Joomla! 1.5.4 was released yesterday and I have to say, Joomla! team has started to tighten things up. Besides the usual security fixes, bug fixes and some small, yet exciting changes under the hood, there is this new "compatibility" colum under Extension Manage that gets some people excited.

Jom Comment system bot and our ajax system plugin got a red dot there. A couple of our user email us, worried if our component are not compatible with Joomla 1.5.4 .

Relax, there is nothing to be worried about. Jom Comment and My Blog run natively on Joomla 1.5. There is no need for legacy mode to be turned on at all. But why it is still getting the red dot?. You see, what really happen is, Joomla simply check the plugin XML file. If it detects the old version, it will mark it as"incompatible". It has absolutely nothing to do with the php code that gets executed.

So, please don't be alarmed. An undate to those xml files will be issue within the next 12 hours. (It should be updated by the time you read this). It should take less than 1 minute to update the xml file. A couple of string replacement here and there and good.

I have to say, it is a clever way to get developer to start adopting the new xml format!