Releases

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This release focuses on speed and ease of use.

New features

Under the hood: PHP 8.4
You’ve probably seen it in the news: a serious vulnerability was found in PHP, the programming language our platform runs on. We installed the security update on all websites as soon as it was available. With this release, we’re also moving to PHP 8.4, which is faster, more efficient and more secure.

Faster editing in the visual editor
Until now, we rebuilt the entire page after every change, even if you had only edited a single component or section. Now, wherever possible, we refresh only the part you changed. As a result, the editor responds faster, especially on long pages with lots of components.

Improvements

• Faster component previews.
  The editor now loads previews using a maximum of three simultaneous requests. This prevents complex pages from performing too many operations at once.
• Fewer repeated calculations.
  Component settings and parts of the editor are now reused more efficiently. This reduces the amount of work needed to build pages.
• More efficient image handling.
  Image information is now stored so that the same data does not need to be calculated repeatedly.
• Improved caching.
  The default shared cache duration for HTTP responses has been increased from 15 minutes to 2 hours. Targeted cache invalidation helps ensure that changes are still applied.
• Expanded support for our European CDN.
  We have expanded the technical integration with our European CDN. By removing changed content from the cache more precisely, we can keep pages cached for longer without unnecessarily delaying important updates.

Bugfixes and stability

• The editor can fall back to a full page refresh when updating an individual component or section is not safely possible.
• Cache tag handling has been improved, including measures to prevent very large numbers of tags from unnecessarily appearing in response headers.