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MailBeez

MKT AUTO
Velocity5.0

Ecommerce email marketing and automation plugin suite for online stores

www.mailbeez.com ↗

MailBeez hardens its big 'V5' rewrite with PHP 8.x compatibility and up-to-10x page-load gains.

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◆Current state
MailBeez is a ZenCart email-marketing plugin midway through a major 'V5' platform modernization — redesigned navigation, a marketing calendar, and new flow, audience, and product-review tooling. The recent releases are the stabilization tail of that push: point releases hardening PHP 7.4-to-8.6 compatibility, ZenCart 2.2.2 support, and large page-load gains. That sweep has now reached the addon catalogue, with individual modules refactored for PHP 8 one at a time.
◆Where it's heading
The throughline is the V5 rewrite moving from feature delivery into consolidation. After landing the redesigned UI and new marketing tooling in spring, the cadence shifted to compatibility and performance hardening — isolating Smarty loading, migrating PHP versions, and cutting page-load times. The August entry shows that work reaching the long tail of small integration addons, which is usually the last stage of such a migration.
◆Prediction
Expect the addon-by-addon PHP 8 sweep to continue until the catalogue is covered, alongside V5 stabilization point releases. The entries give no signal on when remaining legacy flows finish migrating.

◆Recent moves

  1. 13d ago

    PHP 8 refactor for invoice number and customer info addons

    Two addons — New Invoicenumber and Extended Customer Information — get PHP 8 refactoring at v4.9.0. The V5 hardening sweep has moved out of the core app and into the addon catalogue, one module at a time, with no user-visible change.

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  2. 1mo ago

    PHP refactoring for ECG-check integration (v4.5)

    Internal PHP refactoring of the ECG-check integration with no user-visible change — routine maintenance in the V5 hardening phase.

  3. 1mo ago

    App and newsletter loading-performance tweaks

    App and Newsletter Advanced loading-performance tweaks — small point-release optimizations continuing the V5 performance thread.

  4. 1mo ago

    PHP 8.6 compatibility and query performance

    PHP 8.6 compatibility plus loading and tracking-report query performance — incremental compatibility and speed hardening.

  5. 1mo ago

    ZenCart 2.2.2 compatibility

    A single-line compatibility bump for ZenCart 2.2.2, part of the steady platform-compatibility maintenance.

  6. 1mo ago

    Up to 10x faster page loads; PHP 8.5 support

    The most substantive recent release: PHP 7.4-to-8.5 migration, updated core libraries, and up-to-10x faster page loads, plus more robust Smarty isolation. Real performance and maintainability gains from the V5 hardening work.