Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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RSS import cleanup Updated Markdown page
Read this page if your site imports RSS feeds, or if you used the bccleanuprss extension. An RSS import adds an object for every item in the feed and never takes one away. A site importing a busy feed therefore grows…
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Commands, cronjob parts and module views as classes Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you maintain code that reads, includes or copies kernel scripts, cronjob parts or module views, or if you write your own. From Exponential 6.0.15 the code of every command line script, cronjob part and…
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Changing settings from the command line: exp:ini Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you change INI settings by hand, from deploy scripts, or want to move settings out of settings/override into an extension. From Exponential 6.0.15 one command reads and changes the settings of every…
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Exponential Console: bin/php/console Updated Markdown page
bin/php/console is one entry point for every command line script of Exponential 6.0.15, modelled on Symfony's bin/console. Read this page if you run scripts by hand or from deploy and cron jobs: you no longer need to…
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The Export menu of the content tree Updated Markdown page
Exponential 6.0.15 adds an Export submenu to the Advanced submenu of the administration's context menus: the content tree's menu and the "…" menu of each row in the sub-items list, and the same entries are in the menu…
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Content jobs: upgrade notes Updated Markdown page
Read this page if your editors remove, copy or move large subtrees, if you run a cluster, or if you override the admin confirmation pages. From Exponential 6.0.15 a large operation runs as a content job in the…
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Content language fallback: eng-US and a setting instead of a hard-coded eng-GB (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
Read this page before you update an installation to the 5 October 2026 changes. It says what changed, how to check it and what to do.
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The Exp Debug bar: upgrade notes Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you use the debug report, if you restrict debug output by IP address, or if your scripts or stylesheets work with the classic report. From Exponential 6.0.15 the debug report at the bottom of a page is…
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Demo mode: EXP_DEMO_MODE=1 for public demonstration sites (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
A public demo of Exponential publishes its administrator sign-in, so that visitors can try the administration. Two things then go wrong without help:
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Edit access to objects that were never published (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
An object that was never published (a new object whose first version is still a draft, or was rejected by an approval workflow) has no nodes yet. Several edit checks treated such an object as if it could only be at…
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eZINI keeps comments when it saves Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you edit INI files by hand and also let the admin or a script change them (activating an extension, toolbar or menu settings, exp:ini). Before, every save through eZINI rewrote the whole file and…
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Upgrade note: the everyday policies of the Editor role Updated Markdown page
A user in the Editors group has the policies of the Editor role, and on the site packages also those of the Member role. This note says what an editor of a new installation could not do, what changes, and how to…
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expInfo class and expinfo operator Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you want to read installation or extension metadata from PHP or from a template, or if you maintain an override of the Setup > Extensions view. 6.0.15 adds expInfo, a read-only PHP class, and the…
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ExponentialSDK and exponential.cron Updated Markdown page
Read this page if your code calls the version class eZPublishSDK, or if your deployment installs the example crontab ezpublish.cron. Both names were changed in 6.0.15. The old names keep working: nothing in an existing…
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The secret check of extension packages Updated Markdown page
Since 6.0.15, no package takes an extension that holds secret values or key material. Setup > Extensions, the package wizard and ezpm.php add all ask eZExtensionPackageHandler::packRefusal(), and addExtension() asks…
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Behaviour changes of the legacy extensions (September and October 2026) Updated Markdown page
Read this page before you upgrade a site that uses the legacy extensions, designs or themes shipped with or beside Exponential 6.0.15. Between 22 September and 2 October 2026 all of them were brought up to the same…
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ezinfo/is_alive answers "Exponential is alive" (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
Read this page if a monitoring check, a load balancer or a script requests /ezinfo/is_alive and compares the text of the answer. It says what changed, how to check it and what to do.
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The online editor engines: TinyMCE 3 and TinyMCE 8 Updated Markdown page
Read this page if your editors use the online editor (ezoe) to edit XML text (ezxmltext) attributes, or if you want to offer TinyMCE 8 or your own editor. Since Exponential 6.0.15 ezoe runs on an editor engine chosen…
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ezpSessionHandlerDB PHP 8 compatibility bugfixes and PHPUnit 13 test suite Updated Markdown page
Read this page if your installation stores sessions in the database (ezpSessionHandlerDB) and runs on PHP 8, if your ezsession table keeps growing, or if you saw blank pages with "Cannot call session save handler in a…
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Limits for the modes of new files and directories (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you run Exponential on a server where other accounts must not read or change what the site writes (a shared host, a hardened live server), or if you write code that creates files or directories.