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Craft 6 reaches beta with an AI assistant that edits content through its own MCP tools.

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◆Current state
Craft CMS 6.0.0-beta.1 ends the alpha series on the Laravel foundation. It adds Ask AI, a chat panel beside every control panel screen that uses Craft's MCP tools as the signed-in user and proposes changes the user reviews and applies, plus a Ctrl/Cmd+K command palette, a side-by-side Compare screen for drafts, revisions and sites, and copy/paste of field values. The 5.12 stable line gets only single-fix patches.
◆Where it's heading
The alphas rebuilt the control panel on shared Inertia/Vue components; the beta uses that base to add editor-facing features, with AI assistance and version comparison at the center. Ask AI runs on the same MCP tools and permissions as the user, so Craft is treating AI as another way to operate the control panel rather than a separate content generator.
◆Prediction
Further 6.0 betas fixing plugin and UI issues are the likely next step, with Ask AI's scope and model settings the area to watch. No release date for 6.0 is visible in the entries.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3d ago

    Craft 6 beta adds Ask AI, a command palette and draft compare

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    The first beta turns the rebuilt control panel into a feature release: an AI assistant on every screen, a command palette and a full compare view for drafts, revisions and sites. It marks the switch from porting screens to Vue to shipping what the new base was built for.

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  2. 10d ago

    Craft 5.12.0.1 fixes duplicate icons in icon pickers

    A single-fix patch on the new 5.12 stable line, removing duplicate icons from icon pickers. The stable branch stays in maintenance while the real work happens in the 6.0 alphas.

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  3. 1mo ago

    5.11.5.1 restores editing of third-party nested elements

    A one-fix 5.x patch restoring editing for third-party nested element types. Maintenance on the stable line while 6.0 is rebuilt.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Craft 6 alpha.20 moves more editors onto shared Vue controls

    Matrix blocks, nested elements, global sets, user addresses and generated fields move onto the shared Vue controls, and slideouts get the full save menu. Another step in replacing legacy HTML forms in the new control panel.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Craft 6 alpha.19 adds inline editing and exports to indexes

    Element indexes gain inline editing, exports and search-as-you-type, and control-panel messages move to a single stacking, accessible system, alongside more plugin-breaking changes. The largest UX batch of the alpha so far.

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  6. 2mo ago

    Craft CMS 6.0.0-alpha.18

    Alpha.18 adds configurable asset transformer profiles — previously a monolithic setting, now manageable per-volume — and replaces Craft's system status with Laravel's native maintenance mode. Autosave behavior on element edit screens is also sharpened: keystroke changes wait, discrete changes save immediately. Solid developer-facing improvements mid-alpha.

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