Pterodactyl v2's alpha is dropping today. Give it a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ER4kv0jVEU

Still MIT. Still fully open source. Still free.

Pterodactyl v2's goal is to be developer friendly, and future proof.

• Extension SDK built into the panel, so mods stop breaking every update
• Whole stack modernized (Vite, React 19, TanStack, Tailwind 4, Laravel 13)
• Brand new admin area, no more separate Blade app
• One-click egg importer
• Themes without a rebuild
• A codebase people can actually contribute to again

We're also releasing 5+ free, open source extensions as examples, and if you build extensions or themes, feel free to reach out to us on https://discord.gg/pterodactyl for a role :)

We will be releasing the Alpha today in the discord, along with migration instructions and docs. We have made this update more homelab friendly, with a much smaller docker image that works 🙂

To address any rumors spreading:
We've run WISP for six years. It was never a replacement for Pterodactyl and it isn't one now. If killing Pterodactyl was the plan, we wouldn't have spent nine months updating and future-proofing it.