XML Sitemap Release Notes – Statamic Addon

2.0.0

July 28th, 2026

Dropped support for Statamic 3 and 4. The addon now requires Statamic 5 or 6 and PHP 8.2+.
SitemapEntry API changed: priority is now a float (was a string), lastmod is now nullable, and the constructor signature was updated accordingly. Custom templates or addEntries() callers reading these properties may need adjustment.
Default cache lifetime (expire) raised from 60 seconds to 1 day. Content changes now invalidate the cache immediately via events (see below), so a long lifetime is safe and reduces regeneration.

Event-based cache invalidation: the sitemap cache is now flushed automatically whenever an entry or term is saved or deleted, so changes appear immediately regardless of expire.

Performance: entries are now filtered by collection and status at the query level instead of loading every entry and filtering in PHP.
Cleaner XML output: the priority default (1.0 for the root path, 0.8 otherwise) is computed in PHP, removing stray whitespace from the <priority> element.

Fixed a crash when an entry had no lastmod (last modification) date.
Fixed type inconsistencies (isAbsoluteUrl now returns a real bool; priority is normalized to a float).
Generator is no longer needlessly extending Facade.

Added a test suite (unit + feature coverage) and a GitHub Actions matrix testing PHP 8.2/8.3/8.4 against Statamic 5 and 6.
Extracted the shared site-prefix logic into the service provider.