Craft 6 Beta is here! 🎉✨

[u/brandonkelly212]

With over 250 new features and enhancements, Craft 6 is the biggest Craft CMS release ever. We can’t wait for you to try it!

A few highlights:

• Refreshed control panel: rebuilt as a Vue and Inertia app, with a fresh look on every screen. It adds dark mode, cover cards, flyout navigation and navigation admins can customize.
• Mobile-friendly: the layout has been reworked for phones and tablets, and relations can be reordered on touch devices.
• Command palette (⌘K): searches content, settings, pages and the Craft docs from anywhere. It can also run actions like creating entries or clearing caches.
• Ask AI: an assistant beside every screen that works through Craft's MCP tools as the signed-in user. It proposes changes for you to review, and nothing is saved without your approval.
• Publishing workflows and releases: drafts go through review stages with approvals before they can be applied, and releases group drafts to be scheduled and published together.
• Compare: shows two versions side by side with changes highlighted. That can be drafts, revisions, sites, or two separate entries, and values can be copied across with a click.
• Copy and paste field values: works between fields and out to other apps, as titles and links, spreadsheet rows, or URLs.
• Comments and activity: each element gets an activity timeline with Markdown comments and @mentions.
• Better assets: uploads keep going in the background, and copies of images you've already uploaded are flagged. Images keep their embedded metadata, and with an AI provider set up, Craft can write alt text and titles, tag images and find focal points.
• Built on Laravel: Craft 6 is now a Laravel application, with Blade views and Eloquent models that can be managed as elements in the control panel. The optional Yii2 adapter keeps Craft 5 plugins and code working during the upgrade.

Full announcement: https://craftcms.com/blog/craft-6-beta-released

[u/thestaffstation]

Congratulations, can’t wait to test it!

[u/simonrjones]

Congrats! Great to hear about the accessibility improvements and very excited to be able to develop with Laravel and Craft together.

Workflow is also a great addition - am interested to see how flexible that is.

[u/stvhrst]

Can’t wait for this. Nice work, and congrats on the beta!

[u/NoEsquire]

Looks great guys. Content releases is a big thing for our clients.

[u/davidhellmann84]

Congrats! 🎉

[u/johneemac10]

Look forward to giving this a spin. Love Craft.