Divi 5.8 Release Notes

It’s official; the beta phases have ended, and Divi 5 has arrived!

This isn’t the end; it’s a new beginning for Divi, and we are moving forward faster than ever with weekly updates. If you use Divi 5, you’ll see a version 5.8 update notification today.

The majority of our team is focused on bug fixing and overall stability. However, after months of doing nothing but fixing bugs, we are slowly transitioning back to feature development.

That means the rate of innovation will accelerate significantly over the next few months.

If you want to get an early inside scoop, I often post progress reports in the Divi Theme Users Facebook group. Join us!

What’s New In Divi 5.8?

We implemented 66 bug fixes and improvements, along with a brand-new feature: Customizable Workspaces!

Some notable bug fixes include patches for several cache-related bugs that were causing styles to mysteriously go missing at night.

Customizable Workspaces

We released customizable workspaces in Divi 5.7.3!

The Divi 5 interface is incredibly customizable. You can choose which panels are opened and closed, where they are docked, whether they are floating or in a sidebar, their size, and their position.

You can combine panels into tabbed groups. You can choose which icons are visible in the top bar. You can choose between light and dark modes, as well as various color schemes, and more!

Now, every user on your website can make the visual builder their own by creating their own collections of saved workspaces.

Create your perfect default workspace, along with alternative workspaces that you can switch to on the fly depending on what you are building, your screen size, etc.

Take the full tour. 👇

What’s Coming Next?

We have many new features in the works, and some of them are right around the corner.

In the video below, I give you an early look at:

• New font options and variable font support.
• Loop Filter modules
• Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, and Imagely modules.
• Tooltip module.
• Payment module.

There’s so much exciting stuff in the pipeline for Divi 5.

By the way, I ask an important question at the end of the video, so please share your answer in the comments.

Check out the sneak peek. 👇

Changelog

Here is a list of all fixes and improvements included in this update.

