# Beaver Builder version 2.11

**URL:** <https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/beaver-builder-version-2-11/20212>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** beaver-builder\
**Created:** [July 7, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/beaver-builder-version-2-11/20212 "2026-07-07T15:58:39Z")\
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#### 2.11 "Kariba" - 07/07/2026

Beaver Builder 2.11 is here! This is a major update and will be released as the official download on the My Account page first. Remote updates to all existing sites will begin soon.

Please check out the [Release Post](https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/beaver-builder-2-11) for highlights of what's new or the ["About this Release"](https://docs.wpbeaverbuilder.com/beaver-builder/introduction/about-release) doc for all of the details.

**Enhancements**

- Popup Module: New container module for creating a variety of popups, flyouts, and interstitials. [See this video](https://vimeo.com/1134022900) for more info.
- Popup Module: Added support for using within the Loop Module
- Popup Module: Add 9 pre-built module templates
- Add integration hooks and surfaces for bb-ai-design-system
- Global colors are now available in the Multiple Background field and refresh is no longer required after adding new Global Colors
- Overlays: Show parent container overlays similar to rows when there is enough space. [See this video](https://vimeo.com/1134028241) for more info.
- Overlays: Render in the body instead of layout markup to prevent styling conflicts with the design panel coming in 3.0.
- Updated FontAwesome to FontAwesome 7.2
- Add WordPress (7.0+) Font Library support to typography fields
- Rename Layout CSS/JS menu item to Layout Settings and add Post Settings tab to be able to edit post/page info inside the UI
- a11y: Every link that opens a new tab has a screen reader text to notify users
- a11y: Add new option for styling outlines in Global Styles for interactive elements
- a11y: Accessibility improvements to the HTML structure of the Accordion Module. This uses module deprecation to ensure backwards compatibility. Buttons now have unique accessible names
- Advanced Tab: Add controls to add custom HTML attributes to every node
- Add hooks before rendering the custom attributes
- Performance: Add filter `fl_builder_remove_orphaned_nodes` to clean up any orphaned nodes when saving a layout
- Add `didUpdateLayoutExternally` JS hook so external integrations can mark the layout as needing publish
- Field Connections: Add support to select post ID
- Add Prepend option when applying a Template
- WP Admin Settings pages design refresh, add Settings snapshots and a Maintenance Mode option
- Optimization: Serve translations from translate.wpbeaverbuilder.com
- Enable field connection support in icon fields
- Rows: Text, Link, Link Hover, Heading and Background color fields and Overlay fields are now responsive
- Global Styles: Add padding, gradient and width options for buttons
- Outline Panel: Add Save As option to context menu
- Outline Panel: Add ability to directly export Globals/Components to context menu
- Box Module: Fix force download option for the link field not working
- Button Module: Add support to trigger any existing Popup module
- Button Group Module: Width, Text, Background, and Border Colors are now responsive
- Icon Module: Text Spacing, Text Color, Icon Color & Hover Color, Icon Background & Icon Background Hover fields are now responsive
- Icons: Add support for Pro Styles, and add extra classes field to support animations and other features that can be used by adding a class
- List Module: Ensure more fields are responsive
- Number Counter Module: Wrap number Prefix/Suffix in SPANs. This uses module deprecation to ensure backwards compatibility
- Photo Module: Added ability to add `no-lazy` class to the module to disable lazy load on a per module/image basis
- Popup Module: Added various accessibility enhancements including keyboard navigation for arrow keys with keyboard focus, a new modal popup type with focus lock, fallback accessibility support for all triggering links and more
- Pricing Table Module: Add options to choose tooltip display on hover or click and add 2 new styles for tooltips
- Search Module: Added the ability to limit the search results by post type when displaying results via AJAX
- Search Module: Add new reveal layout and proper attributes for accessibility
- Slideshow Module: height field is now responsive
- Testimonials Module: Add typography field and make text and arrow color fields responsive
- Testimonials Module: Add an option to control looping
- Added a new module type registry to support rendering of static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- When exporting Saved Nodes, add label for what type of Saved Node it is
- Performance: optimizations to reduce database queries, repeated object cloning and repeated work during builder loads

**Fixes**

- PHP 8.5 compatibility: Fix PHP deprecation notices
- Fire a preview refresh when removing values to fix inconsistent behavior with empty values
- Fixed CSS keyword none incorrectly wrapped in url() for background-image property
- Fixed Row Text colors overriding Box Module text color
- Add missing module dependencies
- Fixed `max_input_vars` causing silent save failures across the builder
- Box Module: Fix link field not working properly
- Fixed node changes not being saved when done immediately before importing styles
- Fixed SVG backgrounds in Box module breaking due to insufficient data URI encoding and CSS minification
- Fixed fatal TypeError in Box module link attributes when using v1 of the module

**Changes**

- Required WP version is now 6.8+
- Updated welcome page for 2.11 release
- Rename Content tab in Post Modules to Query for consistency with Components
- Add admin notice for sites that have the iFrame UI disabled
- When looping is disabled remove navigation at the end for Content Slider, Post Slider, Post Carousel modules and add aria-hidden when needed
- Advanced Settings: Enable shortcodes in CSS/JS by default and remove toggle
- Visibility: For breakpoint icons, put a line through when a node is not visible at that breakpoint
- Modularize the BxSlider plugin wrapper margins property
- Update fl-builder/layout block to API v3
- Remove redundant logic in the Pricing Table module
- Add Beaver Builder menu item to WordPress importer and it now respects the Content Options setting
- Adjust wording in admin notice when legacy UI is enabled to clarify it is no longer supported
- Addons installer script is no longer enqueued on every admin page
- Updated stale URLs in core templates
- Inline editing is now skipped for fields containing shortcodes to prevent shortcode content rendering inside text modules when clicking the shortcode
- Synced status indicator on `didUpdateLayoutExternally` hook
- Debug Mode: Added a Database section with a table AUTO\_INCREMENT check

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