Happy 20th anniversary, FlatPress!

Crazy how time flies: The FlatPress project is around for a solid 20 years!

What Edoardo Vacchi a.k.a. the NoWhereMan started with great dedication in 2006, has grown into a global community over the years. You helped testing new versions, contributed many themes and plugins, reported bugs and security issues, helped and supported each other. With all your efforts, you have impressively demonstrated that flat-file blogging - which has been declared dead time and again - has never lost its relevance. Quite the contrary: As a key feature of a free web, individual blogs, unfragmented by profit-driven algorithms, are more important than ever.

Thank you for your year-long support, all you folks out there! In a way, FlatPress is built with all of our hearts and souls.

(Feeling nostalgic? Check out the history of the project in Edoardo’s and Arvid’s congratulatory messages for the project’s 15th anniversary in 2021!)

New release: FlatPress 1.5 “Stringendo”

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of FlatPress, we present you with the new release FlatPress 1.5 “Stringendo”.

In musical terms, “stringendo” stands for playing gradually faster, thus accelerating the tempo. This is exactly what FlatPress 1.5 does :)

What’s new?

• Thanks to clever caching methods and some tweaks here and there, FlatPress is faster than ever - especially with huge numbers of entries and comments. Stringendo, baby!
  (If you’d like to test the new performance yourself, start your own stress test with the FlatPress Burnout Benchmark!)
• With an updated Smarty template engine, FlatPress now supports PHP up to 8.5.
• Finally, FlatPress has a multi-file uploader, and the widget panel has been reworked.
• SEO of the PrettyURLs plugin has been improved.
• Basque translation was added.
• We fixed quite a lot of bugs and possible security issues (thanks to all the reporters!).
• Don’t forget to check out the fresh new “Stringendo” style of the Leggero theme!

FlatPress 1.5 “Stringendo” contains many other improvements, bugfixes and security fixes.

Where to download?

Please see the release information on GitHub to find the detailed change log, a full download package, also update packages from FlatPress 1.3 and 1.4:

• FlatPress 1.5 “Stringendo”

Alternatively, download directly:

• Download the full install package
• Download the update package 1.4 to 1.5
• Download the update package 1.3 to 1.5

Please report any bugs and glitches on the FlatPress support forum, create an issue on GitHub or simply send us an email. Thank you!

What’s next?

Fraenkiman created the cool new Mastodon plugin that integrates FlatPress with the Fediverse. We hope this fits your needs and wishes - please give it a try and let us know on the Support Forum!

Happy blogging, everybody - and thank you so much for all the joy of the 20 years within this great little open source project!

All the best,
Arvid

Images:
“New York Relays - Track and Field - Motion Blur” by Steven Pisano - licensed under CC BY 2.0
“Happy 20th Birthday, Rebecca Randall!” by wickenden - licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0