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Keila

MKT AUTO
Velocity6.3

Open-source email newsletter and marketing automation tool.

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Self-hosted newsletter tool laying groundwork to expand into transactional email

newsletterself-hostedtransactional-emailsegmentationlocalizationelixir-phoenix
◆Current state
Keila is shipping steadily again after a roughly 10-month gap, with five releases since January 2026. The headline move is v0.20.0's new email scheduler and a migration from a recipients schema to a generic messages schema, explicitly framed as the foundation for transactional emails. Around it sit incremental gains: welcome emails, interaction-based segmentation, newsletter archives, a faster block/markdown editor, more translations, and performance indices.
◆Where it's heading
The product is broadening from a pure newsletter tool toward a fuller email platform. The schema migration decouples sent-message records from campaigns and contacts, which the changelog says unlocks transactional email — a new capability surface, not just a newsletter improvement. Alongside, a wave of localization and editor/performance work suggests a push for both reach and polish.
◆Prediction
Expect transactional email to land as a first-class feature on top of the new messages schema, plus continued automation primitives (welcome emails hint at more lifecycle messaging) and localization. The renewed release cadence looks likely to hold.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3d ago

    0.20.1: pre-filled forms, pt-BR, query-perf indices

    Adds GET-parameter pre-filling of contact forms, a Brazilian Portuguese translation, and database indices that speed message queries, plus editor and locale fixes. Incremental polish on the 0.20 line.

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  2. 20d ago

    0.20.0: new email scheduler and messages-schema migration

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    Introduces a new email scheduler and migrates the recipients schema to a generic messages schema, decoupling sent-message records from campaigns and contacts. Explicitly the groundwork for transactional email and more performant large campaigns.

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  3. 1mo ago

    0.19.1: SMTP-without-auth, image resizing, faster Markdown

    Adds SMTP without password auth, in-editor image resizing, and an Italian translation, with a significant Markdown-editor performance improvement. A solid incremental release.

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  4. 3mo ago

    0.19.0: welcome emails, Phoenix 1.7/LiveView upgrade

    Adds configurable welcome emails for new subscribers, protected unsubscribe/opt-in links, WebP upload, and two new translations, on top of a Phoenix 1.7 / LiveView 1.x framework upgrade. The welcome-email feature is an early lifecycle-automation primitive.

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  5. 4mo ago

    0.18.0: archives, interaction-based segmentation

    Adds public newsletter archives, segment filtering based on campaign interactions, a social-icons block, and a license carve-out so Cloud-only components fall outside AGPLv3. Interaction-based segmentation is the most substantive addition.

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  6. 1y ago

    0.17.1: launch-error hotfix for 0.17.0

    A one-line hotfix correcting an error that prevented the 0.17.0 release from launching. Pure stabilization.

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