AntCMS Release History
Preview Builds (Post-0.4.3)
Ongoing development between releases
✨ New Features & Enhancements
- CLI System: Introduced a CLI system for AntCMS which is modular and loads commands from plugins.
- Markdown Support: Added support for attributes within markdown content.
- Cache Management: Added new hooks for cache retrieval and optimized query key generation.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Page Ordering: More fixes to the how page order is determined and a general cleaning of the related code.
🛠 Improvements & Infrastructure
- Environment Integration: Improved integration with the DDEV toolset.
- Under the hood: Improvements to code quality and style as well as regular dependency updates.
Note: This section covers active development and hotfixes rolled out since the last major versioning.
Version 0.4.3
Released: January 19, 2026
🐛 Bug Fixes
- PHP Compatibility: Suppressed deprecation errors to resolve HTTP 500 issues when using PHP 8.5 with embedded content.
⚙️ System Changes
- Architecture Migration: Moved website content to its own repository (Website-Content).
- GitHub Syncing: We've introduced a new plugin GitHub-Sync which will pull website content from a GitHub repository and automatically pull new changes.
Version 0.4.2
Released: January 6, 2026
✨ New Features
- Enhanced Cron: Improved the Cron system to initialize plugins and trigger
onBeforeCronRun and onAfterCronRun hooks.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Compatibility: Updated output compression dependencies to ensure consistent performance across all modern browsers.
⚙️ Maintenance
- General code cleanup, styling improvements, and verified stability for PHP 8.5.
Version 0.4.1
Released: April 17, 2025
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Resolved issues regarding asset and image compression functionality.
Version 0.4.0
Released: April 15, 2025
✨ New Features
- Advanced Hook System: Introduced a new
Event object for better tracking and parameter management.
- Expanded Library: Significantly increased the number of available hooks.
- PHP Support: Added official support for PHP 8.4.
- Automated Assets: Improved automated mapping of
/assets/ to active theme folders.
- Dynamic Compression: Enabled optional GET parameters for specifying custom image compression levels.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed ETag implementation for better browser caching.
- Corrected HTTPS redirection logic.
⚙️ System Changes
- Removed legacy support for PHP 8.1.
- Replaced internal
repairFilePath functions with Symfony's FileSystem components.
Version 0.3.0
Released: May 27, 2024
✨ New Features
- SEO & Indexing: Added capabilities for plugins to update
sitemap.xml and robots.txt.
- API Foundations: Began implementation of API functionality for plugin developers.
- Customization: Introduced
imageQuality configuration options.
- Telemetry: Hooks now track firing frequency and callback registration.
⚙️ System Changes
- Increased minimum PHP requirement to 8.1.
- Upgraded PHPStan scan level to 6 for improved type coverage.
- Streamlined vendor folders to reduce the overall system footprint.
Version 0.2.0
Released: May 7, 2024
✨ New Features
- Introduced core Hook functionality.
⚙️ Improvements
- Optimized plugin implementation and documentation.
- Migrated to locally bundled/minified assets for faster performance.
Version 0.1.1
Released: May 1, 2024
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Corrected issues where manual sorting orders were not being respected.
⚙️ System Changes
- Added OPcache "PHP Files" caching support.
- Implemented a tiered caching system (chained loading) to balance high-speed cache with filesystem fallbacks.
Version 0.1.0
Released: April 26, 2024
✨ Initial Launch Foundations
- Performance: Reengineered the core engine for extreme speed and low memory overhead (~0.5 MB per page).
- Native Features: Built-in support for image, asset, and output compression.
- Caching: Automatic ETag tagging to ensure optimal browser caching from day one.
Note: For detailed technical notes or to view the full commit history, visit the Official Repository.