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What is Akeeba Release System?

Akeeba Release System (or ARS for short) is a download manager component designed to disseminate Akeeba Ltd's software to its clients. It has been optimized for large scale, versioned, software downloads.

Key features:

• The software used by Joomla! for its own releases.

• Custom CSS framework (FEF) for consistent display across different templates.

• Sensible three-level organization of your downloads (package, version, files).

• Out-of-the box SEF URLs, without requiring a SEF component.

• Excellent performance.

• Integration with Joomla! access control (user groups & access levels) for limiting access to downloads only to specific subscribers.

• Allows you to add files either stored on any directory under your site's root -even a different one per package!- or directly link to externally hosted files.

• Automatically determiens the file size and MD5/SHA hashes of all files you add to it.

• Automatic item descriptions. Tired of typing the same descriptions over and over? Stop typing! ARS can do it for you.

• Update streams. Offer updates to your software in two formats: INI files easily usable by any and all programming languages or automatic creation of Joomla! XML extension update streams. As soon as you publish a new version, all your clients using a modern version of Joomla! will be able to automatically upgrade to it. No extra file creation or manual action is necessary. Coupled with Akeeba Release Maker your entire extension publish process can be shortened to a single command.

• Allows for automatic updates of paid software (restricted downloads). You can authenticate automatic downloads of restricted access items by passing the username and password or a secure Download ID to the URL. In Joomla 4 the Download ID is referred to as the "download key".

• Release notes.

• Ann HTML fields use the Joomla!'s WYSIWYG editor for editing and support content plugins.

• Custom HTML for displaying your repository, including support for content plugins so you can show the latest versions in the main download page of your site.

• Download logging: item, user, authentication status, IP address and referrer. This can be used for security purposes as well as to provide evidence against fraudulent refund requests on the pretext that they never received your software.

• Development / nightly releases using the BleedingEdge categories feature. Just upload files to your server by SFTP and ARS will automatically create and publish new releases and download items.

• GPL v3 software. We value your Freedom of choice and transparency in our code.

Important

The software is provided free of charge for everyone to use. However, we do not offer any kind of support, free or paid.