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2.84.2

Published on March 26th, 2026

This Sym8 release includes a completely redesigned installer (using Pico CSS, with full RTL support) and comes with two new extensions.

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Changelog

🎯 Enhancements

  • Redesigned installer using Pico CSS with full RTL support
  • Added new extension „Storage Management“ to analyze website storage usage (vHost) and clean caches directly from the backend
  • Added new extension „xCacheLite“, a lightweight full-page caching extension with predictable and safe cache behavior (no browser-side caching)
  • File size calculation now supports values up to terabytes (TB)
  • Improved file size formatting: one decimal place, optional removal of trailing zeros

🐛 Bugfixes

  • Fixed ValueError in CLI environments where $http_host may be empty
  • Removed deprecated E_STRICT constant (PHP 8.4+)
  • Improved handle creation: emojis and unsupported characters ar now reliably stripped

🧩 Changes by components

Core

  • Improved CLI compatibitlity by validating $http_host
  • Removed deprecated E_STRICT
  • Improved handle creation (emoji-safe, ASCII-based)

Installer

  • Complete redesign using Pico CSS with RTL support

Extensions

  • Added „Storage Management“
  • Added „xCacheLite“

✅ Validations

  • Update from Sym8 2.84.1 successful (including pre- and post-update messages)
  • Fresh installation of Sym8 2.84.2 successful
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