AcelleMail v4.8 Release Notes
✨ Laravel 11 Upgrade
- Migrated from Laravel 10 to Laravel 11
- Slim application skeleton (fewer boilerplate files)
- Health check endpoint:
/up
- Per-second rate limiting
- Improved exception handling
✨ Performance
- 40% faster page loads (optimized queries + caching)
- Lazy loading for subscriber lists (handles 5M+ subscribers)
- Background job optimization (3x throughput)
- Reduced memory usage during bulk operations
✨ Developer Experience
- PHP 8.3 support (recommended)
- Updated API documentation
- Better error messages with stack traces in debug mode
- Artisan command improvements
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed timezone handling in scheduled campaigns
- Fixed CSV import with UTF-8 BOM
- Fixed automation trigger not firing for re-subscribed contacts
- Fixed dashboard stats caching issue
⬆️ Upgrade
⚠️ Requires PHP 8.1+ (PHP 7.x no longer supported)
php artisan down
composer update
php artisan migrate
php artisan config:cache
php artisan up
