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UMB.FYI 2026-10-07

UK Conference

Umbraco UK Conference - Pre-Party

2026-10-15 from 17:00 to 20:00 (Europe/London) - Players Social Cocktail & Games Bar Spitalfields, 1 Crispin Pl, London E1 6DW, UK, London, GB

Umbraco UK Conference

2026-10-16 from 09:00 to 20:00 ((UTC) Coordinated Universal Time) - Codenode, 10 South Place, London, EC2M 7EB

Umbraco HQ

Security Advisory, October 6, 2026: Security Patches for Umbraco CMS now available (5 minute read)

Anders Nis Herforth Larsen reports that four vulnerabilities in Umbraco CMS have been identified and patched, with two classified as moderate and two as low severity. Users are advised to upgrade to versions 17.7.1 or 18.2.1 to mitigate risks, particularly for those using custom media path schemes.

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Annual Price Update 2027 (2 minute read)

Umbraco will increase prices across its Cloud plans, partnerships, Enterprise offerings, Heartcore, add-ons, Engage, training and support services. The new pricing takes effect 1 January 2027, or at customers’ first renewal thereafter, affecting both new and existing customers.

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Community

Skrift Issue #132 (17 minute read)

Featuring guest posts by Sebastian Dammark on "I built an entire desktop app so my friend would stop swearing" and Dean Leigh on "Giving an Umbraco package its own MCP server"

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AI is changing how I approach Umbraco development (6 minute read)

Søren Kottal discusses creating a PDF metadata dashboard in Umbraco, utilizing AI to streamline the process. This approach improved the editor's experience by providing an accessible interface for managing PDF titles. Kottal emphasizes the balance between using standard tools and custom extensions, advocating for solutions that enhance usability and efficiency.

[ #ai ]

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My Umbraco India Festival 2026 Experience (3 minute read)

Nathaniel Nunes reflects on the Umbraco India Festival 2026 in Kochi, highlighting his role in organizing the event, a hackathon on the Water Metro, and recording sessions featuring new Umbraco products. He expresses gratitude to attendees and announces the next festival in Goa, looking forward to welcoming everyone.

[ #festivals ] [ #indiafest ]

Umbraco Management API Wonders (2 minute read)

Stéphane Gay discusses using the Umbraco Management API to streamline the process of updating media files for the web version of the game Rick Dangerous. By scripting the update process, Gay highlights the API's efficiency and versatility, enabling easier management of media files within Umbraco's back-office system.

[ #managementapi ]

The Umbraco MCP Benchmark: eleven AI models build the same blog (24 minute read)

Kaspar Boel Kjeldsen conducted a benchmark comparing eleven AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI by having them build the same Umbraco blog. The study assessed grades, cost, time, honesty, and temperament. Sonnet 5.5 emerged as the most effective model, while Haiku 4.5 demonstrated unpredictable results despite occasional success.

[ #ai ] [ #performance ] [ #umbracomcp ]

The coffee log, rebuilt in .NET (6 minute read)

Owain Williams discusses the transformation of his coffee log project from Python to .NET for improved maintainability. The new system features enhanced logging, a replay mode for testing, and a streamlined deployment process. These changes allow for easier project management and better tracking of coffee-making habits without unnecessary complexity.

Test-Driven Development (TDD) & Clean Architecture in Umbraco: Decoupling Domain Logic from CMS Dependencies (6 minute read)

Nishant Vaghasiya discusses the challenges of integrating business logic within Umbraco, highlighting the importance of Clean Architecture and Test-Driven Development (TDD) to maintain separation between business rules and CMS dependencies. This approach enhances testability and adaptability, ultimately simplifying code management and reducing future complications during upgrades.

[ #testing ]

Introducing RazorSearch for Umbraco (7 minute read)

Søren Kottal introduces RazorSearch, a successor to Full Text Search for Umbraco, enhancing search capabilities with weighted titles and headings, background rendering, and inspection tools for extracted text. RazorSearch utilizes Umbraco Search abstractions, allowing for improved indexing and search result relevance, while maintaining independence from the search provider.

