Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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FrankenPHP as the Exponential web engine Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you want to serve Exponential with FrankenPHP: the Caddy web server with PHP and its extensions compiled into one self-contained binary, driven by exp:velocity. It covers installing, configuring…
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Security hardening of 6.0.13 Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you run Exponential 6.0.12 or earlier, or maintain extensions or a custom kernel that build SQL queries, shell commands or HTML output from request data. Exponential 6.0.13 (2026-02-21, branch 6.0)…
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Help maintained as content: DITA export, stored e-books, overdue reviews (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
Three parts of the help plan (help-system.md) that were still open after phase 1 of help maintained as content are in 6.0.15. This page says what changes for a site that runs it, and what to do after the deploy.
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Help maintained as content: review workflow, "Was this helpful?", token clients, EPUB checks, history, public pages (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
The parts of the help plan (help-system.md) and its style guide that were still open, or only a convention, after the DITA export, stored e-books and overdue reviews are in 6.0.15. This page says what changes for a site…
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HTTP caching for anonymous visitors Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you want browsers, proxies or a CDN to keep pages and static files for anonymous visitors, or if you wonder why a returning visitor's browser asks for every stylesheet and image again. Two settings…
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HTTP/2, and keeping the response cache full Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you serve Exponential with Velocity (the persistent-worker server): it explains the HTTP/2 support, the exp:warm cache warmer, the limits that protect an HTTP/2 connection, how to choose a worker…
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The role-aware HTTP cache Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you want to serve whole pages from a cache to signed-in visitors as well as anonymous ones, or if you see an X-Exp-Cache header and want to know what it means. The role-aware HTTP cache keeps whole…
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Image focal point and crop Updated Markdown page
From Exponential 6.0.15 an image (the ezimage datatype) can carry a focal point, the part of the picture that matters, and a crop rectangle, the part of the original its aliases are made from. Both are stored per…
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Settings files saved through the admin are no longer world-writable Updated Markdown page
Read this page if settings are changed from the administration (settings editor, debug bar, Setup > Extensions, the setup wizard), with exp:ini, or by a script that calls eZINI::save(), and especially if Velocity and…
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Upgrade note: the installers write the cron job (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
A new installation activates extensions whose work runs from cronjob parts: the job queue (expqueue), the imports' schedules (sqliimport) and, in the administration, the AI queue (expai). The kernel's own parts send the…
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The kernel service container (6.0.15, first slice) Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you work on the kernel's boot, write code that asks the kernel for shared objects, run Exponential under Velocity, or deploy an installation. It describes what the first slice of the kernel service…
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Kickstarter CLI Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you install Exponential from the command line, script installations, or reinstall test sites. bin/php/kickstarter.php (console: php bin/php/console exp:kickstarter, new in Exponential 6.0.15) runs the…
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Fixes from the Opencontent and Mugo Web forks: what to check when you upgrade (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
6.0.15 takes over fixes of the Opencontent and Mugo Web forks (pull request #345, contributed by Ekkehard Dörre of CJW) and closes the items that review left open. Most of them only remove warnings and errors. Five…
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The locations tab: paging and sorting Updated Markdown page
The Locations tab of the item view lists every place a piece of content is put. It used to list all of them, on one screen, with no way to order them.
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API reference Updated Markdown page
The classes, methods, settings, template functions and console commands that deliver the LoveStack features in Exponential 6.0.15, for developers. What each feature does for editors and administrators is in the overview.
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LoveStack features: changelog Updated Markdown page
Changes to the LoveStack features in Exponential, newest first. The full list, one line per feature with its LoveStack commit and upgrade note, is in the 6.0.15 changelog: LoveStack features (from 2026-10-12).
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Frequently asked questions Updated Markdown page
I run Exponential and never ran LoveStack. Do I need to do anything? No. The features are part of Exponential 6.0.15. See Getting started for what changes after the upgrade and which features you may want to switch on.
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LoveStack features: the feature list Updated Markdown page
Every LoveStack feature brought into Exponential 6.0.15, with what an upgraded installation gets and what a new installation gets. All of them are available in 6.0.15. The overview has the details of each: who it is…
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LoveStack features: getting started Updated Markdown page
This page is for everyone, whatever you know about Exponential or LoveStack.
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Who calls ezjscnode, and what requiring a policy changes (L01) Updated Markdown page
For administrators deciding whether to switch on ezjscore.ini [ezjscServer_ezjscnode] RequirePolicy=enabled on an upgraded site (L01 in the overview). New installations have it on already.