Exponential 6.0.0 #

Released 2024-01-01. Tag v6.0.0.

Read this page if you move a 5.4 or 5.90 installation to Exponential 6, or want to know where the 6.0 line starts.

In short #

The first release of the 7x line. Exponential 6.0.0 takes the last open source legacy code base of the former product forward on current PHP:

• the setup wizard no longer prints PHP 8 errors;
• no page of the wizard points to the closed vendor's servers any more;
• the installation is done with Composer.

Upgrading #

No schema change is needed from 5.4. One update script records the new version in the ezsite_data table:

mysql -u USER -p DATABASE < update/database/mysql/6.0/dbupdate-5.4.0-6.0.0.sql

What the scripts contain: the MySQL script is SET storage_engine=InnoDB; followed by two UPDATE ezsite_data statements. They set the row ezpublish-version to 6.0.0 and the row ezpublish-release to 1. The PostgreSQL script holds only the two UPDATE statements. The row names keep their historic spelling on purpose; they are identifiers.

MySQL 5.7.5 removed the storage_engine variable in favour of default_storage_engine. If your server rejects the first statement, run only the two UPDATE lines. Check your server version with SELECT VERSION();.

Check the result:

SELECT name, value FROM ezsite_data WHERE name LIKE 'ezpublish-%';

Expected: ezpublish-version is 6.0.0, ezpublish-release is 1.

A later script, update/database/mysql/6.0/dbupdate-6.0.0-6.0.15.sql (and its PostgreSQL twin), exists for the 6.0.15 line. The whole path is in the Upgrading guide.

Added #

• A database update script from 5.4.0 to 6.0.0 for MySQL; it records the version in ezsite_data. (e7d696b368)
• A database update script from 5.4 to 6.0 for PostgreSQL; it records the version in ezsite_data. (bd547fd2c1)

Updated #

• The object relation class attribute no longer fails when no default selection node was chosen (upstream pull request #40, the first merged change of the fork). (2ddbc4c624)
• The HTTP and cookie date helpers in lib/ezlocale/classes/ezdateutils.php build the date string without letting gmdate() interpret the day and month names. This also fixes wrong date and time attributes after a package export (contentobject.xml). Upstream pull request #41. (b2af30cd2c, 8df0f2cd19)
• The extensions that the distribution installs or suggests changed. See What a new installation comes with. (f2e0cc863a, c39efa3c63, 45e5c69d15, fb9f17ba4c, 1d5de8bf36)
• The setup wizard no longer stops with a fatal error on PHP 8. See PHP 8 support. (06eca74187)
• package.ini names the new package server addresses and vendor. (12ce4a8168)
• The default package installation in the setup wizard moves past every step again. (4233c84a04)
• The links of the registration templates point to the new addresses, and a typo in one of them is fixed. (c25d9a4386, 3378ca6176)
• eZTemplateForFunction works on PHP 8. See PHP 8 support. (d6d7837233)
• The installer's autoload code no longer prints error text during the installation. (634f00704a, 1558406cbc)
• The footers and copyright of the admin and standard designs carry the 7x links. See The product is called Exponential. (2a37bcbe2a)
• The documentation links in the setup wizard point to the new documentation. (7286590cea)
• The edition text and version alias name the 6.0 release. (ab10c96a7e)
• The dashboard no longer shows the community activity block, which did not work any more. (0c9d42ba5e)
• The maintenance dashboard names 7x as maintainer. See The product is called Exponential. (fcf96edc79)

Not listed above #

41 changes of this release bring no separate user benefit: 14 documentation, 15 tooling and repository, 4 version bookkeeping and 8 merge commits. Every change of the release (64 in this range) is in the ledger of the root repository.

Related pages #

• Next release: 6.0.1.
• The story: December 2023, January 2024, first half.
• How to upgrade: Upgrading guide.