[ #search ] [ #umbracosearch ]

Watch & Listen

How Die Zeit's marketing team builds 600+ landing pages with Umbraco (2 minute watch)

Tim, Marketing Manager at Die Zeit, discusses the growth of their acquisition marketing team from three to over 20 members using Umbraco for nearly a decade. The team now manages over 600 targeted landing pages, generating more than half of campaign responses, emphasizing Umbraco's reliability and flexibility for their marketing needs.

[ ] [ #business ] [ #marketing ]

Events

Umbraco Melbourne Meetup

2026-10-08 from 18:00 to 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) - Luminary, Level 1, 195 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, AU

Umbraco Community Hour - Virtual Meetup

2026-10-14 from 13:00 to 14:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) - Online

[ #virtual ]

Packages

Umbraco.AI.Agent.Copilot.Workspace

Copilot Workspace for Umbraco AI — full-section persisted chat with projects and reusable context attachments

[ #ai ] [ #umbracoai ]

Jumoo.TranslationManager.Publicis

Publicis Translation Api Connector for Translation Manager for Umbraco

[ #translations ]

Arjo.UmbracoVisualEditor

Edit Umbraco content on the page itself

umBlogGenerator

Generate SEO comparison blogs in Umbraco with AI — peer research, logos, and Block Grid publishing.

Umbraco.Community.RichDictionary

Edit Umbraco dictionary values with a rich text (Tiptap) or Markdown editor instead of a plain textarea.

Umbuntu.Automate.ManualTriggerInput

Run Umbraco Automate automations by hand and give them input

[ #automation ] [ #umbracoautomate ]

Arjo.Umbraco.WeglotTranslator

Weglot-powered machine translation for Umbraco 17+:

[ #translations ]

FoxCart.Reviews

A lightweight, modular e-commerce solution for Umbraco CMS

UmbracoLanguagePicker

A property editor for picking one of the site's configured languages, with an optional unique-per-sibling filter.

Umbraco.Community.PropertyVisibility

Hide properties, groups and tabs per site in the Umbraco backoffice

DynamicDave.Umbraco.ContentSchedule

See what is scheduled to publish or unpublish in the Umbraco backoffice

DynamicDave.Umbraco.UrlInspector

Inspect a document's URLs, incoming and outgoing redirects and canonical URL from the Umbraco backoffice, and test a URL's status code without following redirects.

DynamicDave.Umbraco.EnvironmentIndicator

Shows a colored environment banner (LOCAL, ACCEPTANCE/STAGING, PRODUCTION) in the Umbraco backoffice so editors always know which environment they are in.

DynamicDave.Umbraco.QuickContentTools

Quick content tools for the Umbraco backoffice: copy a content item's node ID, key and more with one click.

Humble.Umbraco

One install for the whole Humble suite

Humble.Umbraco.Forms

Native Umbraco forms editors actually enjoy — build, publish, and operate without leaving the backoffice

[ #umbracoforms ]

Humble.Umbraco.ClientSideAdmin

An editor toolbar on the front end of your site, for the people who already have a backoffice session and nobody else

Humble.Umbraco.MediaExtensions

Smaller images out, sensible images in, with ordinary Umbraco media workflows left intact

Humble.Umbraco.LoginScreen

Brand the Umbraco backoffice sign-in page from inside the backoffice, instead of editing appsettings.json and redeploying

Limbo.Umbraco.Skyfish 17.0.0-alpha003

Video picker for inserting Skyfish videos in Umbraco.

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Limbo.Umbraco.MultiNodeTreePicker 17.0.0-alpha003

Umbraco package that extends the functionality of Umbraco's build-in Multinode Treepicker property editor.

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Limbo.Umbraco.Time 17.0.0-alpha002

Umbraco package featuring a number of property editors related to picking date and time.

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Limbo.Umbraco.Seo 17.0.0-alpha004

SEO package for Umbraco.

[ ] [ #seo ]

Limbo.Umbraco.Boolean 17.0.0-alpha002

Limbo.Umbraco.Boolean is a small package for Umbraco that adds a new boolean property editor which some extra functionality compared to Umbraco's build-in boolean property editor.

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Limbo.Umbraco.UrlPicker 17.0.0-alpha003

Umbraco package that extends the functionality of Umbraco's build-in Multi URL Picker property editor.

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