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Craft 6's alphas keep converting the plugin API, one removal at a time

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◆Current state
Craft is running two lines with very different energy. The 5.10 maintenance branch ships one-bug releases hours apart and nothing else. Craft 6 is in its seventeenth alpha, still migrating onto Laravel: alpha 17 removes Plugin::settingsHtml() in favour of a settingsForm() built on the Control Panel Form system, replaces the Pane.vue component with a craft-pane web component, and moves another management command onto Laravel's schema API.
◆Where it's heading
The pattern established at alpha 14 has not changed shape, only advanced: every alpha retires another Yii-era extension point and re-lands it on the new stack, with craftcms/yii2-adapter carrying the compatibility burden. Alpha 17 adds an Inertia-native slideout system that renders any CpScreenResponse as an in-page panel, which is the control panel moving from a legacy JavaScript layer to a genuinely Inertia/Vue one rather than wrapping it. The long fix list — stale permission trees, autosave firing on unchanged values, provisional drafts created on page open, queue jobs stuck reserved — reads as the cost of that churn being paid down alpha by alpha.
◆Prediction
Expect further alphas that remove specific Yii-era plugin APIs with adapter fallbacks, and the 5.10 line to keep shipping single-fix patches until a Craft 6 beta absorbs the team's attention.

◆Recent moves

  1. 11h ago

    Alpha 17 retires plugin settingsHtml and adds Inertia slideouts

    The largest alpha since 14, and it keeps pulling plugins onto the new foundation: Plugin::settingsForm() replaces settingsHtml(), which is removed outright with Yii-era settings HTML surviving only through the yii2-adapter. The Inertia/Vue control panel gains a slideout system rendering any CpScreenResponse in-page, Pane.vue gives way to a craft-pane web component, and craft:db:drop-all-tables moves to Laravel's schema API. Most of the length is bug fixes against the alpha.15 and alpha.16 surface.

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  2. 13d ago

    Alpha 16 fixes double-required migrations and a widget gap

    Two fixes: Yii-style migrations could be required twice, and the legacy Widget base class was not fully implementing the new widget interface. Cleanup behind the dashboard work from alpha 15.

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  3. 13d ago

    5.10.13.2 fixes a SQL error on empty Categories fields

    A single SQL error fix for elements with an empty Categories field, shipped about two hours after 5.10.13.1. The maintenance branch releases per bug rather than batching.

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  4. 14d ago

    5.10.13.1 restores rendering of sanitized SVGs

    One fix: sanitized SVGs would not render. A same-day patch on the 5.10 line, hours ahead of the next one.

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  5. 14d ago

    Craft 6 swaps its image pipeline to intervention/image and libvips

    The image stack changes hands: intervention/image replaces pixelandtonic/imagine, an optional libvips driver arrives, and BMP, HEIC, ICO, JPEG 2000, JPEG XL and TIFF become transform targets where the driver supports them. Markdown-based dashboard widgets and fluent field-layout APIs land alongside.

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  6. 27d ago

    Craft 6 alpha 14 breaks plugin providers and lifecycle hooks

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    The alpha that tells plugin authors to rewrite: extra.laravel.providers is out, automatic plugin trait lifecycle hooks are removed, and a full control-panel component library arrives in their place. This is the breaking edge of the Laravel rearchitecture.

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