The official release of Divi 5 is scheduled for February 26th. Divi 5 has been available for some time. In fact, we recommend it for building new websites, and 40% of our customers are already choosing it. That’s no surprise because it’s better than Divi 4 in every way, and once you get used to it, it’s hard to go back!
Some third-party plugins have yet to add support, but their Divi 5 updates are now beginning to arrive.
It has been a long journey, but all of the pieces are coming together. 🤩
Removing The Beta Label
We’ve kept Divi 5 in beta for an extended period, giving creators more time to make their plugins compatible and allowing our community members to adopt it at their own pace. Meanwhile, we’ve been continually improving it, adding new features every week or two.
Our message has been simple: You can choose Divi 4 or Divi 5, whichever works best for you. We’ll continue to improve it, and the community will naturally make the switch, not because we’ve forced it, but because the grass is greener on version 5!
That said, the time has come to take the next step. We will be removing the beta label on February 26th.
If you are already using Divi 5, nothing will change. If you haven’t tested Divi 5 yet, you have some time to jump in and familiarize yourself with the new interface and dozens of new features.
Continued Divi 4 Support
To make the transition as stress-free as possible, we will continue to support Divi 4 for at least an additional six months after the official release of Divi 5. You will have the option to opt in to Divi 5 or stay on the Divi 4 update path and continue to receive critical security and compatibility updates. After the grace period, the update paths of all Divi websites will converge, and Divi 4 websites will receive the Divi 5 update notification.
This will give third-party developers even more time to add Divi 5 support to their plugins.
Try Divi 5 Today
Give Divi 5 a try today; there is so much to explore, and our rate of innovation will only speed up once we move past the beta phase. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, as it’s the primary way we communicate with you and the best way to stay informed about new features. This is going to be a super exciting year for Divi users, so stay tuned, and I’ll see you soon for another Divi 5 feature announcement, which I promise is right around the corner.
YES!!!!!!!!!!! 😀
Our site is already live on Divi 5! Check it out: https://birdhousewebsites.com. Love Divi 5, INCREDIBLE overhaul.
That site scrolls soo bad
The page scroll is so slow!!!
Yep, very bad scroll.
Great news, great work! I like Divi 5 very much.
I am having continuing problems with DIVI 5 (and 4 ) with the Divi Options save. When I hit save, I get an endless spinner.
Safe mode, still happens. After extensive troubleshooting, AI says it’s related to:
“Divi couldn’t save settings because WordPress 6.9’s new React‑based save system required PHP to return a writable, JSON response—but your PHP-FPM user didn’t have permission to write to Divi’s cache and config folders. Divi Options couldn’t save because WordPress 6.9 switched its settings to a React‑based save system that failed when PHP didn’t have permission to write Divi’s config files. Divi Options couldn’t save because WordPress 6.9’s new React‑based settings system tried to write files that PHP lacked permission to modify.”
Open a ticket and we’ll be happy to help. Usually that means there is a PHP error, often caused by plugin conflicts.
Woohoo!! Will Divi 5 officially release with a plugin builder version like Divi 4 has?
Interesting question here and I wonder what official people from ET will say here. The Extra WordPress theme they also have will not be done by that date imo.
Already got a site on Divi 5. Best builder now. 4 just seems so out of date all of a sudden.
My first site, it’s just Divi 5. Mouse clicks one guy one week. Try that with WordPress vanilla.
To not need to code flex thank you Divi!!!! Remember in Divi 5 flex is about the columns and groups not sections and rows – and use your layers panel to select – that’s a good tip.
what will happen with divi 4? those of us who have a license for divi 4 what will happen? will it be updated to 5 automatically?
Divi 5 will be a Divi 4 theme update included in your Membership
Awesome!!!
Awesome. You finally have a release date for Divi 5! Well done guys for the hard work!
Does this include the migration from Divi 4 to 5 feature. Is that stable February 26th on? As far as i know, right now the migrator is not recommended or functional. Or did i miss the news on that?
That would be a concern. As it is there is only going to be support for version 4 for an additional 6 months, after the official release in February.
From my understanding there is some sort of Divi 4 emuluated state in Div 5, prior to proper migration, but even that is not as stable as the original Divi 4. When I say not stable, there are instances where some things don’t render properly and some of these are actually legacy issues in Divi 4. Now don’t get me wrong, where we have sites, out of the box cookie cutter from theme packs are simple builds, migration may not be an issue. Where thereis an issue is with sites originally built, over five years ago, where much more customisation had to be applied to get the desired layout results, at a time when Divi had a lot less features and let’s be frank was behind the curve on things like flex and grid. These sites just don’t fare well on migration and should never be migrated.
That said, even with sites that have had remedial work done to make them play well in Divi 5, still have issues. I migrated two live sites so far but after a few Divi updates had to roll them back to Divi 4 versions. Luckily these had remained fairly static for their Divi 5 lifetimes. In terms of styling and rendering they kept going out of whack, mainly on content width. Rows set up to be aligned weren’t aligned anymore. One site was converted back for a big technical issue relating to how it was able to deal with a Toolset View filtered to a relationship between two custom post types. Instead of rendering the correct instances of the post in the archive view, it just repeated the same one over and over. This was reported, acknowledged by support and a fix was promised at some unspecified point in time. To date that update hasn’t arrived.
Despite ET support indicating that some form of Divi 4 would remian for legacy sites, with just security updates, we now see that this may not be the case. We don’t expect indefinitely, but at least a number of years while these sites are marked depricated in terms of theme, until they can get a theme update, wether that’s with Divi 5 or something else.
I’ve been very happy since hearing this news because Divi is the World class builder in the WordPress World..
After updating the Divi to 5, the UI of Divi 4 looks like a traditional UI.
Great Achievement ET team
Hi – Great News.
However could you please confirm if Divi5 supports the successful migration from Divi4?
I ask because I have many sites that were designed with Divi4 way back when Divi4 was first launched.
Regards
SteveB
Yes, absolutely! We know how important backward compatibility is, especially for long-standing sites. Divi 5 includes a built-in Divi 5 Migrator tool designed specifically to convert your existing Divi 4 content to the new format.
For anything that isn’t instantly ready, we also have a Backward Compatibility Mode that ensures your legacy modules keep working exactly as they are while you transition.
Since you have many older sites, we always recommend creating a backup or testing the migration on a staging site first just to be safe – but rest assured, keeping your existing sites running smoothly is a top priority for us!
We used divi 5 for a client site that’s on divi4 site. The user experience of the builder is amazing, however, we hit a lot of roadblocks during dev, from presets not being saved. to breaking changes from plugin update, to not having alt tag for hero images and many more. Support wasn’t particularly helpful. Hopefully, the major release addressed these!
It’s great to hear that you’re loving the new builder experience! Speed and usability were huge priorities for us with Divi 5.
Regarding those roadblocks – thank you for sticking with us through the testing phase. Since Divi 5 was rewritten from the ground up, the Alpha and Beta versions were definitely, in part, experimental, and we know that came with some friction. The official release is focused on stability, and we’ve squashed thousands of bugs (including preset issues and front-end quirks) leading up to launch. We’re confident you’ll find the stable release to be a much smoother ride for client sites!
I’ve got Divi 4 running on a few hundred websites I manage. Will Divi 4 show an update to Divi 5 for me to run or will I need to manually add Divi 5 to those websites first? I have them all connected with my API key.
Divi 5 is amazing. Thank you very much!