AntCMS Release History

0.5.0

Released: November 3, 2026

Please be aware that AntCMS now targets PHP 8.4, 8.5, and 8.6 as supported platforms; older versions will not work with this version of AntCMS.

🛡️ Security

  • Asset Delivery: Further tightened path protections by ensuring .md files outside of the content path are blocked from loading by AntCMS itself.

✨ New Features & Enhancements

  • CLI System: AntCMS now ships with a new precompute command which finds all .md files and compiles them to ensure the cache is ready.
  • Theming: Upgraded the default theme from Bootstrap 5 to Bootstrap 6. You can find the old theme on GitHub.

🛠 Improvements & Infrastructure

  • Under the hood: Improvements to code quality and style as well as regular dependency updates.

0.4.4

Released: August 24, 2026

Please be aware that the cron.php file has been replaced and cron is now run via cli.php runCron.

🛡️ Security

  • Asset Delivery: Added missing path restrictions which could allow Arbitrary File Read on some server configurations.

✨ 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 modification.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Page Ordering: More fixes to how page order is determined, along with general cleanup 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.

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 fetch 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.

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