Shlink
The definitive self-hosted URL shortener
Alternative to: bitly, tinyurl, rebrandly
v5.1.5
2026-06-22Improved the performance of the Version20260607082210 migration by implementing batch fetching for short URLs.
v5.1.4
2026-06-18Fixed an issue where MySQL connections failed with insecure transport errors when using encrypted connections against servers requiring TLS.
v5.1.3
2026-06-16Fixed a PDO connection error occurring with MySQL and PHP 8.5 when database encryption is enabled.
v5.1.2
2026-06-14Fixed an issue where clearing the entity cache on startup would silently fail when using Redis or Valkey.
v5.1.1
2026-06-11Fixed a Postgres migration error caused by a missing explicitly set type during UTF8 encoding.
v5.1.0
2026-06-11Introduces a new long URL hash column for performance, updates Docker to PHP 8.5, adds browser-based dynamic redirect conditions, and improves Redis cluster support.
v5.0.2
2026-04-16Fixed an issue where long URLs were ignored when editing a short URL using the short-url:edit console command.
v5.0.1
2026-03-04Updated PHPUnit to version 13 and updated Docker images to Alpine 3.22 to address a security vulnerability.
v5.0.0
2026-01-09Introduces date-based redirection conditions and Redis unix socket support, while removing QR code generation and several deprecated environment variables and command options.
v4.6.0
2025-11-01Added new filtering options for short URLs and visits, support for FrankenPHP, PHP 8.5, and enhanced Redis sentinel credential management.
v4.5.3
2025-10-10Fixed an issue to ensure Access-Control-Allow-Credentials is set in all cross-origin responses when CORS_ALLOW_CREDENTIALS is enabled.
v4.5.2
2025-08-27Fixed memory leaks by enabling garbage collection cycles for RoadRunner requests and jobs.
v4.5.1
2025-08-24Mitigated memory leaks by restarting job and http workers every 250 executions when using RoadRunner.
v4.5.0
2025-07-24Introduces new configuration options for Mercure, CORS, and trusted proxies, adds new redirect rule conditions and device types, and deprecates QR code generation via URL.
v4.4.6
2025-03-20Fixed an issue with Matomo country code reporting and resolved a QR code option error.
v4.4.5
2025-03-01Fixed an issue where deprecation warnings were escalated to ErrorExceptions by ProblemDetailsMiddleware, specifically ignoring them in production.
v4.4.4
2025-02-19Fixed errors related to redis-cluster lock creation and listing non-orphan visits when using specific API key roles.
v4.4.3
2025-02-15Fixed visitor IP address resolution behind multiple reverse proxies, Redis lock creation errors, and MS SQL unique index issues.
v4.4.2
2025-01-29Restored Docker images for ARM architectures.
v4.4.1
2025-01-28Introduces an ADDRESS environment variable for RoadRunner binding and fixes database connection leaks and page title UTF-8 encoding.
v4.4.0
2024-12-27Introduces a new REDIRECT_EXTRA_PATH_MODE option, expands allowed characters in custom slugs, updates to PHP 8.4, and drops support for PHP 8.2.
v4.3.1
2024-11-25Fixed performance degradation for Microsoft SQL by correcting the column order in the unique_short_code_plus_domain index.
v4.3.0
2024-11-24This release adds PHP 8.4 support, introduces geolocation redirect rules, enables domain filtering for short URLs, and implements SHA256 hashing for API keys.
v4.2.5
2024-11-03Fixed integration issues with Redis 7.4 and Valkey.
v4.2.4
2024-10-27Updates the qr-code library to version 6.0, implements environment variables for dev/local options, and improves RoadRunner signal handling in Docker.
v4.2.3
2024-10-17Fixed a regression where configuration options with null values were incorrectly promoted as empty environment variables.
v4.2.2
2024-10-14This release improves installer configuration environment variable handling and fixes issues with query parameter forwarding, Docker image versioning, and environment variable fallbacks.
v4.2.1
2024-10-04Added support for specifying the Redis database index in the connection URI and fixed an issue where the MEMORY_LIMIT installer option was ignored.
v4.2.0
2024-08-11Updated to RoadRunner 2024 and introduced IP address conditions for dynamic rules, robots.txt customization options, and new CLI commands for editing short URLs.
v4.1.1
2024-05-23Updated PHPUnit to version 11, replaced the shortid-php package with nanoid-php, and fixed issues with OAS documentation and charset resolution.
v4.1.0
2024-04-14This release introduces performance improvements for visit counting, adds new CLI commands for deleting expired URLs and sending visits to Matomo, and enhances request traceability.
