Craft CMS just announced on stage at their Dot All conference that they will be moving to Laravel for V6, their next major release.
That’s not a decision we made lightly, but we’re confident it’s the right choice. Laravel is by far the most familiar PHP framework among Craft developers, and it comes with a massive ecosystem of Laravel-optimized packages and services Craft will be able to tap into.
Their blog post also covers how they are approaching the transition with a new Yii 2 adapter package, which will provide a compatibility layer for plugins and modules written for Craft 5. This will keep breaking changes to an absolute minimum.
Craft 6 new features
- Content releases – publish multiple new entries/drafts at once, either manually or at a scheduled time.
- Scheduled drafts – schedule a single draft to be published at a certain time.
- Content importing – import your content using a built-in importer tool.
- Content approval workflows – create content governance workflows that control how entries get published.
- Edit page commenting – provide feedback for other authors within an entry’s edit page.
- Element activity logs – see a timeline of changes to the entry you’re editing.
- New UI, with dark mode support and a first-class mobile experience
They expect to ship Craft 6 Beta in Q3 of 2026, with a GA release following in Q4.
