The hours are ticking down in 2025, and we hope that the entire Omeka community is going to take a well-earned break as we close out the year. The Omeka Team will be out of the office from December 24, 2025 to January 5, 2026.
But, before we turn to cooking, gathering with family, playing games, and reading, we want to make sure that you all know that we released a new version of Omeka S earlier this month. Version 4.2 includes support for PHP 8.4 and raises the required version to PHP 8.1.
In addtion to many many features for users and developers, the release offer a new feature for making “item stubs.” Creating sites that are based heavily around linking can be a little inefficient: in the middle of adding a book, you might realize you need a new item to represent the author, for example, and have to stop and start over, be very careful about the order you create things in, or operate in multiple tabs or windows at once. Stubs aim to ease this kind of workflow by letting you create new items while you’re editing or creating another item: where you previously could only select existing items, there’s now an option to create a new one using a simplified interface. The items created this way are full-fledged items that you can go back to edit or fill in later.
Also, you’ll see changes and updates that address accessibility, performance, internationalization/localization and more. To read about all the changes, check out the release notes.
In January, we’ll be back in touch with our exciting plans for 2026!