## [5.8.4] - 2026-06-29
- Fixed a `TypeError` on PHP 8 when `Security::$static_classes` was set to a non-array value (e.g. the string `'none'`) to disable static class access; any non-array value now cleanly denies access. Use `Security::$static_classes = null` to disable access to all static classes.
- Security: the built-in `stream:` resource type now validates the nested stream wrapper against the security policy, so a template such as `stream:php://filter/...` can no longer bypass `Security::$streams` (including `Security::$streams = null`) to read local files (CWE-22)

## [5.8.3] - 2026-06-28
- fixed a regression from #1189 where a child template's block override no longer applied to a template {include}d by the parent [#1192](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/1192)

## [5.8.2] - 2026-06-24
- Security: prevent symlinks inside a trusted `secure_dir`/template directory from being used to read files outside of it (CWE-22 path traversal), affecting `{include}` and `{fetch}` of local files
- Security: `{html_image}` now escapes the `file`, `path_prefix`, `href`/`link`, `width` and `height` attributes (it already escaped `alt` and pass-through attributes), and `{html_select_date}` casts `day_size`/`month_size`/`year_size` to int (matching `{html_select_time}`), preventing untrusted values passed into these attributes from breaking out of the generated HTML (CWE-79)
- Security: `{fetch}` no longer follows HTTP redirects for remote resources while a security policy is active, preventing an open redirect on a trusted host from bypassing `trusted_uri` (CWE-918 server-side request forgery)
- Fixed "Attempt to assign property step on null" error when using a {for} loop inside a block of an extended template [#1036](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/1036)

## [5.8.1] - 2026-06-23
- Re-activated unit tests for user literals, which were previously disabled due to a bug in refactoring to v5.
- fixed a bug where child template's block content leaked into subsequent rendering of the parent template [#1189](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/1189)
- Moved all unit test-generated output from inside the working tree to tmp files [#1178](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/1178)

## [5.8.0] - 2026-02-15
- Added support for Backed Enums for php versions >= 8.1 [#1171](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/pull/1171)
- Added support for new 'matches' operator doing regex matching [#1169](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/pull/1169)
- Update documentation to clarify that include inline is currently not implemented in Smarty v5 [#1152](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/1152)
- Support for Laravel Collections style object chaining for objects return from function calls implemented as modifiers [#1151](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/1151)

## [5.7.0] - 2025-11-19
- PHP 8.5 support

## [5.6.0] - 2025-10-03
- Added support for shorttags in functions [#1005](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/1005)

## [5.5.2] - 2025-08-26
- Fixed escaping of array/object keys in debug_print_var

## [5.5.1] - 2025-05-19
- Fix missing support for loading modifiercompilers from plugin dir in BCPluginsAdapter [#1132](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/pull/1132)