Akeeba Kickstart Professional 9.0.4

New features​

• Catch PHAR errors and display a helpful message pointing to the documentation instead of a cryptic PHP error
• Detect suboptimal PHP OPcache settings and display a warning with the recommended configuration changes

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Files uploaded via FTP in ASCII mode are silently corrupted; Kickstart now detects this and shows a clear, actionable error message instead of cryptic PHP errors
• [HIGH] Servers with open_basedir restrictions could not use PHAR support; Kickstart now detects this and automatically falls back to the non-PHAR extraction method

New features​

• S3 import: auto-detect region option with graceful fallback for S3-compatible services
• S3 import: comprehensive AWS region list with custom region option
• S3 import: custom endpoint support for third-party S3-compatible services
• S3 import: signature method selection (v2/v4) with region support

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] S3 import feature was broken due to missing AKEEBAENGINE constant definition

New features​

• Kickstart can now dump its language file
• You can now tell Kickstart to bypass PHP's PHAR extension

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] The Pro version still did not display the Pro features

Miscellaneous changes​

• curl_close is deprecated in PHP 8.5.0

New features​

• Do not allow the file to be named kickstart.php
• Improved, custom PHAR stub for better compatibility
• Password protection

Bug fixes​

• [HIGH] Kickstart Pro did not ship with the Pro features

New features​

• Kickstart Professional improved Dark Mode

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Kickstart Professional can throw a PHP 8 Error when deleting all files and folders before extraction

Bug fixes​

• [LOW] Deprecated notice checking for .htaccess directives which set the PHP version (not a functional issue)