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UMB.FYI 2025-11-12

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Get Ready For Umbraco Spark 2026 (3 minute read)

Cat Todd announces Umbraco Spark 2026, a one-day conference on 20 March 2026 at We The Curious, Bristol, UK. Early Bird tickets are available for £100 + VAT. The event features talks, a hackathon, networking opportunities, and invites speaker submissions. Volunteers for MC roles are also sought.

[ #announcement ] [ #festivals ] [ #umbracospark ]

Umbracokalaset 2025 - Swedish Umbraco Festival (6 minute read)

Owain Jones reflects on his experience at Umbracokalaset 2025 in Stockholm, highlighting the warmth of the Umbraco community and the positive reception of his talk on enhancing content editor experiences. He expresses gratitude to Aspire Systems for their support and encourages others to share their knowledge at conferences for personal growth and community connection.

[ ] [ #festivals ] [ #roundups ] [ #umbracokalaset ]

Nah, the Umbraco Community Hasn't Lost It's Spark - We Have (6 minute read)

In response to Owain William's blogpost, Ben argues that the perceived decline of the Umbraco community stems not from the community itself but from broader economic pressures. He highlights how financialization and stagflation have drained joy and participation from all aspects of life, leaving individuals exhausted and disconnected.

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Regularly Expressed Regular Expressions (2 minute read)

Joe Glombek provides a collection of useful regular expressions for validating formats such as GUIDs, YouTube URLs, and Vimeo URLs. The expressions can be adjusted by adding or removing start (^) and end ($) markers to match entire strings or find patterns within longer strings.

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No, you don’t need Lit, Vite, or TypeScript to Extend the Umbraco Backoffice (4 minute read)

Luuk Peters discusses misconceptions among developers regarding the need for extensive scaffolding to extend the Umbraco "Bellissima" backoffice. He emphasizes that while Umbraco uses Lit, Vite, and TypeScript, developers can utilize plain JavaScript without a build pipeline. Understanding the architecture's flexibility can simplify the extension process.

[ #backoffice ] [ #bellissima ] [ #typescript ]

Umbraco in the City - Community, Code, and Cuddles (3 minute read)

Last Friday, Laura Weatherhead attended the inaugural Umbraco in the City conference in Manchester with her nine-month-old. The event fostered an inclusive atmosphere, thanks to organizers Adam Prendergast, Phil Whittaker, Rachel Breeze, and Jon Whitter. Laura enjoyed insightful talks, particularly Matt Brailsford's on balancing AI and technical specifications, and appreciated the community's support for diverse participation.

[ #roundups ] [ #umbracointhecity ]

Watch & Listen

Live from Umbraco in the City Manchester! (28 minute listen)

Hosts Carole Logan, Emma Burstow, Laura Weatherhead, and Lotte Pitcher reunite live at Umbraco in the City Manchester to discuss what meaningful contributions look like in a mature open-source project, joined by guests Michael Latouche, Paul Seal, and Kieron McIntyre.

[ ] [ #contributions ] [ #umbracointhecity ]

Events

Umbraco Virtual - Community Hour

2025-11-12 from 13:00 to 14:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) - Online

[ #virtual ]

Umbraco Meetup - Copenhagen

2025-11-13 from 16:45 to 18:45 (Europe/Copenhagen) - Knowit, Nyropsgade 41 5 Sal, København, DK

Umbraco Leeds Meetup - Jonny Wood - Exceptionally Graceful: The lost art of exception handling & logs

2025-11-13 from 18:30 to 20:30 (Europe/London) - Enjoy Digital, 23 The Calls, Leeds, GB

Umbraco US Meetup Group - November Meetup - Umbraco Engage Tips and Tricks

2025-11-18 from 13:00 to 15:00 (America/New_York) - Online

[ #umbracoengage ]

umBristol Talks - November 2025

2025-11-19 from 18:00 to 21:00 (Europe/London) - Runway East Bristol Bridge, 1 Victoria Street, Bristol, GB

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Training

Load Balancing and Azure (November 12th 2025)

Nov 12, 2025 - North America - EUR 1250.00

[ ] [ #azure ]

Packages

Skybrud.Umbraco.Redirects 17.0.0-beta001

Award winning redirects manager for Umbraco.

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Adage.Engage.Inspector

Visual A/B test and personalization inspector for Umbraco Engage

[ #personalization ] [ #segments ] [ #umbracoengage ]

Social

Join Lotte and Emma at .NET Conf 2025

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Early bird tickets for Umbraco Spark 2026 are out now!

[ #festivals ] [ #umbracospark ]

Help Dean Leigh race money for Bowel Cancer UK this Christmas

[ ] [ #community ]

Nexer Digital - Umbraco in the City Key Takeaways

[ #roundups ] [ #umbracointhecity ]

Announcing Umbraco Scotland!

[ #community ]

Learn how to use the Management API with TypeScript by Owain Williams

[ #managementapi ] [ #typescript ]

Contentment 6.0.0-beta001 is out now with support for Umbraco 16 and 17

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Umbraco Cms 13.12.0 Release Candidate is out now!

[ ] [ #umbracocms ]

DK Festival Lineup Announced

[ ] [ #dkfestival ] [ #festivals ]

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