# Announcing the Ionic 7 Beta

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/announcing-the-ionic-7-beta/230790>\
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**Created:** [February 1, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/announcing-the-ionic-7-beta/230790 "2023-02-01T15:40:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ldebeasi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/ldebeasi/32/147501_2.png) [@ldebeasi](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/ldebeasi)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/announcing-the-ionic-7-beta/230790/1 "2023-02-01T15:40:46Z")

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Originally published at: [https://ionic.io/blog/announcing-the-ionic-7-beta](https://ionic.io/blog/announcing-the-ionic-7-beta)  
   
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the Ionic 7 beta! This release improves the developer experience when working with overlays, forms, events, and more. Here’s what you can expect with Ionic 7: Inline Overlays In Ionic 6 we introduced the ability to use the Modal and Popover components declaratively inside application templates. We’ve…

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**Author:** ![paulsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e7dd6/32.png) [@paulsn](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/paulsn)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/announcing-the-ionic-7-beta/230790/2 "2023-02-16T08:59:23Z")

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Cool! Is it already possible to find the starters template in Ionic 7 beta? I want to start a new app and prefer to start in 7 beta instead of updating from 6 to 7.

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**Author:** ![ldebeasi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/ldebeasi/32/147501_2.png) [@ldebeasi](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/ldebeasi)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/announcing-the-ionic-7-beta/230790/3 "2023-02-16T15:09:02Z")

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The starters are on Ionic 6 and won’t be updated until Ionic 7 ships (so new developers don’t accidentally get started with a pre-release version of Ionic).

However, you should be able to skip most of the migration guide if you are starting with an Ionic starter. I believe “Getting Started” and “Browser Support” are the only sections you need to follow: [Updating to 7.0 | Ionic Documentation](https://ionicframework.com/docs/v7/updating/7-0#getting-started)

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**Author:** ![degroundshaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/degroundshaker/32/70984_2.png) [@degroundshaker](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/degroundshaker)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/announcing-the-ionic-7-beta/230790/4 "2023-03-01T09:54:01Z")

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Amazing, Tabs performance is cool for react & vue, I wish more performance optimisations could have been covered for poor angular users too ^.^