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title: "Filament v4 is Stable!"
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slug: alexandersix-filament-v4-is-stable
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author_slug: alexandersix
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publish_date: 2025-08-12
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categories: [general]
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type_slug: news
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![Filament v4 is Stable!](/images/content/articles/alexandersix-filament-v4-is-stable/v4-stable.webp)
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It's official! As of today, August 12, 2025, Filament v4 is officially stable!
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And in large part, that is thanks to our incredible community and all the help
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with testing, bug fixing, and overall recommendations. We don't take for granted
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all of you and the work you've put in to help us get to where we are today.
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If you haven't been keeping up with the news regarding the v4 beta, or if you're
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new to Filament as of version 4, you'll be very happy to know that we have
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added in some incredible updates, new features, and overall performance enhancements
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to help you build even more incredible applications with Filament. There are
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WAY too many to list out here, but for a full rundown of the major updates present
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in v4, you can check out this incredible article written by the Filament Core Team's
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very own Leandro: [https://filamentphp.com/content/leandrocfe-filament-v4-beta-feature-overview](https://filamentphp.com/content/leandrocfe-filament-v4-beta-feature-overview)
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## What to expect from our favorite updates
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We're very excited about the v4 release, so to celebrate, we wanted to share a
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few of our favorite features and what you can expect from them when using the
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new v4 release!
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### Performance Enhancements
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You know we couldn't make a list of our favorite updates without touching
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on the performance enhancements in v4. Whether you're building a brand-new,
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greenfield application on v4 or updating an older version of Filament to v4,
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you'll immediately notice some nice speed boosts across your application.
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Out of the box, without any adjustments or code changes, you'll immediately
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receive a noticeable performance improvement when using Filament's tables!
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We have done a lot of work optimizing how the rendering code runs,
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and during our internal testing, we see improvements of around 3x for large
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datasets!
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In addition, we've also added in a custom partial rendering solution that
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will allow you to skip expensive component re-renders when they are not needed.
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These improvements don't come for free, but they are opt-in with the use of
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methods like `partiallyRenderComponentsAfterStateUpdated()` and
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`skipRenderAfterStateUpdated()`. There's more to dig into here, so take a
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look at the [documentation for partial rendering](https://filamentphp.com/docs/4.x/forms/overview#field-partial-rendering)
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for more information on what each of these methods do, specifically.
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If video content is more your speed (ha!), take a look at
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[this video from Nuno](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfFURplMQg) where
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he and Dan dive more deeply into the performance improvements found in v4!
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### Schemas
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Ever wanted to easily combine Filament's form fields, infolist entries,
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layout components, and prime components (the basic building blocks of
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most applications)? Previously, this was a bit of a pain to handle, but
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in v4, we've squished all of these together into what we're calling "Schemas"
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to more easily allow you to mix and match these different components
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together to create truly custom, ergonomic server-driven UIs. You can
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consider this a familiar and easy-to-understand re-imagining of how to
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combine the building blocks that Filament provides into something that
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works exactly as you (and your users) would expect in your app.
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For a full list of the available Schema components and more information
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about how they're used in general, [check out the documentation](https://filamentphp.com/docs/4.x/schemas/overview#introduction)!
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For those of you who prefer to glance at some code, here's an example
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schema direct from the documentation! You can see that, within the
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same schema (`form`, in this example), we're using components that were
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previously located in the Layout, Infolist, and Form namespaces!
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```php
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use Filament\Forms\Components\Checkbox;
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use Filament\Forms\Components\Select;
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use Filament\Forms\Components\TextInput;
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use Filament\Infolists\Components\TextEntry;
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use Filament\Schemas\Components\Section;
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$schema
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->components([
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Grid::make(2)
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->schema([
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Section::make('Details')
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->schema([
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TextInput::make('name'),
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Select::make('position')
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->options([
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'developer' => 'Developer',
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'designer' => 'Designer',
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]),
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Checkbox::make('is_admin'),
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]),
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Section::make('Auditing')
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->schema([
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TextEntry::make('created_at')
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->dateTime(),
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TextEntry::make('updated_at')
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->dateTime(),
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]),
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]),
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])
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```
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Hopefully this starts the gears turning in your brain! We're
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so excited to see what people are capable of with this new, simple
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to use system in place in v4.
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### Custom Data Tables
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I mean, it's about time, right?
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In all seriousness, we're so excited about our new table implementation
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and the fact that it now allows arbitrary, non-Model-backed data to be
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displayed! Now it's just as simple as giving your Filament Table an array
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of data to be shown, and we handle the rest for you. No more wrestling with
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the underlying Filament components or deferring to Sushi (a great package
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in its own right, though) to add custom data to your tables!
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The best part is that in this new implementation, custom data, whether
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hard-coded, retrieved from an external API, or gleaned from anywhere else,
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receives all the same niceties that typical Model-backed data gets. This
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means your custom data can be paginated, searched, sorted, and it can
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even have Actions attached to it!
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For more information, check our our [custom data documentation](https://filamentphp.com/docs/4.x/tables/custom-data)!
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### Actions, Actions, Actions
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This one is a short one, but a very, very sweet one.
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Admit it, we've all done it before: we've wanted to add an Action
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somewhere in our Filament application, but we imported the _wrong_
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Action type from the _wrong_ namespace. It's not a hard error to
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fix, but it's incredibly irritating when it happens.
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In v4, this is an issue (mostly) of the past!
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We have now unified all of the action classes, so instead of needing
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to specifically use the `Action` class that corresponds to your
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given context, all actions now use a single `Filament\Actions`
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namespace. And, in addition to Action imports being much easier now,
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this also means that you can more easily create portable Actions
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which can be reused across different contexts (Forms, Infolists, Tables, etc.).
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## There's more where that came from
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These are just a small handful of the incredible updates that have
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been packed into the v4 release.
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We're probably a bit biased in saying it, but we think this is easily
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one of the greatest Filament releases to date! You can read all about
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the update in the documentation or in Leandro's v4 overview post,
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but in my opinion, the best way to see what's available is to give it
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a try for yourself! Installation is as easy as ever, and the upgrade
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path from v3 -> v4 is simple and almost entirely automated thanks to
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our custom upgrade scripts (think Laravel Shift, but for Filament).
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Once again, we have to give a huge thank you to the entire community
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for their constant encouragement and support, as well as for their
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contributions to this release. Filament wouldn't be half the project
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it is today without all of you, and we're eternally grateful to have
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you along for the ride.
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Give v4 a whirl, and let us know what you think! We'd love to hear from
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you in the Filament Discord server, especially if you're building
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something that you're proud of using Filament!

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