Change Log

What's new in each release. Every 1.x update is free for existing licences and installs from inside the app.

Version 1.1

Performance release October 2026
Faster and quieter
  • Site stats no longer load your sites. The PHP-FPM status check now goes straight to PHP-FPM; before, it ran each site's full app every few seconds, keeping MySQL and PHP busy even when you weren't using them.
  • Much lower CPU for the Bothy app itself: access logs are now read incrementally, so each refresh only parses new lines instead of re-reading the whole log.
  • PHP-FPM pool stats refresh once a minute instead of every five seconds.
  • Memory sparklines sample every two seconds (and show the last two minutes), halving the process scans.
Fixes
  • Bothy's own status checks are kept out of the access logs, so request counts, error rates and latency only show real traffic.
  • No more 4xx errors, extra sessions or PHP error-log growth caused by the status checks.
  • The FPM figure on a site's page now shows real active / total workers.

Version 1.0

First release September 2026
Sites
  • Local sites on *.test with HTTPS from Bothy's own trusted certificate authority.
  • Per-site PHP version, php.ini overrides, environment variables and an Xdebug toggle.
  • New-site starters: WordPress, Laravel, Symfony, Craft CMS, Statamic and Drupal, wired to their own database.
  • Clone a site from git, with a GitHub repo picker.
  • Apache .htaccess rewrite rules translated automatically, so older projects run unchanged.
  • Subdomain sites, sidebar folders and site favicons.
  • Git tab showing new, modified and deleted files.
  • Live PHP and access-log tailing, plus per-site stats: requests, errors, latency and disk use.
  • Share a site publicly through a Cloudflare tunnel (with WordPress URL handling).
  • Export a site as a zip, with optional database dumps.
Databases
  • Run several MySQL and MariaDB versions side by side.
  • Create, assign and drop databases; snapshot and restore them.
  • Import .sql, .sql.gz and .zip dumps, including awkward MAMP-era ones.
  • phpMyAdmin built in.
PHP and services
  • Install and remove PHP versions (PHP 8.5 by default).
  • Mailpit inbox inside the app, with new-mail notifications.
  • Redis, Memcached and Node add-ons, with per-site cache purge.
  • Services run as launchd agents, so they survive quitting the app and restart on crash.
  • Change the domain suffix for every site in one go.
AI and automation
  • The bothy CLI: every command has --json output.
  • Built-in MCP server so Claude and other AI assistants can manage sites, databases, PHP, logs and stats.
  • One-click Claude Desktop extension and Claude Code setup.
  • Run WP-CLI, Composer, Artisan and other commands in a site's folder with the right PHP.
The app
  • Menu bar quick look with service controls.
  • Light and dark appearance with a choice of accent colours.
  • Optional menu-bar-only mode and launch at login.
  • Guided setup checklist on first run.
  • In-app updates that install and relaunch.
  • Activation keys, and a clean uninstaller.
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