Extensions and packages roadmap

Exponential Layouts

Exponential Layouts is the port of Netgen Layouts to Exponential 6: a visual page builder with layouts, zones, blocks, collections and rules that decide which layout a page gets.

• Delivered: explayouts 1.4.48, with 65 releases this year. It brings layout resolution and rendering, shared layouts and linked zones (a header, footer or prefooter maintained once and used by every layout), export and import of layouts, layout mappings by route and time, and a debug bar panel.
• Delivered: the layout editor. explayouts_ui 1.3.31 and explayouts_ui_api 1.3.35 provide the editor application and its JSON API, with drafts, publishing and linked zones. The editor meets WCAG 2 AA, can be zoomed, runs without jQuery and edits rich text with TipTap.
• Delivered: the block and query packages. explayouts_standard 1.0.3 holds the standard blocks (HTML, Markdown, title, button, image and more), with explayouts_core 1.0.10, explayouts_api 1.0.3, explayouts_site_api 1.0.4, explayouts_tags_query 1.0.3 and explayouts_relation_list_query 1.0.3.
• Delivered: the content browser. explayouts_content_browser 1.0.4, explayouts_content_browser_core 1.0.4 and explayouts_content_browser_ui 1.0.14 provide the picker for content items in blocks and collections.
• Delivered: the site layer. expsite_api 1.0.5, expsite_core 1.0.3, expsite_installer 1.0.3, expsite_data_media 1.0.7 and expquery_translator 1.0.4 (a search query parser and node filter).
• Considering: more block types from the Netgen Layouts standard set, and block templates in Twig and Smarty next to tpl.

Exponential Intelligence and the job queue

• Delivered: expai 0.0.1.22, Exponential Intelligence, an AI content creation engine for Exponential 6.0.15 and later. It is part of the distribution, with links in the Dashboard menu of the administration.
• Delivered: expqueue 0.1.10, the Exponential job queue. A generic job queue in the database, with priority classes and fair scheduling. The installers write its cron job.
• Considering: more AI providers and assistant features. Formulas, tables and embeds already survive the assistant and the TipTap editor.

Administration

• Delivered: exp_adminui 1.0.0.57, a complete port of the Netgen AdminUI administration interface.
• Delivered: expui 1.0.0.19, Exponential UI. It replaces the YUI libraries and their features with code on jQuery 4, in every administration design, including those of extensions.
• Delivered: sevenx_themes_admin_classic 0.2.5, the classic administration design, built for compatibility and speed.
• Delivered: git_manager 2.0.27. It updates code checkouts from the administration, with a commit log that has pages and filters. exp:upgrade uses it for the captions taken before each upgrade step.
• Delivered: ezupdate 1.1.28, Composer-based updates of an installation from the administration.
• Delivered: sevenx_dse 1.1.19, the 7x database source editor, powered by AdminNeo.
• Delivered: expchangeclass 1.0.12 (changes the content class of an object), netgen-ezclasslists 2.1.3, ezownerchange 1.4.5, bcwebsitestatistics 1.0.17 and nxc_powercontent 1.4.6.

Editing

• Delivered: exp_oe_tiptap 0.1.18, a TipTap-based online editor for rich text fields, next to the classic online editor. It is also used in the layout editor.
• Delivered: ezmultiupload 6.1.16, drag-and-drop upload of many files, with quick location buttons. ezautosave 6.0.20, autosave while editing. exp_enhanced_link 1.0.9, the enhanced link datatype ported from Netgen.
• Delivered: the expimageeditor image editor. See the CJW packages roadmap.

Sign-in and security

• Delivered: sevenx_authentication_2fa 1.0.19. Two-factor authentication with TOTP apps or e-mail codes, and handlers for signing in with OAuth social accounts.
• Delivered: hcaptcha 1.6 and recaptcha 1.4.12 datatypes for registration and forms.

Scripts and stylesheets

• Delivered: ezjscore 1.8.6, the CSS and JavaScript packer. Its jQuery 4 line ships one release of each jQuery library. ezjscore is maintained both as its own package and inside the kernel.

