We have a new release of our Spiral Download plugin for Virtuemart, version 1.4. For the first time the plugin is now compatible with Virtuemart 2 and 3, and Joomla 2.5 and 3.

This plugin for Virtuemart allows you to attach a download custom field to any product, then select the file that will be downloadable. When the customer buys the product they will receive a download link for the file. The download link is personalized so that it is only valid for that particular order, it does not give away the actual location of the file.

In addition to now being compatible with Virtuemart 3 and Joomla 3, the plugin has some other new features.

• The plugin now supports either a simple file download, or can display or play the file in the browser (for example for JPEGS, PDFs, MP3 and some types of video files);
• The plugin can now simulate file streaming, by downloading the file in chunks, you can set a maximum download speed, useful to reduce the load on the server if you have a lot of downloads or big files.

There is more explanation of this in the plugin documentation.