Cotonti Verona 1.0.0 released 27.04.2026

Whats new:

• Server events - notify the front end of server events without reloading the page.
• Pop-up notification about a new private message
• Controllers
• Bootstrap and Select2 on board
• Modal windows and pop-up notifications
• Error handler - will catch the exception and return the correct headers to the browser
• \cot\exceptions\ForbiddenHttpException will return a 403 error, and \cot\exceptions\NotFoundHttpException will return a 404 error.
• The comments plugin has been completely rewritten.
• A list of recent comments is now available on the main page of the admin panel.
• Cot::$sys['baseDir'] - Path to the application's root folder.
• Ckeditor has been updated to version 5.

Read more on the release page.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the work on this release, programming and testing

For more detailed info see:

• Commits list…
• Closed 1.0.0 issues…

Cotonti Siena 0.9.25 released 03.09.2024

This is a stability release that fixes bugs found after the release of 0.9.24. It is also a preparation before the 1.0 release.

Whats new:

• Support for Php 5.x has been discontinued. The minimum Php version is 7.3
• Database: transactions support with nesting control
• cot_user_sqlExcludeBanned() for generate sql condition to exclude banned users. You can use it your extensions.
• cot_generateCaptchaTags() captcha tag generation unification for the coTemplate
• Legacy mode ($cfg['legacyMode']) to turn on deprecated features. You can use it if your extensions and/or theme are not fully compatible with the current Cotonti version. Turned off by default.
• Many minor improvements and fixes

Read more on the release page.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the work on this release, programming and testing

For more detailed info see:

• Commits list…
• Closed 0.9.25 issues…

Cotonti Siena 0.9.24.2 released 02.02.2024

Whats new:

• СoTemplate. Support for multiple function arguments. Now you can use other tags as function arguments. You can write like this:

  {PHP|cot_url('page', 'c=news')|var_dump({PHP.L.Home}, $this, {PHP.cfg.mainurl}, {PHP|cot_url('page', 'c=news ')}, {HEADER_TITLE})}

  The $this support is left in place. You can still use function call chains.
• СoTemplate. Strict comparison operators: === and !==
• Fixed a bug where data from the database cache might not be loaded automatically.
• Static cache improvements.
• You can now use comments in Url editor's *.dat files
• Forums API. A new function cot_forums_sqlExcludePrivateTopics() that generates an SQL condition to exclude private topics from the selection, based on the the current user's rights. You can use it in your extensions.
• The page views counter now works even when the static page cache is enabled.
• Captcha and posting comments by guests now work when static page cache is enabled.
• Search. The default sorting is by date descending.
• Fixed/added meta tags title, description and canonical url in some extensions
• Function cot_generatePaginationTags() for uniform generation of pagination tags in extensions.
• Extrafields. Field name validation.
• CKEditor has been updated to version 4.22.1. In future releases, it will be replaced with version 5.
• Refactoring of tags in templates has begun. Making tags more understandable and convenient. The old tags are kept for backward compatibility, but will be removed in the future. We recommend updating your themes.
• The Composer folder has been moved to lib/vendor
• 1st part of Tags plugin improvements
• Improvements to the Recent items plugin
• Other minor improvements
• Fix for various errors found during operation.

Read more on the release page.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the work on this release, programming and testing

For more detailed info see:

• Commits list…
• Closed 0.9.24 issues…

Cotonti Siena 0.9.23 released 22.06.2023

Whats new:

• Added Composer support.
• Added PSR-4: Autoloader for classes
• Improved cot_mail() function to follow RFC 2822. Added support for several recipients, CC and BCC recipients and custom sender (from)
• Added check for file existence for hooks
• Implemented first part of logging system improvement
• Install - prevent execution of more than 1 process at a time
• CKEditor updated to v4.21.0
• Plugins 'BBcode Parser' and 'MarkItUp!' are removed from standard 'box'
• Fixed some bugs.

You can find removed plugins here: BBCode Parser and MarkItUp!

Read more on the release page.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the work on this release, programming and testing

For more detailed info see:

• Commits list…
• Closed 0.9.23 issues…

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Extensions updates 20.04.2023

Recently, the project participants have updated a number of extensions:

Recent comments for Administrators, Pageavatar, Similar Pages, Table of Contents, Files module, User's recent posts, User's pages

Also the Yukon admin panel theme was updated

Added new extension and theme: User's translate и Adminkacota

Read more details on the corresponding extensions pages.
Enjoy using them :)