Content and taxonomy

• Delivered: eztags 2.4.31, taxonomy management and classification of content.
• Delivered: ezfind 3.0.15, Solr search, with search suggestions without YUI. ezodf 7.0.5, import and export of OpenDocument text.
• Delivered: ezflow 6.1.16, ezcomments 1.0.2, ezstarrating 6.0.20, ezgmaplocation 6.1.5, ezpm 0.10.3 (private messaging), enhancedezbinaryfile 4.4.13 and birthday 1.3.9.

Import, export and synchronization

• Delivered: syndication 1.3.17, content synchronization from one Exponential installation to another.
• Delivered: sqliimport 2.0.4 (content import), xrowextract 2.5.25 (import and export as CSV, XML, JSON and packages) and bccie 1.1.22 (quick exports).
• Delivered: xrowmetadata 1.4.20 (SEO metadata and sitemaps) and bcgooglesitemaps 1.1.6.7 (XML sitemaps with full URLs).
• Delivered: these tools are listed in the transfer registry of Exponential 6.0.15, which gives every import and export tool one engine and one run history.

APIs and web services

• Delivered: ezprestapi 1.2.8, the REST API v2 content provider, and ezprestapiprovider 6.0.5, the REST API v1.
• Delivered: expservices, about 1,100 remote services over ezjscore, with personal API tokens. It ships with Exponential 6.0.15.
• Delivered: ggwebservices 0.14.7 (web service client and server) and webdav 1.2.1 (WebDAV on PHP 8, with permission checks).
• Next: the GraphQL API. See the Exponential 6.0.x roadmap.

Databases and caches

• Delivered: ezpostgresqlcluster 1.1.2, clustering on PostgreSQL, and ezoracle 2.3.9, Oracle Database support including Oracle 11g and 12.1.
• Delivered: sevenx_valkey_cache 1.0.2.0, a replacement of the file cache with Valkey or Redis storage, and ezsi 6.0.1, server and edge side includes.

Commerce

• Delivered: sevenx_payment_stripe 1.0.0, the Stripe Payment Element gateway, plus ezpaypal 1.2.4 and ezauthorize 1.4.4.

Designs and site packages

• Delivered: sevenx_themes_media 1.5.81, with 93 releases this year. The media site theme for Exponential 6, built for Exponential Layouts, fits phones, tablets and a 200% zoom, and comes in tpl, Twig and Smarty variants.
• Delivered: sevenx_themes_simple 1.0.29, the default Simple design, with the 7x MultiSite site package in sevenx-ezpackage.
• Delivered: ezwebin 6.0.31 and ezdemo 6.0.19, the classic website and demo designs.
• Delivered: the -ezpackage repositories (ezwebin, ezflow, ezcomments, ezstarrating, ezgmaplocation, ezdemo, ezwt, ezpaypal and more), each with a read-only Composer split. Site packages of every earlier generation import into Exponential 6.0.15.
• Next: expwt, the site-side management sidebar that replaces the Website Toolbar (ezwt 6.0.18) as a default requirement. See the Exponential 6.0.x roadmap.

Installers, packages and libraries

• Delivered: the package server, which serves site and extension packages to the setup wizard and to Setup > Packages, with packages in a JSON format.
• Delivered: exponential-legacy-installer 2.2.5, the Composer installer for extensions, and LegacyBridge (4.0.0.7 and 5.0.14) between the Platform and the Exponential 6 kernel.
• Delivered: maintained library forks with the 2026 security fixes: Twig, flysystem, graphql-php, symfony-mime and TagsBundle 6.0.3.
• Delivered: the PHP-version floor metapackages. See the Platform distributions roadmap.
• Next: Composer packages for the extensions that do not have one yet. See the call for help below.
• Considering: support for GitLab repositories in the package tooling.

Help wanted

• Composer packages: add a composer.json to an extension that has none, and test installs with Composer security blocking on.
• Testing: install an extension on the newest PHP release and report what fails in its GitHub issues or the issue tracker.
• Documentation: every active extension now has its documentation in the help center. Improve the pages of the extensions you use.
• Ports: tell us in the Extensions forum which extensions you still miss on Exponential 6.