Mautic vs AWeber

Mautic just shipped 7.1 'Canis Major' — the first feature-heavy release after the 7.0 platform reset that took the codebase to Symfony 7 and PHP 8.4. The 7.1 line bundles S/MIME email signing, scheduled email sending, login throttling, optimistic locking on emails and pages, an inline CKEditor inside the GrapesJS builder, and an upgraded bot-detection layer that auto-blocks 500+ user agents. Maintenance is active across three branches (7.x, 6.x, 5.x), with security backports landing simultaneously when CVEs warrant.

Having paid down the dependency and PHP-version debt in 7.0, the team is now spending that headroom on concrete deliverability and operator features rather than architecture. The 7.1 changeset leans hard on email integrity, anti-spam, and editor ergonomics — the things self-hosters and agencies actually feel. Cadence is healthy: roughly one minor feature line per quarter, with point releases hitting every two to three weeks.

Expect the next minor (7.2) to keep building on the deliverability and tracking surface — likely deeper privacy-mode tracking, more API Platform coverage, and continued GrapesJS/builder polish. A 6.x security-only train will keep running in parallel until the long-term-support window closes.