Twill 2.0

We're really excited to release Twill 2.0 after a few months of focus to really set the project up for success. We've responded to the community pain points, supporting both Laravel 6 and 7, removing the need to build blocks and assets, improving documentation, introducing automated testing, and many more updates and bug fixes you can read more about below.

We were also very positively surprised by the number and quality of external contributions. Twill now has 42 contributors, twice as much as our previous release, and community members are starting to provide excellent support to other developers from their experience working with it. Thanks a lot to everyone involved! Twill also surpassed 20k installs recently!

We also want to note we understood the concerns shared by the community about our lack of releases in the past few months, and hope that this release will make you love working with Twill even more after patiently waiting for it. Our support for Laravel 6 took time to perfect, with dependencies going deprecated. Our changes to the frontend build or to the repositories traits needed to be challenged in different codebases. Stability is key for our users and it was important for us to take the time to make it right.

We could have tagged Laravel 6 support earlier though, that's entirely true, and that's something we want to address moving forward. We will now commit to releasing at least once every month. We might not want to be as quick as Laravel with a major release every 6 months, but we will be more actively releasing even if it is for a few minor fixes, that's for sure. With that said, we also want to say thank you to all the developers that tested our changes on the master branch during the past few months. It's been incredibly helpful to get feedback and contributions from the community.

We hope you enjoy this release, it is quite a big one. We're already excited about the next one!

Changed

• Semantic versioning
• Laravel versions support
• Blocks and frontend build workflow
• Database migrations loading strategy
• Database migrations changes
• Translation models

Added

• Smarter CLI
• Automated testing
• OAuth login
• JSON fields groups
• Azure uploads
• CMS i18n
• Duplicate records
• Destroy records in the trash
• Automated browsers and repeaters
• Subdomain routing
• Tiptap WYSIWYG

And more...

Check out more features, fixes and improvements in our full changelog.