This PR is a preview of the release that release-plan has prepared. To release you should just merge this PR 👍

Release (2025-10-14)

• ember-cli 6.8.0 (minor)
• @ember-tooling/classic-build-addon-blueprint 6.8.0 (minor)
• @ember-tooling/classic-build-app-blueprint 6.8.0 (minor)

🚀 Enhancement

• ember-cli, @ember-tooling/classic-build-addon-blueprint, @ember-tooling/classic-build-app-blueprint
  • #10853 Promote Beta and update all dependencies for 6.8 release (@mansona)
  • #10831 [bugfix beta] enable --strict by default to match new app blueprint (@mansona)
  • #10808 Prepare 6.8 Beta (@mansona)
• ember-cli
  • #10844 [beta] Error when ember (generate|destroy) (http-proxy|http-mock|server) is used in a Vite-based project (@kategengler)
  • #10802 enable Vite by default (@mansona)
  • #10804 Support a --ts alias for the addon, init and new commands (@bertdeblock)
  • #10781 Add new VITE experiment to generate app with new Vite blueprint (@pichfl)
  • #10785 Depracate passing filenames and globs to init (@pichfl)
  • #10776 Add deprecation warning for the --embroider argument (@pichfl)
• @ember-tooling/classic-build-addon-blueprint, @ember-tooling/classic-build-app-blueprint, ember-cli
  • #10791 update the format of the ember-cli-update.json (@mansona)

🐛 Bug Fix

• ember-cli
  • #10846 [beta bugfix] allow build --watch only in EMBROIDER_PREBUILD (@mansona)
  • #10826 move resolution of @ember/app-blueprint to prevent loading latest (@mansona)
  • #10782 update heimdall-fs-monitor (@mansona)
• @ember-tooling/classic-build-addon-blueprint, @ember-tooling/classic-build-app-blueprint, ember-cli
  • #10803 Add "ember-blueprint" to keywords in package.json for the classic blueprints (@pichfl)
• @ember-tooling/classic-build-app-blueprint
  • #10798 Add import from ember-data breakage/deprecation (@NullVoxPopuli)
• @ember-tooling/classic-build-app-blueprint, ember-cli
  • #10707 Enabled recommended configs from eslint-plugin-n and eslint-plugin-qunit (@ijlee2)

📝 Documentation

• ember-cli
  • #10843 Further contextualize help output and error when options and commands that are no longer supported in Vite-based projects are used (@kategengler)
  • #10840 [beta] fix help for vite-based projects (@kategengler)
  • #10835 Update deprecation message for --embroider option (@kategengler)

🏠 Internal

• ember-cli, @ember-tooling/classic-build-app-blueprint
  • #10847 Prepare Beta Release (@mansona)
  • #10825 Prepare Beta Release (@mansona)
  • #10820 Prepare Beta Release (@mansona)
• ember-cli
  • #10845 [beta] update @ember/app-blueprint to latest beta (@mansona)
  • #10833 [bugfix beta] bump the @ember/app-blueprint version (@mansona)
  • #10823 fix incorrect ember-cli-update version in tests (@mansona)
  • #10819 update @ember/app-blueprint beta version (@mansona)
  • #10806 skip build watch tests when vite is enabled (@mansona)
  • #10790 Reorganize tests for new and addon commands (@pichfl)
  • #10783 remove unused changelog script (@mansona)
  • #10764 fix double CI run on release-plan PR (@mansona)
  • #10750 Add more notes to the Release.md (@mansona)
• ember-cli, @ember-tooling/classic-build-addon-blueprint, @ember-tooling/classic-build-app-blueprint
  • #10799 Prepare Alpha Release (@mansona)
  • #10778 Prepare Alpha Release (@mansona)
  • #10756 Prepare Alpha Release (@mansona)
  • #10763 Prepare 6.8-alpha (@mansona)

Committers: 6

• Bert De Block (@bertdeblock)
• Chris Manson (@mansona)
• Florian Pichler (@pichfl)
• Isaac Lee (@ijlee2)
• Katie Gengler (@kategengler)
• @NullVoxPopuli