Feedback: Textpattern CMS 4.9.0 released

gaekwad · 2025-12-20 16:32:48

Please provide any feedback here related to Textpattern 4.9.0 released: PHP 8.5 & MySQL 8.4, features, fixes, fine-tuning, and much more!.

We appreciate all feedback. Please check the issue queue before raising a problem.

Bloke · 2025-12-21 16:30:36

Wooohooooo! Thank you so much to everyone involved in the monolithic effort to build, develop, test and deploy our favourite CMS.

I hope it serves everyone well.

jakob · 2025-12-21 16:47:05

Back at you with thanks for all the diligent hard work and play behind the scenes in making things work so well.

It will be pressed into action very soon.

gaekwad · 2025-12-21 16:48:30

I cannot begin to explain how my blood pressure is right now after two large mochas and a release process that’s 4+ years old. I think I’m running at 60% cortisol…

Dragondz · 2025-12-21 16:55:33

Yeeeeaaah

Thanks to all textpattern team.

Txp-mas for everyone ,🥳

gaekwad · 2025-12-21 16:58:33

textpattern.co/release-history

It’s currently rudimentary, but Textpattern 4.8.8 was the longest-running production version of Textpattern so far at 3 years 10 months 28 days.

Edit: and no, we won’t have that happen again…Textpattern 5 will involve a lot of work, energy and time, but patch releases for Textpattern 4 will continue.

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bici · 2025-12-21 17:00:23

gaekwad wrote #341885:

I cannot begin to explain how my blood pressure is right now after two large mochas and a release process that’s 4+ years old. I think I’m running at 60% cortisol…

did you have one large mocha too many? ;-)
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gaekwad · 2025-12-21 17:02:15

bici wrote #341889:

did you have one large mocha too many? ;-)

Probably two too many, honestly.

Demo site reports In Portuguse

As I understand it, language preferences are set on a per-user basis, so try logging in as another user (that is, switch the three-digit number to another three-digit number).

Pat64 · 2025-12-21 17:13:41

🤩

bici · 2025-12-21 17:22:13

@ gaekward… seems like I needed another espresso to kick in. ;-)

I have installed 4.9 into a new site. I didn’t get the message to delete Setup folder after installing 4.9
When I try to view the Setup folder I get this error message?
Could not change directory to “/home/bici/apps/textdemo_app/textpattern/setup”.

Does 4.9 somehow hide the Setup folder now?

gaekwad · 2025-12-21 17:31:00

bici wrote #341894:

When I try to view the Setup folder I get this error message?
Could not change directory to “/home/bici/apps/textdemo_app/textpattern/setup”.

Does 4.9 somehow hide the Setup folder now?

This is likely because /textpattern/setup/ is automatically removed after an installation if permissions allow it – so you not being able to change directory to it is correct…because it’s not there. Not hidden, but deleted.

bici · 2025-12-21 17:52:22

gaekwad wrote #341895:

This is likely because /textpattern/setup/ is automatically removed after an installation if permissions allow it – so you not being able to change directory to it is correct…because it’s not there. Not hidden, but deleted.

Yes … for some reason Transmit still listed the folder in spite of logging out and logging in again, but via terminal it was gone. nice.

skewray · 2025-12-21 17:55:22

(I clicked on a few links starting with the 4.9 announcement and encountered an “UPGRADE.txt” link that went to a github “INSTALL.txt” file instead. I am now frustrated that I can’t find the page with that link again after losing the browser tab.)

gaekwad · 2025-12-21 18:01:36

skewray wrote #341899:

(I clicked on a few links starting with the 4.9 announcement and encountered an “UPGRADE.txt” link that went to a github “INSTALL.txt” file instead. I am now frustrated that I can’t find the page with that link again after losing the browser tab.)

Try reloading the article, I changed a stray link in the last few minutes.

HISTORY.txt

UPGRADE.txt

INSTALL.txt

Last edited by gaekwad (2025-12-21 18:02:13)

bici · 2025-12-21 18:02:46

not sure where you clicked. But when you are logged in on a site via admin the link to download the 4.90 takes you to this page
from there download the desired file.
I have not yet upgraded am existing site, and plan to that later today on a couple of less crucial sites.
Installation of a new 4.9 went smoothly ..

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