Exponent in 2025

What does 2025 hold in store for Exponent? There will be new releases on Jan 1st (v2.7.2 & v3.0.2) with several updates. In addition to updating many 3rd party libraries, it will include:

• adds better metainfo for forms and records
• adds feature to add dates to an existing event
• adds new blog dates calendar view
• adds invisible reCaptcha option
• adds multi-column form controls
• adds optional titles for containers to help sorting modules
• adds sort items feature to dropdown control form editing
• removes auto updating tables on eql restore to prevent timeouts

Additionally, development will switch from v2.7.x to v3.x since v2.7.x was hobbled by support for obsolete PHP versions, whereas v3.x only supports 'supported' PHP versions (though v3.x still supports PHP v7.4 & v8.0). What this also means is that in early 2025 the Git 'master' branch will switch from housing the most current v2.7 release to house the v3.0 release. However, v2.7.2 will have an archive branch on Github.

Any future updates and fixes will only be distributed for the v3.x code!

It should be noted all PHP versions prior to v8.1 are considered obsolete though many servers are still running them. The biggest issue is recent 3rd party libraries will only support newer versions of PHP (v8+). That being said, v2.7.2 will be the last Exponent version to support PHP v5 & v7. Though Exponent v3.0.2 will have deprecated support for PHP v7.4 & v8.0, they will likely be dropped in the future. There are NO planned patches or updates to the 2.x branch after the next release