• Added Tooltip module.
• Fixed an issue where WordPress automatic update scrape requests could regenerate incomplete Divi 5 homepage CSS, causing builder styles to disappear.
• Fixed an issue where pages visited with specific URL parameters could generate invalid CSS for pages containing loops.
• Fixed VB perf regression by removing update-transient priming from perf-mode bootstrap and restored CI perf gate thresholds.
• Fixed an issue where a thin sliver of the next Group Carousel slide could show at certain viewport widths.
• D4 Search migration now keeps Search native and moves the legacy free-form CSS rule into module free-form CSS, rather than leaving it at the page level.
• Fixed an issue where saving a page in the Visual Builder could purge all LiteSpeed Cache entries instead of only the edited page.
• Fixed Button Options selection and global module sync tracking edge cases by aligning field change payload typing and handling immutable attribute trees correctly.
• Fixed an issue where Section Area Background Color could fail to apply in certain Theme Builder front-end layouts, causing sections to appear white.
• Fixed false CSS linter errors when using nested selectors without & in Free Form CSS and other Divi 5 CodeMirror CSS fields.
• Fixed the Image module lightbox not opening inside the Group Carousel after the carousel looped back to the first slide.
• Fixed workspace save not preserving the selected sidebar tab when multiple tabs are open in the same row.
• Fixed default Heading/Body global font variable labels, aligned VB/FE font resolution using shared/customizer store data, and resolved frontend fallback issues for default-like customizer font values.
• Fixed Contact Form 7 Styler button icon and rounded corners on hover.
• Fixed control layering in the Slider Module so arrows and dot navigation stay above high-z-index slide content.
• Fixed heading level set through Option Group or module presets not applying to rendered HTML on the frontend and Visual Builder.
• Fixed an issue where the Pagination module did not display custom Previous link text on hover.
• Fixed an issue where input fields could stop responding after saving the Visual Builder.
• Fixed an issue where the top-bar Clear Layout modal would not reopen after being closed.
• Fixed the Social Media Follow icon font size and icon color being unavailable for editing in the sticky state.
• Fixed an issue where Divi Cloud duplicate and copy actions could save empty layout content to the cloud when a layout failed to download or export correctly.
• Fixed an issue where Theme Customizer background settings could reset after activating a child theme.
• Preserved the parent theme background color and image when activating a child theme.
• Fixed a PHP deprecated warning when using custom CSS on the Contact Form module’s Contact Button field.
• Fixed an issue where the Layers panel could unexpectedly jump when activating modules that were already visible or when selecting modules directly inside Layers.
• Added a new workspace management system, allowing users to create customizable workspaces that encapsulate default builder settings and modal positioning.
• Added new command center comments for switching workspaces and updating existing workspaces.
• Auto-closing panels will no longer auto-close when docked.
• Fixed an issue where third-party shortcode modules could remain in backward compatibility mode in Divi 5 when content did not include a core Divi shortcode token.
• Fixed “create preset from current styles” not capturing nested composite group attributes when creating a group preset.
• Fixed dropdown panels jumping horizontally after entrance animation when dropdown alignment was set to center or end.
• Fixed an issue where the Loop Element setting could incorrectly appear in the Modified Styles filter with a reset option after the loop was turned off.
• Fixed Breadcrumbs modules so Justify Content works on newly inserted modules without toggling Layout Direction first.
• Fixed saved layouts not loading in the Visual Builder library on hosts with strict MySQL join limits, and added a clear error when the library query still cannot run.
• Added a Visual Builder filter so third-party extensions can append controls next to module field labels in the module settings modal, with documentation and a copy-paste example.
• Fixed icons sitting at the top of button-options fields when options used icons without label text.
• Fixed icon alignment in Visual Builder button-option controls so icon-only choices render vertically centered.
• Fixed a thin section divider seam that could appear during load and responsive rendering in Divi 5.
• Fixed an issue where group preset styles (including border radius) could fail to apply in the Visual Builder when preset class names were not attached correctly.
• Fixed incorrect heading font sizes on the front-end and in the Visual Builder when Text modules use option group presets, by removing preset-duplicate values from module attributes during import and at render time, so preset CSS is no longer overridden by module-level rules.
• Fixed SVG module stroke width control so users can no longer set negative stroke widths.
• Fixed the Layers View cursor freezing when dragging contact form fields (and other child modules) between modules after an invalid or blocked drop.
• Fixed false save confirmation when using Layers More Options on a global element that had already been saved.
• Fixed Theme Builder header sticky sections not sticking on scroll in the Visual Builder when editing a page.
• Fixed Timeline item date, title, and body text not appearing on the live page when the Timeline card background image parallax effect was enabled.
• Fixed an issue where Number Counter modules could switch to a default value on mobile tap when responsive hover values were not set.
• Fixed a Button module hover-spacing regression where disabled icons could still reserve icon-like horizontal space when only one custom padding was set.
• Fixed list item indent for ordered and unordered lists in Divi 5 on posts where the theme sidebar styles overrode module padding.
• Object Position responsive editing now shows the full focus-point UI and preview image on every supported responsive row in the Visual Builder, including custom wide breakpoints, and preview/spinner interactions switch the active breakpoint consistently.
• Fixed Video module responsive overlay images not appearing on the frontend when the desktop overlay image was empty, including object-shaped responsive thumbnail payloads. Hardened server-side image source normalization to prevent Visual Builder loading failures from malformed/object-shaped image src values.
• Fixed blank Layers panel labels for loop-enabled child modules when List Text (or equivalent title field) uses a loop dynamic content field such as Loop Post Title.
• Fixed an issue where shortcode-backed URL fields in Divi 5 could render malformed links by standardizing URL normalization before sanitization across affected rendering paths.
• Fixed invalid empty width and height CSS on the frontend after manually clearing sizing fields in the builder instead of using reset or the unit picker.
• Fixed the design settings for Fixed Sidebar Body Text so paragraph text inside widgets now updates consistently in both the Visual Builder and the frontend output.
• Fixed DeepHive companion PR handling so same-issue/same-branch dependency ordering feedback is treated as non-blocking without weakening true blocking review outcomes.
• Fixed the Toggle module grid column layout in the Visual Builder when changing layout while the toggle content is already open.
• Fixed Social Follow network custom attributes so rel and other link attributes apply to the icon and follow button links instead of only the list item wrapper.
• Fixed migrated background gradients rendering with incorrect length units by preserving and inferring gradient units.
• Fixed migrated Text module heading font style conversion so empty heading styles keep inherited text casing instead of forcing reset casing.
• Fixed interaction: Target Module list does not update when new modules are added to an existing page until save or reload.
• Fixed Search module Button Text font-weight not applying when Text Color was set to Light.
• Fixed Divi 5 Image module alignment so migrated custom spacing margins are preserved while SVG alignment behavior remains intact.
• Theme Customizer Body Font Weight now defaults to Regular and keeps the Customizer, frontend, and Visual Builder aligned when no custom weight is saved.
• Updated Divi 5 extension-module documentation with dedicated tutorials for enabling and customizing Layout and HTML settings groups.
• Fixed the Theme Builder “Load From Library” modal staying in light mode and showing hard-to-read tabs when the builder is set to Dark Mode.
• Fixed console errors on the Theme Options and Divi Library admin pages when using WordPress 6.9 or later.

Jump Into Divi 5 Today

It’s official. Divi 5 is ready for production. Give it a try, and let us know what you think!

If you are brand new to Divi 5, we suggest familiarizing yourself with its many new features; there’s much to explore.

• The Divi 5 page provides a good overview of some of its most exciting changes.
• Our help center has nearly 200 articles focused on Divi 5.
• On the blog, the Divi Resources category features hundreds of long-form tutorials that explore every aspect in depth.
• On YouTube, we have many videos that walk you through each new update.
• Plus, our Fin chatbot is trained on everything and can answer questions instantly! Behind the chatbot is our support team, ready to chat with you and help you through the transition.