JEvents 2.1.7 (for Joomla 1.5, 1.7 and 2.5) is now available to all club members (it includes a fix for a theoretical XSS vulnerability identified in versions of JEvents since 1.5.0) and incorporates a number of new features.:

• Joomla 2.5 compatability - JEvents 2.1.7 is stable for Joomla 1.5/1.7, support for Joomla 2.5 is at beta level
• New SEF system (backwards compatible) - fewer duplicate pages and translatable URLs
  • Typical URLs now look like:
    • monthcalendar/2011/11/-
    • eventsbyweek/2011/11/12/- (day is always first day of the week)
    • eventsbyday/2011/11/06/-
    • eventdetail/1646/-/event-title
    • eventdetail/1646/-/weely-attendance-test
    • Task part of the URL can be translated
• Add new option to redirect spiders/crawlers to crawler menu item - will dramatically reduce search engine traffic.
• Special module positions to allow you to display instructions to site visitors/event creators or to place the other  related modules like the filter module in more helpful positions.  The positions include:
  • jevpretoolbar, jevpretoolbar_year.listevents, jevpretoolbar_week.listevents, jevpretoolbar_cat.listevents, jevpretoolbar_day.listevents, jevpretoolbar_month.calendar
  • jevposttoolbar, jevposttoolbar_year.listevents, jevposttoolbar_week.listevents, jevposttoolbar_cat.listevents, jevposttoolbar_day.listevents, jevposttoolbar_month.calendar
  • jevpostjevents, jevpostjevents_year.listevents, jevpostjevents_week.listevents, jevpostjevents_cat.listevents, jevpostjevents_day.listevents, jevpostjevents_month.calendar
  • jevpreeditevent, jevposteditevent, jevpreeditrepeat, jevposteditrepeat
  • jevprejevents, jevprejevents_year.listevents, jevprejevents_week.listevents, jevprejevents_cat.listevents, jevprejevents_day.listevents, jevprejevents_month.calendar
• New way of specifying category restrictions for menus/modules - a single multi-select field instead of 5-10 separate dropdowns.  This is only available in Joomla 1.7
• Set display limit in lists to max of 100 items - to avoid server overload
• Config option to select which icons to show in toolbar
• Ability to sort backend lists or authorised users
• Minor bug fixes including
  • calendar module navigation works even if alternative theme selected.
  • Don't clear out existing events if bad iCal import is encountered
  • CSS enhancements to avoid icons being not visible with some template club css
  • iCal menu items can now be constrained to specific categories etc.

If you are not using an english version of JEvents you will need to add these lines (translated of course) to your language file (e.g. language/it-IT/it-IT.com_jevents.ini ) if you want to use the new SEF system (use no spaces and no special characters in your tranlsations)

JEV_SEF_ICALREPEAT_DETAIL="eventdetail"
JEV_SEF_DAY_LISTEVENTS="eventsbyday"
JEV_SEF_MONTH_CALENDAR="monthcalendar"
JEV_SEF_WEEK_LISTEVENTS="eventsbyweek"
JEV_SEF_YEAR_LISTEVENTS="eventsbyyear"
JEV_SEF_CAT_LISTEVENTS="eventsbycategory"
JEV_SEF_RANGE_LISTEVENTS="daterange"
JEV_SEF_DAY_LISTEVENTS="eventsbyday"