Back in May we noted that service MOJO Marketplace, which is used by web hosts to provide their customers with quick installations of various web software, was still offering to install Joomla 2.5 despite support for that version having ended on December 31, 2014. We came across that while dealing with a hacked website where the web host that uses MOJO Marketplace’s service (and is also owned by the same company as them) and the web host’s security partner (whose owners also run the two other companies) both told a website’s owner that use of that version was a security weakness.
While working on a non-hack issue on another website we noticed that another service that does software installations, Softaculous, is still offering to install Joomla 2.5 as well. Not only are the offering to install it, but at this web host it is fairly prominently offered as this what you see in the last section when you log in to the web host’s cPanel control panel:
To confirm that wasn’t something where they still listed it as Joomla 2.5 despite really installing whatever is the current version you can see at the top of the page you get taken if you click the link that they are in fact still offering that version:
Seeing as they also keep track of the release date, you would think they might periodically review if they are offering software that hasn’t been updated in years to see if they should still be offering it, but they don’t seem to be considering Joomla 2.5 is still available.