There has been some confusion as to the different versions of the legacy component on the download page. We provide two different versions for specific needs.

1. The original component as delivered to customers, but with no encryption. This version does not have any bugfixes but can be used to migrate modifications.

2. The bugfixed version of the original component. This version requires the legacy plugin but has bugfixes and no longer requires "call-back" to ZCS to work. It will install on Joomla 1.0.x.

Neither of the versions is supported by our customer support team. We will also not be releasing any updates or patches for these versions. You run them at your own risk. In order to develop a component for both Joomla 1.0.x and 1.5.x a lot of compromises have to be made. We don't recommend running either of these on a production site.

If you have any questions related to either of these components, contact customer support through email or live chat.

We are in the final stages of the chat server update. We will be re-enabling chat on May 25 at 9:00 AM (GMT-5). If you need customer support assistance today, please use the ZipCodeShop email address you received the purchase confirmation from.

For those of you that have asked, our new "key-free" search form uses the Google Maps API v3. Google decided to drop support for IE6 with version 3 so our new search form does not work with IE6. However, we still include the older form which uses Google Maps API v2 (and a key) if you need to support IE6. The non-javascript enabled search form should support almost any browser.

Eventually we will drop support for IE6 altogether. So encourage your customers to upgrade their browsers.

We want to say a big thanks to all of our customers who upgraded to the newest version of the search. We will soon be releasing some new add-ons that we think you will love. All at no charge to subscribers.

The demo servers for Community Builder and Mosets Tree are now live with the newest version of Joomla, Mosets Tree and Community Builder. While we will always have the current release version of all three running on the servers, you will see the actual system requirements listed on the "Buy" page for each component. Make sure your server meets these requirements before purchase.

We will have links on each server to walk you through creating a test listing or profile along with a link to the ZCS search page for each server later today. Please be aware that all data on these servers is visible to the public. Please do not use any location data you would not want the general public aware of.

We can't emphasize strongly enough that you should make a site backup, both files and database before attempting any installs or upgrades. We don't have a relationship with or receive compensation from Akeeba Backup but we have had really good results using it during a few hundred installs/upgrades.

http://www.akeebabackup.com/

All further development of new components will be compatible  with Joomla 1.5.x only. We understand a number of you have clients who wish to keep Joomla 1.0 sites running with the search for valid financial reasons.

We are including the unencoded legacy components with all new purchases so any competent developer can help you maintain your existing 1.0 sites until you are ready to upgrade.

We do encourage all of our customers still running Joomla 1.0 sites to make the move to Joomla 1.5 as Joomla.org will no longer be releasing updates for Joomla 1.0.

We do sympathize with you however, as we have just made the move to Joomla 1.5 ourselves. While there is a lot of work involved, the benefits outweigh the costs.

The unencoded legacy components for both the Mosets Tree Advanced Search and the Community Builder Advanced Search are now available for download by subscribers. For those customers who have waited to upgrade to the current version of Mosets Tree or Community Builder, you can now view the source code in order to determine what changes would need to be made to migrate to the current releases.