Serendipity 2.4.0
21 November 2022
Serendipity version 2.4.0 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to Serendipity 2.4.0
Serendipity 2.4.0 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 2.4.0 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your Serendipity installations with Installatron
What's New in Serendipity 2.4.0
Major Improvements
- PHP 8.0 (fully) and 8.1 support (partly), with PHP 8.0 being the recommended version to run Serendipity with
- Update of bundled libs, improving the way we use composer
- Fixes and extensions to the multi language system
- Use of full UTF8 in MySQL/MariaDB by default
Improvements
- Plugin update notifications in the dashboard
- Fixes to the .htaccess-blocking SQL statement
- Changes to the responsive images srcset, improving edge cases where unexpected image sizes leading lead to blurry thumbnails
- Rework of the error handler, resulting in this behaviour: Warnings will not be shown in production blogs, but will be properly shown in alpha versions (this was important for PHP 8 compatibility)
- A cleanup of the WYSIWYG configuration options, as shown in the personal settings
- A plethora of changes related to PHP 8 support