It has gone over a year since I wrote the first comparison table for sh404SEF, JoomSEF and AceSEF components.

One year is a really long time in this age and many things can be changed from the scratch, like AceSEF 1.5. So I felt myself compelled to update the comparison table for these components according to their latest releases.

Today I'm really excited to announce one of the most anticipated extensions for Joomla: AceSEF 1.5! I know some of you waited quite a while for this announcement. This is the start of a blog post series about the new AceSEF 1.5. Today I want to give you some insight into the AceSEF 1.5 development and changes in the upcoming version.

Dear AceSEF users.
We have just released another improved version of AceSEF component. New version removes the most painful requirement for automatic upgrade, fopen function, and fixes known bugs.

Dear AceSEF users,

We have just released another significantly improved version of AceSEF component. Again, it introduces several new major features. Most important is Sitemap (XML), that can help increase your site's SEO by generating a sitemap for ALL components without plugin obligation. This new version release brings 17 updates and fixes.

DO NOT forget to upgrade your installed AceSEF extensions too after upgrading AceSEF.

We've also released 9 new extensions for 3rd party components that enables AceSEF to generate & manage SEF URLs and adjust SEO options for these components.

Dear AceSEF users.
We have just released another significantly improved version of AceSEF component. This new version release brings 12 updates and fixes. We've also released 15 new extensions for 3rd party components that enables AceSEF to generate + manage SEF URLs and adjust SEO options for these components.

After not even a week, there is another version of AceSEF - the new SEF URL and metadata generating SEO component for Joomla!. Again, it introduces several new major features. Most important is the new Extensions user-interface that includes automatic upgrades. Also Extensions and Routers pages has been united to simplify the management.

We consider this version as the most stable-mature version of AceSEF so users are highly recommended to upgrade to this version. Do not forget to uninstall ALL 3-rd party extensions, dowload the new versions and install them again.
From this version extensions upgrades will be performed automaticly without the need to uninstall-install them.

Dear AceSEF users.
We have just released another significantly improved version of AceSEF component, that will make your Joomla! URLs look nice and Search Engine Friendly (SEF). This new version release brings 13 brand new features, 2 improvements and several updates and fixes. The upgrade structure is too easy, just download the new version and upload it in the Upgrade section of AceSEF component.

AceSEF 1.2 Features

After we released AceSEF, we recieved too much questions asking about why we needed to develop a new SEF component because of there were great SEF components avaliable. Well, yes, there were SEF components but they either were just generating SEF URLs (sh404SEF) OR didn't fullfil the needs (JoomSEF).

Here it is the comparison table of the most used sh404SEF and JoomSEF components versus AceSEF.