era polyfills, imgSizer, flexibility, ie.css / ie6.css.
    • Bundled Bootstrap 2 CSS and JS files (superseded by Joomla's Bootstrap 5).
    • Retired social networks: Google+, StumbleUpon, Digg, Blogger.
    • Dead Font Awesome 4 CDN reference (maxcdn — the host no longer serves it).

    Quickstart

    • Ships Joomla 5.4.7 and installs with the standard Joomla installation wizard — no Akeeba/Kickstart step, no server tooling needed.
    • Includes the complete demo site: sample content, module layout, and all three template styles (Default, Home, Parallax).
    • Fresh installs show the five Joomla onboarding notices (stats opt-in, action logs, privacy tools, multi-factor authentication, automated updates) — all housekeeping reminders pre-dismissed.
    • Clean data: no demo hit counts, no visitor data, no management/audit tooling — just the site.
    November 6, 2025

    Version 06.11.2025 6.0.0

    • Update - Template updated to Joomla 6.0.0
    • Minor Bugs fixed
    February 9, 2024

    Version 09.02.2024 5.0.2

    • Update - Template updated to Joomla 5
    April 10, 2023

    Version 01.04.2023 4.2.8

    • Fixed - Template updated to be compatible with Joomla 4.2

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