Progress Report - August 2026

It's been an active August here at Backpack HQ. Now that you're back from holiday... we've got new stuff for you: Maintenance CRUD - 7...

It's been an active August here at Backpack HQ. Now that you're back from holiday... we've got new stuff for you:

Maintenance

• CRUD - 7 updates (we're at v7.1.15)
• PRO - 5 updates (v3.0.29)
• Theme-Tabler - 1 update (v2.0.9)
• Basset - 1 update (v2.0.13)
• a few minor patches to other packages

New: Support Tickets

Until now, in order to submit a bug report, you had to create a Github account. It's a complaint we've gotten over the years - because not everybody has one. But it's now solved! Starting today:

• if you're a free user, you can still submit issues on Github;
• if you're a paying user, you can open a support ticket in your Backpack account;

This also makes it easy for us to prioritize the issues we're getting from paying users, over the ones from the users of our open-source packages. So the next time you find a bug in Backpack... if you're a paying user... please open a support ticket, from your account.

What's your Backpack v8 wishlist?

We've officially starting working on Backpack v8. We have plans to make this the most rock-solid and stable version yet. So we've started with the maintenance stuff: bumping and removing dependencies, fixing inconsistencies, etc. But we do plan to add quite a few fixes and features to it. So before we show you any of our plans... let us know what you would like to see in Backpack v8. What's your biggest gripe with Backpack v7? Or what's the one thing you'd like to see in v8? Comment below - even a one-line answer can get us to do something that'll make your life easier.

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That's it for August 2026. Thanks for using Backpack - we couldn't do this without your support.

Cheers!