v4.0.3
2024-03-15Fixed issues with database credentials being cast to integers and errors when redirecting to non-http long URLs.
v4.0.2
2024-03-09Fixed an issue causing infinite GeoLite2 downloads.
v3.7.4
2024-03-09Fixed an issue causing infinite GeoLite2 downloads.
v4.0.1
2024-03-08Fixed language redirect condition logic and updated OAS documentation for QR code route parameters.
v4.0.0
2024-03-03Introduces a rule-based dynamic redirects engine, updates to Symfony 7 and Doctrine ORM 3, and removes support for OpenSwoole and Swoole.
v3.7.3-beta.1
2024-01-04v3.7.3
2024-01-04Moves migrations from data to module/Core and fixes an issue allowing empty directories to be mounted in data for Docker images.
v3.7.2
2023-12-26Fixed an issue to allow QR codes to be optionally resolved even when the corresponding short URL is disabled.
v3.7.1
2023-12-17Removed functional-php dependency, optimized RoadRunner logging, and fixed a Postgres short URL import error.
v3.7.0-beta.1
2023-11-25v3.7.0
2023-11-25This release adds PHP 8.3 support, SSL/TLS for Redis and RabbitMQ, experimental Matomo integration, and drops support for PHP 8.1.
v3.6.4
2023-09-23This release updates the usage of the INITIAL_API_KEY environment variable and fixes issues related to DB timeouts and Redis shared locks.
v3.6.3
2023-06-14Fixed an issue where Shlink attempted to create SQLite database tables that already existed.
v3.6.2
2023-06-08Fixed an issue with the rr binary downloading during Shlink updates.
v3.6.1
2023-06-04Fixed an error during initial Postgres database creation and corrected the default RoadRunner port when not using Docker.
v3.6.0
2023-05-24This release sets RoadRunner as the default Docker runtime, adds functionality to delete short URL and orphan visits, and introduces an installation automation command.
v3.5.4
2023-04-12Fixed issues with invalid URL schema validation and CLI short URL creation in OpenSwoole contexts.
v3.5.3
2023-03-31This release fixes short URL validation, API key tag retrieval, and a memory leak during URL imports.
v3.5.2
2023-02-16Migrated to PHPUnit 10 and fixed issues related to robots.txt, tags statistics performance, and database detection.
v3.5.2-beta.1
2023-02-12v3.5.1
2023-02-04Renamed loosely mode to loose and fixed issues with MS SQL case-insensitive checks and Redis entities metadata cache.
v3.5.0
2023-01-28Introduces device-based dynamic redirects, expanded visit statistics, support for HTTP methods 307 and 308, case-insensitive short URLs, and updated OpenSwoole configuration.
v3.4.0
2022-12-16This release adds PHP 8.2 support, new short URL filtering and visit statistics, Redis DSN credential support, and various bug fixes.
v3.3.2
2022-10-18Fixed an error occurring when attempting to retry visits location from the CLI.
v3.3.1
2022-09-30This release adds preliminary PHP 8.2 support, reorganizes namespaces for geolocation and core modules, and fixes a trailing slash issue with multi-segment slugs.
v3.3.0
2022-09-18Introduces REST API v3, experimental RoadRunner support, trailing slash support for short URLs, and improved build times and Docker startup efficiency.
v3.2.1
2022-08-08Updated route configuration to support multi-segment slugs and restricted support to PHP 8.1, while fixing environment variable config loading.
v3.2.0
2022-08-05Updated Monolog, added multi-segment custom slugs, expanded visit commands, and introduced Redis pub/sub support for real-time updates.
v3.1.2
2022-06-04Fixed issues with HTML entity parsing in page titles and a 500 error when filtering short URLs by tags and search terms.
v3.1.1
2022-05-09Updated the Docker image to openswoole 4.11.1 and fixed a crash occurring during title auto-resolution for large binary files.
v3.1.0
2022-04-23This release adds Kutt.it import support, a new domain visits endpoint, customizable timezones, and deprecates webhooks ahead of version 4.0.0.
v3.0.3
2022-02-19Updates the Docker image to PHP 8.1.3 and fixes issues with the installer's delete threshold and API key creation.
v3.0.2
2022-02-10Fixed incorrect configuration imports for SQLite users upgrading from Shlink 2.x and optimized regexps in the .htaccess file.
v3.0.1
2022-02-04Fixed an issue with title resolution and updated the pdo_sqlsrv version in the Docker image.
