{"id":21581,"date":"2025-01-27T08:11:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T08:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mautic.org\/blog\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T08:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:17:58","slug":"mautic-6-is-here-alpha-release-is-ready-for-you-to-start-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mautic.org\/blog\/mautic-6-is-here-alpha-release-is-ready-for-you-to-start-testing","title":{"rendered":"Mautic 6 is here: alpha release is ready for you to start testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we’re delighted to share that Mautic 6.0.0-alpha Orion Edition has been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u26a0\ufe0f IMPORTANT NOTE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a pre-release<\/strong>, which means it should never be used in a production environment<\/strong>. It will not have an upgrade path from Mautic 5, and there will not be an upgrade path to future releases. Please only use it in testing environments<\/strong>, and report back your findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The major release focuses mainly on a major update to Symfony 6, but it also brings several user-facing changes and changes for developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s important to remember that Mautic 6 is a shorter bridging release<\/a>, meaning that 6.0.0-General Availability will be the last release containing features until 7.0 is released at the end of 2025, or earlier if the minimum required changes are contributed and tested sooner. Read more about the upcoming releases in our recent blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on for more information about what’s in the 6.0.0-alpha release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

User-facing changes in the Mautic 6 alpha release<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It doesn’t hurt to remind you once again that an Alpha release is not ready for production yet and should be used for testing purposes only. The purpose of a pre-release is that you can simulate real usage with a real tool, testing the things which are important for your business so that any bugs can be identified and fixed beforehand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Improving tooltip help and guidance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

More improvements coming from the UX\/UI Tiger Team in this release include improving the tooltips and contextual help for the settings page<\/a>, explaining to users what each field does and what formats are expected. Here’s a before and after:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Improving user experience with Dynamic Web Content<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of my personal favourites, this release features a vastly improved user experience for Dynamic Web Content slot generation<\/a>, allowing you to generate the precise code required for embedding it within your website, including adding default content. You can grab the syntax commonly used for plugins (including being able to switch between square and curly braces) and for the plain HTML code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Improving layout of tables and batch action features<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve updated to 5.2 you’ll have noticed we’ve dramatically improved the layouts of tables, and with 6.0.0-alpha we’ve got some more enhancements coming for you, this time focused on improving the batch functions<\/a>. They’re now moved to the toolbar instead of being hidden under the ‘three dot menu’ in a much more intuitive layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Report on your focus items<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We now have a new report source, called Focus stats<\/a>. This allows you to create a report which includes the following data from focus items: name, url, interaction, page hits, unique hits, description, focus type, style. This is super useful to keep track of how your focus items are performing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New campaign email charts: weekday and hour based metrics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever wanted to see a chart which showed you how your emails within a campaign were performing by day or by hour? Thanks to this new PR<\/a> we’ve now got an extra tab on the campaign which shows your email statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark fields as read-only on forms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When showing a Mautic form, sometimes you might want to have certain fields ‘read-only’ – such as the user’s email address – so that they can only fill out the fields you require. Thanks to this new feature<\/a>, you can now set a field to be read only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Removal of gated video<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Gated video used a very outdated, unsupported library and only worked with the legacy builder which is going to be removed by the time we get to 6.0-General Availability. Therefore, the gated video feature has been removed from Mautic<\/a>. If developers would like to build this for GrapesJS, please make a PR for the core team to review!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developer-facing changes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With any major Mautic release we always try to remove old code, and bump up support to the next Symfony version. This means that developers are going to need to make changes to their code in order to support Mautic 6.x.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please check the 6.0-upgrade file<\/a> for all the information you’ll need – please start updating your plugins in readiness for the General Availability release in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some key things to note from this release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n