Setting up an update server

When you develop extensions for Joomla!, commercially or for fun, you want people to use the latest release of your extension. Constant updates of your extensions warrant you are offering the best experience to your users with the latest improvements and features, and it also ensures the security of your users’ websites as you will probably keep up with the latest PHP versions and fix any known vulnerabilities in your code.

But whenever you update your extension code, you should inform your users about the new release and provide a download package they can install on their sites. This is very inconvenient for you as you need to set up a whole information network. However, it’s also inconvenient for your users as they will need to upload the new releases to update their sites.

In Joomla!, we can push new release notifications to our users easily by setting up an update server on our websites.

The update server for our extension consists...