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If you ship a Grav plugin or theme, the new compatibility flag is one of the most important things to know about for Grav 2.0, and it's also one of the easiest 2.0 updates you can make. It's a one-block addition to your blueprints.yaml that tells Grav exactly which major versions you've tested...

If you maintain a Grav plugin or theme, this post is your starting point for Grav 2.0. I know how a major version bump can look from the outside, especially when the headline features include a brand-new admin and a first-party API, so I wanted to get out in front of the obvious question: "what do...

One of the biggest lessons we took from the 1.8 beta cycle is that in-place upgrades across a generational library change are inherently fragile. When the PHP stack moves, the Symfony vendor packages move, and Twig moves all at the same time, even a well-tested upgrade path can fall over the m...

After nearly two years of development (including a 1.8 beta cycle that taught us a great deal about what not to do), I'm thrilled to announce that the entire Grav 2.0 suite has reached Release Candidate status today. Grav 2.0 core, the API plugin, Admin2, Quark 2, and the Migrate plugin are all available right now via GPM (the MCP server is a separate standalone Node.js package, see below), and they all behave like the final product is going to behave.