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+title: "The Filament v5 Beta is Here!"
+slug: alexandersix-the-filament-v5-beta-is-here
+author_slug: alexandersix
+publish_date: 2025-10-30
+categories: [general]
+type_slug: news
+---
+
+![The Filament v5 Beta is Here!](/images/content/articles/alexandersix-the-filament-v5-beta-is-here/filament-v5-beta.webp)
+
+## Another major version?
+
+That's right! This year, at the first ever wire:live conference,
+Dan unveiled and tagged the first version of Filament's v5 beta!
+
+Now, before you start worrying about having to go through _another_
+major version upgrade, don't fret! Filament v5, while a major version
+in name, doesn't actually include any new functionality or changes to
+existing Filament functionality, so it should be a _very_ easy upgrade.
+
+So if everything within Filament is exactly the same, why then are
+we releasing a major version? In short, it all boils down to the release
+of Livewire v4. The jump from Livewire v3 to v4 is packed with some
+incredible new features, and we want to make use of them within Filament
+(and enable folks _using_ Filament to use them as well). However, it
+felt imprudent to bump one of our core dependencies to a new major
+version in a minor or patch version of Filament itself. Instead,
+we decided to go ahead and make the leap to Filament v5!
+
+This does mean that Filament v4 will _not_ include support for Livewire v4;
+if you want to use the newest, latest goodies that the Livewire team has
+cooked up, you'll need to make the quick and easy jump to Filament v5.
+
+## But wait, there's more
+
+You didn't think we were just going to launch a new major
+version without _anything_ else, did you?
+
+While we've been hard at work ensuring that Filament v5 was updated
+to make use of all of the fun new Livewire v4 features, we have
+had a few other project bubbling around in the background as well.
+We aren't _quite_ ready to announce what we've been working on yet,
+but watch this space, because we all think it's really cool.
+
+---
+
+As always, if you have any feedback or questions about the upcoming v5 release,
+pop into the Discord and we and the rest of the community will be happy
+to chat through it with you! Also feel free to give the v5 beta a whirl
+and experience all the fun things that Livewire's newest version has
+to offer!