# Ghost v6.54.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Ghost (https://ghost.org)
- **Version:** v6.54.0
- **Released:** Jul 24, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/ghost/updates/v6.54.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ghost v6.54.0. Source highlight: 🔒 Made filename generation more secure, performant and resilient to filesystems' limits (#70) - Sag

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- 🐛 Fixed member custom field actions breaking history (#29506) - Steve Larson

## New Features
- ✨ Added config to specify custom adapter install location (#29487) - Austin Burdine
- ✨ Added inline editor for redirects.yaml and routes.yaml (#29200) - Murat Çorlu
- ✨ Added support for v4 (canary) schema - Naz
- ✨ Added `member.avatar_image` for member gravatars in themes (#11584) - Kevin Ansfield
- ✨Added labels for Members (#11538) - Rishabh Garg
- ✨ Added complimentary member subscription (#11537) - Naz Gargol

## Improvements
- 🔒 Made filename generation more secure, performant and resilient to filesystems' limits (#70) - Sag
- 🎨 Further improved automation polling performance (#29477) - Evan Hahn
- 🎨 Improved automation polling performance (#29476) - Evan Hahn

## Bug Fixes
- 🐛 Fixed unsafe output from the split helper (#29298) - Oscar Hedvall
- 🐛 Fixed posts with a self-referential canonical URL being excluded from the sitemap - yash
- 🐛 Fixed YouTube bookmark metadata (#29114) - Rayan Salhab
- 🐛 Fixed a members import label containing a comma being split in two - Rob Lester
- 🐛 Fixed members CSV import storing a formula-escape character in member data - Rob Lester
- 🐛 Fixed members CSV import dropping columns from an uneven file - Rob Lester