28 Jul 2022
N° 2022/04 - The Serendipity Styx 3.9.0 release 
Summer Edition
This mainly is another bugfix & maintenance release with some extraordinary readiness for upcoming PHP 8.2.
With PHP 8.2, the Styx AVIF image support is now complete, since not relaying to workarounds or having to disable certain image actions.
The new AVIF image format - as to announce again - is something you should expect with excitement for your images, since its encoding compression rate can be quite astonishing without any real visual loss. See an extreme example output for an ESA astronomic image of type image/jpeg with ~1.350 KB, compressed to WebP with ~480 KB and with AVIF to ~16 KB. Imagine what this means watching galleries or pages with lots of images when using the picture-container format.
Styx 3.9.0 contains
- Fixed shared installations for tokenized deployment installs
- Improved MediaLibrary actions
- Finetuned MediaLibrary AVIF image variation relations for PHP 8.2
- General fixes and improvements for upcoming PHP 8.2
- Added additional notes to several lang option description constants
- Add new processing “busy”-focus to several backend parts when probably taking long
- Update CKEditor and Bootstrap 4/5 assets
- Update Smarty lib to support PHP 8.2
- Other consistency and future improvements
Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.
12 Apr 2022
N° 2022/03 - The Serendipity Styx 3.8.2 release 
Easteregg Edition
This mainly is a bugfix & maintenance release.
Styx 3.8.2 contains
- Fix author(s) permalinks
- Fix installer issues to recognize mod_rewrite environments
- Fixes and improvements for the timeline theme
- Fix some issue with entryproperties
- Remove unused bootstrap sourceMappingURL in templates/_assets
- Update ckeditor assets
- Other consistency and future improvements
Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.
20 Mar 2022
N° 2022/02 - The Serendipity Styx 3.8.1 release
Spring Edition
This mainly is a bugfix release fixing install issues.
Styx 3.8.1 fixes the following
- Fix installer issues with newer Oracle MySQL versions using the InnoDB engine as default
- Fix MariaDB issue up from PHP 8.0.16, which changed the prefix and broke the conditionals
- Fixes and improvements for the timeline theme
- Sync some latest Smarty security fixes
- Other consistency and future improvements
Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.
28 Feb 2022
N° 2022/01 - The Serendipity Styx 3.8.0 release
Maintenance Release
This mainly is a maintenance release fixing bugs and for polishing other inconsistencies.
It also announces a new Serendipity Styx Book [de] revision for Styx 3.8, fetching up with the latest Serendipity Styx Edition development, including new example images. Parts of the main site “help center” were revisited too.
Styx 3.8.0 applies the following
- Lots of improvements for the [ pure ] (2022) theme, i.e. adding styles for various plugin and actions
- Important fixes for the MediaLibrary synchronization tasks
- Improve and extend image Variation (WebP/AVIF) handling for manually added images to the MediaLibrary
- Fixes to strictly use unique media names in MediaLibrary only, regardless their position (please filter check your old data)
- Fixed some very old bugs, i.e. routing a search request
- Improve the comment filters
- Fixes and improvements for the /summary/ permalink by arguments, also touched in themes
- Upgrade some bundled and asset libraries
- Other consistency and UI improvements
Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.
31 Dec 2021
N° 2021/11 - The Serendipity Styx 3.7.1 release
New Year-Edition
Styx rocks! 🚀
Styx 3.7.1 applies the following since 3.7.0
- Improved the [ pure ] theme
- Bugfix MySQLi Exception issue with spamblock logging
Check out the ChangeLog for details, or even read the commit history for more. See download.