v3.0.0
2022-01-28Added emoji support, enhanced tag filtering and pagination, a new non-orphan visits endpoint, and reduced docker image size, while removing deprecated 2.x features.
v2.10.3
2022-01-23Fixed a memory leak in the cache implementation.
v2.10.2
2022-01-07Fixed issues related to long short URL titles, remote IP logging in swoole/openswoole, and a Redis memory leak causing non-expiring keys.
v2.10.1
2021-12-21Fixed database connection expiration errors and resolved an issue where the x-request-id header was not generated for non-rest requests.
v2.10.0
2021-12-12Introduced RabbitMQ support, YOURLS import, PHP 8.1 support, and updated to Symfony 6, while deprecating several environment variables.
v2.9.3
2021-11-15Fixed a potential SQL injection vulnerability by enforcing doctrine/dbal 3.1.4.
v2.9.2
2021-10-23Fixed issues with real-time update notifications, MySQL migration transaction errors, and task worker configuration validation.
v2.9.1
2021-10-11Fixed a crash related to the USE_HTTPS boolean value resolution.
v2.9.0
2021-10-10Added environment variable configuration, custom QR code defaults, query string forwarding options, not-found redirect placeholders, and Redis sentinel support.
v2.8.1
2021-08-15Fixed an issue where numeric query parameters in long URLs were incorrectly replaced by 0.
v2.9.0-alpha.1
2021-08-05v2.8.0
2021-08-04Introduces QR code error correction, path-appending redirects, domain-specific not-found redirects, and drops support for PHP 7.4.
v2.7.3
2021-08-02Fixed errors related to importing short URLs without visits and fetching visit data for invalid page numbers.
v2.7.2
2021-07-30Increased the memory limit for the docker image to prevent crashes during GeoLite database downloads.
v2.8.0-alpha.1
2021-07-16v2.7.1
2021-05-30Fixed an issue where GeoLite2 database files were downloaded even when tracking was disabled.
v2.7.0
2021-05-23This release introduces API key naming, real-time visit location, URL import capabilities, granular tracking options, and bot detection.
v2.6.2
2021-03-12Fixed a migration error occurring during fresh installations using PHP 8 with MySQL or MariaDB databases.
v2.6.1
2021-02-22This release removes non-inclusive terms from the source code and fixes bugs related to migrations, Twitter URL shortening, and Swoole stop warnings.
v2.6.0
2021-02-13Adds PHP 8.0 support, short URL titles, CSV imports, orphan visit tracking, and updates pagination handling while deprecating several command flags and a tag edition endpoint.
v2.5.2
2021-01-24Added documentation for Architectural Decision Records and fixed several issues related to Swagger docs and CORS headers.
v2.5.1
2021-01-21Fixed a MariaDB index error during updates to v2.5.0 and resolved a 500 error in the single-step short URL creation endpoint.
v2.5.0
2021-01-17Introduces a new API key roles system, unix socket database support, unicode slugs, and a configuration script, while deprecating certain QR code URLs and Docker volume configurations.
v2.5.0-alpha.2
2021-01-11v2.5.0-alpha.1
2020-11-29v2.4.2
2020-11-22Fixed several bugs related to swagger documentation, domain listing, Geolite DB downloads, and Swoole configuration caching.
v2.4.1
2020-11-10Fixed PostgreSQL migration return type hints, the PHP-FPM dev container base image, and not-found redirect status codes.
v2.4.0
2020-11-08Introduces SVG QR codes, per-URL validation options, domain listing, Bitly imports, and customizable Docker ports, while deprecating certain tag and ordering notations.
v2.3.0
2020-08-09Added configurable 301/302 redirects, support for non-HTTP schemas, multi-architecture Docker builds, and a new --all flag for listing short URLs.
v2.2.2
2020-06-08Fixed issues with custom slug character validation and a memory leak when loading visits for tags with many short URLs.
v2.2.1
2020-05-11Fixed an error occurring when matching existing short URLs with missing validity dates while providing new ones.
v2.2.0
2020-05-09Added Mercure hub integration for real-time events, new visit statistics endpoints, optional IP anonymization disablement, and improved visit loading performance.
v2.1.4
2020-04-30Added support for providing a custom GeoLite2 license key to avoid download limits.
v2.2.0-alpha.1
2020-04-25Added support for Mercure hub integration for real-time event publishing and fixed several bugs related to database connections and cache cleaning.
v2.1.3
2020-04-09This release fixes several bugs including issues with entities metadata cache, duplicated headers in HEAD requests, Twitter URL previews, Swoole DB connections, and QR code domain inference.