# Ghost v6.59.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Ghost (https://ghost.org)
- **Version:** v6.59.0
- **Released:** Aug 19, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/ghost/updates/v6.59.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Ghost v6.59.0. Source highlight: 🎨 Updated Source to v1.7.2 - Ghost CI

## Bug Fixes
- 🐛 Fixed migrations failing on MySQL older than 8.0.28 (#30130) - Austin Burdine
- 🐛 Fixed navigation markup changing for themes without the icons flag (#30129) - Austin Burdine
- 🐛 Fixed header card asset exclusions (#30114) - Steve Larson
- 🐛 Fixed negated newsletter filters being read as their opposite - Rob Lester
- 🐛 Fixed donation checkout failing when the note label translation is too long - Rob Lester