06 Aug 2023
N° 2023/06 - The Serendipity Styx 4.2.0 release 
4.2.0 - A Maintenance Release
Serendipity Styx 4.x.x revisions will be the last update Series supporting the PHP 7.4 Series and will further on only see some maintenance or bugfix releases.
The previously announced change to PHP 8 minimum requirement was stashed and we now start developing Serendipity Styx 5.0 up from PHP 8.2 as the minimum.
Styx 4.2 has ironed out several bugs and other inconsistencies and is pretty much another good maintenance release, pushing a new 😎 Styx Logo. Read the ChangeLog.
Styx 4.2.0 faces
- Add the new Styx Logo. “Gone fishing… Phishing for inspiration…”
- Improve header sets up from HTTP/1.1, including some LiteSpeed server cache exceptions
- Several Theme templates were updated for some issues
- Fix and improve the “last page of” multipage search results on MySQL
- Improve the MediaLibrary messaging for ImageMagick
- Improve several references with plugin categories
- Upgrade some template and core assets
- Improve the new [ b53 ] Work-In-Progress [ WIP ] theme for final assets and new configurable color themes
- Fix .htaccess core templates for Apache 2.3 deny syntax. This also is the minimum Apache Server version supported.
- Bug fixes
Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.
15 Apr 2023
N° 2023/05 - The Serendipity Styx 4.1.3 release
4.1.3 - A Bugfix Release
After the Serendipity Styx 4.1.2 bugfix release we found it related to PHP 8.2 version on certain servers too.
Styx 4.1.3 fixed
- A follow-up regression found for PHP 8.2 versions
- Fix entries search result on bool (no result) for PHP 8.2
- Improve [ b53 ] theme
- Other minors
Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.
12 Apr 2023
N° 2023/04 - The Serendipity Styx 4.1.2 release
4.1.2 - A quick Bugfix Release
Quickly after Serendipity Styx 4.1.1 bugfix release we found it related to PHP 8.1 version too.
Styx 4.1.2 fixed
- A follow-up regression found for PHP 8.1.x versions
Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.
10 Apr 2023
N° 2023/03 - The Serendipity Styx 4.1.1 release
4.1.1 - A quick Bugfix Release
Quickly after Serendipity Styx 4.1.0 release yesterday an odd type issue was found, resulting in a blank page.
Styx 4.1.1 fixed
- An incorrect integer value: ‘’ MYSQLI_SQL_EXCEPTION for PHP versions 7.4 and 8.0 setting config vars (i.e. changing templates)
Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.
09 Apr 2023
N° 2023/02 - The Serendipity Styx 4.1.0 release
4.1.0 - A Maintenance Spring Edition - For M.
Serendipity Styx 4.1 revision will be the last update supporting the PHP 7.4 Series.
Some more and really 😎 improvements were made again!
Styx 4.1 has ironed out several bugs and other inconsistencies and is pretty much a good maintenance release, with an Easter-Egg.
Styx 4.1.0 faces
- Improves the handling with some NEW (edge-cased) configuration options
- Added NEW MediaLibrary selection fields
- Improves language descriptions of several options or buttons
- Some resolved fixes and found oddities related to MYSQLi multi-byte search or unsupported OPENSSL_VERSION session-based authentication timer
- Improves the [ pure ] theme for additional search result head titles by comments and staticpages
- Removes the limitation of GIF image(s) to Variation(s) converts
- Improves the MediaLibrary to follow given paging for per item Variation delete or re-/build actions
- Improves the entryproperties plugin by added NEW configuration option, to automatize the cache-entries confirmation dialog for the next pages after the 1st confirm
- Upgrade some template and core assets
- Added the new [ b53 ] Work-In-Progress [ WIP ] theme for long awaited and promising bootstrap 5.3-alpha3 assets
Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.