Changelog

v1.7.5Link to this section

Released 2026-10-03 · Full release notes · Upgrade steps

Migration tooling that meets real databases, gateway and robots.txt hardening, builds without a database, and a pnpm pin.

• Build without a database
• robots.txt names only your own hosts
• Honest statuses for unknown paths
• systhema migrate --schema stops blocking on false positives
• General Settings hooks that match Payload's schema
• Pin pnpm, or lose your overrides
• A customised src/proxy.ts survives the upgrade

v1.7.4Link to this section

Released 2026-10-02 · Full release notes · Upgrade steps

A security release that requires Next.js 16.3.8 for three critical remote code execution advisories, plus fourteen audit fixes, inline post categories and tags, and password tools in the Admin.

• Next.js 16.3.8 is the minimum
• Create post categories and tags as you type
• Password tools in the Admin
• withSysthema(config) means the same as withSysthema(config, {})
• Client-side live preview in new projects
• Purge Cloudflare from your own collections
• A Next project upgraded to Payload gets its Payload routes

v1.7.3Link to this section

Released 2026-09-19 · Full release notes · Upgrade steps

The bundled Lexical admin patch follows the Payload minor, so a Payload patch release no longer needs a Systhema release, and the upgrade tooling handles exact pins, failed installs and blocked schema plans.

• The Lexical patch follows the Payload minor
• Pinned projects stay pinned, and a failed upgrade resumes
• pnpm patches survive the upgrade
• systhema migrate --schema shows its work

v1.7.2Link to this section

Released 2026-09-18 · Full release notes · Upgrade steps

The Payload family moves to 3.90.0, a Payload security release, and the bundled Lexical admin patch is retargeted to it.

v1.7.1Link to this section

Released 2026-09-18 · Full release notes · Upgrade steps

The release that follows four real 1.7.0 upgrades: systhema upgrade keeps edited managed files and always installs the Lexical patch, and a denied role write is refused instead of emptied.

• Actionable schema-migration blockers
• The upgrade reports what its own regeneration removed
• systhema-core refresh-cache
• Link handles same-page path hashes and digit-leading anchors

v1.7.0Link to this section

Released 2026-09-17 · Full release notes · Upgrade steps

A Systhema site becomes multilingual end to end, alongside an AI assistant in the Payload admin, analytics widgets, a Cloudflare integration, systhema setup and Systhema Design.

• Native multilingual support
• Per-locale publishing
• AI assistant in the Payload admin
• The AI assistant learns the project's own vocabulary
• Analytics dashboard widgets
• First-party Cloudflare integration
• systhema setup reconfigures an existing project
• Systhema Design, in the browser and in the terminal
• Custom text styles and design-app polish
• Composed colours and motion tokens from Figma
• Production CSS optimization
• August 2026 Next.js security refresh
• September 2026 dependency refresh
• Modern browsers only, and nothing legacy on the wire
• systhema upgrade no longer strands a half-upgraded project
• Reviewable upgrade plans and database consent
• WCAG 2.2 accessibility pass

v1.6.0Link to this section

Released 2026-06-11 · Full release notes · Upgrade steps

The Payload admin on a diet (a 30-section page drops from 83 MB to 19.4 MB), plus a multi-pack icon picker, tier-aware blocks, cookie consent and systhema doctor.

• Multi-pack Icon Picker (FA + Material Symbols + Custom)
• Cookie consent integration
• Tier-aware blocks — one definition per concept, fields gated by depth
• systhema doctor — unified project-health checks with auto-fix
• systhema create rounded out — runnable on first pnpm dev
• Redesigned systhema info + human-only branded header
• Admin RSC payload cut ~77% on a 30-section page
• Lazy-mount nested Lexical editors

v1.5.0Link to this section

Released 2026-04-07 · Full release notes

The new global systhema CLI, a [[...segments]] catch-all with configurable sitemaps, capability-based access control, captcha verification and the Systhema Figma plugin.

• Capability-Based Access Control
• Systhema Figma Plugin & Dual Token Format
• Custom Admin URL & AdminBar Extensibility
• Configurable Sitemaps
• Captcha Verification — reCAPTCHA & Turnstile
• User Avatar, Upload Ownership & FileGuard
• Custom Error Messages & Checkbox Required Modes
• strictDraftTypes
• Emails Toggle
• New TailwindCSS Color Tokens

v1.4.1Link to this section

Released 2026-03-19 · Full release notes

Next.js 16.2.0 becomes the recommended default, and Payload 3.79.1 fixes the Turbopack HMR crash, so the importMap workaround in src/app/layout.tsx can go.

v1.4.0Link to this section

Released 2026-03-17 · Full release notes

CMS pages default to static generation with on-demand revalidation, and Payload gains a form builder with an email system and automatic upload optimization.

• Form Builder & Email System
• Upload Optimization

v1.3.0Link to this section

Released 2026-01-29 · Full release notes

Deeper overrides for the default Payload users and uploads collections (uploads can no longer be disabled), and a CLAUDE.md rewritten for agentic workflows.

• CLAUDE.md Rewrite for Agentic Workflows
• More Flexible Payload Collection Overrides

v1.2.0Link to this section

Released 2026-01-17 · Full release notes

A parallax scroll animation for images and videos across all packages, and custom text states in the Payload Lexical editors.

• Parallax Animation for Images and Videos
• Custom Text States in PayloadCMS

v1.1.0Link to this section

Released 2026-01-09 · Full release notes

The Payload Lexical editors are consolidated into four tiers (root, region, fragment and slot), replacing the old blocks and columns editors.

v1.0.0Link to this section

Released 2025-12-24 · Full release notes

The first major release of Systhema, a design system ecosystem for building digital products that are consistent, scalable and faster to deploy.