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MailBeez

MKT AUTO
Velocity5.0

Ecommerce email marketing and automation plugin suite for online stores

www.mailbeez.com ↗

MailBeez hardens its big 'V5' rewrite with PHP 8.x compatibility and up-to-10x page-load gains.

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◆Current state
MailBeez is a ZenCart email-marketing plugin midway through a major 'V5' platform modernization — redesigned navigation, a marketing calendar, and new flow, audience, and product-review tooling. The most recent releases are the stabilization tail of that push: rapid point releases hardening PHP 7.4-to-8.6 compatibility, ZenCart 2.2.2 support, and large page-load performance improvements.
◆Where it's heading
The throughline is the V5 rewrite moving from feature delivery into consolidation. After landing the redesigned UI and new marketing tooling in spring, the cadence has shifted to compatibility and performance hardening — isolating Smarty loading, migrating PHP versions, and cutting page-load times by up to 10x. This is the unglamorous but necessary work of making a large rewrite production-solid.
◆Prediction
Expect continued V5 stabilization point releases focused on compatibility and speed, with remaining legacy flows (e.g. legacy newsletter creation) gradually migrated onto V5.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4d ago

    PHP refactoring for ECG-check integration (v4.5)

    Internal PHP refactoring of the ECG-check integration with no user-visible change — routine maintenance in the V5 hardening phase.

  2. 13d ago

    App and newsletter loading-performance tweaks

    App and Newsletter Advanced loading-performance tweaks — small point-release optimizations continuing the V5 performance thread.

  3. 15d ago

    PHP 8.6 compatibility and query performance

    PHP 8.6 compatibility plus loading and tracking-report query performance — incremental compatibility and speed hardening.

  4. 16d ago

    ZenCart 2.2.2 compatibility

    A single-line compatibility bump for ZenCart 2.2.2, part of the steady platform-compatibility maintenance.

  5. 20d ago

    Up to 10x faster page loads; PHP 8.5 support

    The most substantive recent release: PHP 7.4-to-8.5 migration, updated core libraries, and up-to-10x faster page loads, plus more robust Smarty isolation. Real performance and maintainability gains from the V5 hardening work.

  6. 1mo ago

    V5 flow performance view: timeframe selector

    A V5 flow performance view gains a timeframe selector — a minor tooling refinement within the ongoing V5 buildout.