PageBrick 1.8.0

• A switch for the browser cache of the site's files. A host that sends no Cache-Control makes the browser download the photos, fonts, styles and scripts again at every visit, which is what the PageSpeed test calls "efficient cache lifetimes". Settings → Address and languages → Speed: file cache puts a few lines at the end of .htaccess (a week for pictures, styles and scripts; a year for what has another address when it changes: files asked for with ?v=…, the uploaded files and the fonts) and takes them out again, leaving the file exactly as it was. A copy of the file is kept first, the site is asked once afterwards, and the lines go out by themselves if the host answers with an error; a host without mod_headers ignores them. A new installation already has them. The update never touches .htaccess, so a site installed before gets them by pressing the button; if the file cannot be written, the card shows the lines to paste.
• Photos come in three sizes, and a theme can ask for the right one. Every photo sent now also keeps a 960-pixel copy (besides the 480 thumbnail and the full one, up to 1920), and ->img(sizes: '…') prints a srcset, so a phone downloads the middle or the small one instead of the large one. The default theme and the core's own sections (photo with text, cards, gallery) use it. Media → Redo the sizes makes the copy for the photos sent before this version (12 at a time, one click each).
• HTML changes: img() has a fourth optional argument, $sizes. Without it the <img> is byte for byte the one of 1.7.1, so a theme prints the same HTML until its author passes sizes. The default theme's pictures and the core's photo with text, cards and gallery sections now print srcset and sizes when the photo has a smaller copy. Nothing in the public API is removed or changed.
• The full list is in the CHANGELOG.

Update: this is a feature release, so it is announced in the panel and installed when you choose: Settings → Updates → Update to 1.8.0. The update checks every page of the site afterwards and goes back by itself if anything breaks. Then turn on Speed: file cache in Settings → Address and languages, and, in Media, use Redo the sizes if it is offered.

New install: download pagebrick-1.8.0.zip below, upload what is inside its pagebrick folder to your hosting (including .htaccess, which some programs hide), create a MySQL database and open the site. Requirements: PHP 8.2+, MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.4+, Apache with mod_rewrite.

Integrity: SHA-256 f3eedb04d97e64b068f7f1bb28edd5701e946b96861fd71f5a4df0838d97b403, signed with the project's Ed25519 key (public key in core/packages.php).