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Keila

MKT AUTO
Velocity6.3

Open-source email newsletter and marketing automation tool.

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Keila adds transactional emails and multi-format templates, broadening past pure newsletters

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◆Current state
Keila, an open-source, privacy-focused newsletter tool, made a notable leap in v0.30.0: MJML/HTML/plain-text templates, reusable content slots, and transactional emails — a new product surface beyond bulk campaigns. Surrounding releases add manual contact-status control, API-driven contact events, pre-filled forms, more languages, and a new email scheduler that re-architected the messages schema to enable transactional sending.
◆Where it's heading
The direction is clear: Keila is evolving from a newsletter sender into a more general email platform. The v0.20.0 scheduler/messages-schema rework laid the groundwork, and v0.30.0 cashed it in with transactional email and flexible templating. Internationalization and API/contact-lifecycle features show parallel investment in reach and automation.
◆Prediction
Expect transactional email and content-slot templating to mature, with follow-on work on triggered/automated messages now that the messages schema supports them. Continued localization and contact-API expansion are likely.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7d ago

    v0.30.2: manual contact status, API contact-created events

    v0.30.2 adds manual contact-status changes on the edit page, a 'created' activity event for API-created contacts, and a Classic-template line-height setting, plus MJML content-slot parsing fixes. Polish on top of the v0.30 templating and contact-lifecycle work.

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  2. 8d ago

    v0.30.1: HTML campaign option and MJML fixes

    v0.30.1 is mostly fixes — a Block-campaign creation error, self-closing MJML tags, a social-media block gettext error — plus exposing an HTML campaign-type option. Stabilization of the v0.30.0 templating release.

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  3. 9d ago

    Keila v0.30.0

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    v0.30.0 introduces MJML/HTML/plain-text templates, reusable content slots, and transactional emails, with a breaking change to Liquid/MJML render order (auto-migrated). It's the release that pushes Keila beyond newsletters into general-purpose email sending.

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  4. 1mo ago

    v0.20.1: Brazilian Portuguese and pre-filled forms

    v0.20.1 adds Brazilian Portuguese, GET-parameter pre-filled contact-form fields, Enter-to-confirm in the send-preview dialog, and locale-aware HTML lang attributes. Reach and usability gains.

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  5. 1mo ago

    v0.20.0: new email scheduler and messages schema

    v0.20.0 introduces a new email scheduler and migrates recipients to a generic messages schema — the architectural groundwork that later enabled transactional emails and faster large-campaign sending.

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  6. 2mo ago

    v0.19.1: SMTP-without-auth and Markdown performance

    v0.19.1 adds Italian, SMTP-without-auth support, Block/Markdown image resizing, a tzdata-update toggle, and notably faster Markdown-editor performance. Broadens deployment flexibility and editing speed.

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