Serendipity 2.5.0
4 March 2024
Serendipity version 2.5.0 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to Serendipity 2.5.0
Serendipity 2.5.0 can be upgraded to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply Serendipity updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing Serendipity install to test the 2.5.0 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your Serendipity installations with Installatron
What's New in Serendipity 2.5.0
2.5.0
Security
- fixes a potential security issue by removing the prior included composer.phar.
Bug Fixes and Changes
- Now works with PHP 7.4 up to and including PHP 8.2.
- Fixes for an incompatibility with MySQL 5.7.
- Fixes for the usergroup permission display
- An improved russian translation.
2.5-beta1
Bug Fixes and Changes
- Made code changes to be compatible with PHP 8.2, including a polyfill for strftime, see #784.
- Fixed a bug where the usergroup permissions were displayed incorrectly. Please ensure after upgrading that any possible custom usergroup configurations have the wanted permission settings. If you have never saved a permission group setting, you will not be impacted.
- Let the theme 2k11 use local font files, avoiding privacy risks (and a legal risk in Germany).
- Improved the russian translation.
- Moved several bundled libs to composer, which will make future upgrades easier.
- Updated smarty, HTTP_Request2, Net/DNS2 and Onyx/RSS.
- Added several other changes.