Mantis is a well-known open source bug tracker system that has been around for as much time as phpList, 2 decades. The development of phpList has been tracked with issues via Mantis on a dedicated self-host installation. The phpList Mantis installation contains some legacy development history: development proposals, issue tracking and release tracking. Since the… [+]
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Help wanted: Contribute to the manual
It is important for phpList to be fully functional and up to date with the latest technologies that will equip the software with some of the most popular functionalities an email marketing platform must have. A key-element into getting the best experience of phpList is managing to use its full potential or discover that one… [+]
Revamping the community forum
Besides a coding license, one of the core values of “open source” is “collaboration”. Collaboration among developers, maintainers, testers, designers and end-users. All these “nodes” lead to community-made software that is designed to benefit the modern Internet users to achieve their goals. phpList is not an exception to the rule above, and in order to… [+]
Join the Translation Team
You are invited to join the phpList Translations Team! After a while that the Translations’ system has not been active, now everything works like a charm. You can localize phpList in your language by simply registering an account. How does it work? In case you don’t have an account already, you register a new account… [+]
Rewriting phpList
phpList is 100% open source software and its source code lives on GitHub. phpList as a software is a combination of several repositories which together make up the email sending service thousands of users out there use. A few years ago the rewrite of ‘phpList 4’ started with the purpose of creating a software that… [+]
PHP 8 is not supported yet
With the release of PHP 8 in November 2020 numerous changes were introduced. This was a major release for PHP and breaking changes and improvements were introduced. The latest versions of PHP allow more flexibility to its users and saves them important development time. For now, phpList cannot support these changes. This means that you… [+]
#Googledown happens every day for mailops admins
Google services experienced an outage on Monday, Dec 14th, and on Dec the 15th and the 16th Gmail experienced disruption. This massive outage led to several reactions around the world from a plethora of IT professionals. It looks like that from the ‘mailops admins’ perspective this was no news as they have to deal with… [+]
Hacktoberfest 2020 just started
It is already October and Halloween is around the corner! But other than Halloween, Hacktoberfest is here as well! Hacktoberfest is a one-month celebration of open source where everyone is invited to join by submitting at least 4 valid Pull Requests (PRs) to any public GitHub repository from October 1st to October 31st. Hacktoberfest: a… [+]
phpList in public sector
Starting from the phpList About page you will be able to easily tell this is a software that can be used for various purposes and by various types of organizations. Although it was initially created upon request from the London National Theatre, very quickly it became very popular thanks to its open source license that… [+]
Telspace Systems findings on phpList – Story Time
The article below was initially published on the Telspace Systems blog under the “Creative Commons – Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)” license. This article describes step by step Telspace Systems’ findings on phpList. Special thanks to Dino Covotsos for reaching out and for putting together this article! Both issues are now fixed and included… [+]