⚠️ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
Ghost v6.36.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Component: ghost · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
Breaking-change evidence from the source
🐛 Fixed What's New banner breaking on null changelog fields - Rob Lester
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ghost v6.36.0. Source highlight: 🎨 Added direct access-code entry for private sites - Jonatan Svennberg
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- 🐛 Fixed What's New banner breaking on null changelog fields - Rob Lester
✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- 🎨 Added direct access-code entry for private sites - Jonatan Svennberg
- 🐛 Added missing empty state for members (#27463) - Weyland Swart
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- 🐛 Fixed RTL languages rendering left-to-right in newsletter emails (#27357) - Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki
- 🐛 Fixed admin deep-link redirect when URL has a trailing slash - Rob Lester
- 🐛 Fixed What's New banner breaking on null changelog fields - Rob Lester
- 🐛 Fixed missing favicon and apple-touch-icon in React admin (#27528) - leafwind
- 🐛 Fixed member import tier mapping (#27612) - Jonatan Svennberg
- 🐛 Fixed Popover leaking Escape to ancestor dismissable layers - Rob Lester
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
* 🎨 Added direct access-code entry for private sites - Jonatan Svennberg
* 🎨 Moved private site controls into Access settings (#27390) - John O'Nolan
* 🐛 Fixed RTL languages rendering left-to-right in newsletter emails (#27357) - Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki
* 🐛 Declared lodash as a phantom dep in apps/admin - Rob Lester
* 🐛 Preserved trailing slashes inside admin redirect query values - Rob Lester
* 🐛 Fixed admin deep-link redirect when URL has a trailing slash - Rob Lester
* 🐛 Fixed What's New banner breaking on null changelog fields - Rob Lester
* 🐛 Fixed missing favicon and apple-touch-icon in React admin (#27528) - leafwind
* 🐛 Added missing empty state for members (#27463) - Weyland Swart
* 🐛 Fixed member import tier mapping (#27612) - Jonatan Svennberg
* 🐛 Fixed Popover leaking Escape to ancestor dismissable layers - Rob Lester
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View the changelog for full details: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/compare/v6.35.0...v6.36.0