- Specification: extension metadata (ezinfo.php and extension.xml) This page is the reference for how an extension tells the system who it is: its name, version, license and website, as shown on Setup > About and used by the upgrade checks. Read it if you write or release an extension…
- Specification: INI override directories and placements This page is the reference for how eZINI finds and orders the files of one INI setting: the four scopes, the per-siteaccess directories inside extensions (added in January 2026, commits 124186d096 and fc1a2f0a91), the…
- Specification: installer logs and seed data This page is the reference for the data a new Exponential installation starts with (seed files, the content tree, ids and URL aliases) and for the files the installers write (setup.log, kickstart.log and others). Read…
- Specification: notification settings Every setting that changes how notifications are made, handled, sent and run, with its default and its effect. Read it when you configure notifications for an installation or write an extension that adds handlers or…
- Specification: security defaults of September 2026 Between 22 and 30 September 2026 a set of defaults changed so that a default installation is safe without extra work. This page lists each default, the setting that controls it, what changed for an existing installation…
- Specification: SQLite and Oracle driver behaviour (October 2026) This page has moved. Its content was merged into two pages, so each fact lives in one place:
- Specification: the 6.0.13 security and stability hardening This page is the map of the hardening pass that the 6.0.13 line received on 21 February 2026: seven security findings, a larger set of null and undefined-value guards that PHP 8 would turn into fatal errors, PHP 8.4…
- Specification: the audit event model This page is the technical summary of the audit trail introduced on 2026-10-02: event names, the record format, channels, files, checkpoints, archives, the database index, the classes, the settings and the extension…
- Specification: the August 2026 security patches This page describes the security patches of 16 August 2026 on the 6.0.15 line: six findings fixed, the integrity manifest refreshed and the bundled jQuery replaced. Read it before you upgrade an installation that has…
- Specification: the bccie extension This page is the reference for the bccie extension (1.1.12), "BC CIE", shown as CIE in the admin. It exports the collected information of content objects (the answers sent through a contact form, a poll, a job…
- Specification: the cjw_newsletter extension This page is the reference for the cjw_newsletter extension (4.1.17). It lists the admin views and their parameters, the console commands, the cronjob parts, the background runs, the audit events, the tables and the…
- Specification: the expcomponents packages and what the kernel uses them for This page is the reference for each library of expcomponents, Exponential's fork of the Zeta Components (Apache License 2.0): what the package does, which kernel classes, files and features use it, which upstream…
- Specification: the explayouts_ui_api editor API This page is the reference for the JSON API behind the layout editor of the explayouts_ui_api extension (releases 1.0.0 to 1.3.7): its module views, the dispatcher, the form token rule, every endpoint, the write rules…
- Specification: the Exponential Platform SQLite installer This page is the reference for how the installers of Exponential Platform (the Symfony based platform) put a complete database into one SQLite file: the install types, how the install command behaves on SQLite, how the…
- Specification: the legacy bridge bundle This page is the reference for the legacy bridge, the Symfony bundle that runs the Exponential 6 kernel inside a platform request: its layout, the events you can listen to, the settings it maps from the platform into…
- Specification: the notification commands This page is the reference for the four console commands of the notification system: what each option does, the exit codes, and sample output. Read it if you run notifications from a shell, a crontab or a deployment…
- Specification: the notification system The reference for how notifications are made and handled: the tables, the flow from a published item to a mail, the handlers and their rules, the digest, the service class with its lock, run record and audit event, the…
- Specification: the SQLite3 database driver This page is the reference for the legacy kernel's SQLite driver, eZSQLite3DB, and its schema handler, eZSQLiteSchema: how they are registered, how a connection is opened and tuned, how transactions wait for the single…
- Specification: the static publishing build format This page is the normative description of what a static publishing build of Exponential 6.0.15 writes: the folder, where each page and file goes, how links are rewritten, what is taken out of a page and what makes a…
- Specification: the static publishing manifest This page is the normative description of the manifest exp-static-manifest/1 that every static publishing build of Exponential 6.0.15 writes, and of how the build, the diff, the preview, the publish and the rollback use…
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