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Security Advisory, March 11 , 2025 - Patches for Umbraco CMS are now available

Umbraco has released patches for versions 10.0.0 - 10.8.8 and 13.0.0 - 13.7.0, as well as 14.0.0 - 14.3.2 and 15.0.0 - 15.2.2, to address high-severity vulnerabilities related to the ImageSharp dependency. Users are advised to update to the latest minor versions for optimal security.

[ ] [ #security ] [ #umbracocms ]

Join the Umbraco Sustainability Team and Make a Difference

The Umbraco sustainability team, led by Martin Wulser Larsen, is a group focused on promoting sustainable practices within the Umbraco ecosystem. They engage in initiatives like advocating for greener hosting and educating the community. The team invites passionate individuals to apply by March 30, 2025, to contribute to meaningful sustainability projects.

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Community

Skrift Issue #114

Featuring guest posts by Andy Eva-Dale on "Neurodivergent Tech Leadership: It's the Best." and Kai Wodicka on "What is Neurodiversity?"

[ ] [ #neurodiversity ]

This Umbraco 8 to 13 Upgrade Was Easier Than I Expected!

Corne Hoskam details his upgrade from Umbraco 8 to Long Term Supported version 13, emphasizing a smooth transition facilitated by Umbraco Deploy. He outlines the process of exporting content, handling deprecated dependencies, and rebuilding the codebase for .NET Core. The upgrade significantly improved site performance and usability.

[ #migrations ]

Umbraco.Community.FormsFinder: Easily Track and Manage Your Umbraco Forms

Johan Reitsma introduces Umbraco.Community.FormsFinder, a tool designed to simplify form management in Umbraco by providing a clear overview of form usage across the website. This package allows editors to quickly verify active forms, ensuring efficient content management without the need for tedious manual checks.

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Regional Hosting Available with uSkinned

Marc Love, Technical Director at uSkinned, announces the introduction of regional hosting options for uSkinned websites, allowing users to select Microsoft Azure data centres in Europe and the US. This enhancement improves site performance, compliance, and SEO targeting, with more regions to be added soon for greater flexibility.

[ #hosting ]

Contributing to Umbraco CMS by fixing a bug

Nathaniel Nunes discusses Umbraco, an open-source CMS, and shares a step-by-step guide on contributing to its development. He emphasizes the importance of community involvement, outlines the process of identifying and fixing a bug, and details how to submit a Pull Request. Nunes encourages learning through contributions.

[ #contributions ]

Yet another CORS in Umbraco Post

Jason Elkin discusses the challenges of configuring CORS for a headless Umbraco site, particularly due to middleware order and project architecture constraints. He presents a solution involving a custom composer that sets up CORS policies in a separate assembly, allowing for frontend API requests while accommodating local development variations.

[ #cors ] [ #headless ]

Watch & Listen

How to choose the right CMS for your organization?

This webinar discusses selecting the right CMS by analyzing business needs, technical requirements, and industry trends. Experts emphasized defining goals, evaluating customization options, considering licensing, and partnering with experienced agencies. Flexibility, scalability, and usability were highlighted as key decision factors.

[ ] [ #business ]

Events

Umbraco India User Group - Umbraco and Zapier Magic

2025-03-12 from 16:00 to 17:00 - Online on googleHangout

[ #automation ]

Umbraco Brisbane Meetup March 2025 - Hybrid Event

2025-03-12 from 18:00 to 20:00 - Tiny Technologies, Level 11/157 Ann Street, Brisbane City, AU

UmbraCymru - Umbraco Spark debrief!

2025-03-13 from 18:30 to 20:30 - Method4, 12-14 Trade Street, Cardiff, CF10 5DT, Cardiff, GB

[ ] [ #festivals ] [ #umbracospark ]

Umbraco Leeds Meetup - Umbraco Spark Fest review and uSync GPT

2025-03-13 from 18:30 to 20:30 - Enjoy Digital, 23, The Calls, Leeds, GB

[ #ai ] [ #festivals ] [ #umbracospark ] [ #usync ]

TUKG Mart Toplantisi / TUUG March Meeting

2025-03-18 from 19:00 to 21:00 - Online on zoom

Umbraco London March 2025 - Talks TBC

2025-03-19 from 18:30 to 21:00 - Needs a location

Manchester and North West Umbraco Meetup - Aaron Journeaux & Nicola Baker - Design Systems: What's the Hype?

2025-03-20 from 18:30 to 20:30 - Cantarus, Lower Ground Floor, Jutland House, 15 Jutland St, Manchester M1 2BE, Manchester, GB

[ #designsystems ]

Training

Load Balancing and Azure

Mar 13, 2025 - North America - EUR 1200.00

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Packages

Umbraco.Community.DadJokes

Adds an image of a dad to the header, which when clicked, opens a modal containing a dad joke.

XPEDITE.StarterKit

Barebones starter kit designed to get you started with XPEDITE's NextJs code generation for creating headless sites based on Umbraco content.

Umbraco.Community.ServerVariables

Low/no-code solution to access server variables with JavaScript in Umbraco.

Umbraco.Community.FormsFinder

Quickly locates forms across your content and shows where they're used.

UmbGeo

A package that gives you a property editor for Geo Coordinates.

Umbraco.Community.ModelsBuilder.PropertyOverride

Re-implementation of the ImplementPropertyType functionality to tell ModelsBuilder not to generate properties.

Umbraco.Community.LoremIpsumGenerator

The "Lorem Ipsum Generator" package creates lorem ipsum in the RTE.

Siteimprove.Umbraco13.Plugin

Limbo.Umbraco.Spa 13.0.0-alpha005

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Skybrud.Umbraco.Redirects 13.0.7

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Social

CODECABIN25 applications are OPEN!

[ #codecabin ]

Umbraco Spark 2025 - That's a wrap!

[ #festivals ] [ #umbracospark ]

Umbraco CMS patches available for two moderate-severity security vulnerabilities

[ ] [ #security ]

SeoToolkit.Umbraco 4.0.0-beta1 (Umbraco 15) now Available

UmbNav beta is out for Umbraco 15

Pre Umbraco Spark hackathon wrap-up video from true

[ #festivals ] [ #umbracospark ]

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