FAQs

This guide provides answers to some of the questions new Flyers may have, as well as common questions the PatternFly team receives from the community. If there's a question that you believe should be addressed in these FAQs, reach out to the PatternFly team.

For more information about PatternFly, check out our "About" page.

PatternFly is an open source design system for enterprise software. PatternFly is maintained by Red Hat and is used extensively across Red Hat products, but anyone can use or contribute to PatternFly.

The PatternFly team is part of Red Hat's User Experience Design team and is composed of more than 20 designers, developers, and writers.

We publish a major release when we need to release breakings changes that will require significant consumer updates that will alter the way your product's code interacts with PatternFly. These are our single version numbers, like PatternFly 4, 5, or 6.

We publish a minor release each quarter to introduce non-breaking changes, including enhancements, bug fixes, and new features. These increase the sub-version of a major release, like PatternFly 6.1, 6.2, or 6.3.

We occasionally share patch releases between our quarterly minor releases for timely bug fixes that can't wait until the end of the quarter. These increase the sub-version of a minor release, like PatternFly 6.1.1, 6.1.2, or 6.1.3.

We are currently on version 6 of PatternFly—also known as "PatternFly 6". You can view the current minor and patch release version within our release highlights.

You can contribute to the design and development of PatternFly, including new features as well as assisting with existing backlog issues. For more details, refer to our contribution guidelines.

We encourage you to share the details of any potential bug that you'd found in your products. To alert the team, follow our bug report guidelines.

Our team regularly triages new bug reports based on severity and product impact. While we do our best to address critical bugs quickly, providing clear details and any relevant deadlines in your report helps us prioritize effectively. Follow our bug report guidelines to alert the team about an issue.

The PatternFly 6 design kit is fully supported within our Figma libraries:

• Components
• Patterns and extensions

To learn how to use our Figma libraries, refer to our Design Kit Onboarding Resources guide.

For maximum consistency, always start with PatternFly's official component and pattern guidelines. If your product has specific needs that require deviation, check for established product-specific patterns on the UXD Hub. before creating a new one. This ensures alignment across the broader Red Hat ecosystem.

PatternFly is supported on the 2 latest major versions of the following browsers:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
• Edge

We offer both HTML/CSS and React implementations for our components. We support React 17, 18, and 19 in PatternFly 6.

You can navigate to the documentation for previous PatternFly versions using the version switcher in the masthead of our website. Note that we no longer maintain this documentation, with the exception of critical bug fixes in the major release prior to our current version.

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