exponential-platform-legacy: platform repository history #

The history of exponential-platform-legacy, one of the platform repositories around Exponential (group: Distributions and starters). Read it to learn what the repository gives you, how it relates to Exponential and when it changed. The ledger records 46 changes from 2025-07-01 to 2026-07-08, all made by the se7enxweb team.

What it is #

Exponential Platform Legacy 2.5 distribution (platform plus legacy).

How it relates to Exponential #

Long-term-support line that carries the legacy kernel next to the Symfony stack; SQLite and Oracle documented.

What a user gets #

Composer project for the 2.5 LTS line on PHP 8.1 and 8.2.

This repository is a Composer project (type project), not a library, so you create a new site from it:

composer create-project se7enxweb/exponential-platform-legacy:2.5.0.x-dev exponential_website
cd exponential_website

Check the repository README for the database step that follows (.env.local, then php bin/console exponential:install or the documented import).

Counts by kind #

Releases made by the se7enxweb team #

Changes made by the se7enxweb team, by theme #

Composer requirements (16) #

• 2025-07-01 1e0297e tooling: Update composer.json replaced package vendor name
• 2025-07-01 f5538cb tooling: Update composer.json increased package php support
• 2025-07-01 6eedef3 tooling: Update composer.json switch package dep vendor for Exponential legacy and version
• 2025-07-01 5d53cb6 tooling: Update composer.json change from gplv2 only to gplv2 or later
• 2025-07-01 c01377f tooling: Update composer.json homepage url vendor name change
• 2025-07-01 0beb934 tooling: Update composer.json replaced package dependencies vendor name. Removed older behat bundle as not supported at this time.
• 2025-08-24 333d353 tooling: Updating composer.json configuration for basis of a php8.2+ possible installation. This change set allows composer to install all the packages success
• 2025-08-24 fef26da tooling: Minor path bugfix for composer bagsed autoloads workaround patch. Bugfix.
• 2025-08-24 dbceda7 tooling: Updated composer.json to fork further required composer packages for ezplatform 2.5 gpl to run with php 8.2+. Bugfix.
• 2025-08-24 23adafb tooling: Update config.yml updated configuration paths to support error free installation via composer package post install scripts. Bugfix.
• 2025-08-25 528da80 tooling: Update composer.json change package name. Forking for changes.
• 2025-08-25 2287268 tooling: Update composer.json testing pulling latest changes from child package.
• 2025-08-25 559dddf tooling: Update composer.json testing changegs to allow dev-main to exponential 6 install. Testing.
• 2025-08-25 7a6abda tooling: Update composer.json replaced Exponential package name with exponential. Testing.
• 2025-08-25 9b35c25 release: Update composer.json testing with release version instead of dev-main. Testing.
• 2025-08-25 544d935 tooling: Update composer.json minor change to support replacement installer. testing

Documentation (7) #

• 2025-08-25 5e5af1c docs: Updated documentation for package. Clarifictaions only. Added md documentation. Moved default readme to doc folder for safe keeping.
• 2025-08-25 0627f49 docs: Updated documentation for package. Clarifictaions only. Replaced text of new README.md. Documentation.
• 2025-08-25 370b0ed docs: Updated README.md documentation for package. Removed Logo Images. Documentation.
• 2025-08-25 b3f0465 docs: Updated installation documentation for package. Clarifictaions only. Documentation.
• 2025-08-25 531199a docs: Updated installation documentation for package. Clarifictaions only. Documentation.
• 2025-08-29 987808a docs: Added software example .htaccess mod_rewrite configuration to doc/apache2 dir. Feature improvement.
• 2026-04-09 8e94fb2 docs: rewrite README and INSTALL.md for Exponential Platform Legacy 2.5.0.x

Bug fixes (4) #

• 2025-08-24 c6bf309 fix: Path to default pagelayout example fix. Bugfix.
• 2025-08-25 40cf39f fix: Updated these files to beable to install this now forked package and it's depencies. Stable progress point. Bugfixes.
• 2025-08-25 294783f fix: Updated these files to beable to install this now forked package and it's depencies. Stable progress point. Bugfixes.
• 2025-09-14 eb660eb fix: Required changes to dump jsroutes. We fork so they don't have to maintain. Missed change in first release caused class conflict. Core Bugfix.

Version numbers (3) #

• 2025-08-25 ae60784 release: Update composer.json version bump for ezplatform-admin-ui-assets which just got a manual missing files merge bugfix. Testing.
• 2025-09-14 8344b2b release: Version bump to 1.5.33 to include rebranded logo in ezplatform-admin-ui composer package. Rebranding
• 2026-04-09 31d165d release: Version Bump for exponential package requirements to latest release in composer.json. Upgrade,

Symfony and platform compatibility (2) #

• 2025-08-24 61e235b fix: Changes required to install and boot ezplatform 2.5 gpl based site
• 2026-04-09 c168757 fix: set PHPUnit to ^10.5 (max compatible with Symfony 3.4 stack)

Ready-made web server configuration (2) #

• 2025-08-29 a17b406 feature: Added software example .htaccess mod_rewrite configuration to web dir. Feature improvement.
• 2025-08-29 d143c44 feature: Added software example robots.txt configuration to web dir. Feature improvement.

SQLite support (2) #

• 2026-04-09 7021d7e feature: add SQLite installer support for local dev and testing
• 2026-04-10 2194e96 feature: README.md and doc/INSTALL.md to document full SQLite and Oracle database support

Exponential branding (1) #

• 2025-09-14 f71c97e feature: Required changes to boot admin after rebranding and further test results. Bugfix.

Test tooling (1) #

• 2026-04-09 b231844 tooling: upgrade PHPUnit to ^11.5 and modernize phpunit.xml.dist

Design and templates (1) #

• 2026-04-10 9e922cc feature: Six new theme directories ported from 3.x to provide the full design chain required for the site siteaccess to render correctly with notices, develope

Features (1) #

• 2026-04-21 b417ef6 feature: add project app SCSS/webpack build, brand image, and asset pipeline

Repository housekeeping (1) #

• 2026-07-08 8479bb7 no-user-benefit: Added .gitattributes file to update GitHub listed language usage to match other repositories in account. Repo Maintinence

Also: 5 merge or funding-metadata commits by the team (no user benefit; see the coverage file notes).

Related pages #

• Legacy bridge
• SQLite for the platform
• Release changelog
• Package map
• Upgrade notes
• Ecosystem overview
• Complete ledger of this repository
• Platform console commands
• Platform ecosystem by month: 2025-07, 2025-08, 2025-09, 2026-03, 2026-04, 2026-07