{"id":21754,"date":"2025-03-26T11:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mautic.org\/blog\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:54:15","slug":"mautic-6-0-orion-edition-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mautic.org\/blog\/mautic-6-0-orion-edition-is-released","title":{"rendered":"Mautic 6.0: Orion Edition is released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we\u2019ve released Mautic 6.0: Orion Edition. This is a bridging release which will have a shorter cycle so that we can catch up with Symfony\u2019s release schedule and, in the long term, provide up to five years of support for each new major version of Mautic. You can read more about that in our blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the release notes for 6.0 General Availability here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What follows includes some of the important information about this release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Firstly a big thank you to everybody who has helped by contributing code, testing and reviewing contributions, creating imagery, writing content, managing social media, writing documentation – it takes a village to manage a release and there are many ways<\/a> that people have helped get this release over the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note about Docker <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We are currently unable to release the Mautic 6 images for Docker due to a lack of active maintainers. We have an open call for maintainers<\/a> open on the GitHub repository where you can read more about getting involved as a Docker Maintainer for Mautic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marketer-facing changes<\/h2>\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\u2019s 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\u2019ve updated to 5.2 you\u2019ll have noticed we\u2019ve dramatically improved the layouts of tables, and with 6.0 we\u2019ve got some more enhancements coming for you, this time focused on improving the batch functions<\/a>. They\u2019re now moved to the toolbar instead of being hidden under the \u2018three dot menu\u2019 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\u2019ve 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 \u2018read-only\u2019 \u2013 such as the user\u2019s email address \u2013 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

New themes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We now have five new landing page themes and two new form themes to help you building beautiful experiences for your users – check them out and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set global company name and brand highlight color<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to this PR<\/a> you can now set your company name and brand highlight colour globally, which will be used by the themes added since Mautic 5 automatically. A small but convenient change for marketers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Since Mautic 3.0 we\u2019ve been diligently working on increasing the amount of our codebase which is covered by automated tests \u2013 these tests pick up on bugs and problems with code quality for developers to address before they get to you, the user. We\u2019re delighted to share that we\u2019re now at 64.75% coverage, up from from 30% with Mautic 3.0, 50.28% with Mautic 4.4 and 58.6% with Mautic 5.0 \u2013 a further demonstration of our commitment to delivering a more robust, reliable open source marketing automation platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backward compatibility breaking changes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

JavaScript<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As the legacy builder was removed these JavaScript libraries were removed as well:
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