2026

Maho 26.7.0 is out today!

Maho keeps accelerating: 26.7.0 lands with a completely rewritten API (REST v2, GraphQL, JWT auth, OpenAPI docs), a brand-new admin design with light and dark mode, and a declarative database schema system that replaces two decades of imperative upgrade scripts.

With 26.7.0, Maho gets a brand-new API and a brand-new face.

Maho has been selected for NLnet's NGI TALER Fund!

Big news today: Maho has been approved for funding by the NLnet Foundation, as part of the NGI TALER Fund.

This took almost a year of work, from first application to final signature, and it secures more than a year of dedicated Maho development. Maho now has its own project page on nlnet.nl, alongside some of the most respected free software projects in the world.

Bugfix releases are coming, starting with 26.7

Maho moves fast, and every new YY.m release proves it: new features, performance improvements, and a platform that keeps getting more modern. Until now, if you needed a fix between releases, you picked up the whole next release with it.

Starting with 26.7, that trade-off is gone. The current Maho series can now receive proper bugfix releases, 26.7.1, 26.7.2, and so on, carrying important fixes back to the exact version your store is already running.

A brand-new admin panel, in light and dark

Your customers see the storefront. You see the admin, every single day. It's where you add products, chase orders, tweak config, and spend hours that nobody outside your team ever notices. And while Maho has spent its whole life modernizing this platform from the inside, PHP 8.3+, a rebuilt checkout, modern tooling, one piece at a time, the admin was the one big surface still wearing the look it was born with.

So we rebuilt it. Maho's admin panel has been completely redesigned: a modern, calm, consistent interface with first-class dark mode. It lands in core with 26.7 in July, but you don't have to wait, you can click around the real thing on our live demo right now.

The EU revocation button is mandatory on June 19. Maho has you covered.

If you sell to consumers in the EU, a new rule lands in eight days. From 19 June 2026, EU Directive 2023/2673 requires online shops to give customers a clearly labelled revocation button: a way to withdraw from a contract in a few clicks, always reachable, no hoops. In Germany it's written into law as §356a BGB.

Maho ships that button, built in. It lands in core with 26.7 in July, but the deadline comes first, so you can add it to your store today.

Raising the bar on quality and security

Maho isn't one repository. It's the core platform, dozens of payment and feature modules, developer tools, language packs, our websites, all open source, and all growing. Every new repo is one more place where code quality and security have to stay in line, and "keep an eye on it by hand" stops working pretty fast.

So we did what we always do at Maho: we solved it with open, auditable code. Say hello to our new infrastructure repository.

Maho at DevConf 2026!

We're excited to share that Fabrizio Balliano will be speaking at DevConf 2026, the Italian conference dedicated to developers and the open source community.

Language packs, rebuilt, and three new languages

Back in 2024 we shared our 15-year-long quest for perfect language packs. That first system did the job, but it leaned on a lot of moving parts behind the scenes, and the old translations it was built on were never the highest quality to begin with.

So we rebuilt the whole thing from scratch around a much simpler idea, started the translations over from a clean, higher-quality base, and while we were at it, added three brand-new languages.

Maho 26.5.0 is out today!

Following the sprint of 26.3.0, this release goes deeper into the engine room: new flagship modules (PayPal, AI, Intelligence), a wave of core modernizations (typed routing, PHP attributes for observers and cron, rewritten date APIs), and the usual long tail of improvements, fixes and polish.

26.5.0 is one of the most ambitious modernization releases Maho has ever shipped.

Maho 26.3.0 "Time Warp" is out today!

We're barely two months into 2026 and Maho keeps accelerating. After the landmark multi-database and gift card release in 26.1.0, we've packed so many features into this release it feels like we're bending time.

26.3.0 is codenamed "Time Warp" for a reason.