⚠️ Breaking Change
Impact Score: 7/10
Ghost v6.55.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
Source available — automated, not human-reviewed
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 site.substack.com links breaking when outbound link tagging is on (#29641) - leafwind
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ghost v6.55.0. Source highlight: 🎨 Changed the sidebar trial banner to be configurable via hostSettings (#29604) - Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)
- 🐛 Fixed site.substack.com links breaking when outbound link tagging is on (#29641) - leafwind
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- 🐛 Fixed feature image alt text silently disappearing when too long (#29681) - SUHAIL
- 🐛 Fixed members being removed from all newsletters when unsubscribing from one (#29605) - swithek
- 🐛 Fixed site.substack.com links breaking when outbound link tagging is on (#29641) - leafwind
- 🐛 Fixed settings sidebar flash for editors/contributors (#29660) - Jatinder Mahajan
- 🐛 Fixed duplicate reply notification emails for comment authors (#29600) - Aubaid
- 🐛 Fixed redirect capture groups ($1) not being substituted inside query strings (#29574) - Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
* 🎨 Changed the sidebar trial banner to be configurable via hostSettings (#29604) - Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki
* 🐛 Fixed feature image alt text silently disappearing when too long (#29681) - SUHAIL
* 🐛 Fixed members being removed from all newsletters when unsubscribing from one (#29605) - swithek
* 🐛 Fixed site.substack.com links breaking when outbound link tagging is on (#29641) - leafwind
* 🐛 Fixed settings sidebar flash for editors/contributors (#29660) - Jatinder Mahajan
* 🐛 Fixed duplicate reply notification emails for comment authors (#29600) - Aubaid
* 🐛 Fixed redirect capture groups ($1) not being substituted inside query strings (#29574) - Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki
* 🐛 Fixed broken admin views for Contributor and Author staff users (#29653) - Steve Larson
* 🐛 Fixed broken internal links in automation emails (#29652) - Troy Ciesco
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View the changelog for full details: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/compare/v6.54.1...v6.55.0