Our Spring Sale starts today! Save 20% until March 23rd getkirby.com/buy
You know the drill:
🛒 Volume discounts save you even more
🛒 You can buy licenses in bulk and activate them later
🛒 Each license includes free major upgrades for the next 3 years after activation
A fantastic new German initiative turns the first Sunday of every month into "Digital Independence Day", showcasing ways how to say goodbye to big tech: di.day.
We couldn't be happier that their site is running on Kirby.
A lot of websites nowadays need to be measured by their First Contentful Pain
We've just realised that we've surpassed 200 releases since Kirby 3 in 2019! 🤯 It's incredible how simply showing up can lead to so much progress over time, but you only really notice it in hindsight. {{ put inspirational quote about a slow drip and a hollow stone here }}
Our plugin ecosystem keeps growing. Here are some recent highlights:
🔌 Kirby MCP:
plugins.getkirby.com/bnomei/kirby...
🔌 Kirby Blueprint Areas:
plugins.getkirby.com/grommasdietz...
🔌 Kirby Loop:
plugins.getkirby.com/moinframe/loop
🔌 Kirby TipTap:
plugins.getkirby.com/medienbaecke...
We've just released the second alpha for Kirby 6: github.com/getkirby/kir...
Coming in the second half of this year as a free upgrade for all Kirby 4 and 5 license holders, it's going to include some really cool new features. Some of them are already available in this developer preview.
Adam Neely has created an absolute masterpiece about GenAI and Music, which is very much applicable to any craft. I don't think I've seen anything comparable yet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
The video is clearly targeted at Americans, but it has some fantastic points about renewable energy that I haven't seen phrased like this before: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9... Don't skip the second part though. It's even more important.
We were really excited to learn that the site for the Stockholm City Hall Restaurants is running on Kirby: www.stadshusrestauranger.se.
Agency Bolt is sharing more details about the process in their great case study: www.bolt.se/case/food-fa....
Looking forward to breathless media coverage of drivers of internal combustion engine vehicles who are suffering from range anxiety because gas stations are becoming ghost stations.
It's impossible to consume world news without stabbing yourself with a knitting needle afterwards. In fact, the stabbing is the more enjoyable part.
Justus has posted a great new video on his channel showing you how to add custom icons to the Panel. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSYX...
Today is Kirby’s 14th birthday 🎂
It still feels like yesterday and a hundred years ago when v1 launched without the panel, a PDF cheat sheet for all available methods, a red logo and zero expectations. 14 years later you are still supporting us. Stronger than ever. Thank you so much 💛
1. Combine the sale discount with volume packages to save even more.
2. Every license includes 3 years of free upgrades after registration.
3. You can buy licenses in stock and register them later.
4. You can buy licenses for your customers and we can transfer them later if needed.
Our sale ends today: getkirby.com/buy 🛍️
All you need to know last minute …
We'll keep our 'Kirby wrapped' post brief. There's one number we really want to share with you. Together, we’ve collected and donated €4,778 to the Against Malaria Foundation in 2025. 💛
This is a great achievement. We are very grateful that you use our donation chechbox at checkout so frequently!
Kirby is a highly extensible system. We are already seeing great integrations. But it's all about having a choice and it's also about sticking to our philosophy. You should be able to add things to Kirby. You should not have to remove them in order to make it work for you or your values.
It might sound weird, but we don't have any plans to bake AI into @getkirby.com We are well aware that a significant part of our customers would not appreciate forcing AI upon them. And we respect that.
The majority of those AI thinkpieces are pretty predictable growthhacking attempts or often just good old ragebait. The tiring part is trying to look for substance in any of this.
What's new in v5.2? We've managed to achieve better performance for our Panel forms, especially for setups with deeply nested fields. Running views for all our fields (of course a very theoretical scenario), we achieved a reduction in time of almost 70%!
All of 5.2: github.com/getkirby/kir...
A major source of happiness for me is seeing meaningful projects being built with @getkirby.com Here are just some recent, personal highlights: seashepherd.fr, hackyourfuture.net & arbeiterkind.de
We sometimes hide in a rabbit hole for a bit to come back with a week like this:
🐇 Kirby 5.2.0
github.com/getkirby/kir...
🐇 Kirby 6.0.0-alpha.1
github.com/getkirby/kir...
🐇 Kirby CLI 1.9.0
github.com/getkirby/cli...
🐇 Kirby Konf 2026
konf.getkirby.com
🐇 Kirby Winter Sale
getkirby.com/buy
But there's more …
🚀 Kirby CLI 1.9.0
github.com/getkirby/cli...
🐘 PHP 8.5 support for all kits
The Starterkit, Plainkit and Composerkit have all been upgraded to Kirby 5.2 and PHP 8.5
🛍️ Sale
Last but not least: Don't forget that Kirby is currently on sale: getkirby.com/buy
This early developer preview comes with Vue 3 support and mainly aims at all plugin developers. It does not include new features yet. But we want to start the migration process early together, to keep it as painless as possible and move our ecosystem forward in a responsible way.
🚀 Kirby 6.0.0-alpha.1 – Developer Preview
github.com/getkirby/kir...
Kirby 6 is still a long way off. ETA is the second half of 2026. It will be a free, major upgrade for all Kirby 4+ license owners. …
We have a big list of updates for you:
🚀 Kirby 5.2.0
github.com/getkirby/kir...
🐘 PHP 8.5 support
📻 CORS support
☑️ New batch select mode for checkboxes
↕️ Collapse / expand all blocks
📂 New create option for the files section
🏷️ Better auto-labels in the Panel
⚡️ Big performance boost for forms
Our winter sale is here! Get 20% off until 22 December: getkirby.com/buy 🌲
He suddenly stood behind me and shouted: "Stop! You are riding a dead horse here!" I had killed what was already good by not stopping. That lesson really stuck with me.
Notion is such a good example of a tool with a team that did not know when to stop and reflect, but just kept adding.
We had a brilliant drawing teacher and sculptor in university. I was very pleased with one of my drawings and kept going, adding more and more details. …
Well … if I could have a wish for Christmas … how about joining the “Friends of beyond tellerrand”? Be part of #btconf and make it independent. 🤘
beyondtellerrand.com/friends-of-bt
🙏 Thank you!
