With the release of Ghost v6 and the announcement that Ghost CLI will be discontinued in future releases (from v7 onwards), I wonder for how much longer CLI will be supported? A year? More? I started my self-hosting journey in January of this year and I’m still very much a newbie. I am extremely t…

Unfortunately I can’t say much on the CLI timeline/end of support since I don’t know myself! I switched to docker install when v6 came out, with little previous docker experience, and it definitely had its challenges, but once I got the hang of it it was pretty easy. If you have any specific issues …

Branching off of this, just realised there is a slight Ghost CLI timeline/end of support, it’s not exactly a timeline: So, we’re moving toward Docker Compose as the officially supported way to install, run and update Ghost. This is now available as a developer preview , and will become the default …

Just to clarify, you can use the CLI to go to Ghost 6.0. You’ll probably want to do that, even if you wait for v7 to do the Docker switchover.

Thank you for your responses Carolina & Cathy. Yes, I know that CLI is still an option for v6 but I have been reluctant to update to it fearing that without ActivityPub being set-up, I may get error messages in the Dashboard. It took me so much work to get my self-hosted instance running smoothly …

Ghost CLI timeline / end of support

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acburdine August 18, 2026, 9:34pm 6

Some updates on the Ghost-CLI timeline: Deprecating Ghost-CLI (& other platform updates)

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