Statamic 6

Statamic 6 is officially released.

Not in a confetti-cannons-during-a-keynote-style-movie-trailer kind of way — just… done. Solid. Real. Tagged. Stable. Shipped. With immense pride in our human-written and hand documented code.

If you’ve followed along through the sneak peek, the beta, or the year-in-review post, you already know what went into this. We’ve talked about the architecture. We’ve talked about Vue 3. Inertia. The Control Panel redesign and rewrite. The UI component library. The foundational improvements. The refactors. The 1,000+ PRs. The commitment to the future.

This release is like a line in the sand. Or maybe more starter's pistol firing at the start of a marathon. The beginning of big things to come.

We're Doubling Down

A lot of software gets louder over time. Busier, more complicated. The UI gets cluttered, the nav structured and reorganized into an obtuse mess in a desperate attempt to jam more perceived value into the shareholders report.

We wanted to do the opposite. Statamic 6 is us doubling down on being:

opinionated yet flexible and configurable
clear, calm, and intentionally designed
modern and beautiful, but not trend-chasing

We made tradeoffs to get here

We said "not yet" to good ideas. Necessary ideas. We said "no" to trends. We said "later" for features people asked for — because the foundation wasn't ready. That's difficult for me because I genuinely want to make everybody happy. Restraint isn't easy. But by exercising it, we bought ourselves something more rare in the world today: confidence.

We removed unknown unknowns. We have the patterns and tools to build a whole new host of features and experiences needed to support the rapidly changing landscape of the internet today.

We nuked tech debt from orbit.

Our recommitment to what's important

Statamic 6 is our way of recomitting to providing a certain kind of software. Software that's increasingly hard to find today. We're not trying to become:

A page builder
A walled-garden SaaS
A generic admin toolkit
A lowest-common-denominator CMS

We care about developers and the feeling you have when your tools bring you joy and earn your trust. We care about editors feeling empowered and confident in their experience, not overwhelmed or frustrated. We care about providing designers with freedom. We care about teams building things they're proud to maintain.

So yes — Statamic 6 is out, and yes — it’s the big one.

All the work we've put into it adds up in ways that are hard to screenshot but easy to feel. So we recommend you just install this sucker and feel it for yourself.

What's new?

This release includes over 1,000 PRs of improvements, so we'll just keep this list short and sweet.

A completely redesigned Control Panel
UI Component library
Control Panel themes
Vue 3
Inertia.js
Tailwind 4
Command Palette
Elevated sessions
Two-factor authentication
Passkeys
Antlers component tag syntax
Smart view scaffolding
Addon settings
Better date and timezone support
Replicator/Bard sets can have image previews
Laravel Boost Guidelines
Publish form overhaul
Collapsible publish form sections
Publish form site locale-aware text direction
Background Static Cache re-caching
Collection calendar view
Live Preview hot-reload
REST API Authentication
Improved JS and addon workflow
Vue Composition API support in Fieldtypes

And that's just scratching the surface.

Where to start

If you’re ready to dive in, here are a few good places to begin — depending on where you’re coming from.

New to Statamic? Start with the installation guide and get a fresh project up and running in minutes.
→ https://statamic.dev/installing

Upgrading from Statamic 5? We’ve put together a clear upgrade guide that walks through what’s changed and what to watch for.
→ https://statamic.dev/upgrade-guide/5-to-6

Want to explore what's new? Check out the changelog! Buckle up, there are 1000+ PRs in this release.
→ https://github.com/statamic/cms/releases/tag/v6.0.0

The docs have been updated alongside v6, with refreshed examples, screenshots, and guidance throughout.
→ https://statamic.dev

What's next?

With v6 tagged, we can shift into several new efforts.

A new Laracasts course
Multi-site/multi-language improvements
Forms 2.0
Workflows

And time will tell what else. 😎