Mautic vs Ghost
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Mautic patches a SQL injection CVE across three release lines and previews 7.2 'Lynx' for the next major.
Mautic shipped coordinated security releases on May 28 fixing CVE-2026-4776, a SQL injection in API contact filtering, across 7.1.2, 6.0.9, and 5.2.11 — covering every supported branch. Days later the project posted the 7.2.0 'Lynx' Release Candidate, signaling the next minor is close. Cadence shows the steady volunteer-driven release rhythm typical of mature open-source marketing automation.
Mautic continues to maintain three release lines in parallel, which is unusual for a community OSS project and signals real production use across long-lived self-hosted deployments. The simultaneous CVE patches and the new RC suggest a maintainer cohort with bandwidth for both security response and forward feature work. The Lynx RC will likely shape the second half of 2026 for self-hosted marketing-automation deployments seeking a HubSpot/Marketo alternative.
Expect 7.2 GA within a month, followed by 7.1.x and 6.0.x bug-fix releases as Lynx changes percolate. The next visible move beyond patching will be community-led work on AI-assisted email content or segmentation, given the broader marketing-automation peer set is shipping those features.
Ghost keeps shipping weekly, compounding its membership-and-audience engine.
Ghost is in a steady weekly-release cadence, with most changes clustered around membership growth, reader engagement, and creator UX. No single release is category-shifting; the strength is consistency around the paid-subscription business model.
The roadmap is widening the top of the membership funnel — social distribution, gifting, richer comments — while smoothing day-to-day publisher workflows. Each release nudges readers closer to becoming, and staying, paying members.
Expect continued small, frequent releases aimed at converting and retaining paid members, with engagement surfaces (comments, social, referrals) as the likely next focus.
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