Magnolia 6.3 is here: New features enhance usability, composability, and performance

To keep pace with evolving user expectations, organizations have to continuously improve how they build and deliver digital experiences. They need to streamline content creation and integrate new systems into their tech stack while efficiently managing fast-rising content volumes.

We’re excited to release Magnolia 6.3 to address these critical enterprise needs. With this platform update, we are enhancing usability, improving composability, and optimizing platform performance at scale. New capabilities can help your organization produce engaging digital experiences across a growing number of digital channels more efficiently than ever before.

Magnolia 6.3 features several usability enhancements that make it even easier for your editors to manage content and build engaging experiences.

For example, this new release offers a revamped search experience, with a more intuitive user interface, built directly into the Pages and Assets apps. Whether editors want to reuse assets or make modifications to webpages, they can quickly search for relevant content by keyword, then sort and filter by multiple attributes, to home in on precisely what they need.

Magnolia 6.3 also includes a more powerful and intuitive visual editor. With an upgrade of the rich text editor framework to CKEditor 5, this release provides a better WYSIWYG experience for authors and makes it easier to work with content from other sources. Developers can customize the interface using standard front-end technologies.

In addition, Magnolia 6.3 introduces authoring improvements for multi-language projects. With support for IETF language tags, the platform enables your editors to deliver a semantically accurate representation of language variations.

Magnolia is dedicated to offering a truly composable digital experience platform (DXP). By providing low-code integration frameworks, ready-made connectors, and an integrated user experience across connected systems, we make it easy to add or replace technology components so you modify digital experiences as your needs change.

Magnolia 6.3 further enhances the platform’s composability. This release introduces new point connectors to specific third-party systems plus new ready-made frameworks that streamline development of custom connectors and extensions. We’re also transitioning many Incubator modules into fully supported extensions. These modules—built to address particular customer requirements or use cases—will now have improved SLA coverage, testing, support, and documentation.

Magnolia 6.3 incorporates a variety of performance enhancements under the hood to help you better build and deliver digital experiences at scale. These enhancements improve concurrent editing, asset management, publishing, and more.

For this new platform release, we have also assembled a new performance tuning guide, which provides insights into how to optimize a large-scale Magnolia setup for better performance, scalability, usability, and reliability. To generate additional insights, Magnolia 6.3 incorporates new metrics that can help you—and us—understand how the platform performs with large-scale content projects.

Magnolia 6.3 is a long-term supported (LTS) release, which means that we guarantee API stability as well as backward compatibility. Because we support LTS releases for at least two years, you can upgrade to Magnolia 6.3 knowing that it will be supported well into 2026. We will also continue supporting Magnolia 6.2 until mid 2026. In the shorter term, we can help you achieve a smooth, non-disruptive upgrade to the new platform.

For more information about Magnolia 6.3, read the release notes and the white paper.

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