Mautic 5.1 Andromeda Edition Released with Major Updates

M autic has announced the release of Mautic 5.1, known as the Andromeda Edition as detailed by Sven Döring. This first feature release in the Mautic 5.x series includes significant updates, with 130 bugs fixed, 10 new features, and 168 enhancements. Key updates feature 68 user experience improvements, contributed by the newly formed UX/UI Tiger Team, and essential user-facing changes such as editing contact group points directly from profiles, a new HTML custom field type, a new report data source for audit logs, and the ability to clone campaign events.

The release also enhances email and landing page previews, allows for excluding specific segments when sending segment emails, and increases password complexity requirements. Additional updates include language support for forms, custom-defined lists of countries and regions, and various user interface enhancements like new tooltips, updated icons, and the groundwork for a dark mode theme. The update aims to make Mautic more user-friendly and marketer-centric.

Developer-facing changes in Mautic 5.1 include PHP 8.2 support, new API endpoints, a command for optimizing tables, and improvements to the audit log. The update also introduces features like the ability to use HTML in custom tokens sent via API, support for the Redis UNLINK command, a new EmailStatModel, and the ability to interrupt and resume imports. These changes are designed to enhance the performance and flexibility of Mautic for developers, ensuring a more robust and efficient system. For more detailed information, users can refer to the official release notes on the Mautic website.