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Akeeba Kickstart 9.0.0 Stable

Released on: 2025-11-26 04:13 CST

Release highlights

Reworked as a PHAR file. This is a new, more maintainable version of Akeeba Kickstart. Instead of trying to shoehorn an entire application inside a single, long PHP file we are no delivering it as a compressed PHAR archive. It still has a .php extension so it can be executed directly as a web script or a command line application even on servers where PHAR support is disabled. This is possible thanks to a special executable "stub" at the start of the file which extracts the application into a temporary directory (using the same kicktemp folder that's already documented) before executing it. On servers which do have the PHP PHAR extension enabled the file will instead execute as a native PHP PHAR archive, with even better performance. The new packaging format allows us to have a more sane and maintainable directory structure which will allow us to better support Kickstart in the future, especially with necessary changes to address backwards incompatible changes in upcoming PHP versions.

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Miscellaneous changes

  • Reworked as a PHAR file

Release files

Kickstart Core

kickstart-core-9.0.0.zip

267.94 Kb

PHP 5.6 PHP 7.0 PHP 7.1 PHP 7.2 PHP 7.3 PHP 7.4 PHP 8.0 PHP 8.1 PHP 8.2 PHP 8.3 PHP 8.4 PHP 8.5

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