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June 14, 2026

What's new since version 8.79?

The latest major release is 8.106.0. Here is a focused summary of the main features introduced since Cecil 8.79.0.

Improved developer experience and performance visibility

  • Build progress indicator (8.101.0): build execution now exposes a progress bar, making long-running operations easier to follow.
  • Extended metrics output (8.101.0): metrics now include a total duration row with comparisons between runs, which helps track performance changes over time.
  • Raw timings and diff metrics (8.87.0): build metrics now expose raw timings and diffs, making regressions and improvements easier to identify.
  • Build/cache identifier improvements (8.80.x): build IDs are exposed and integrated into cache logic, with updated hashing behavior for better cache consistency.

Better template rendering

  • Dark-mode image variant support (8.95.0): templates can now handle dedicated image variants for dark mode, improving visual adaptation. (docs)
  • layouts.autoescape option (8.97.0): this setting provides finer control over template escaping behavior. (docs)
  • Translation disabled inside code blocks (8.98.0): inline and fenced code are no longer translated, which helps preserve technical content accurately.
  • cache_key Twig helper (8.88.0): templates can generate explicit cache keys for more predictable cache behavior. (docs)

Content and image pipeline improvements

  • Front matter menu name support (8.90.0): menu entries can now define a dedicated name property. (docs)
  • libvips image driver support (8.91.0): image processing can now use libvips as a driver option. (docs)
  • Localized Markdown image assets (8.92.0): image assets can now be localized for translated pages. (docs)

Quality and diagnostics tooling

  • New doctor command (8.103.0): a dedicated diagnostics command was introduced to make project issues easier to identify. (docs)
  • New doctor:seo command (8.105.0): a dedicated SEO audit command was added with matching documentation and tests. (docs)

Better development workflow

  • Background serve mode and stop command (8.104.0): the development server now supports background execution and explicit shutdown through serve:stop. (docs)
  • .env loading support (8.106.0): environment configuration can now be loaded through dotenv, simplifying local variable management. (docs)

Breaking change to keep in mind

  • Removal of assets.leading_slash option (8.81.0): this option was removed and may require configuration updates.
January 14, 2026

Cecil 8.79.0 released

This release improves slugification for multilingual content and refactors related code.

January 13, 2026

Cecil 8.77.0 released

Refactors and simplifies image resizing and cropping logic, consolidating functionality into a single, more flexible method.

December 31, 2025

Cecil 8.76.0 released

Upgrades minimum PHP version to 8.2, adds desktop notifications, and improves build and test processes.

December 9, 2025

Cecil 8.75.0 released

Enhances the asset handling system, especially for audio and video files.

December 8, 2023

Cecil 8.0.0 released

This is a major branch release: its goal is to start the road to PHP 8 🐘