ezpublish-kernel: platform repository history #

The history of ezpublish-kernel, one of the platform repositories around Exponential (group: Kernel). Read it to learn what the repository gives you, how it relates to Exponential and when it changed. The ledger records 31 changes from 2023-12-22 to 2026-04-10: 30 made by the se7enxweb team and 1 from the upstream history the fork carries.

What it is #

Fork of the 2014.11 era kernel used by the Symfony stack that wraps the legacy kernel.

How it relates to Exponential #

Kept installable on current PHP so Exponential Platform Nexus 1.x and Exponential Platform Legacy can still be built.

What a user gets #

Composer installs on PHP 8.1 to 8.3 and later, PHP 8.5 template fixes, working cache configuration, SQLite installer.

Install it with Composer (a project that already requires the platform pulls it in by itself):

composer require se7enxweb/ezpublish-kernel

Counts by kind #

Releases made by the se7enxweb team #

Changes made by the se7enxweb team, by theme #

Composer requirements (7) #

• 2025-06-11 75dfdbf5b tooling: Update composer.json switched package distro name to 7x. Increased PHP version support for testing.
• 2025-06-28 3a5ce7adc tooling: Update composer.json Reduce twig requirement
• 2025-06-28 5ce71d41f tooling: Update composer.json version downgrade for doctrine-dbal-schema.
• 2025-07-01 28c99098f tooling: Update composer.json swap vendor for dependency
• 2025-08-24 8d2f36ecb tooling: Update composer.json replaced package dependency liip for se7enxweb. Forking for changes.
• 2025-08-24 824576e57 tooling: Update composer.json to include changes to further fork this package. Bugfixes.
• 2026-01-13 95434bfae release: Testing composer workaround preventing installations.

Version numbers (7) #

• 2025-06-11 d0ba8f675 release: Update composer.json version bump
• 2025-06-11 f5f432cbe release: Update composer.json version bump for twig dependency
• 2025-07-01 61141719b release: Update composer.json version bump for package
• 2025-07-01 54a42dcde release: Update composer.json package version bump
• 2025-07-01 824059c6b release: Update composer.json package version bump for greater php support
• 2025-07-01 66a78a034 release: Update composer.json version bump
• 2025-08-24 49c4ffdc3 release: Update composer.json to include undesired package version number. Bugfix.

Exponential branding (3) #

• 2025-09-05 3ce50c5a1 feature: Update layout.html.twig replaced product name in debug layout template. Rebranding.
• 2025-09-05 e1467651a feature: Update cleandata.sql to replace product name in sql text strings. Rebranding.
• 2026-02-14 654367b56 feature: Rebranding Default Installation Name and Doc URL. Rebranding.

Other changes to the fork (3) #

• 2025-09-24 13fd781f3 fix: Update jsrouting-bundle version constraints
• 2025-09-26 6b9bb39c1 fix: Update PHP version requirement to include 8.3
• 2025-09-26 89c58e905 fix: Update kriswallsmith/buzz version constraints

PHP 8.x compatibility (2) #

• 2025-08-24 d297f8e66 fix: Update ScriptHandler.php to include php 8.2+ tested support required by ezplatform 2.5 gpl. New PHP 8 Support.
• 2026-01-30 529b8f3e3 fix: Fix PHP 8.5 compatibility: Replace closure-based Twig functions with named methods

Test tooling (2) #

• 2025-09-24 a7c676028 tooling: Update doctrine/doctrine-bundle version constraint to test 3.2 integration
• 2026-02-09 4be8f2faa tooling: Bugfixes to enable reasonable cache within platform. Tested as working in nexus 1.0.0.2 github. Required to fix symfony/platform based cache problems.

SQLite support (2) #

• 2026-04-09 23d2b55de feature: add SQLite installer support + exponential-oss install type
• 2026-04-10 d50c34bdb feature: CoreInstaller was changed to substitute SqliteDbPlatform for bare SqlitePlatform during schema import to ensure composite primary keys are generated c

Package renamed to the se7enxweb vendor (1) #

• 2026-01-28 037cc410c bc: Bugfix for 7x ezpublish-kernel to replace vendor name in configuration yaml. Tested.

Bug fixes (1) #

• 2026-02-10 3063e284a fix: Updated config/cache.yml to patch to provide required missing yaml configuration block. Cache System Bugfix.

Also: 2 merge or funding-metadata commits by the team (no user benefit; see the coverage file notes).

Upstream history carried by the fork, by month #

The fork contains the full upstream history. The table counts it by month and kind; the busiest changes of each month (by files touched) are named.

Related pages #

• SQLite installer specification
• Framework forks
• Release changelog
• Package map
• Upgrade notes
• Ecosystem overview
• Complete ledger of this repository
• Platform console commands
• Platform ecosystem by month: 2023-12, 2025-06, 2025-07, 2025-08, 2025-09, 2026-01, 2026-02, 2026-03, 2026-04