The next Mautic releases: what’s coming up

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It’s going to be an exciting year for Mautic - here’s what you can expect in the near future:

Mautic 6.0-alpha and 5.2.2 release – January 2025

January is shaping up to be a fruitful month, as we plan to release Mautic 6.0-alpha.

While you might still be basking in the glory of Mautic 5.2, it’s important to know that work on Mautic 6 started months ago. Mautic is getting closer to running on Symfony 6, and the team is aiming for the 6.0-alpha release by January 27th (Monday).

There are 9 open pull requests and 45 merged pull requests right now - so it's all hands on deck!

Right after that, we’ll drop Mautic 5.2.2 on January 28th.

Expect 27 merged bug fixes and 5 still hanging in the air as of this blog post.

Mautic versions usually come with almost 2 years of support, plus another year of security patches (and even two more years security support with Extended Long Term Support if you need it.) Mautic 6, however, will have a shorter life cycle, acting as a bridge to Mautic 7. After the stable release of Mautic 6, we’ll shift focus to Mautic 7, which will finally synchronize Mautic with the Symfony release schedule.

Why the focus on another Major release?

You might be wondering why we’re jumping so quickly to another major release of Mautic after we released Mautic 5 not so long ago, and the reason is because we’ve been playing catch-up for the past few years so that Mautic is running on an actively supported version of Symfony - currently that is Symfony 6.4 which is in active support until 2027 - and to a lesser extent, PHP.

In order for Mautic to ensure that we’re keeping up with Symfony and PHP releases, we need to get up to Symfony 7 as soon as possible, which will enable us to provide the much needed longer periods of support for each Mautic version. It also frees up our core team to focus on improving Mautic’s features and functionality rather than simply keeping up with mandatory updates.

So, we’re going to release Mautic 6.0 as a ‘bridging release’ with only bug fix releases after it’s shipped, and then straight away our focus will be getting Mautic 7 ready to roll with Symfony 7 support, which means Mautic 7 is coming in Q4 2025.

The first version for testing is expected by the end of summer 2025, and we're super pumped!

Why testing and merging PRs is so important right now

Once Mautic 6 is out, no new features will be added to it. All new features and improvements will go directly into Mautic 7.

This is why it’s so important to test, and get those amazing PRs into Mautic 6 before the release freeze. Mautic 6 is nearing its final stages, and after the freeze, no new code will be added. If you’ve got a great PR, now is the time to get it in! We rely on your contributions to make Mautic better, and we’re counting on you to help us finish strong!

Now, just because Mautic 6 is a stepping stone to Mautic 7 doesn’t mean the summer is going to be boring - oh no! We have a ton of features in Mautic 5 that we haven’t fully documented and featured yet, and they’re waiting to be discovered. Our Education Team is about to go into screenshot mode, as Mautic's look and feel has had a shiny makeover and the documentation therefore needs updating.

But that’s not all - Campaign Library (remember that cool project announced at MautiCon?) has just launched in the research phase of our grant-funded project, with Project Manager David Jarvis (DJ) and developer Levente Bajusz. You’ll be seeing a few blog posts about it in the coming weeks on the Community Portal. It's going to be epic!

And let's not forget the amazing Mautic contributors who keep surprising us with new plugins that bring brand-new functionality to our beloved tool. You rock!

Mautic 7: the future is bright!

As soon as Mautic 6 is released, we’ll kick off work on Mautic 7. If all goes according to plan, we could even release Mautic 7.0 General Availability earlier than expected. We’ll have to make sure we stay in sync with Symfony’s releases, though, as they’re only on minor release 7.2 and the 7.4 release will be their Long Term Support (LTS) version, we expect. We'll keep an eye on any BC-breaking changes and deprecations, but you can rest assured - we’re on it!