Route 66 PRO

Version 2.4.1 Stable

Joomla 6.x Joomla! 5.3 Joomla! 5.4

Released on: Wednesday, 18 March 2026
Maturity Stable
Released on Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • A ton of new features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Added: Support for selecting OpenAI GPT-5.4 in the component options.
  • Fixed: Replaced deprecated Anthropic models with the latest supported models.
  • Fixed: Resolved an issue where sitemap generation for the Eshop extension was not functioning correctly.

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Version 2.4.0 Stable

Joomla 6.x Joomla! 5.3 Joomla! 5.4

Released on: Tuesday, 17 February 2026
Maturity Stable
Released on Tuesday, 17 February 2026

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • A ton of new features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Added: Bulk AI generation for SEO metadata You can now generate SEO Titles and Meta Descriptions in bulk using AI tools. This allows you to quickly optimize large numbers of pages at once. Bulk AI operations are currently supported for Route 66 SEO metadata fields.
  • Fixed: Upgrade process now disables leftover files to prevent site issues if uninstall fails.

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Version 2.3.1 Stable

Joomla 6.x Joomla! 5.3 Joomla! 5.4

Released on: Friday, 23 January 2026
Maturity Stable
Released on Friday, 23 January 2026

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • A ton of new features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Fixed: Improved HTML processing by switching to DOM-based protection for code blocks, eliminating rare cases where page markup could be partially stripped.

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Version 2.3.0 Stable

Joomla 6.x Joomla! 5.3 Joomla! 5.4

Released on: Wednesday, 21 January 2026
Maturity Stable
Released on Wednesday, 21 January 2026

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • A ton of new features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Added: Crawler exclusions. You can now exclude specific pages or entire sections from being crawled.
  • Fixed: Performance optimization issue that could strip code blocks from HTML output.
  • Various minor fixes and improvements to enhance stability and overall performance.

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Version 2.2.0 Stable

Joomla 6.x Joomla! 5.3 Joomla! 5.4

Released on: Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • A ton of new features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Added: Support for Gemini AI models — expand your AI options effortlessly.
  • Fixed: Installation issues when updating from v1 PRO to v2 free.
  • Fixed: Upgrade problems that could break sites if the update was incomplete.

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Version 2.1.0 Stable

Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Monday, 29 September 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Monday, 29 September 2025

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • A ton of new features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Added: Support for new AI models: GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini and GPT-5 Nano.
  • Added: Compatibility with Joomla 6.
  • Changed: Increased Open Graph and X (Twitter) title limits to 90 characters.
  • Fixed: Compatibility issues with Cloudflare Rocket Loader.
  • Fixed: Typewriter effect not working on certain server setups.
  • Fixed: CSS Optimizer failing to load some fonts in specific case.
  • Fixed: Incorrect metadata display in search preview due to menu item detection issues.
  • Fixed: Inconsistent SEO scores between article view and crawled pages view — crawled pages analysis now uses the component view only, instead of the full page markup.

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Version 2.0.5 Stable

Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Monday, 01 September 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Monday, 01 September 2025

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • A ton of new features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Fixed: Sitemaps not working when the HikaShop integration plugin was enabled. The issue was caused by loading the HikaShop helper too early.
  • Fixed: Template selection issue in YooTheme when Route 66 was installed.
  • Fixed: Crawler not running on certain web server setups (mainly LiteSpeed).
  • Fixed: Editing AI Tools in non-English backends.
  • Fixed: Encoding issues with AI Tools results in Chrome/Edge.
  • Changed: Increased character limits for Open Graph and X (Twitter) metadata.
  • Changed: Import from previous version now also imports Joomla core images as Open Graph images.

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Version 2.0.4 Stable

Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Wednesday, 13 August 2025

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • A ton of new features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Fixed: Sitemaps not working when the HikaShop integration plugin was enabled. The issue was caused by loading the HikaShop helper too early.
  • Fixed: HTML lang attribute always being set to "en-gb" when the HikaShop integration plugin was enabled. This was also due to loading the HikaShop helper too early.
  • Changed: SEO issue reporting is now skipped for error pages (non-200 responses). Error pages can no longer be opened directly.

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Version 2.0.3 Stable

Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Monday, 11 August 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Monday, 11 August 2025

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • A ton of new features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Fixed: Some users could not update due to incorrect database schema set by Joomla.

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Version 2.0.2 Stable

Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Saturday, 09 August 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Saturday, 09 August 2025

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • A ton of new features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Changed: Increased the minimum required PHP version to 8.2. Stop installation on unsupported environments.
  • Fixed: SEO analysis for crawled pages now includes images in its evaluation.

