Marko Bischof continues the development of his Leaguemanager component for Mambo 4.5. The next steps were announced yesterday on Marko's website:

• News @ Marko-bischof.de
• Project @ Mamboforge.net

The latest Simpleboard 1.0.3 release introducing the new karma function contained some error. Jan de Graaff, leader of the Simpleboard develpment team:

"As it turns out, there was a small problem with creating the right table entries for the new Karma functionality... it wasn't there. Sorry for any inconvenience."

We updated the file here at Mamboportal.com, which does not come with a new version number. Help for people who have to upgrade manually can be found at the Simpleboard website:

• Simpleboard 1.0.3 (new version)
• Simpleboard website

Mosets.com has updated their real estate component Hot Property to version 0.9 today. Developer Lee Cher Yeong about the new features:

"This latest release feature some of the most requested functionality. An Advanced Search Engine has been integrated, allowing visitors to search by specific criterias (ie: price range, number of bedrooms, colors, manufacturer etc.). A customizable Report Generator Tool in the back-end, allow you to generate reports from your properties and much much more."

Hot Property is a commercial component, which is available for 119 USD from Mosets.com's website. A live demo can also be found there:

• Mosets.com Website
• Hot Property Demo

Today the Development Team around Jan de Graaff updated the Simpleboard forum component for Mambo 4.5 to version 1.0.3. The new version has many bugs fixed and features a new 'Karma' function, which is similar to the well known reputation system, larger boards have. I updated the Mamboportal.com's filebase to the new version:

• Simpleboard 1.0.3

Ronald Smit, developer of the popular RSGallery, today announced that he sadly has to stop the further development of his gallery component for Mambo 4.5:

"I am sorry to annouce that the development for RSGallery 2.0 has stopped. There are a number of reasons why I came to this decision, but mainly it is because I no longer have the time to continue the development alone."

• Announcement @ Mamboserver.com

Adam van Dongen has updated his phpBB 4 Mambo component to 1.2.2 today. The new version of the popular forum conversion for Mambo 4.5 comes with several changes:

• fixed MosMainFrame declaration error when running phpbb component outside mambo
• fixed login redirect problem when signin in
• fixed broken link with attachment mod allowed files
• fixed popup windows, now opening in a normal window instead
• fixed double parsing of delete page
• fixed problem with mambo and phpbb session
• fixed 2 query errors with user import
• upgraded to phpbb 2.0.8a
• removed tar, now using zip instead

I have updated the version here at Mamboportal.com's filebase, where you can download it:

• phpBB 4 Mambo 1.2.2

Today I have added the Glossary component from Michelle Farran to Mamboportal's filebase. The component, which is designed for Mambo 4.5, lets you build up and maintain a glossary. You can also use it in combination with the mosInfoPop bot.

Today I updated my AkoBook component to version 3.1. The new version of my guestbook component for Mambo 4.5, fixes some smaller bugs and comes with several new languages.

It also now supports MambleFish for the Guestbook title and marks the required fields. It will be the last version for Mambo 4.5 and new features will only be added for the 4.6 release. You can download it from our filebase:

• AkoBook 3.1

Mauricio Diaz has released a first beta version of Awesom for Mambo 4.5 today. The component fully integrates Amazon's Webservices, which lets you easily create and maintain Amazon product lists on your website.

Awesom also has full support for Associate ID's and lets you earn some money through it though. Of course you can download the component from Mamboportal.com's download section.

Mike de Boer has updated his powerfull Zoom gallery to version 2.1.2 today. The new version comes with dozenz of new features. Here are the most exiting:

Bernhard Zechmann has updated his User Extended component to version 1.1.1 today. The new version has been released due to the recent changes of Mambo 4.5 1.0.9. You can download User Extended, which enables you to have more userfields, from our filebase:

• User Extended 1.1.1

Steven Pignataro and his team has setup a demo page where you can try out more than 100 components for Mambo 4.5. Their demonstration page supports frontend and backend testing of all installed components. You can find them here:

• www.corephp.com

Alexander Labunets has updated his forum component Loudmouth to version 3.0 Release Candidate 2 yesterday. The new version closes the significant security holes, which have been discovered by Mamboportal.com after the recent forum comparison. Some other minor bugs have been fixed too. You can grab your copy of Loudmouth from our filebase:

• Loudmouth 3.0 RC2

Currently I sadly have very less time to develop AkoGallery any further. So I decided to release what I have done so far since the last release. AkoGallery 2.5 will be the last version for Mambo 4.5. All upcoming features are planed for a Mambo 4.6 release. These features are allready included into 2.5:

• Multilanguage support
• HTML capable descriptions
• Picture ordering
• Date based publishing
• Multi thumbnail generation
• SEF support

AkoGallery 2.5 comes without any update script at the moment. Updating can be done by placing all files in the right directories and run an sql update script, which can be found in the zip, afterwards. You can download AkoGallery 2.5 from our filebase:

• AkoGallery 2.5b