v1.7.0 - Scheduled Posting

Highlights

• Write posts now, publish later. Schedule posts with a future date/time and they are published automatically the moment they are due. No cron required.
• New Writing settings page to enable/disable scheduled posting from the admin panel.
• Scheduled status in the editor. Set posts to Scheduled, see a status badge in the post list, and pick a date and time with the new datetime picker.
• PHP 8.4/8.5 compatibility. intervention/image deprecations are patched.
• Dev tooling updated: squizlabs/php_codesniffer 4.0.4, phpstan 2.2.8, and a security fix for phpcsstandards/phpcsutils (CVE-2026-65954).

What's New

Added

• Scheduled posting: posts with a future post_date are stored as scheduled and flipped to publish when due (on every request).
• ScheduledPostService plus PostDao promotion methods with a composite index on post_status and post_date.
• Scheduled option and status label in the admin post dropdowns plus a status badge in the post list.
• option-writing.php admin page with a scheduled-posting toggle, scheduled_post_enabled setting, WRITING/WRITING_CONFIG permissions (administrator), and a migration script.
• Full datetime and time picker in the admin date fields.
• New test suites for ScheduledPostService, PostApplicationService auto-scheduling, PostDao scheduling, the post validator, and scheduled-posting utilities.

Changed

• Admin language translation keys normalized to snake-case. Writing translations added.
• Setting sanitization delegated to ConfigurationDao.
• validate_date() accepts full datetime format.
• Dependencies: phpstan/phpstan 2.2.7 to 2.2.8, squizlabs/php_codesniffer 3.13.5 to 4.0.4.

Fixed

• intervention/image PHP 8.4/8.5 deprecations (implicit nullable params, imagedestroy()) via cweagans/composer-patches.
• Utility loader generator output normalized.
• Admin language form actions stacked on small screens.

Security

• phpcsstandards/phpcsutils updated to 1.2.3 (CVE-2026-65954).

Removed

• None.

Deprecated

• None.

Codename: Maleo Senkawor (retained). Honoring Macrocephalon maleo, the critically endangered megapode endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Previous release: v1.6.1. 45 commits.