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  • Flow support for Xdebug

    Last year at the Neos Conference, Derick Rethans presented a proof of concept which added a path mapping feature to Xdebug, making debugging of Flow and Neos applications much easier.

    You can watch a recording of that session on the Neos CMS YouTube channel.

    This is one of the most requested improvements related to testing and debugging Flow and a long time after I first spoke about this with Derick some years ago, we now can make this happen.

  • Removal of outdated PHP versions 8.0 & 8.1 from Beach

    PHP 8.0 has served us well. So did PHP 8.1 But now it's time to move on–to newer PHP 8 versions.

    No longer supported by the developers, PHP 8.0 no longer receives any updates at all since November 26th 2023. As the PHP website states:

    Each release branch of PHP is fully supported for two years from its initial stable release. […]

    After this two year period of active support, each branch is then supported for an additional year for critical security issues only. […]

  • Removal of outdated PHP version 7.4 from Beach

    PHP 7.4 has served us well over the past years. But now it's time to move on–to PHP 8.

    No longer supported by the developers, PHP 7.4 will no longer receive any updates at all from November 28th on. As the PHP website states:

    Each release branch of PHP is fully supported for two years from its initial stable release. […]

    After this two year period of active support, each branch is then supported for an additional year for critical security issues only. […]

  • Updated guides available

    Today the content of our guides for Beach, Local Beach and Lifeguard was checked and updated. Now all instructions and examples are up-to-date and working again.

  • Updating Neos - Why, When and How

    On this year's Neos Conference I presented a talk on updating Neos. I tried to answer three questions:

    1. Why you should be updating
    2. When you should be updating
    3. How to do updates
    The video