01 Jun 2019
N° 2019/3 - The Serendipity Styx 2.9.0 release - 50 years Montreal “Bed-In” “Give Peace a Chance” (1969) Edition.
Since the more template focused Styx 2.8.0 version was somehow delayed in early April 2019 and then was overrun by a real flood of Core improvements and fixes, this version was abandoned in favor of 2.9.0.
Serendipity Styx is PHP 7.3 READY and requires PHP from 5.5+!
This is the LAST edition supporting the old PHP 5 Series and will only get security or important bugfixes as point releases.
Serendipity Styx NEXT will be 3.0, which will require a modern PHP 7.x version.
Styx 2.9.0 runs (…some highlights)
- Various THEMES were improved to give a better migration to HTML5. Read on in the ChangeLog and keep your copy themes up-to-date!
- Various old and some newer bugs were fixed
- Improved media renaming and for all db types
- Improved various group permission related access privileges
- Important Security fixes
- Improved error reporting for all DB layers
- Improved backend comments list counter by permissions
- Upgrade jQuery lib
- UTF8 mb4 support ready for all DB types
- Trackback improvements
- NL2BR plugin nl2p-mode improvements
- Timeline theme update
- Improved setCookie
- Improved access for auto-update method
- Various language constant fixes and improvements
It is again a GOOD IDEA to take the advantage of starting a new copy template, before adapting each single theme change to your old copy themes!
Check out the ChangeLog for details or even read the commit history for more. See download
29 Mar 2019
N° 2019/1 - 16 years of Serendipity
You’ve come a long way, ... what a fortunate stroke of serendipity !
Its time to give an update of development and the future plans for Serendipity. Upcoming Serendipity Styx 2.8 revision will be the last update for the old and outdated PHP 5 Series and future 2.8.x dot versions will only address security or real bug fixes.
Serendipity Styx 2.8.0 will prepare the core system themes for consistency and to easily live in these modern “mobile-device” times without breaking too much for fallback or engine depend themes.
Then Serendipity Styx will strongly jump right to 3.0 and will further only support PHP 7 Editions. And it will be (much more) “feature” complete. 🙂
I sat for years and found you saying:
Never mind old chap, I will resist
kill my bugs, that still persist!
31 Dec 2018
N° 2018/6 - The Serendipity Styx 2.7.0 New Year’s Eve Release Edition is out!
Serendipity Styx is PHP 7.3 READY and requires PHP from 5.5+!
Approximately this is the last edition supporting the old PHP 5 Series, since its End of Life support just ended.
Styx 2.7.0 runs (…some highlights)
- Various old and some new bugs were fixed
- Various THEMES were improved again, either updated, or revisited for certain places, like the new “pcomments.tpl” file for paged comment shortcut pages. Read on in the ChangeLog and keep your copy themes up-to-date!
- Improve media directory list, adding the number of local media entries
- Improve categories list, adding the number of associated entries
- Multiple improvements for the MediaLibrary, like lowercase .ext conversion and adding possible missing media file extensions for image types.
- Improve the Media Gallery markup and display notation (referred to rendering) to run and float with the much better column ordered lists, compared to a per row display gallery.
- Improve the Maintenance widget page to display items column-ordered
- Preparations to allow and replace hidden-category entries by the categorytemplates event plugin, which makes it possible to use categories/entries independently.
- Various lang constant fixes and improvements, like finding a better name for the MediaLibrary in german [de] language files.
- Add a new “Zombie Plugin Manager” Clearance Maintenance Spot, to get rid of old, locally outdated and unsynchronized plugins, physically. This has a “dependency” twin in ZARATHUSTRA, an upgrade task, which makes (unused) local plugins upgradeable via Spartacus for the case of being (re-)installed again in future.
- Works on PHP 7.3 readiness
It might again be a good idea to take the advantage of starting a new copy template before adapting each single theme change to your old copy themes!
Check out the ChangeLog for details or even read the commit history for more. See download
16 Sep 2018
N° 2018/5 - Short bugfix update for certain issues
Refactor, Rebuild, Regression
Mainly an odd plain editor NL2BR / NL2P parsing regression was fixed, that prevented correct parsing of plain text markup_elements in certain situations.
Also the maintenance MediaLibrary-Synchronizer thumbnail rebuilding area was refactored and conditionally fixed. It now works very much as expected.
Serendipity Styx Edition is up to date!
As ever, read the ChangeLog or even the commit history for more. See download