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A side-by-side editorial comparison of Mautic and AcyMailing — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Mautic hardens security across three branches and lines up a feature-heavy 7.2.
Mautic is in a maintenance-and-hardening phase. The standout is a coordinated security release across three supported branches (7.1.2, 6.0.9, 5.2.11) fixing seven CVEs, including SQL injection in API contact filtering and an API v2 authorization bypass. In parallel, 7.1.3 cleans up campaign and email reliability bugs, and a 7.2.0 release candidate stages the next feature line.
AcyMailing ships steady point releases: small features, security hardening, and bug fixes
AcyMailing publishes a real, structured changelog (Features / Improvements / Bug fixes) for its Joomla/WordPress email-marketing extension. The current line is 10.x, with 10.11.0 the latest. Recent work is incremental: privacy toggles, access-control refinements, bot protection, and reliability fixes to statistics and test sends.
Mautic is in a maintenance-and-hardening phase. The standout is a coordinated security release across three supported branches (7.1.2, 6.0.9, 5.2.11) fixing seven CVEs, including SQL injection in API contact filtering and an API v2 authorization bypass. In parallel, 7.1.3 cleans up campaign and email reliability bugs, and a 7.2.0 release candidate stages the next feature line.
The project is balancing three commitments: keeping older branches (5.2, 6.0, 7.0/7.1) patched for security, steadily fixing campaign and GrapesJS-builder reliability, and building 7.2 around transactional email, better bot detection, and PHP 8.5 support. It reads as the cadence of a mature open-source platform serving a broad installed base, not one chasing new categories.
The 7.2.0 RC points to a stable 7.2 GA next, carrying truly transactional emails, Matomo-based bot detection, and the GrapesJS builder improvements out of pre-release.
AcyMailing publishes a real, structured changelog (Features / Improvements / Bug fixes) for its Joomla/WordPress email-marketing extension. The current line is 10.x, with 10.11.0 the latest. Recent work is incremental: privacy toggles, access-control refinements, bot protection, and reliability fixes to statistics and test sends.
Development is maintenance-mode-steady — frequent minor and patch releases focused on privacy/consent controls, permission edge cases, and statistics accuracy, with occasional small form and popup features. No architectural or directional shift is visible; the product is being refined, not repositioned.
Expect continued point releases in the 10.x line: more consent/privacy options, permission and bot-protection tweaks, and bug fixes, at roughly the current cadence.
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Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. AcyMailing is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 2.5), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. AcyMailing is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 2.5), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Mkt Auto products to evaluate alongside.
Top Mautic alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Mautic alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/mautic for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top AcyMailing alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "AcyMailing alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/acymailing for the full list with editorial commentary on each.