Pre-update backup now shows an admin notification on every outcome (success / warning / failure) — previously a successful pre-update backup fired nothing, so it looked like the notification wasn't working. (#192)

Component admin CSS now loads via the Joomla Web Asset Manager (media/com_mokosuitebackup/ + joomla.asset.json) instead of an inline <style> block.
"Keep local copy" is configured per remote destination (in the Add/Edit Destination modal); the redundant profile-level field and its "Remote" tab are removed.
Add/Edit Destination modal: cleaned up the cramped padding/margins.

Admin menu / duplicate-component fallout: (a) the orphaned com_component-mokosuitebackup is now removed in preflight too, so its "Backup" menu no longer collides on install ("The alias backup is already being used"); (b) ensureSubmenuItems() recreates the top-level "Backup" menu if it was deleted, instead of giving up — so Backup no longer disappears from the admin menu (and the cPanel module / MokoSuiteClient can find it again); (c) the component menu label now uses the short constant COM_MOKOJOOMBACKUP_SHORT. (#213 fallout)
Installer no longer aborts on MySQL 8 with "This command is not supported in the prepared statement protocol yet" (error 1295). The legacy remote-column purge migration (02.56.01.sql) used PREPARE/EXECUTE/DEALLOCATE, which Joomla's installer rejects; the drop now runs in the package installer script via an INFORMATION_SCHEMA-gated plain ALTER (portable across MariaDB and MySQL 8). (#213 update path)

[02.57.00] --- 2026-07-05

BackupRunner service — a single synchronous entry point for backups that unifies final status and notification gating across the pre-update, web-cron, pre-install, scheduled-task and CLI triggers (delegates to BackupEngine; no double-notify). Returns a normalized result including the real complete/warning/fail status. Dashboard "Backup Now" (AJAX) unchanged; installer progress popup deferred to #196. (#214)

Release automation: the changelog-promote step is now idempotent — it only inserts a ## [version] header when that version isn't already present, preventing the empty, duplicated version headers that repeated/same-version builds were producing. (workflow)

[02.56.11] --- 2026-07-05

Package postflight now removes the orphaned com_component-mokosuitebackup registration (stray extension record, admin menu items, schema rows, and administrator/ folder) left behind by the old "Type - Name" component <name> — self-healing on update so affected sites reconcile to the real com_mokosuitebackup. (#213 follow-up)

Component manifest <name> reverted to the element-safe MokoSuiteBackup. The "Type - Name" convention derived element com_component-mokosuitebackup, registering a duplicate component and leaving the real com_mokosuitebackup orphaned on the old version. (#213)

Mask the FTP password in AjaxController::maskSecrets()/mergeExistingSecrets() — stored FTP remotes no longer leak their password via listRemotes. (#169)
Stop the API single-item view (Backups/JsonapiView) leaking the server absolute_path. (#187)
SFTP uploader uses StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new instead of no. (#182)

DatabaseDumper writes a real newline after DROP TABLE (was a literal \n). (#179)
Profile-picker forms order by id instead of the dropped ordering column. (#180)
uninstall.mysql.sql now drops the snapshots table. (#181)
CLI snapshot delete uses the data_file column (was non-existent file_path). (#184)
Remove the duplicate pre-update backup (content plugin no longer subscribes to onExtensionBeforeUpdate). (#186)
DatabaseImporter collects non-fatal statement errors (getErrors()/hasErrors()). (#188)