This release of Serendipity contains a couple of bug fixes, some new features and many necessary modernizations. Some highlighted changes:
- The core was tested to work with PHP 8.4.
- Also many spartacus plugins were updated for compatibility with PHP 8.4
- We updated the bundled libraries, especially Smarty to new mayor version 5
- The core now uses a current version of jQuery, jumping forward a few versions and many years
- The gravatar mode of the gravatar plugin works again
- Serendipity blogs can now receive webmentions. They will be presented as pingbacks or trackbacks, depending on their type
- The search avoids errors when encountering some special characters
- The integrated cache caches at an earlier time of the execution pipeline, which greatly improved its performance in our tests
- Better compatibility for sent emails through CRLF terminated email headers
- The /comments archive pages now work again beyond the first page, the pagination is fixed
The full changes contain other improvements, like optimized thumbnail settings for .webp and .avif and an updated textile parser for the plugin. Please help us test them, and let us know if everything works for you.
New Contributors
- @mmitch made their first contribution in #823, setting up the test pipeline
- @GuillaumeValadas made their first contribution in #846, fixing the search for some problematic search terms
Full Changelog: 2.5.0...2.6-beta1
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