Story Thyme 1.7.1 is a small stability update focused on improving reliability across production and staging environments.

This update fixes a production issue that affected admin access and strengthens the platform’s authentication and session handling behind the scenes.

Fixes

• Fixed a production issue where the admin page could return a 500 error
• Fixed missing authentication helper functions required by protected pages
• Fixed unsafe session checks that could cause errors when session values were not set
• Fixed inconsistencies between staging and production core files

Improvements

• Improved reliability of admin and protected pages
• Improved authentication and email verification checks
• Improved consistency of core platform files across environments
• Strengthened session handling for better stability

Security

• Improved safeguards for protected pages that require login access
• Strengthened validation around authentication and session-based access control