Serendipity Styx 5.0.0 ++ release

N° 2025/05 - The new Serendipity Styx 5.0.0 final revision of new major release

Requirements: At least PHP 8.2 !!

Better use a stable PHP 8.4 !!

5.0.0 - The final release of new Serendipity Styx 5.0.0 ++

THANK YOU for support and help ! Read the ChangeLog, please.

Styx 5.0.0 since RC2

• Fix some more comment handling issues
• Improve some variable checks
• Fixed a postgreSQL type issue
• Improved [ pure ] theme styles
• Ready for brand new PHP 8.5
• and more …

Styx 5.0.1 and 5.0.2

• Fixed some issues with new plugins syncs and null values which only occurred on live systems causing fatal error halts

For the real major NEWS updates regarding Styx 5.0, please read below release candidate and beta Announcements.

It is expected that we will get some exception 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.x revisions !😃

One last word: If there isn’t a necessary .3 bugfix release required, the next version will be Styx 5.1.0, which will finally clean up old UTF-8 language file directories. Please update your local or development plugins and themes until then! This is announced in the upgrade tasks to 5.0.0.

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

Serendipity Styx 5.0-rc2 release

N° 2025/04 - The new Serendipity Styx 5.0-rc2 of new major release

Requirements: At least PHP 8.2 !!

Better use PHP 8.4 !! And it looks like we are already prepared for upcoming PHP 8.5 😀 !! Latest PHP 8.5 RC builds run fine.

5.0-rc2 - A Release-Test-Candidate of new Serendipity Styx 5.0 heading to final release

THANK YOU for helping us to finish and finalize this new Serendipity Styx 5.0 major version ! Read the ChangeLog, please.

Styx 5.0-rc2

• Fix some more comment handling type issues
• Fix libraries for type issues and PHP 8.5 deprecations
• The RichText Editor auto focus behavior was refactored to not auto focus itself since this brought too many problems in the frontend and as well in some backend places
• Bug fixes
• Fixed several PHP 8.5 deprecation issues
• Improved styles (read the changelog if using copy or child themes, please)
• and more …

It is expected that we will get some exception 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 5.0 revisions !😃

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

Serendipity Styx 5.0-rc1 release

N° 2025/03 - The new Serendipity Styx 5.0-rc1 of new major release

Requirements: At least PHP 8.2 !!

Better PHP 8.4 !! And it looks like we are already prepared for upcoming PHP 8.5 😀 !! Latest PHP 8.5 Beta2 runs fine.

5.0-rc1 - A Release-Test-Candidate of new Serendipity Styx 5.0 heading to final release

THANK YOU for helping us to finish and finalize this new Serendipity Styx 5.0 major version ! Read the ChangeLog, please.

Styx 5.0-rc1

• Finally all additional_plugins have raised up for Serendipity Styx 5.0. Styx 5.0 now checks all plugins root directory for UTF-8 encoded lang files only.
• Fix some lasting comment handling type issues
• Fix libraries for type issues and PHP 8.4/8.5 deprecations
• Fix some API parameter and return type issues for PDO::PostgreSQL.
• Update to jQuery v4.0.0-rc.1 which removed a bunch of methods we need to check for - and which looks promising
• Finally removed the plug plugin old s9y image logo
• Improved styles
• and more …

It is expected that we will get some exception 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 on next 😎 Serendipity Styx 5.0 revisions !😃

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

Serendipity Styx 5.0-beta2 release

N° 2025/02 - The new Serendipity Styx 5.0-beta2 of new major release

Requirements: At least PHP 8.2 !!

Better PHP 8.4 !! And it looks like we are already prepared for upcoming PHP 8.5 😀 !!

5.0-beta2 - A Beta-Test release of new Serendipity Styx 5.0

THANK YOU for helping us to finish and finalize this new Serendipity Styx 5.0 major version ! Read the ChangeLog, please.

Styx 5.0-beta2

• Fix edge case types for some radio buttons, serendipity_track_url, serendipity_sendComment, traverse_plugin_dir, get_event_plugins and serendipity_setCookie
• Avoid placing empty category names in Frontend sidebar lists
• Fix Extended descriptions for XML (RSS) icons in some sidebar plugins
• Fix broken [ko] USE_CACHE_DESC constant, and silence serendipity_MB_LOADED define warnings
• Fix an old BUG with MYSQLi PORT settings
• Fix case sensitive directory name issue for case-sensitive filesystems in TinyMCE plugins
• Remove outdated feedburner and subToMe syndication references
• and more …

It is expected that we will get some exception errors with non-yet converted 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 on next 😎 Serendipity Styx 5.0 revisions !😃

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

Serendipity Styx 5.0-beta1 release

N° 2025/01 - The new Serendipity Styx 5.0-beta1 major release

Requirements: At least PHP 8.2 !!

5.0-beta1 - A Beta-Test release of new Serendipity Styx 5.0

After a long run the development of upcoming Styx 5.0 came to a public state and is now waiting for your tests, my fellow bloggers !

THANK YOU for helping us to finish and finalize this new Serendipity Styx 5.0 major version ! Read the ChangeLog, please.

Styx 5.0

• Refactored the language system to UTF-8 only
• Refactored the RichText Editor from CKEditor to TinyMCE
• Use of strict types for the API
• Multiple fixes and improvements
• Modernize structures for modernized Browsers
• Cache improvements
• and so much more (…to be completed)

It is expected that we will get some exception errors with non-yet converted 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 on next 😎 Serendipity Styx 5.0 revisions !😃

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