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.

Serendipity Styx 5.0.4 bugfix release

N° 2025/07 - The new Serendipity Styx 5.0.4 bugfix revision of new major release

Requirements: At least PHP 8.2 !!

Better use a stable PHP 8.4 !!

5.0.4 - A late 2cd 🎅 Nikolaus bugfix release of new Serendipity Styx 5.0.0 ++

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

Styx 5.0.4 since 5.0.3

• Fixed bootstrap 4 themes not being able to work with brand new jquery v4
• Improve some more variable checks
• Fixed some themes
• Ready for brand new PHP 8.5

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

Having ironed-out lots of these issue, it is still 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 5.1 revision !😃

The next version will be Styx 5.1.0, which will finally clean up old UTF-8 language file directories, apart from exiting new improvements. 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 5.0.3 bugfix release

N° 2025/06 - The new Serendipity Styx 5.0.3 bugfix revision of new major release

Requirements: At least PHP 8.2 !!

Better use a stable PHP 8.4 !!

5.0.3 - A 🎅 Nikolaus 🎅 Bugfix release of new Serendipity Styx 5.0.0 ++

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

Styx 5.0.3 since 5.0.2

• Fixed the adding category issue
• Improve some more variable checks
• Fixed some ImageMagick image tool issues
• Fixed several plugin issues with spamblock and nl2br
• Fixed several silently logged fail errors
• Ready for brand new PHP 8.5

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

Having ironed-out lots of these issue, it is still 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 5.1 revision !😃

The next version will be Styx 5.1.0, which will finally clean up old UTF-8 language file directories, apart from exiting new improvements. 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 5.0.0 ++ 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.