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UMB.FYI 2026-02-11

Umbraco HQ

AI, intentionally (8 minute read)

Bolette Kern discusses Umbraco's thoughtful approach to integrating AI into its flexible content platform. Emphasizing user choice and modularity, Umbraco.AI allows organizations to define their AI strategies without being locked into rigid models. The focus is on stability, governance, and community-driven innovation, ensuring AI adapts to evolving needs.

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Community

Umbraco Skills for AI Agents - A Game Changer for Backoffice Development (3 minute read)

Umbraco has introduced the Umbraco-CMS-Backoffice-Skills repository, enabling AI agents to learn about Umbraco backoffice development. Installation is simple, and the skills enhance AI capabilities in property editor development and context APIs. This significantly improves AI-generated solutions, ensuring they align with the latest backoffice architecture for better user experiences.

[ #ai ] [ #backoffice ]

AI in Umbraco in 2026: choices, governance, and day-to-day use (6 minute read)

Umbraco integrates AI to enhance editorial tasks while maintaining human oversight. It offers tools for content assistance and supports multiple AI providers for varied tasks. This approach ensures compliance with governance standards, allowing gradual AI adoption without disrupting existing workflows. Phases, an Umbraco Contributing Gold Partner, emphasizes understanding current usage before implementing AI solutions.

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Introducing Umbraco AI (9 minute read)

Matt Brailsford introduces Umbraco AI, a provider-agnostic AI integration layer for Umbraco CMS, allowing seamless connections to multiple AI services through a unified API. It features a flexible architecture with customizable profiles, contexts, and capabilities, promoting community-driven extensions and open-source collaboration. Future enhancements include automation and improved RAG support.

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From Umbraco 13 to 17: My Upgrade Journey and Lessons Learned (3 minute read)

Debasish Gracias discusses his experience upgrading his personal blogging site from Umbraco 13 (LTS) to Umbraco 17 (LTS), highlighting the importance of preparation, including ensuring compatibility with .NET 10.0 and updating packages. He emphasizes the significance of testing post-upgrade and recommends the process for those willing to embrace the ecosystem's evolution.

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Upgrading Umbraco 13 to Umbraco 17 issue (2 minute read)

Owain.Codes discusses an upgrade issue encountered while transitioning a project from Umbraco 13.13.0 to Umbraco 17.1.0. After upgrading the database, he faced a 403 Forbidden error due to insufficient permissions for the user account. By adjusting the user group in the database, he successfully initiated the upgrade.

[ #migrations ] [ #upgrades ]

Watch & Listen

Umbraco Highlights 2025 (3 minute watch)

Umbraco HQ celebrates 20 years of community engagement, highlighting the importance of events like the UK Partners Summit and Code Garden. The emphasis is on the supportive community and excellent organization that fosters collaboration among partners. The message underscores Umbraco's commitment to providing a flexible content management system.

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Case Study: Thames Water UK x Umbraco (3 minute watch)

Thames Water, the UK's largest water company, transitioned to Umbraco CMS to enhance digital platform performance and stability for over 16 million customers. The migration, supported by Embraco, minimized risks and allowed for an intuitive user experience, resulting in cost savings and a scalable solution that improves customer communication and handles high traffic volumes effectively.

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Umbraco Winter Keynote 2026

At the Winter Keynote 2026, Umbraco HQ reviewed a successful 2025, showcasing growth, product advancements, and community engagement. Key announcements included 24/5 support, a new partner portal, ISO 27001 certification, and the launch of Umbraco Compose for data orchestration, alongside a focus on AI and future roadmap insights.

[ ] [ #umbracoai ] [ #umbracocompose ] [ #umbracomcp ]

Umbraco Compose example project (3 minute watch)

Jeroen Breuer demonstrates the Umbraco Compose example project, covering authentication, environment setup, schema creation, and content querying. The demo showcases how to unify content from multiple sources, including articles with product ID references, and highlights visibility on the adjust content page.

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Events

Umbraco US Meetup Group - v17 Editor experience: A ${template} for success

2026-02-17 from 13:00 to 14:30 (America/New_York) - Online

Umbraco London February - Demo night

2026-02-18 from 18:30 to 20:30 (Europe/London) - This Is Embrace, 526 Metal Box Factory, 30 Great Guildford Street, London SE1 0HS, London, GB

Manchester and North West Umbraco Meetup - Phil Whittaker - The future of AI is Skilled

2026-02-19 from 18:00 to 20:00 (Europe/London) - CTI Digital, South Central, 11 Peter Street, Manchester, M2 5QR, Manchester, GB

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Packages

Our.Umbraco.Extensions.Variables

Variables property editor for Umbraco

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Umbraco.Community.BetterIcons

BetterIcons is a modern, powerful property editor for Umbraco CMS that provides access to 200,000+ icons from popular icon libraries

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Our.Umbraco.Extensions.Theming

Theme picker and view engine for Umbraco

[ #theming ]

SeoToolkit 6.1.0 is now available for the latest Umbraco version

uSync compatability, page title template, content checks and much more!

[ #seo ]

Storage.HealthChecks

Health checks for monitoring and maintaining Umbraco media storage.

UmbMetrics

Keep your Umbraco website running smoothly with real-time insights into your application's health and performance.

[ #performance ]

ModuLabry.Umbraco.Suite

A streamlined property editor suite for Umbraco (verified stable for v14-v17)

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UmbracoPrism

Multi-tenancy for Umbraco (v17+) with dynamic branding and stateless identity.

UmbracoMediaSnapshot

Umbraco Media Snapshot adds lightweight media version history to Umbraco

AF.Umbraco.S3.Media.Storage

AWS S3 media storage provider for Umbraco 17 (.NET 10)

Arroact.Umbraco.GraphQL

A powerful GraphQL API package for Umbraco with built-in authentication, interactive IDE dashboard, and comprehensive content/media querying capabilities.

Jumoo.TranslationManager.UmbracoAi

UmbracoAI Connector for Jumoo.TranslationManager

Social

Submissions for the Umbraco Awards 2026 are now open!

[ ] [ #awards ] [ #codegarden ]

Umbraco SQL query to get a list of content using Macros in V13

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