Story: Exponential Platform DXP
This page is for journalists who cover Symfony and enterprise content platforms. Exponential Platform DXP is the Symfony-only member of the family, separate from the Exponential 6 kernel.
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The story in one paragraph
"Exponential Platform DXP is a free, open-source Digital Experience Platform built on the Symfony framework, the community continuation of the eZ Platform and Ibexa OSS line maintained by 7x" (README). Its meta package describes itself as "Stable; Open Source", licensed "GPL-2.0-or-later or proprietary". It ships the admin UI, content forms, REST, GraphQL and GraphiQL, HTTP cache, core and Solr search, several field types, notifications, messenger, cron and JWT authentication. It does not ship a layouts editor, an approval workflow, a scheduler or the legacy kernel (Exponential Platform DXP).
Facts you can print
| Fact | Source |
|---|---|
| Repository created 12 March 2026 | Who is 7x?, timeline |
| What the README says it adds over Ibexa DXP OSS: SQLite support, current PHP ("PHP 8.3 and later"), a path from Exponential 6 through the dual-kernel distributions, and "A name of its own" | Exponential Platform DXP |
| For organizations with much structured content, teams leaving eZ Platform or Ibexa OSS, and Symfony developers | same |
| Start from the DXP skeleton | DXP skeleton |
| Website of the platform line | https://platform.exponential.earth/ |
What not to claim
| Do not say | Say instead |
|---|---|
| "Ibexa DXP for free" or "by Ibexa" | A community continuation by 7x; not associated with Ibexa |
| "Includes the page builder" | It does not ship a layouts editor; Nexus does (Story: Exponential Platform Nexus and Legacy) |
| "Runs Exponential 6" | It does not include the legacy kernel |
Angles and headline ideas
- "A free Symfony DXP, continued by the community."
- "Two lines, one family: PHP-native Exponential and Symfony-based Platform."
Related pages
- The product family for reporters
- Not associated with eZ Systems or Ibexa
- Covering Exponential Platform releases
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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