Currently, the development of version 2 is very, very active . New features and fixes are implemented on a daily basis. The version 2 update will essentially be a full rewrite of the entire application , including the backend, frontend, standard theme and blocks. The goal is to also include as many open feature requests and resolve as many open issues as possible until the day of the release. Existing websites using version 1 as well as existing extensions, except for some minor execptions, will continue to work just fine and will be compatible with version 2. Minor breaking changes will be communicated with the relase notes. The new dashboard will be entirely written in TypeScript and will no longer have jQuery and UIkit as dependencies . The new backend will require at least PHP 8.0 or newer. Please note that this is an open-source project that is free to use and the maintainer spends a substatial portion of his free time, weekends and nights in order to finish the release as soon as possible. That said, there is no fix release date yet. It is done whenever it is done. In the meantime you can safely start a new website using version 1 and migrate to version 2 afterwards.

Version 2

ctuxboy

Can't wait see the new version 🙂

abhi

Wow! Excellent work so far.

JohnnyBurnam

I was previously using Kirby CMS and I found Automad today. I will be following this CMS closely, it looks very promising!

Povi

I also agree that Automad looks promising - fingers crossed! 🤞🏻

Graphuste

The hype is real about v2 on my side. Can't wait to seen the brand new version. I probably will test it right away because I'm thinking about rebuilding my Automad theme on my website for quite a while now.
Great job on that CMS so far. I love it and already use it on two websites.

hudson

wohoo 🥳

hudson

@mad will there be some sort of an easier i18n feature such as a pipe function?

consumer

I downloaded the v2 code from github, unzip and fire it up in MAMP and I get an error message:

No main theme defined!
Please define a theme!

mad

consumer This post clearly states that v2 is work in progress. In other words, v2 is not finished and simply can’t be used yet. It is also written in the README of the repository that new projects still have to use version 1 and must migrate later to version 2.

Please follow the official docs for installation instructions.

consumer

Ah, I see:
I had misinterpreted, "you can safely start new website using version 1 and migrate to version 2 afterwards." to mean, "it is possible to..." when in reality it seems like it means you must start a new website in version 1 and then upgrade to version 2.

Sorry! I'm just really excited to see what v2 looks like. Thank you for all your hard work, MAD!!

mad

consumer Thanks! Yeah, for now it is still version 1 for new projects. I hope v2 will be out soon! Stay tuned!

mancinifra

Will Automad 2 include a way to add comments to posts?