Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Exponential Contributors Guidelines Updated Markdown page
Thank you for considering contributing to Exponential! We appreciate the time and effort you invest in making this project better.
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Exponential Copyright Updated Markdown page
Exponential Copyright © 1998-2026 Exponential Foundation and 7x
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Updated Markdown page
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2026 Exponential Foundation and 7x. All rights reserved.
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Security Policy Updated Markdown page
Exponential 6.0 is the maintained line. Security fixes are made on the main branch (the 6.0.15 line, dev-main) and published with the next 6.0.x release. A published tag is never changed: a fix for a problem in v6.0.14…
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exp:template:check: rule reference Updated Markdown page
Every finding of exp:template:check carries a rule id. This page lists every rule: its severity, the level or option that turns it on, what it means, and an example of a template that triggers it with the fix. ./console…
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Release history (3.x–6.x) Updated Markdown page
252 releases from 2002-11-01 to 2026-06-07 with their release names, dates and revisions. The older records come from the original SVN repository. Addresses on servers that are no longer online are kept as historical…
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Dynamic content structure menu: functional requirements Updated Markdown page
From the experience with our customers and their projects, especially those bigger ones, we can say that the content structure menu in the administration interface is not implemented in the optimal way. Any change on a…
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Dynamic content structure menu: technical specification Updated Markdown page
To be able to use the new dynamic content structure menu, it is necessary to enable it in contentstructuremenu.ini for your administration siteaccess. Add the following setting to the [TreeMenu] group::
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ISBN-13 datatype: functional requirements Updated Markdown page
This spesification addresses certain limitations in the ISBN-13 implemenation in Exponential. Some improvents could also be applied to the ISBN-10 implemenation but such improvements are not evaluated and addressed in…
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ISBN datatype: technical specification Updated Markdown page
This spesification describes the technical implementation of the isbn datatype.
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Autoload refinement: design (4.1) Updated Markdown page
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Content object states: functional requirements Updated Markdown page
Experience with customer projects has proven that using the current workflow system is often too complex to handle simple state transitions of content. There needs to be an alternative for this, which we will call…
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Language switcher: design specification Updated Markdown page
The language switcher is used to switch from viewing one translation of a site to another. This is today done by changing to another translation siteaccess (We are not talking about using the locale user param here).
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DB/NFS cluster handler: specification Updated Markdown page
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Administration interface refresh: functional requirements (4.3) Updated Markdown page
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Comment and user-generated content system: functional requirements (4.3) Updated Markdown page
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Extension ordering: design specification Updated Markdown page
The order in which active extensions appear in *site.ini/[ExtensionSettings]/ActiveExtensions* is important for the selection of templates and, possibly, configuration settings. For this reason, users have to care much…
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Asynchronous publishing: specification Updated Markdown page
The currently reported MySQL LOCK WAIT timeout issues strongly limit the amount of content the kernel can publish concurrently.
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Specification: the audit event model Updated Markdown page
This page is the technical summary of the audit trail introduced on 2026-10-02: event names, the record format, channels, files, checkpoints, archives, the database index, the classes, the settings and the extension…
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Specification: the bccie extension Updated Markdown page
This page is the reference for the bccie extension (1.1.12), "BC CIE", shown as CIE in the admin. It exports the collected information of content objects (the answers sent through a contact form, a poll, a job…