* It was in October 2005 when Andreas Böttcher (mab) was looking for a picture gallery. Since the "PonyGallery" wasn't available in German at the time, he had to lend a hand and translate the "PonyGallery" into German himself. Three years later it became JoomGallery 1.0. The end of the PonyGallery was announced on June 23, 2009 by A. Böttcher
* The first version of the joomgallery.net website dates back to December 2007 and you can continue to use it see the bottom of the post
* There are first indications of the first BETA 1 version of JoomGallery in the summer of 2008.
* The JoomGallery version 1.0 According to the website article, Stable was “born into the world” on December 23, 2008
* In August 2010 a "new look" for the joomgallery.net website was put online (see picture below)
* Next to "mab" came additional members joined the team (people from the very beginning included: Andreas Hartmann [aha], Benjamin Malte Meier [b2m]) and helped a lot with further development and support.
Many thanks, among others to Claudia E., Hypnotoad, Erftralle, Dozo2000, Herrmann, chraneco, baijanpeng, wuslon, and everyone else who contributed to the development of JoomGallery!
* The JG was previously available in the following mainversions:
- Version 1.0. (released December 23, 2008)
- Version 1.5. (released May 3, 2009)
- Version 2.0. (released March 5, 2012)
- Version 3.0. never existed. Due to many further developments, this version was skipped. Info from June 16, 2013)
- Version 3.1. (released September 15, 2013)
- Version 3.3. (released May 8, 2016)
- Version 3.6. (published August 15, 2022)
* At the beginning of May 2015 the Responsive layout was created via Bootstrap
* At the end of May 2015 those responsible for the development at the time moved on "github" to provide us with the source code in a public repository available
* On May 24th 2019 after the end of joomgallery.net, the website joomgalleryfriends.net was brought online by JG further developers. The main initiators were Alwin (MrMusic) and Manuel (Elfangor)!
In February 2022, the two developers also stood for an J! Interview on www.joomla.de Questions and answers.
* On June 4th 2019 it was announced that the fundraising for the "Reconstruction Community" had been successfully completed
On September 6, 2019, "MrMusic" announced that there is finally a new JoomGallery forum again. It is based on the WoltLab platform.
* Towards the end of the support period for JoomGallery 3.6.2, the gallery was translated into 36 languages. (Thanks to all helpers)
With the start of the JG 4's reconstruction, work also began on new translations. Marco (eumel1602) was—and still is—responsible for the translations on the Crowdin platform.
* The small JGf-team brought on September 10th 2023 the first JoomGallery 4.0.0. Alpha1 version out. (followed by Alpha 2 und Alpha 3)
* The small JGf-team brought on December 24th 2024 the JoomGallery 4.0.0. Beta1 version out.
* The small JGf-team brought on January 29th 2025 the JoomGallery 4.0.0. Beta2 version out.
* On February 19, 2025 version 3.7. was released and was the preparation for the migration to the later JoomGallery 4.0.0.
* On March 11, 2025, the long-awaited JoomGallery 4.0.0 stable was released (thanks to all helpers)
(In addition to the three individuals already mentioned, Thomas Finnern, Peter Reill, and ? should be cited for their contributions to the development and testing of the first JG 4 version.)
* Version 4.1.0 was released on July 5, 2025 with new features
* JG version 4.2.0 Stable was released on October 27, 2025. Among other things, this release made the gallery compatible with Joomla 6.
* JG version 4.3.0 Stable was released on February 8, 2026. This version saw the return of frontend editing to JoomGallery, among other features.
* The latest JoomGallery version, 4.4.0 Stable, was released on August 22, 2026.
- Here you can find us on github...
Here are three screenshots of website versions:
2007
2010
2019
