Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Passkeys and "Verify it's you": a table, two views and a question before sensitive actions Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you upgrade an installation to 6.0.15, if you override user/login.tpl or user/edit.tpl, or if your extension has views that change accounts, settings or export data. The features are taught in the…
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Change password at next sign-in: what an upgrade brings (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
The user's guide is Change password at next sign-in. This page covers what a site, a design or an extension may notice after the upgrade.
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PDF export upgrade Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you upgrade an installation that uses PDF export (content/pdf, the PDF export pages in the admin). The export gained a configurable footer, better fonts and image scaling. Upgrading needs two database…
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Engine archive (phar) support Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you run Exponential Velocity, if you deploy by copying files, or if a stack trace names a phar:// path. Exponential 6.0 can load its own engine (kernel/, lib/ and autoload/) from one phar archive…
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PHP 8.0 support Updated Markdown page
Exponential 6 runs on PHP 8.0 and later, and from 6.0.15 it is usable without support on PHP 7.4 (see Why Exponential supports PHP 7.4). PHP 8.0 matters because it is the stock PHP of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (and of…
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PHP 8 support Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you upgrade from a release before 6.0.0, or if you maintain your own extensions. The kernel and libraries were changed step by step for PHP 8.0 up to 8.5 between December 2023 and April 2026…
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Upgrading the test suite to PHPUnit 10 (6.0.13) Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you run the Exponential test suite, or keep tests of your own on the Exponential test toolkit, on a release before 6.0.13. On Exponential 6.0.12 and earlier, php vendor/bin/phpunit and php…
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PHPUnit 13 support, and the string operator test suite Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you run the Exponential test suite, or maintain tests of your own that extend the Exponential test toolkit. After an upgrade to PHPUnit 13 (phpunit/phpunit 13.0.0, PHP 8.4 and 8.5), php…
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PHPUnit 13 / PHP 8.4.23 test suite cleanup Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you run or extend the Exponential 6.0 test suite, or if you maintain code that the tests flagged (GD image handling, eZMail, eZCharsetInfo, the MongoDB adapter, eZSiteAccess::load(), ISBN13, WebDAV)…
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Platform package forks, command renames and version rules Updated Markdown page
Read this page before you update a project built on the Symfony based Exponential Platform (3.x, 4.6, v5), a Nexus distribution or the legacy bridge from a version that still used the upstream package names, or before…
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Site cache preloader: bin/php/preload.php Updated Markdown page
Since 6 October 2026 the command runs the same crawler as Setup > Preload, with PHP's curl extension instead of > wget and the curl program, one run at a time, and records every run. What follows about wget describes…
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Extension points Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you extend Exponential with your own code and want to know where each kind of extension plugs in, which INI line registers it, and which tool in Setup > RAD helps you build it. Exponential is extended…
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The extension surface Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you want to see everything in an Exponential installation that can be extended or replaced: every setting that names a class, every place the kernel looks for files, the interfaces, modules, views…
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RAD tools: security Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you let administrators use the RAD tools (the extension and module wizards under setup/rad), or if you deploy extensions they generated. A RAD tool takes what somebody typed and writes it into files…
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Redirect query, ezjscore errors and image alias guards (6.0.15) Updated Markdown page
Since the fix of pull request 105, ezpKernelWeb::redirect() appends the query string of the current request to the redirect target through ezpKernelWeb::appendRequestQuery().
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Repairing an installation whose libraries are missing Updated Markdown page
Read this page if your site shows "the libraries of this installation are missing", answers every page with HTTP 503, or if you want to know what Exponential does when vendor/ is gone. Without its Composer libraries the…
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The response cache, and getting out of the network's way Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you run Exponential under the Velocity (Qbix) server and want to know what its response cache now does for a visitor: what changed in 6.0.15, which settings control it, and the measurements behind each…
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CORS for the REST API Updated Markdown page
From 6.0.15 on, the REST interface (everything index_rest.php serves below /api/: the content API v1 and v2, the OAuth token endpoint and the routes of every REST provider) can answer cross-origin requests from a…
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Paging the role and policy screens Updated Markdown page
Read this page if your installation has roles with many policies (a large multi-site installation often does), if you override the role or policy templates, or if your code reads policyList() and expects module order…
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Search links of the administration use view parameters Updated Markdown page
Read this page if you keep links, bookmarks or scripts that open a search in the administration with a query string, such as content/search?SearchText=news or a content/advancedsearch?... address. Since 2026-11-02 the…