## [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)
