After months and months of beta (and omega) releases, AEC 1.0 is finally finished.

Here is why you should upgrade

The Administration was completely revamped and, finally, features Statistics (powered by the incredible d3 library). Just the same, the Frontend got a makeover and now features a templating system that, of course, fully supports Joomla template overrides.

The Micro Integrations that you attach to your membership plans can now have their own restrictions. Combine that with the new Discount MI, et voilà: Make your users get a discount when they upgrade from plan A to plan B (but not when they were in plan C before).

While a lot of time was put in the new interface, we weren't content with just eye-candy (although that certainly is a lot of fun) - we've also worked on the basics of the software, cleaning out many inconsistencies and making everything a lot faster (sometimes by orders of magnitude).

As per usual, there is a ton of new integrations with other components and payment processors. Finally, this new version is fully compatible with Joomla 2.5.

Picture time!

While I'm redoing our tour (oh boy, does that ever look terribly dated now!), here are some impressions of what AEC brings:

You can find a download link and full changelog after the break.