Pre-release GOV.UK Frontend v6.0.0-beta.0

[Kam-Nijjar]

What

Pre-release a new version of GOV.UK Frontend with the latest changes we've built.

Why

So people can use the application of the brand colours through govuk-colour and to our components early and give us feedback about it.

Who needs to work on this

Technical writers, Developers

Who needs to review this

Technical writers, Developers

Done when

Comms preparation

• Draft release notes
• Draft comms

GOV.UK Frontend

• Follow our process to pre-release GOV.UK Frontend to npm and GitHub

Design System site

Nothing

Frontend docs

Nothing

Comms

• Send comms on Slack channels
• Send comms to mailing list

Logistics

• 🔑 Ensure that relevant access tokens are up to date
• Verify that decisions are appropriately documented (in code/issues/pull request comments or in separate documents linked from issues/pull requests)
• Update state of published issues on project board
• Close published issues when appropriate
• Open any follow-up issues if necessary

[Kam-Nijjar]

Release will be w/c 20/10/25