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What each feature does and how to set it up.

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Velocity response cache This page is for administrators who serve public pages with Velocity and want them answered in a fraction of a millisecond. The response cache keeps rendered public pages and answers repeat requests inside the server… Administrators Features
Velocity scheduler This page is for developers of Velocity applications who need periodic work (expiring sessions, rotating files, a report at 09:00) without a cron table. The scheduler is a small cron inside the server. It runs a handler… Developers Features
Velocity static files and image processing This page is for administrators who serve a site with Exponential Velocity and want to know how files and images are delivered, cached and resized. Velocity answers a request for a file in the document root itself… Administrators Features
Velocity web server This page is for administrators who want to serve Exponential faster with fewer moving parts, and for anyone deciding whether to use Velocity. Velocity is a web server written in PHP that runs your Exponential… Administrators Features
Velocity WebSockets, Server-Sent Events and rooms This page is for developers who want real-time features (chat, live progress, notifications) next to an Exponential site served by Velocity. An ordinary Exponential site does not need them. Applies to Exponential… Developers Features
What a new installation comes with: the default extension distribution This page is for anyone who installs Exponential and wants to know which extensions arrive with it, and how to add or drop one. composer.json of Exponential does more than list PHP requirements: it decides which… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Which siteaccess an order came from This page is for shop administrators who run more than one store or site on one installation, and for developers who build on the shop. Every order now records the siteaccess (store or site) it was placed in, and the… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
xrowextract: export, import and move content as files This page is for editors and administrators who need content in a spreadsheet, in another system or in a backup, and for anyone who loads such files back into content. xrowextract is the Export tab of the admin. It… EditorsAdministrators Features
xrowmetadata: page titles, descriptions, Open Graph and sitemaps This page is for site builders who care about search engines and link previews. xrowmetadata ("Xrow Meta Data") is the simple SEO building block of Exponential: Developers Features
Your devices: signed-in sessions per user Since 6.0.15 every sign-in is recorded as a session of its user. A user sees where the account is signed in right now, on the page Your devices (user/sessions), and signs out one session or all other sessions; an… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Exponential 6.0 features This page lists every feature page of the Exponential 6.0 line, so you can find the one you need without searching. Each page says who it is for, what the feature does and how to use it. The legacy extensions, themes… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Extensions, themes and packages This page lists every legacy extension, theme and package of Exponential 6 that has its own page. Use it to find out what an extension does before you activate it. Each page says what the extension is for, how to set it… AdministratorsDevelopers Features
A new cache ID has been added for SSLZones: "sslzones". It is part of the INI tag, and clears the cache file that contains the list of SSL subtrees. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Configurable DFS cluster backend The DFS cluster uses two handlers: DB, and FS. So far, the FS handler was hardcoded and couldn't be changed. Starting from 5.4, it can be set in an INI file. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
DFS cluster split tables By default, the MySQLi DFS cluster will use distinct tables to store storage and cache files. AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Event system (5.0) See 4.5/event.txt for full information on this feature AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Event system (5.1) See {4.5,4.7,5.0}/event.txt for full information on this feature AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Event system (5.2) Added a new event for the content/download view (can be useful for tracking) - Added a new event for content/pre_rendering (useful for business logic in php before rendering template) AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Event system (5.4) Added new events for image aliases removal - 5.4.6 Added new events for state assigments AdministratorsDevelopers Features
Event system (5.90) In 2017.12.2 content/cache was changed to also pass in object id list to make cache clearing logic between legacy and platform more solid for wider range of use cases. AdministratorsDevelopers Features

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