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# Textpattern CMS

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**A flexible, elegant, fast and easy-to-use content management system written in PHP.** Textpattern is [free and open source](#legal) software.

* [System requirements](#system-requirements)
* [Download Textpattern](#download-textpattern)
* [Install Textpattern](#install-textpattern)
* [Upgrade Textpattern](#upgrade-textpattern)
* [Help and Support](#help-and-support)
* [Development](#development)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
* [Thank you](#thank-you)
* [Legal](#legal)

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## System requirements

Textpattern is installed to a web server with PHP and MySQL.

Ensure the server meets or exceeds the [system requirements](https://textpattern.com/system-requirements) before you continue.

## Download Textpattern

The current production release is version 4.9.1. It can be downloaded from the Textpattern website or GitHub in .zip, .tar.gz, and .tar.xz varieties.

If you want to use the multi-site functionality in Textpattern, get the .tar.gz or .tar.xz archive.

|        |  textpattern.com  | GitHub |
|--------|:-------:|:-----:|
| .zip   | [Download](https://textpattern.com/file_download/127/textpattern-4.9.1.zip) | [Download](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/releases/download/4.9.1/textpattern-4.9.1.zip) |
| .tar.gz | [Download](https://textpattern.com/file_download/128/textpattern-4.9.1.tar.gz) | [Download](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/releases/download/4.9.1/textpattern-4.9.1.tar.gz) |
| .tar.xz | [Download](https://textpattern.com/file_download/129/textpattern-4.9.1.tar.xz) | [Download](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/releases/download/4.9.1/textpattern-4.9.1.tar.xz) |


## Install Textpattern

Please see [README.txt](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/main/README.txt) for details on installing Textpattern.

## Upgrade Textpattern

Please see [UPGRADE.txt](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/main/UPGRADE.txt) for details on upgrading Textpattern.

## Help and Support

The [Textpattern support forum](https://forum.textpattern.com) is home to a friendly and helpful community of Textpattern users and experts. Textpattern also has a social network presence on [Mastodon](https://textpattern.com/mastodon) and [X](https://textpattern.com/x).

## Development

The development snapshot can be obtained from the [Textpattern repository on GitHub](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern).

### Anticipated changes to future system requirements

As a development version approaches release, minimum and recommended system requirements are confirmed and the production release system requirements is updated accordingly.

The following table outlines anticipated forthcoming changes to system requirements. It takes into account vendor support, security considerations, overall performance and other factors. Note that minimum and/or recommended versions listed may change multiple times during the development process.

#### Textpattern development versions

We are targeting Textpattern 5 as the next major release. Refer to the following table for anticipated changes to system requirements for Textpattern 5.

We generally recommend running Textpattern on platforms with active vendor support where possible, though we also maintain a minimum system requirements list for situations where that isn't viable.

Note that versions listed may change multiple times during the development process.

|        |  Minimum  | Recommended |
|--------|:-------:|:-----:|
| PHP    | &mdash; | [vendor supported](https://php.net/supported-versions.php) |
| MySQL  | &mdash; | [vendor supported LTS](https://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/database.html) |
| Apache | &mdash; | vendor supported |
| Nginx  | &mdash; | mainline or stable |

## Contributing

Please refer to the [contributing documentation](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more details of Textpattern development.

## Additional development tools

Please refer to the [additional development tools](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/dev/DEVTOOLS.md) document.

## GitHub topic tags

If you use GitHub for Textpattern-related development please consider adding some of the following [topic](https://help.github.com/articles/about-topics/) keywords to your public project repositories, so we can expand the network of discoverable resources:

* [`textpattern`](https://github.com/topics/textpattern)
* [`textpattern-plugin`](https://github.com/topics/textpattern-plugin)
* [`textpattern-theme`](https://github.com/topics/textpattern-theme)
* [`textpattern-website`](https://github.com/topics/textpattern-website) (for websites built with Textpattern)
* [`textpattern-development`](https://github.com/topics/textpattern-development) (for development resources)

## Thank You

Thank you to our [GitHub sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/textpattern). Your continued support is greatly appreciated!

We are grateful to [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/?utm_source=opensource&utm_campaign=textpattern), [BrowserStack](https://www.browserstack.com) and [1Password](https://1password.com) for their kind considerations in supporting Textpattern CMS development by way of web hosting infrastructure (DigitalOcean), cross-browser testing platform (BrowserStack) and secure password management (1Password). Thank you!

This project is supported by:

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## Legal

Released under the GNU General Public License. See [LICENSE.txt](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/main/LICENSE.txt) for terms and conditions.

Includes contributions licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. See [LICENSE-LESSER.txt](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/main/textpattern/lib/LICENSE-LESSER.txt) for terms and conditions.

Includes contributions licensed under the New BSD License. See [LICENSE-BSD-3.txt](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/main/textpattern/lib/LICENSE-BSD-3.txt) for terms and conditions.

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