Why Craft CMS Is Switching to Laravel 6 and What New Features to Expect
Craft CMS announced its migration to Laravel V6, outlining a minimal‑impact transition, a new Yii 2 adapter for compatibility, and six major features—including bulk publishing, scheduled drafts, content import, approval workflows, page comments, activity logs, and a dark‑mode UI—set for a 2026 release.
2025-10-02, Craft CMS R&D announced at the Dot All conference that the next major version will migrate to Laravel V6.
This is not a decision we made lightly, but we are confident it is the right choice. Laravel is the PHP framework Craft developers know best, and it has a massive ecosystem of optimization packages and services that Craft can leverage.
Their blog post also explains how they will use a new Yii 2 adapter package to provide a compatibility layer for plugins and modules written for Craft 5, keeping breaking changes to an absolute minimum.
New version will launch 6 new features
Content publishing – publish multiple new entries/drafts at once, manually or on a schedule.
Scheduled drafts – schedule a single draft to be published at a specific time.
Content import – import your content using the built‑in import tool.
Content approval workflow – create governance workflows to control how entries are published.
Page comments – provide feedback to other authors directly on the entry edit page.
Element activity log – view a timeline of changes for the entry you are editing.
Brand‑new UI with dark mode and a first‑class mobile experience.
Craft CMS is a developer‑centric, efficient, flexible, and highly customizable open‑source content management system known for its user‑friendly authoring experience, powerful content modeling, and flexible front‑end integration options. It suits everything from personal blogs to enterprise e‑commerce and can be used as a headless CMS, offering modern web developers great freedom and control.
Main features and advantages
High customizability and flexibility: an open architecture that lets developers build fully custom content models and front‑ends.
User‑friendly authoring experience: intuitive back‑end UI despite being developer‑focused.
Developer‑friendly: built on PHP, supports modern web practices, and offers GraphQL API support.
Powerful content modeling: native capabilities for managing complex, interrelated content.
Flexible deployment: can run as a self‑hosted PHP app with MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Modern development support: usable as a headless CMS to feed front‑end frameworks such as Astro.
Craft CMS is expected to release a Craft 6 Beta in Q3 2026 and the GA version in Q4 2026.
GitHub: https://github.com/craftcms/cms
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