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Version 2.0.1 Stable

Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Saturday, 09 August 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Saturday, 09 August 2025

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉 - Tons of new features: https://www.firecoders.com/joomla-extensions/route-66 
  • Fixed: Sitemap Index view not displaying correctly.
  • Fixed: Error preventing creation of new articles after updating to the latest version.
  • Changed: Increased threshold for “Large Page” issue detection to 450 KB.
  • Fixed: Filtering issue in the Crawled Pages list.

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Version 2.0.0 Stable

Joomla! 5.3

Released on: Friday, 08 August 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Friday, 08 August 2025

Release notes

  • Version 2.0 – Major Release  🎉
  • AI Tools for metadata and content generation. Integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • Advanced SEO Crawler. Crawl your website to detect common SEO issues — like missing titles, duplicate meta descriptions, or slow-loading pages.
  • Powerful Metadata Editing. View and edit metadata from the crawled pages or directly in extensions forms (where supported).
  • SEO & Readability Analysis by Yoast. Run analysis from the crawled pages or directly in extensions forms (where supported).
  • Custom SEF URLs. Use URL patterns to define custom URLs for supported extensions.
  • XML Sitemaps. Create XML sitemaps using Joomla content and third-party extensions sources (where supported).
  • Performance Optimizations. Speed up your Joomla site and achieve higher scores on Google PageSpeed Insights and Lighthouse.
  • Edit robots.txt . Edit robots.txt file directly from Joomla backend.
  • A ton of other small features. Make sure to check the Route 66 extension page for more information.
  • Requires Joomla 5.3 or later.

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Version 1.12.0 Stable

Joomla! 3.x Joomla! 4.x Joomla! 5.x

Released on: Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Release notes

  • Readability Analysis. Introduced readability analysis powered by the Yoast engine to help you optimize content for better clarity and engagement.
  • Sitemap Support for Eshop. Added support for Eshop component in XML sitemaps (products only).
  • YOOtheme Builder Compatibility. Resolved compatibility issues with YOOtheme page builder.
  • Improved Video Facades Handling. Video markup is now correctly wrapped in a tag when using video facades, enhancing fallback behavior for users with JavaScript disabled.
  • FontAwesome and Icon Font Fixes. Fixed issues with FontAwesome and potentially other icon font libraries when CSS optimization is enabled.
  • Other Improvements. Various minor fixes and performance enhancements throughout the extension.

 

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Version 1.11.2 Stable

Joomla! 3.x Joomla! 4.x Joomla! 5.x

Released on: Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Release notes

  • Virtuemart 4.4.4 compatibility: Fixed "Call to undefined function virtuemartBuildRoute()" error when using Virtuemart 4.4.4 or later.

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Version 1.11.1 Stable

Joomla! 3.x Joomla! 4.x Joomla! 5.x

Released on: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Release notes

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Version 1.11.0 Stable

Joomla! 3.x Joomla! 4.x Joomla! 5.x

Released on: Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Maturity Stable
Released on Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Release notes

  • Basic JoomCCK integration (URLs and sitemaps for records in PRO version only).
  • Fixed: Clean media manager value when using in OG Image from intro or full text images.
  • Fixed: Current language detection when "Remove URL Language Code" is set to "Yes" in "System - Language Filter" plugin

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Version 1.10.0 Stable

Joomla! 3.x Joomla! 4.x Joomla! 5.x

Released on: Monday, 18 November 2024
Maturity Stable
Released on Monday, 18 November 2024

Release notes

  • Joomla 5 native support. Route 66 now works under Joomla 5 without the compatibility plugin.
  • Improved route detection when multiple rules are matching.
  • Fixed Virtuemart integration error.
  • Skip CSS optimization for shadow DOM elements.
  • Experimental support for SEO Analysis tool for FlexiContent (when used with Joomla articles).
  • Clean media manager value when using in OG Image.
  • Several other minor fixes and performance improvements.

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Version 1.9.12 Stable

Joomla! 3.x Joomla! 4.x Joomla! 5.x

Released on: Thursday, 27 June 2024
Maturity Stable
Released on Thursday, 27 June 2024

Release notes

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Version 1.9.11 Stable

Joomla! 3.x Joomla! 4.x Joomla! 5.x

Released on: Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Maturity Stable
Released on Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Release notes

  • Fix issue with URL patterns when a tag and an article have the same alias
  • Improvements for multi-language sites
  • Fix trailing slash in menus under J4/J5
  • Fixed: Route 66 is breaking the Joomla API endpoints
  • Fixed: URL Patterns not saved under Joomla 5.1
  • Fixed: administrator preview button
  • Several minor fixes and improvements

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Version 1.9.10 Stable

Joomla! 3.x Joomla! 4.x

Released on: Monday, 24 April 2023
Maturity Stable
Released on Monday, 24 April 2023

Release notes

  • Fix Tags links under Joomla 4.3
  • Fix backend generated links that have menu items
  • Fix deprecated code under PHP 8.2
  • Fix preview button in article form when SEO widget is enabled

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