Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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PHP 7 support Updated Markdown page
For the 2017.10 release, Exponential received changes all over the code base, switching object constructor methods to PHP 5 style.
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Relation search indexing changes Updated Markdown page
For the 2018.06 release, Exponential changed the way relations are indexed. Previously the relation metadata was loaded recursively, meaning that relations of relations etc. were also included. This behavior was changed…
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Additional extension directories Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you want to keep your own extensions apart from third-party ones, for example in extension_src/ next to extension/. Exponential 6.0 can load extensions from more than one directory. Nothing changes…
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Setup > Extensions: sorting, metadata and download Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you override the Setup > Extensions template or the extension list of the package wizard, or if you want to know how the extension list changed. Since 5 August 2026 the list is sorted, shows each…
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Icons from extensions (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
Read this page if your site uses bciconextensions or bciconextensions_share_icons, or if you want to ship your own icon theme in an extension. The two extensions were merged into the Exponential 6.0.15 kernel, so an…
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Exponential Layouts Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you build or edit page layouts in Exponential 6.0, or develop block types, view types or query types for them. Exponential Layouts brings the concept of the upstream layouts packages to the Exponential…
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MongoDB kernel support Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you want to run Exponential on MongoDB instead of an SQL database, or maintain code that must work on both. It is the complete reference of the port: architecture, collections, every changed file, the…
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Subitems "More actions": Hide selected and Unhide selected Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you maintain the admin3 sub-items list, its templates or the content/action module. It describes two new bulk actions in the More actions menu. The change is backward compatible: nothing breaks, and…
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Styling the administration: one component stylesheet, tokens, no inline CSS Updated Markdown page
Read this page before you write or review a template or stylesheet of an administration design (admin, admin3, admin4, admin4l) or of an extension's admin design (some extensions still carry an admin2 folder). It holds…
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admin4l: the admin page is built by Exponential Layouts Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you run the admin siteaccess on admin4l, if you override admin4's pagelayout.tpl or the page parts, or if you edit admin layouts. The admin page is no longer one template: with SiteDesign=admin4l the…
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Upgrade note: the public policies of the Anonymous role Updated Markdown page
A visitor who is not signed in is the anonymous user and has the policies of the Anonymous role. This note says which policies a public site gives that role, why a new installation could refuse every registration, and…
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Personal API keys: a table, a module and a policy Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you upgrade an installation to 6.0.15, if you use the REST interface (/api/...) with HTTP basic authentication or OAuth, if you override the oauthadmin templates, or if you build REST routes of your…
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Backend services over ezjscore (expservices) Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you build a remote admin app (GTK, Qt, KDE/GNOME, iOS, Android, shell) or a JavaScript frontend on top of Exponential. extension/expservices turns the ezjscore server functions into a library of remote…
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Behaviour changes of July and August 2026 (6.0.15 development) Updated Markdown page
Read this page before you update an installation to the changes made between 1 July and 31 August 2026. It is the upgrade checklist for that period: what can break, the new settings, and the fixes you may notice…
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Behaviour changes of 16 to 30 September 2026 Updated Markdown page
Read this page before you take the changes of 16 to 30 September 2026 to an existing Exponential 6.0 installation. It lists what visitors, editors, installers and operators will notice, and what to do about it. Each row…
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Behaviour changes of 1 and 2 October 2026 (6.0.15 line): what to check when you upgrade Updated Markdown page
Read this page before you update an installation to the changes of 1 and 2 October 2026. It is a checklist for operators and extension authors: each item says what changed, how to check it and what to do. The features…
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Bookmark folders: upgrade and compatibility Updated Markdown page
Update the files. 2. Run the statements of the section "Bookmark folders" at the end of update/database//6.0/dbupdate-6.0.0-6.0.15.sql. 3. Clear all caches (php bin/php/ezcache.php --clear-all --allow-root-user), reload…
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Bookmarks of system pages: upgrade and developer notes Updated Markdown page
Exponential 6.0.15 lets a bookmark point to the page of a module view (a "system page") as well as to a node. This page lists what changed for code, templates, extensions and databases. The feature itself: Bookmarks of…
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Cache control from the console: exp:cache Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you clear caches from scripts, cron or deployments, or if you want to know which command does what a Setup > Cache button does. Since Exponential 6.0.15 every action of that page, and the newer caches…
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Continuous integration: the workflows, reproducing a failure, the commit message policy Updated Markdown page
Read this page if a check on a commit or a pull request of se7enxweb/exponential is red, if you change one of the workflows in .github/workflows/, or if you want to know how healthy CI has been lately. The checks…