ckeditor/ckeditor

JavaScript WYSIWYG web text editor.

CKEditor 4 - Releases

⚠️ CKEditor 4: End of Life and Extended Support Model until Dec 2026

CKEditor 4 was launched in 2012 and reached its End of Life (EOL) on June 30, 2023., _(*1)

A special edition, CKEditor 4 LTS ("Long Term Support"), is available under commercial terms ("Extended Support Model") for anyone looking to extend the coverage of security updates and critical bug fixes., _(*2)

With CKEditor 4 LTS, security updates and critical bug fixes are guaranteed until December 2026., _(*3)

Releases Code

This repository contains the official release versions of CKEditor 4., _(*4)

There are four versions for each release — standard-all, basic, standard, and full. They differ in the number of plugins that are compiled into the main ckeditor.js file as well as the toolbar configuration., _(*5)

See the comparison of the basic, standard, and full installation presets for more details., _(*6)

The standard-all build includes all official CKSource plugins with only those from the standard installation preset compiled into the ckeditor.js file and enabled in the configuration., _(*7)

All versions available in this repository were built using CKBuilder, so they are optimized and ready to be used in a production environment., _(*8)

Documentation

Developer documentation for CKEditor is available online at: https://ckeditor.com/docs/., _(*9)

Installation

Git clone

To install one of the available releases, just clone this repository and switch to the respective branch (see next section):, _(*10)

git clone -b <release branch> git://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4-releases.git

Git submodule

If you are using git for your project and you want to integrate CKEditor, we recommend to add this repository as a submodule., _(*11)

git submodule add -b <release branch> git://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor-releases.git <clone dir>
git commit -m "Added CKEditor submodule in <clone dir> directory."

Using Package Managers

See the Installing CKEditor with Package Managers article for more details about installing CKEditor with Bower, Composer and npm., _(*12)

Repository Structure

Branches

This repository contains the following branches:, _(*13)

• master and latest – the latest release of the standard-all preset (including betas).
• stable – the latest stable release of the standard-all preset (non-beta).
• A.B.x (e.g. 4.3.x) – the latest release of the standard-all preset in the A.B branch.
• (basic|standard|full)/stable – the latest stable release tag point (non-beta).
• (basic|standard|full)/latest – the latest release tag point (including betas).
• (basic|standard|full)/A.B.x (e.g. basic/4.0.x) – the latest releases in the A.B branch.

Tags

Since version 4.3.3 this repository uses the following tag naming rules:, _(*14)

• x.y.z – contains the standard-all editor build, e.g. 4.3.3, 4.4.0 etc.
• (basic|standard|full)/x.y.z – contains the editor build with a given preset, e.g. basic/4.3.3.

The version numbers follow the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 scheme., _(*15)

Up to version 4.3.2 the tags were released in the following form x.y[.z]/(basic|standard|full). For example: 4.0/basic, 4.0.1/standard. This convention was changed in CKEditor 4.3.3 to conform to the Semantic Versioning scheme., _(*16)

Checking Your Installation

The editor comes with a sample page that can be used to verify if the installation succeeded. Take a look at the samples directory., _(*17)

To test your installation, just call the following page for your website:, _(*18)

http://<your site>/<CKEditor installation path>/samples/index.html

For example:, _(*19)

http://www.example.com/ckeditor/samples/index.html

License

Licensed under the GPL, LGPL, and MPL licenses, at your choice., _(*20)

Please check the LICENSE.md file for more information about the license., _(*21)