Ghost 6.0: Social Web Distribution and Native Analytics
Ghost 6.0 (August 2025) adds ActivityPub social web distribution, first-party Tinybird analytics, Lexical editor upgrades, and Docker Compose as the forward deployment path.
Ghost 6.0 launched 4 August 2025, bundling social distribution, first-party analytics, and a clearer deployment roadmap for the next decade of independent publishing.
ActivityPub and the social web
Publications can join the open social web: readers on Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and compatible clients can follow, like, and reply—adding discovery loops email alone cannot replicate while you keep your domain and member graph.
Native analytics
Cookie-free analytics unify web traffic with newsletters and memberships, filterable by public visitors, free members, and paid subscribers. Self-hosters can attach a Tinybird key; managed hosting includes hosted analytics on eligible plans.
Theme and ops notes
Ghost 6 targets Ubuntu 24, Node 22, and MySQL 8, with Docker Compose documented as the forward deploy path. Theme authors should validate against GScan for @site.locale, social_url, kg card widths, and page visibility flags. AMP support is deprecated.
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