Kirby v6.0.0-alpha.3 Release Notes
Release Date: 2026-07-07 // about 1 month ago-
TL;DR:
⬆️ Kirby 6.0.0-alpha.3 is an early developer preview. We plan for a final release in the second half of 2026. Kirby 6 will be a free upgrade for all Kirby 4 & 5 license holders.
Important
Don't use Kirby 6 in production yet
🆕 New highlights in alpha 3
🔒 🚨 Security
🚀 All our security fixes and improvements from our Kirby 5 security releases
🔒 🔐 User security drawer
A single place on the user/account view to handle security-related matters, e.g. email, password, two-factor (TOTP) management
🔑 Panel authentication overhaul
💅 The login view has been refactored from the ground up to be more driven by the backend. It now features a method picker, a challenge switcher, and centralized loading/error handling. Auth methods can now also authenticate without an email, enabling token/SSO-style plugin methods that don't key on email and plugins can ship their own login method, just like custom challenges. Passkey is coming …
🪪 Custom Passwords Policy
The new
auth.passwordsoption allows you to define a custom password policy for all users.// site/config/config.phpreturn['auth'=> ['passwords'=> ['minlength'=>12,'uppercase'=>true,'lowercase'=>true,'digits'=>2,'symbols'=>true] ] ];And more …
- 👩🎨 New Icons and components
- 🐎 🏎️ Various performance improvements
- 🪄 A huge Panel JS to Typescript migration
- 🛠 🐛 Various bug fixes and enhancements
🔄 Changelog
🚀 We are collecting all changes in our pre-release changelog, if you already want to dive deeper: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/blob/6.0.0-alpha.3/CHANGELOG.md
Previous changes from v6.0.0-alpha.2
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TL;DR:
⬆️ Kirby 6.0.0-alpha.2 is an early developer preview. We plan for a final release in the second half of 2026. Kirby 6 will be a free upgrade for all Kirby 4 & 5 license holders.
Important
Don't use Kirby 6 in production yet
Highlights
✍️ Live editor
🖨 📄 Simplified blueprint definition
🥞 New template stacks
🔘 New buttons field🔄 Changelog
🚀 We are collecting all changes in our pre-release changelog, if you already want to dive deeper: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/blob/6.0.0-alpha.2/CHANGELOG.md