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UMB.FYI 2026-11-04

Umbraco HQ

One year in Melbourne (5 minute read)

Emmanuel Tissera summarizes Umbraco’s first APAC year in Melbourne: local 24/5 support, partner growth from 16 to 26, events and workshops (Melbourne, Auckland, India Festival), community meetups, enterprise engagement, and a small local team driving regional sales and support — with more events and partner outreach planned.

[ ] [ #business ]

Umbraco CMS 18.3.0 (11 minute read)

Umbraco CMS 18.3.0 brings fixes for several security issues, ImageSharp dependency and licensing changes that need attention, new features such as member and group filters, breadcrumbs and server-side sorting, plus performance improvements and many bug fixes.

[ ] [ #releases ] [ #security ] [ #umbracocms ]

Umbraco CMS 17.8.0 (10 minute read)

Umbraco 17.8.0 fixes multiple critical security issues, updates SixLabors.ImageSharp (note potential release-build license checks), adds features like hasChildren in the Management API, breadcrumbs, server-side sorting and preview reconnects, and includes many bug fixes and performance improvements.

[ ] [ #releases ] [ #security ] [ #umbracocms ]

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Community

Skrift Issue #133 (17 minute read)

Featuring guest posts by Sotiris Filippidis on "We Checked 22 Million Company Records for Umbraco, and Oh, Boy" and Ben Szymanski on "Photography of the Web"

[ ] [ #skrift ]

Umbraco Cloud Flexible Environments (8 minute read)

In this case study, Arton Agroni walks through how he designed and tested Flexible Environments for Umbraco Cloud while at Umbraco HQ. He covers the environment model, user flows, prototyping and user testing, and compares the tested prototype with the released feature.

[ #umbracocloud ]

Umbraco Features with Claude Worktrees (10 minute read)

Owain Williams describes a PowerShell hook for Claude Code that gives each git worktree its own SQL Server copy, media path, and unique ports for Umbraco development. It backups/restores a dev database per worktree, writes per-worktree appsettings.Local.json, cleans stale DBs, and drops DBs when worktrees are removed.

[ ] [ #ai ] [ #git ]

Cascading Country and Location Dropdowns in Umbraco Forms, with Email Routing per Location (16 minute read)

Justin Neville describes building a content-driven Umbraco Forms solution: Countries and Locations are managed as multilingual content nodes; a Countries prevalue, an All Locations prevalue, an API + JS filter the Location dropdown by country; and a custom hidden field overriding ConvertToRecord supplies server-side email recipients so one workflow emails the chosen location.

[ #umbracoforms ]

Watch & Listen

A Big Supertak to the Umbraco Community 🙌 (1 minute watch)

Umbraco HQ praises the welcoming Umbraco Community—likening it to a family gathering—highlighting members who support forums, build packages, review pull requests, and foster diversity, inclusion, and encouragement, making contributions feel valued and creating a friendly open-source home.

[ ] [ #community ]

Built to Scale: The Evolution of Load Balancing in Umbraco | UIF26 (38 minute watch)

Tony Meyn (Umbraco India User Group) traces Umbraco’s 21‑year evolution from single‑server XML storage to modern, scalable load‑balanced architectures (v15–v17+). He explains hybrid caching (L1/L2, Redis), output caching, SignalR challenges, centralized logs/search/media, and developer responsibilities for writing stateless, distributable code and using Umbraco Cloud.

[ ] [ #caching ] [ #indiafest ] [ #infrastructure ]

Agentic Umbraco: When Automate Meets MCP | UIF26 (29 minute watch)

Nikhil Prajapati (presented to Umbraco India User Group) demonstrated using Umbraco Automate, MCP, and AI agents to automate content workflows—quality checks, SEO, accessibility, indexing, translations—while enforcing approvals, audit logs, and governance. He showed a demo integrating Anthropic/Algolia, recommended best practices, and highlighted open-source extensibility.

