Craft CMS is moving to Laravel

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.