release notes
Sitecake 4 is a complete rewrite. The editor was rebuilt in React and TypeScript, and the backend is now dependency-free PHP 8. Everything below shipped from April 2026 onwards.
4.0 Main Features
- Rebuilt editor: faster to load, works on touch screens
- Drag and drop multiple images to create galleries
- WebP image support
- Auto-update for paid users
Every release
| Version | Date | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 4.0.60 | 2 Sep 2026 | Auto-update fixed: the in-editor Update button now works (it previously failed with a CSRF error or 'failed to extract update archive'). |
| 4.0.58 | 2 Sep 2026 | Fixed a session issue that could return you to the login screen and make Publish appear to do nothing on some hosting setups |
| 4.0.57 | 31 Aug 2026 | Fixed a compatibility issue that caused PHP errors on some hosting configurations |
| 4.0.53 | 26 Aug 2026 | Fixed the Publish button in Page Manager spinning forever due to a missing security token on save requests |
| 4.0.49 | 26 Aug 2026 | Fixed Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese translations never actually applying, due to a locale-code casing bug in the translation library |
| 4.0.47 | 25 Aug 2026 | Fixed image drag-and-drop between content areas; fixed file uploads failing with CSRF errors; fixed HTML embed block losing content after publish; simplified image/gallery/file uploads to open the file picker directly; redesigned icon set; new embedded logo; agency/white-label buyers now receive the correct white-label build |
| 4.0.20–4.0.46 | 25 Aug 2026 | Fixed image drag-and-drop between content areas; fixed file uploads failing with CSRF errors; fixed HTML embed block losing content after publish; simplified image/gallery/file uploads to open the file picker directly; redesigned icon set |
| 4.0.19 | 1 Jun 2026 | Cache now uses absolute paths, so saving drafts works under PHP-FPM |
| 4.0.14–4.0.18 | 1 Jun 2026 | Publishing reliability: deterministic container IDs, draft images no longer blocked, image metadata preserved when an upload runs first |
| 4.0.13 | 6 May 2026 | Updates download through a single-use server token |
| 4.0.12 | 6 May 2026 | Update integrity check |
| 4.0.11 | 5 May 2026 | Licence keys — live domains need one, local development never does |
| 4.0.9–4.0.10 | 17 Apr 2026 | Security hardening, 26 issues fixed |
| 4.0.8 | 16 Apr 2026 | Fixed image uploads failing silently |
| 4.0.5–4.0.7 | 15 Apr 2026 | WebP support; update check no longer breaks the editor if the server is unreachable |
| 4.0.1–4.0.4 | 15 Apr 2026 | Auto-update system, rollback support, save reliability |
| 4.0.0 | 15 Apr 2026 | First v4 release — React editor rewrite |