[ ] [ #indiafest ] [ #umbracoautomate ] [ #umbracomcp ]

The Future of Search: SEO, AEO & GEO in Umbraco | UIF26 (35 minute watch)

Mateen Shaikh (Umbraco India User Group) demonstrates Tixart’s Umbraco package and Inmotion platform for AEO/GEO: auditing, structuring, schema/MD exports, crawler exposure, freshness, authority, entity clarity, retrievability, and localization to make Umbraco sites discoverable, answerable, and citable by LLMs and AI search.

[ ] [ #ai ] [ #indiafest ] [ #seo ]

I, AI, and Umbraco: A Developer Perspective | UIF26 (43 minute watch)

Emmanuel Tissera summarizes AI’s role in Umbraco: AI shifts costs across the iron triangle (time, quality, cost), requiring leaders who orchestrate AI agents. He demos a six-stage AI-driven build using Umbraco MCPs, agent skills, and Umbraco.ai, stressing human review, governance, and extensibility within the Umbraco ecosystem.

[ ] [ #ai ] [ #indiafest ] [ #umbracomcp ]

Enterprise Replatforming: Consolidating Three CMSs into a Unified Umbraco Cloud Platform | UIF26 (40 minute watch)

Umbraco India User Group: At Umbraco India Festival 2026, Farshadudheen K and Ansar M describe unifying multiple CMSs (Kentico, WordPress, Webflow) into Umbraco, highlighting community origins, migration challenges (data/media/export issues), custom import tools, block previews, custom indexes, integrations, editor training, and lessons on validation, consolidation, and editor confidence.

[ ] [ #indiafest ] [ #migrations ] [ #umbracocloud ]

Umbraco India Fest 2026 (2 minute watch)

Umbraco India User Group attendees praised the inaugural Umbraco India Festival 2026 for its learning, community connections, high energy, strong participation, and excellent organization by speakers, sponsors, and the Umbraco team, calling the event a memorable and successful first-of-its-kind festival.

[ ] [ #festivals ] [ #indiafest ]

From Audience to MVP: An Umbraco Story from Nepal | Bishal Tim | UIF26 (11 minute watch)

Bishal Tim recounts his journey from attending a first Umbraco meetup in Kathmandu to becoming Nepal’s first Umbraco MVP, describing community contributions—forum help, migrating the Tag Manager package, local meetups led by Pasang Tamang—and urging newcomers to show up, answer questions, write about fixes, and say yes to opportunities.

[ ] [ #indiafest ] [ #mvp ]

Mindfulness: The Present is Perfect | UIF26 (30 minute watch)

Seema Sunil (Umbraco India User Group) explores mindfulness—being present, not dwelling on past or future, and managing distractions like mobile phones. Through stories and techniques (5-4-3-2-1, deep diaphragmatic breathing), she urges focus on actions (karma), balance attachment, and practicing simple mindful habits to improve attention and well-being.

[ ] [ #indiafest ] [ #mentalhealth ]

umbraCoffee - Elephant In The Room (51 minute watch)

umbraCoffee hosts Marcin and Callum discuss AI-generated intros, Umbraco events, and community energy; Martin joins ABC Fitness as Principal AI Engineer to discuss AI adoption challenges. They warn AI-enabled mass exploitation of vulnerabilities, urge better patching, observability, automation, Dependabot, and praise tooling, community efforts, events, and feedback.

[ ] [ #ai ] [ #security ] [ #umbracoffee ]

Content Isn’t Context Why Your AI Needs a Brief (35 minute watch)

Umbraco HQ explains how AI needs rich, structured context to deliver useful marketing and website outcomes. Speakers Chris Osterhaus and Mads Person stress building a “context layer” (content, product data, PR) and processes—or composition tools like Umbraco Compose—to keep data accurate, fresh, and AI-ready at scale.

