Sculpin returns

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Great news for Sculpin users - the project is back in active development!

What's happening now

Sculpin 3.3.0 was released on the 19th of July with updated dependencies and fixes for warnings on newer PHP versions. The minimum PHP version has increased to 8.1, which seems reasonable given PHP 7.4 has been end-of-life since November 2022.

Since then, version 3.3.2 is now available.

Looking ahead to Sculpin 4.0

Development on Sculpin 4.0 is planned for the remainder of summer, with some exciting new features:

  • Static binary installation option (no need to install PHP and Composer separately)
  • Improved commands for initialisation, running, and content creation
  • In-browser editor for sites under development
  • Theme support

A preview release is expected by the end of summer, with the official release potentially coinciding with PHP 8.6 in November.

Personal updates

I recently had the opportunity to pair with Kevin to work on sculpin.io and blog, which was a great experience.

With the stable 3.3.2 release now available, I'll be updating my nixpkgs pull request to package the latest version for the Nix ecosystem.

It's great to see Sculpin being actively maintained again!