Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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User account hygiene Updated Markdown page
Keeping staff and visitor accounts tidy with Users > Check user accounts - accounts never used, not seen for months, disabled, locked, orphaned, sharing a login or address - and the bulk actions, lockout settings and…
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Upgrades and change Updated Markdown page
Index of the pages on upgrading and changing a public-sector Exponential site under change management - the upgrade path, immutable releases, change advisory boards, staging, configuration managed by deployment, release…
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Change management and advisory boards Updated Markdown page
How to run Exponential under a public body's change management - which changes go to a change advisory board, which are standard or routine, what evidence the platform gives for each (dry runs, upgrade check, audit…
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Extension updates Updated Markdown page
Keeping the extensions of a public-sector Exponential site current - finding what runs and what is outdated, updating with a dry run through ezupdate or Composer, third-party extensions, and the checks after an update.
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Immutable releases and versions Updated Markdown page
Why a released Exponential version never changes after publication, how versions are numbered and compared, how to pin and verify the version you run, and what this means for procurement records, audits and reproducible…
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Maintenance windows Updated Markdown page
Planning and running a maintenance window for a public website - announcing it, taking the site offline with a clear message and a 503 answer, letting testers in, pausing cronjobs, and bringing the site back with checks.
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Configuration managed by deployment Updated Markdown page
How the ManagedByDeployment switch locks the settings, template and package screens of a live siteaccess so that every configuration change passes version control and your change board, what stays open, and how to…
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PHP and database upgrades Updated Markdown page
Upgrading the platform under Exponential - PHP versions supported, database server versions, the order of steps, staging, and what an in-house IT team or a government cloud provider must coordinate.
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Reading release notes Updated Markdown page
Where Exponential's release notes, changelogs and behavior-change pages are, how to read them between your version and the target, and how to turn them into a risk assessment and test list for a change board.
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Rollback planning Updated Markdown page
How to plan the way back before every change to a public website - which changes can be reversed by redeploying, which need a backup restore because the database changed, the decision point inside a maintenance window…
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Security updates and disclosure Updated Markdown page
Which Exponential versions get security fixes, how fixes reach a public body (the next release, never a changed tag), how to track and apply them under change management, and how to report a vulnerability privately.
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Staging and approval Updated Markdown page
How a public body moves a change from development through test (staging) to production with Exponential - one code base per environment, settings variants with EXP_ENV, a copy of the data for testing, the checks to run…
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Upgrade check before and after Updated Markdown page
Using Setup > Upgrade check and its command-line counterpart as evidence around a change - the file consistency check against the release manifest, the database consistency check, the downloadable reports, and how to…
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Upgrade overview for the public sector Updated Markdown page
The upgrade of an Exponential site as a public-sector project - which upgrade path applies, the steps from backup to verification, what to put before the change board, and the people to involve - built on the upgrading…
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Privacy for public bodies Updated Markdown page
The privacy section of the Governments help - how Exponential's features map to the GDPR and other rules, where personal data lives, minimization, retention, consent records for mail, access and erasure requests…
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Analytics and visitor statistics Updated Markdown page
For public bodies measuring use of their site - what Exponential records itself (search statistics, view counts, request logs), what the bcwebsitestatistics extension sends to Google Analytics, consent and privacy…
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Audit retention Updated Markdown page
For public bodies deciding how long to keep audit records - the shipped 90 days live and 730 days archived per channel, how to shorten or lengthen them in settings, what purge and pseudonymization do, keys needed for…
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Privacy in the audit trail Updated Markdown page
For public bodies balancing accountability and privacy - what personal data Exponential's audit trail keeps by default, how it is minimized and pseudonymized, the lawful basis the audit guide suggests, and the…
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CAPTCHAs and privacy Updated Markdown page
For public bodies protecting forms from spam - what the optional recaptcha (Google reCAPTCHA) and hcaptcha (hCaptcha) extensions do, the data they send to the provider, consent and notice implications, accessibility…
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Consent records for mail Updated Markdown page
For public bodies that send newsletters and notices by e-mail - how Exponential records every consent change (time, category, old and new state, source, exact wording, acting user), how to read, filter and export the…