Exponential 6.0.11 #

Released 2025-12-30. Tag v6.0.11.

Read this page if you move to PHP 8.5, send notification mail, or count page views.

In short #

PHP 8.1 up to PHP 8.5 are covered: return type attributes, declared properties, nullable types, and Zeta Components that support 8.5. Also new: a default robots.txt, notification mail sent to the To field instead of Bcc, and a fix for the view count cronjob.

Upgrading #

No action needed. If you keep your own robots.txt, compare it with the new default; see A useful robots.txt out of the box.

Added #

• A default robots.txt, with a block that keeps search, print layout, media and test areas out of search engines. See A useful robots.txt out of the box. (f93362f6b4, 185ddce843)

Updated #

• Notification mail is sent to the To field instead of Bcc, which some mail servers refuse. (11dfa2e178)
• The updateviewcount cronjob works in default installations. (8bffd7b08a)
• Debug log entries carry more context (lib/ezfile/classes/ezlog.php), taken over from a community fork. See Debug output improvements for the debug switches. (881a280153)
• The admin dashboard logo no longer hides the product name. (86e0d4988b)
• PHP 8.1 to 8.5 compatibility. See PHP 8 support.
  • #[ReturnTypeWillChange] on the methods of SPL interfaces (PHP 8.1). (a075afe4d6)
  • Declared public properties instead of dynamic ones, also in eZURL and the SOAP response class. (cb6d3e2435, 8ad71d8a79, d806722a80)
  • Nullable types for PHP 8.5. (ea660c8371, 0d035b6723)
  • Zeta Components updated to releases that support PHP 8.5; the README documents PHP 8.5. (4db16d95c3, 27ed271f3d)
  • ezldapuser no longer uses utf8_decode, deprecated in PHP 8.2. (a5199cc8dc)
  • No fatal error from the ezmatrix datatype or the collaboration module view. (f433a08cf9, 1ba06942c3)
  • An empty string is no longer passed as null to mysqli_real_escape_string (ezmysqlidb.php) or preg_match (ezuri.php), eZPathElement declares its properties, and the template compiler and multipass parser no longer raise a chain of warnings when content is edited. (ff023c8e5f, 569cea280f, 96ee5aa258, dc2440c8da)
  • Further fixes. (b13f305ac8, 7e0a68ee94)
• The data_text of a content attribute is an empty string instead of null (PHP 8 deprecations), and ezmatrix guards its XML parsing (upstream pull request #54, also merged into the main branch). (9443fed1d7, f821ec15c3)

Not listed above #

5 changes of this release bring no separate user benefit: 1 documentation, 1 version bookkeeping and 3 merge commits. Every change of the release (30 in this range) is in the ledger of the root repository.

Related pages #

• Releases before and after: 6.0.10, 6.0.12.
• The story: September 2025, December 2025.