The news area at Watchful focuses on updates to the platform, new features, and company announcements.
As many of you have likely heard, an incredibly serious and widespread security vulnerability, Heartbleed, was recently reported in OpenSSL, an important cryptographic software library used on many servers. OpenSSL is used to secure large swaths of internet communications and thus the Heartbleed weakness allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, Read more…
Here at Watchful, our Chief technology Officer and co-founder Pierre-André Vullioud always has something cooking in the laboratory. New developments undergo rigorous research, development, and internal testing on our staging server after initial work on the dev server. Once we have a stable feature, we transfer updates to the production Read more…
Today marks a very exciting achievement for the crew here at Watchful as we announce the immediate availability of remote, 1-click updates for the following commercial plugins for the wildly popular JCE content editor for Joomla: Not only does this feature address the most common feature request at Watchful, it marks a Read more…
On Friday, the developer of the popular Breezing Forms add-on for Joomla announced a serious vulnerability affecting version 1.7.5 (build 762) and earlier. Based on our research, we expect that about 1 in every 20 Joomla websites is affected by this vulnerability. This is the second serious extension vulnerability reported for Joomla in Read more…
If you are like many web developers, it’s a safe bet that you store some of your most commonly used assets online using a cloud storage service. Dropbox is perhaps one of the best-known cloud storage services. We use it internally Watchful, and also at inetis and Anything Digital, to share Joomla add-ons Read more…
Currently, there are many ways to remotely update your Joomla web sites from the Watchful dashboard. For example, we recently introduced the remote installer that allows you to install updates for practically any Joomla add-on using either a URL, a Dropbox account or simply uploading a file from your computer. However, you Read more…
Today we are excited to announce the release of version 1.7 of the Watchful client. This release has a number of important additions such as: Language and package updates Watchful now supports updating languages and free packages like Kunena and Gantry directly from your dashboard, similar to other updates. Upload Read more…
We are delighted to share the exciting news that Watchful Client 1.6 has been officially released. This latest release marks a significant milestone in our continuous effort to enhance the Joomla management experience for our valued users. In this article, we’ll explore Watchful Client 1.6’s key highlights, improvements, and steps Read more…
Today we are proud to announce the immediate availability of version 1.5.7 of the Watchful client. This release comes quickly on the heels of last week’s new notification customization feature. Today’s release includes a number of changes, but two stand out as they are designed to save you time when Read more…
Today we are thrilled to officially announce the ability to control email notifications in your Watchful Dashboard. First, in your dashboard you’ll now find the ability to choose additional email(s) to receive email notifications from Watchful. See also our step-by-step instructions for further details. This lets you enable team-wide alerts Read more…