7x Releases Exponential Platform Nexus 1.3.0.3

7x is happy to announce the release of Exponential Platform Nexus 1.3.0.3 for the v5 / Ibexa OSS 5 product line, available now for download and installation from GitHub.

This release establishes the complete v5 skeleton foundation on Ibexa OSS 5 / Symfony 7.4 LTS / PHP 8.4+ and ships the first full installation and operations guide for the v5 line. It is the fourth release in the

1.3.0.x

series. For the full technical breakdown see the 1.3.0.2…1.3.0.3 commit log.

The headline feature addition in this release is the v5 Ibexa OSS skeleton foundation:

IbexaFieldTypeRichTextBundle

and

TwigComponentBundle

registered,

gd

driver configured for

liip_imagine

, Flex recipe outputs for

twig_component

and

ibexa_welcome_page

in place, an

ibexa.webpack.config.manager.js

shim for vendor Encore configs, welcome page assets, SCSS, templates, and translations, plus

ExponentialOssInstaller

and public entry points

index_cluster.php

and

index_rest.php

. SQLite zero-config support is included — spin up a working v5 DXP site locally with no database server required.

A critical fix restores Netgen Layouts bundle registrations and route imports that had been stripped by

composer recipe:unconfigure

. The dependency has been switched to

se7enxweb/layouts-core

to prevent the issue recurring on future recipe operations. The

se7enxweb/exponential-platform-dxp-core

package has been bumped from v5.0.6 to v5.0.7, which adds

ExponentialMediaInstaller

(the

exponential-media

install type) and cross-DBMS media seed data across MySQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL.

This release also ships the complete documentation set for the v5 skeleton: an updated

README.md

with a database conversion stub, and a full

doc/sevenx/INSTALL.md

covering Requirements, Architecture, 7x Customisations, Installation Steps, Environment Config, DB Setup (SQLite / MySQL / PostgreSQL), Web Server Setup (Nginx + Apache), Permissions, Frontend Assets, Admin UI Assets, GraphQL, Solr, Varnish, Cache, Day-to-Day Ops, Deploy Checklist, Cron, Troubleshooting, Database Conversion, Full CLI Reference, and Git SSH Config.

We remind users that Exponential Platform Nexus v5 targets PHP 8.3 and 8.4+ on Symfony 7.4 LTS — the cleanest, forward-only platform line with no legacy bridge and no dual-kernel complexity. New installations work as expected. Upgrade process for existing 1.3.0.x installations is unchanged.

You can review the release notes or download the release from GitHub (tar.gz or zip)!

Here is a quick example of how to use Composer to create a new Exponential Platform Nexus v5 project:

composer create-project se7enxweb/exponential-platform-nexus:1.3.0.x-dev my_nexus_site;

Then start a conversation about your own experience on our share forums thread about the release.