Not everyone lurks on GitHub all the time to keep up with what's going on in MODX3, so there are 2 important breaking changes I want to share with you today that may affect upgrades to 3.0 a little further down the road. First of all, dropping support for sqlsrv, and secondly that custom core paths are no longer possible.

Today modmore officially released Big Brother v2. Big Brother is a dashboard widget for MODX that provides you with visitor statistics at a glance, showing you how well your site is performing with a selection of charts and metrics. It was originally built way back in 2011, and with GA4 and MODX3 support it's now ready for the future.

This is the summary of the event that was promised on MODX's Slack Channel. Let's find out what results came out of this group effort by the agencies Pixmill, SEDA.digital, Sterc and with lots of help from modmore, Oliver Haase-Lobinger and Ivan Bochkarev.

After last week's release of v2.8.0 was quickly diagnosed with some issues, v2.8.1 has just been released with more security fixes and improvements.

Sistrix analysed the loading times of 18.5 million domains to learn more about their page speed. The answers are here.