Seagull 7.2.1 May 2026

Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
Best for: QA engineers and PHP developers maintaining large BDD/acceptance test suites.
Release Date: (Assumed Q3 2023 – minor maintenance release)

Upgraded from 7.1.x without a single test break. The team respected semantic versioning strictly. Seagull 7.2.1

Performance has received a notable boost. The caching engine in 7.2.1 now supports Memcached, Redis, and file-based caching out-of-the-box. Page load times for rendering complex views have decreased by approximately 18% compared to version 7.0. Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5) Best for: QA engineers

The most significant change is the removal of the $data keyword (JSON Schema extension for data references) in favor of native $dynamicRef. Also, the asynchronous API has changed: New (7

Old (6.x):

const validate = await seagull.compileAsync(schema);

New (7.2.1):

import  Seagull  from 'seagull';
const gull = new Seagull();
await gull.addSchema(schema, 'http://myschema');
const validate = gull.getValidator('http://myschema');