21 May 2025
listmonk v5.0.1
Repository: @knadh/listmonk
GitHub release page: v5.0.1
v5.0.1 is a bug-fix release on top of the major v5.0.0 release. It features the addition of long pending features such as the visual drag-and-drop e-mail builder, per-campaign SMTP selection, and numerous other fixes and improvements.
What’s new?
- Visual editor and templates
- The much requested and awaited visual e-mail builder and template editor is now integrated, with one-click conversion between formats. Thanks to @vividvilla for the big PR integrating @usewaypoint/email-builder-js
- Campaigns:
- Replace CodeFlask with the more mature and robust CodeMirror for a much better code-editing experience (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Markdown) on campaigns, forms, templates,and settings UI.
- Ability to preview campaign archive view.
- Make paused campaigns editable and allow unscheduling with new
Unschedule
button. - UX improvement that automatically switches scheduled campaigns to
draft
whensend_at
is removed. - Add format/content type selection to the first screen on campaign creation.
Ctrl+S
short for saving campaigns while working on them
- Security:
- Campaign viewing and management are now filtered by a user’s list permissions and now use the new new
campaigns:get_all
andcampaigns:manage_all
permissions. Important: This is a behavioural change from v4.1.0. - Disallow private list UUIDs on public subscriber endpoints.
- Make OIDC provider name on the login button configurable.
- Add
get
list permission check to bulk subscriber list management. - Proper enforcement of the
subscribers:sql_query
permission with SQL query analysis and table allow-listing. Addresses #2412.
- Campaign viewing and management are now filtered by a user’s list permissions and now use the new new
- SMTP & e-mail:
- Name SMTP servers and select an SMTP-server per campaign.
- Add List-Unsubscribe header to opt-in confirmation emails.
- General UI
- One-click
Copy
button on subscribers and campaigns tables for copying names and e-mails to clickboard. - Checkered bg on media thumbnails to visualize transparency.
- One-click
- APIs:
- Add new search param to paginated API responses.
- Introduce LISTMONK_ADMIN_API_USER for installation.
- Others
- Major cleanup and restructuring of the codebase for better maintainability.
- Upgrade of various dependencies .
- Many other small fixes and improvements.
How to upgrade
As always, take a backup of your database before upgrading.
Binary
Download the latest binary. Stop and replace the old binary. Run ./listmonk --upgrade
. Start the app again.
Docker
# cd /directory/with/docker-compose.yml
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull && docker-compose run --rm app ./listmonk --upgrade
docker-compose up -d app db
Changelog
- dc466fc7 Fix quotes issue in
TrackLink
regexp. - 70fe7cba Bump vite from 5.4.18 to 5.4.19 in /frontend (#2497)
- b0ecd746 Add OIDC SSO tutorials to docs for Keycloak and authentic.
- e49253bc Fix name conflict in frontend JS util lib.
- 29b2766f Add missing requirements.txt to docs. Closes #2494.
- 71ae2bbc Fix scheduled campaigns not finishing. Closes #2480.
- 86f808bc Allow
@
in usernames. Closes #2478. - 4da91a0e Fix broken
TrackLink
regexp. Closes #2448. - 03285abf Display detailed d:h:m duration schedule on campaigns page. Closes #2460.
- 3895fbda Fix race in selected template reverting to default on the campaign page. Closes #2461.
- 9540d49a Fix subscription status filter param not being picked up on subscribers page. Closes #2447.
- b04fe6b6 Fix bounces not being sorted by
type
field. Closes #2444. - 2e563229 Fix incorrect query check in bulk subscriber actions. Closes #2491.
- 00a7effe Enforce lowercasing of email in user creation. Closes #2482.
- 4a132e03 Fix broken template funcs in visual campaign update.
- f687ac89 Fix incorrect order of translated day names in Hungarian locale (#2485)
- ae55e64b Update Dutch i18n (#2449)
- 85ead710 docs: add listmonk and forward email for secure newsletter delivery guide (#2440)
- 6336ec4f Update release details on the static homepage.