Archive

Initial release. Archive exports everything on a Craft site into a portable, platform-neutral bundle, so the content can be migrated off Craft — or into anything else — without writing a scraper.

The version number starts at 5.0.0 to track the major version of Craft it supports.

Content

• Collectors for entries, categories, tags, global sets, assets, addresses and users.
• Records are one element in one site: records sharing a uid and differing by site are translations, which suits target platforms that don't share Craft's multi-site model.
• Relations are extracted alongside field values, so an importer can wire content up without walking every field.
• Portable field values with a stable kind — richText, relation, blocks, money and the rest — that an importer can switch on regardless of which plugin produced the field. Rich text has its Craft reference tags resolved to real URLs.
• Hyper, FreeLink, Google Maps and SEOmatic fields export as real data rather than the Craft element IDs they store internally.

Formats

• JSON, NDJSON, XML, YAML and CSV. manifest.json is always JSON, whichever you pick.
• CSV gets one file per record type, a relations.csv join table, and the schema in its own directory, since it can't nest.

Structure

• The site's structure travels with the content: sites, sections, entry types, field definitions, category and tag groups, volumes, filesystems, global sets, user groups with their permissions, routes, the installed plugin list and system settings.
• Filesystems are described by name and type only — never their settings, which is where cloud credentials live.

Assets

• Files on local volumes are copied into the bundle; files on remote filesystems are referenced by URL so bundles stay small. Either can be overridden per export, and there's a size ceiling above which files are referenced rather than copied.

Privacy

• User accounts are excluded unless explicitly allowed, and don't appear as an option until they are. Addresses belonging to a user account follow the same rule.
• Password hashes are never exported, under any setting.

Scale

• Exports stream. Records are spooled to disk as they're collected and written back one at a time, so memory stays flat regardless of the size of the site.
• Queued exports, with a "run in the background" option on the export screen.
• Console commands: archive/export, archive/bundles, archive/bundles/prune and archive/bundles/delete.

Extending

• Three event-driven registries — collectors, writers and value serializers — plus before/after export events. See docs/EXTENDING.md.