Serendipity Styx 5.1-rc1 release

N° 2026/01 - The new Serendipity Styx 5.1-rc1 Release Candidate of new release

Requirements: At least PHP 8.2 !!

Better PHP 8.4 !! And we are fully ready and prepared for PHP 8.5 😀 !! Latest PHP 8.5.5 release runs overall fine.

5.1-rc1 - A Release-Test-Candidate of new Serendipity Styx 5.1 heading to final release

THANK YOU for helping us to finish and finalize this new Serendipity Styx 5.1 version ! Read the ChangeLog, please.

Styx 5.1

• Massively improved the MediaLibrary adding Imagick extension module support
• Improve image upload sizes
• Improve orientation issues with smartphone shot cameras
• Fix libraries for PHP 8.4/8.5 deprecation removals
• Fix some issues for PDO::PostgreSQL
• Remove PEAR XML and pingback services
• Update to jQuery v4.0.0 final
• Finally finishes the language UTF-8 only migration which now removes all remaining and existing directories/files as announced several times
• Improved [ pure ] theme styles
• and more …

It is expected that we will get some exception or hidden logged errors with non-deeply checked plugins that are not so much mainstream. If you run into these please file a core issue or plugin issue over at GitHub or mention them in the discussions. Just paste the error exception with the stack trace and explain what you did to get there, so it is easy to reproduce. Normally you can just resume with your work afterwards by going back in your browsers history or by returning to the start page of your Backend or Frontend.

Thanks again; See you soon on next 😎 Serendipity Styx 5.1.0 revisions !😃

Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.