- The import types Every type gets the same engine: remote ids from the source paths, updates, edit detection, removals, redirects for old paths and copies, media as objects, node links, byline extraction, and reports.
- The interface language list: every language, the most needed first Since 6.0.15 (#516). Extends the interface language choice of #506.
- The JSON package format Exponential packages (.ezpkg, Setup > Packages, ezpm.php) can be written in a second serialization: JSON. It is the same package model as the classic XML format, element for element, so a package converts from XML to…
- The kernel service container (6.0.15, first slice) Read this page if you work on the kernel's boot, write code that asks the kernel for shared objects, run Exponential under Velocity, or deploy an installation. It describes what the first slice of the kernel service…
- The locations tab: paging and sorting The Locations tab of the item view lists every place a piece of content is put. It used to list all of them, on one screen, with no way to order them.
- The log viewer Read this page if you want to read the log files of an installation from the administration, follow one as it is written, find the lines of a failed request or the error behind a reference an error page showed, or if…
- The mail layout: every mail as HTML with a plain-text part Since 6.0.15 every mail Exponential sends is an HTML mail with a plain-text part (multipart/alternative) in one shared layout: the site's name in a dark header, a heading, a short text, one button where there is a link…
- The online editor engines: TinyMCE 3 and TinyMCE 8 Read this page if your editors use the online editor (ezoe) to edit XML text (ezxmltext) attributes, or if you want to offer TinyMCE 8 or your own editor. Since Exponential 6.0.15 ezoe runs on an editor engine chosen…
- The online editor on TinyMCE 8 (opt-in, next to TinyMCE 3) This page is for editors who want a modern rich text editor, and for administrators who decide which editor a site uses. Exponential 6.0.15 ships TinyMCE 8.9.2 as a second engine of the eZ Online Editor. TinyMCE 3.5.12…
- The package wizard This page is for administrators who create packages in the administration, and for anyone who changes the wizard's templates. Since October 2026 the package creation wizard (Setup > Packages > Create new package…
- The product is called Exponential This page is for anyone upgrading from a release before 6.0.10, and for site builders who want their own templates to use the current name. From version 6.0.10 (August 2025) the software calls itself Exponential. The…
- The response cache, and getting out of the network's way Read this page if you run Exponential under the Velocity (Qbix) server and want to know what its response cache now does for a visitor: what changed in 6.0.15, which settings control it, and the measurements behind each…
- The responsive admin design (admin3) This page is for administrators who want editors to work from a phone, a tablet or a wide monitor. admin3 is the classic admin interface (the admin and admin2 designs) with a sidebar that collapses, menus that work by…
- The role-aware HTTP cache Read this page if you want to serve whole pages from a cache to signed-in visitors as well as anonymous ones, or if you see an X-Exp-Cache header and want to know what it means. The role-aware HTTP cache keeps whole…
- The secret check of extension packages Since 6.0.15, no package takes an extension that holds secret values or key material. Setup > Extensions, the package wizard and ezpm.php add all ask eZExtensionPackageHandler::packRefusal(), and addExtension() asks…
- The secret store: passwords and keys of the tools, encrypted, by name (6.0.15) Read this page if you write a tool that needs a password, a token or an API key (a database connection, an import source, a remote server), or if you administer the secrets of an installation. The data table connections…
- The setup wizard's new look, and the editor siteaccess This page is for anyone who installs Exponential, and for administrators who want a simpler admin for their editors. On 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-02 the setup wizard got a new look, and it now installs three siteaccesses…
- The SOAP entry script is now index_soap.php Read this page if an installation answers SOAP requests: settings/soap.ini [GeneralSettings] EnableSOAP=true, the syndication extension exporting content to other installations, or a middleware product that calls…
- The SQL query cache Read this page if your pages are slow on a full render (the first render after a purge, signed-in pages, the administration interface, scripts) and you want to switch the SQL query cache on, or if you restore databases…
- The sub-items list: 129 columns, presets and CSV export This page is for editors who want to see more about the items in a folder, and for administrators and developers who set defaults or add columns. The sub-items list in the node view used to offer fifteen fixed columns…
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