Episode 84

Almost another year gone by. Looking back, it has been an exciting year full of Kirby 3 releases, followed by our journey towards Kirby 4.

In this issue:

• Kirby 4 is here

• Save 20% during our launch sale

• New licensing and pricing model

• Updating to Kirby 4

• Kirby Meetups

• New Kirby plugins

Kirby 4 is here

After many months of hard work, we proudly present: Kirby 4 !
It wouldn't have been possible without you, our loyal community who helped so much with testing and your feedback, and the more adventurous ones of you and your clients, who already battle tested it in production.
Thank you!

Kirby 4 is all about a new editing experience for users. With new field types and views, a way to move pages, customizable page create dialogs, query support for sections, options and enhancements for the textarea, writer, blocks and layout fields, and cool image editing improvements, using the Panel is now more impressive than ever.

Check out all the new features!

Save 20% during our Kirby 4 launch sale

To celebrate the launch, we have a special offer for you:

From today until December 18th, 2023, you get a 20% discount on new license purchases, including volume packages.

Get your Kirby 4 license now!

Updating to Kirby 4

We have done our best to keep the migration process from Kirby 3 to Kirby 4 as smooth as possible. However, Kirby 4 comes with some breaking changes that might affect your project, particularly if you are using custom code or third party plugins, that might not be compatible (yet).

For details, see our upgrade guide .

New licensing and pricing model

Starting with Kirby 4, we offer two types of Kirby licenses:

Each license includes all feature updates released within three years from the date when you first activated your license. We also provide free security updates for older versions that may protect your project beyond those three years.

Remember, Kirby 3 licenses bought or first activated after January 1, 2023 are eligible for a free Kirby 4 upgrade! For everyone else, we offer an attractive upgrade price, no matter if you have a license for Kirby 1, Kirby 2 or Kirby 3.

Read the full license terms or our summary of changes.

Kirby meetups

After people from our community recently met with Basti, Nico and Lukas from the Kirby team at the border:none conference in Nuremberg, the idea of organizing a Kirby conference has gained momentum again. And while there is no date yet, 3st have offered to host the Kirby conference in Mainz, Germany again.

Meanwhile, some community members have decided to organize local meetups for everyone interested in Kirby. Here are the dates, the first one in Hamburg already tomorrow!

Hamburg, Germany
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 6:00 PM:
Kick-Off & Kirby 4

Munich, Germany
Thursday, December 7, 2023, 6:00 PM:
Kick-Off & The Bright Future of Kirby 4

Düsseldorf, Germany
Thursday, December 7, 2023, 6:00 PM:
Kick-Off & The Bright Future of Kirby 4

We also plan to create a community map to make it easier for you to connect with other members of the Kirby community near you, be it for meetups or project collaboration. Add your information here.

Kirby plugins

Plugin compatibility with Kirby 4
We already compatibility-tested more than 120 plugins, and you will now find an indicator (K3, K4) on the plugin pages. There's also a new v4 section in our plugins area, which highlights v4 plugins. More compatible plugins will follow soon.

New Kirby blueprints plugin

This new plugin by Bruno Meilick introduces new ways to define PHP Class based Blueprints for Kirby (Kirby 4 only!).