Stories - Laravel Creative Multilingual Blog v1.37.6

Version 1.37.6 – Mar 30, 2026​

- Upgraded to Laravel 13
- Added public cache control headers for Varnish/CDN compatibility
- Added email notifications for blog comments and replies
- Added terms & conditions checkbox linked to privacy policy in contact form
- Added .ico format support in media uploads
- Added configurable batch size, start offset, and progress bar for thumbnail generation
- Improved content importer with included files support
- Improved caching and database query performance
- Improved user profile with password placeholders and hash-based tab navigation
- Improved location selectors with AJAX search and pagination
- Improved email settings and password field UX
- Improved multi-language support and language switcher
- Improved media manager: video handling, file moving, and toolbar behavior on iPad
- Improved theme options and shortcode caching
- Improved thumbnail generation command
- Improved SEO and overall performance
- Fixed locale-specific permalink prefixes not applied to slug translations
- Fixed visitor locale not preserved in confirmation emails
- Fixed visual builder toolbar hidden behind browser chrome on iPad/Safari
- Fixed media rename allowing executable file extensions (security patch)
- Fixed serialization and caching issues

Version 1.37.3 – Dec 22, 2025​

- Fixed right-to-left (RTL) display issue in phone number country code
- Fixed cache for shortcodes/widgets issue when using Visual Builder
- Fixed cache-related issues
- Fixed missing page title for email template edit page
- Added support for more languages
- Added blog report page
- Added iframe shortcode for embedding external content
- Improved phone validation
- Improved widget and theme management interface
- Improved shortcode settings in admin panel
- Improved contact form interface
- Improved Visual Builder with multiple fixes
- Improved website tracking settings
- Improved cronjob settings
- Improved database performance with additional indexes
- Improved overall performance and stability
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements

Version 1.37.2. Released Nov 17, 2025 Click HERE to view the Changelog

• Focus on performance improvements, this version loads faster than previous
• Add visual builder to pages for easier UI management. Demo: https://cms.botble.com/admin/pages/1/visual-builder
• Add phone country code support for phone fields in contact forms, user profiles, etc.
• Add missing translations for Arabic, French, and Vietnamese
• Fix watermark issue when using Cloudflare R2 storage
• Fix minor issues on Windows hosting
• Make the script fully compatible with UUID
• Improve admin panel UI/UX, add helper texts for settings and other forms
• Update all libraries to their latest versions

Version 1.36.9 – Sep 02, 2025​

- Added security page to admin dashboard, check Admin -> Platform Administration -> Security Settings
- Added option to make email optional in comment form
- Improved UI for Appearance -> Widgets page
- Improved website tracking settings form, allow to enter custom tracking code
- Improved performance, make some database queries more efficient

Version 1.36.8 – Jul 28, 2025​

- Added phone number field to user profiles
- Added option to disable lazy loading for shortcodes
- Improved email preview templates and translations
- Improved media management: folders now stay on top of file lists
- Improved media navigation with single-click folder traversal
- Fixed mime type detection
- Fixed media upload in subfolders
- Updated all third-party libraries to latest versions

Version 1.36.7 – Jun 26, 2025
- Add IndexNow support for sitemap
- Add option to cache or ignore cache for specific widget/shortcode
- Add email template for admin contact reply email
- Add push notifications for API and secure API by API key
- Improve performance
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

v1.36.6 – Jun 10, 2025
- Add cache for UI blocks & widgets to make site loads faster
- Add option to import blog post translations from CSV/Excel file
- Improve UI for cookie consent
- Improve performance
- Optimize source code
- Make it compatible with PHP 8.4
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version