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Statamic 2.6 is Here!

Statamic 2.6 is here! It brings a big old pile of new features and improvements. It's a long list, so we'll highlight a few of the coolest parts and then you can check out the changelog for the rest.
Jason Varga
Jason Varga July 18th, 2017

Statamic 2.6 is here! It brings a big old pile of new features and improvements. It’s a long list, so we’ll highlight a few of the coolest parts and then you can check out the changelog for the rest.

Command Line ALL THE THINGS

Because we’re all about developers, developers, developers, we now have a brand new command line updater!

Starting in 2.6, you will be able to update Statamic with the command php please update. You will be on the latest and greatest version faster than you can google for a Mario coin sound effect and play it. Which would happen automatically if you used the control panel.

Statamic now also has a command line tool for installing new instances of Statamic. Create a brand new Statamic site by running statamic new project-name in any directory, just like Laravel’s installer. That’s all there is to it!

You can read about how to install and update using the command line in more detail on our docs.

Site Helpers

When you have an itch to scratch that you can’t reach natively (talking about features here), you’ve always able to extend Statamic by creating an addon.

However, creating a whole addon, with all of it’s naming requirements and whatnot just to write (for example) 3 lines of PHP can be annoying and time consuming. With site helpers, you can just drop your code into a single file and call it a day.

With the Marketplace launch rapidly approaching, we are encouraging developers to treat addons as packages you may want to distribute. For single-site specific code, just use a helper. It’s quicker and cleaner, even if it does remind you of that one blogging-platform-you-swear-you’ll-never-use-again’s functions.php file.

<?php namespace Statamic\SiteHelpers;

class Tags extends \Statamic\Extend\Tags
{
    public function foo()
    {
        // {{ site:foo }} in your templates
    }

    public function bar()
    {
        // {{ site:bar }} in your templates
    }
}

Learn more about how to use site helpers.

Multiple addon “aspects”

We’ve noticed serious addon developers being frustrated by the limitation of only one “aspect” being permitted, per addon (Fieldtypes, Modifiers, etc). If you wanted your addon to have two different modifiers, you’ve simply been out of luck. Now you’re making a pile of addons and trying to figure out how to group them all for distribution.

No more of that nonsense. Now you can simply add as many as you need.

addons/
`-- Bacon/
    `-- Modifiers/
        |-- BaconModifier.php
        `-- BitsModifier.php

{{ var | bacon }}
{{ var | bacon.bits }}

Content Protection

You can now protect pages of your site (or the whole site!) with passwords, by authentication status, or by IP addresses.

---
title: My Secret Page
protect:
  type: password
  allowed: ['secret']
---
The nuclear launch code is 12345.

Find out more about how to use protect your content.

Honorable Mentions

  • Booted the Zend search driver in favor of Comb, which is what powered our beloved v1 search addon, Bloodhound.
  • You can specify the searchable fields in your site, and specifically per collections. Faster searches! 🔎 🚀
  • The full-measure static cache now supports query strings. That means you can now cache paginated areas of your site.
  • Your site and your addons may contain PHP unit test suites.
  • The control panel can be disabled per environment.
  • Included Partyline for you devs who want to party through the command line.
  • Laravel Valet’s Statamic driver has been updated to support the new static cache and localized sites. (PR Pending)
  • Patched up some security holes and squished a handful of bugs. 🐛

There is a bunch more! Check out the changelog and enjoy!

🎉 ♥️

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