[ ] [ #ai ] [ #umbracocompose ]

Events

Umbraco Sydney Meetup - V19 beta & .NET 11 launch!

2026-11-05 from 18:00 to 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) - Venue TBC

East Midlands Umbraco

2026-11-10 from 19:30 to 21:30 (Europe/London) - Clock Warehouse, Derby, GB

Umbraco Community Hour - Virtual Meetup

2026-11-11 from 13:00 to 14:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) - Online

[ #virtual ]

Umbraco Meetup (Odense)

2026-11-11 from 16:00 to 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) - MWL, Edisonsvej 2, Odense, DK

UmbLeeds: Security & Automation with Umbraco

2026-11-12 from 18:30 to 20:30 (Europe/London) - MSQ DX, Royal House, 28 Sovereign Street, Leeds, LS1 4BA, Leeds, GB

[ #automation ] [ #security ]

Umbraco Builders Day

2026-11-13 from 10:00 to 20:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) - Online

[ #hackathons ] [ #virtual ]

Forum

UmbracoVisualEditor for v17 and v18

[ #backoffice ] [ #packages ]

🚀 Umbraco 19 beta is out today!

[ #releases ] [ #umbracocms ]

Social

UmbCheckout 17 is out for Umbraco 17

[ #commerce ] [ #releases ]

Nubrik, a visual page builder for Umbraco, is in beta

[ #packages ]

Packages

Umbraco.AI.Cloudflare

Cloudflare provider for Umbraco AI

[ #ai ] [ #umbracoai ]

DotSee.ErrorRadar

Watches an Umbraco site's own logging, groups repeating warnings and failures so they stand out, and links them to the pages they affect and the changes made just before they started.

[ #logging ]

Crumpled.AgentSpecs

See what AI agents see for every Umbraco page.

[ #ai ] [ #markdown ]

BaryoDev.Umbraco.AiAssistant

Claude writing help in the Umbraco backoffice, with your own Anthropic API key.

[ #ai ]

AltTextGeneratorAI.Umbraco

Write SEO-friendly alt text for the images in your Umbraco media library with AI.

[ #accessibility ] [ #ai ]

Umbricians.LiveView

A real-time Live View dashboard for the Umbraco Settings section, charting active web, MCP and API sessions plus any custom metric you plug in.

[ #backoffice ]

Umbraco.Community.SchemeWeaver.Seo

A Yoast-style structured data section for the Umbraco backoffice.

[ #seo ]

Chudders22.Umbraco.SiteBuilder

Applies Site Builder schema files and pushes content changes to the frontend.

SA.Umbraco.MediaPreview

Adds a one-click Preview button to media cards in the Umbraco media library.

[ #media ]

DynamicDave.Umbraco.MapToRedirect

Turns a CSV of old and new URLs into Umbraco redirects.

[ #migrations ]

Umbraco PR Preview: see uSync and Deploy files in Azure DevOps PRs

Ever wished you could see uSync or Umbraco Deploy files in a PR? Well in Azure DevOps you now can!

[ #umbracodeploy ] [ #usync ]

Lait.Umbraco.LLMS.Generator

Build your /llms.txt from the Umbraco 17 backoffice.

[ #ai ] [ #seo ]

Lait.Monitor.UmbracoClient

Sends an Umbraco site's logs and request data to Monitor.

[ #logging ]

Skybrud.Umbraco.Redirects 18.0.0

Award winning redirects manager for Umbraco.

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Limbo.Umbraco.Migrations 13.0.1

Umbraco package for handling migrations.

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Limbo.Umbraco.MediaPicker 13.0.2

Umbraco package that extends the functionality of Umbraco's build-in media picker property editor.

[ ] [ #propertyeditors ]

Limbo.Umbraco.Fetch 17.0.0

Umbraco package for periodically downloading files to disk.

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Limbo.Umbraco.Spa 17.0.0-alpha002

SPA (single page application) package for Umbraco.

[ ] [ #spa ]

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