Umbraco
The official profile for Umbraco - The Friendly OpenSource ASP.NET CMS. Managed by Umbraco HQ.
2025-10-29
📰 Composable Regrets: Lessons From the First Wave
Filip Bech-Larsen discusses the challenges faced by enterprises in adopting composable architecture, revealing regrets related to orchestration complexity, hidden costs, and customer experience. He emphasizes the need for a practical approach that prioritizes clarity and user experience, advocating for composability that truly delivers value rather than merely offering flexibility.
2025-10-22
📰 Finding the Right Path: Getting More Involved in the Umbraco Community
In June, Allen Smith celebrated 20 years of Codegarden, highlighting its welcoming Umbraco community, where nearly 40% of attendees were newcomers. Smith emphasizes the importance of mutual benefits in contributions and outlines various pathways for participation, encouraging individuals to explore their interests and connect with others in the community.
📰 uProfile October 2025 - Helen Chaplin
Helen Chaplin is a sustainability advocate and Community Services Executive at Cantarus, recently joining the Umbraco Community Sustainability Team. Working remotely while traveling, she combines her expertise in waste and resource management with a passion for environmental change. Helen enjoys hiking, sailing, and reading, emphasizing the importance of immersive travel experiences.
📰 Umbraco 17: Ready, Reliable, and Less Scary than It Sounds
Umbraco 17 has launched its Beta version, introducing a clearer pre-release process. This update features a new backoffice architecture, improved extensibility, and modern technology, transitioning from AngularJS to Web Components. The upgrade from Umbraco 13 to 17 is significant but manageable, ensuring a stable, future-proof platform for developers and users.
2025-10-15
🚨 [Breaking change]: Removal of backoffice tours
Umbraco 14 has removed the backoffice tours feature that was present in Umbraco 13, which introduced users to CMS functionalities. Although there were intentions to re-implement this feature in future versions, AndyButland states that efforts will focus on enhancing documentation and video resources instead, as custom tours were not widely adopted.
🚨 [Breaking change]: Removal of `BackOfficeDevelopment` runtime mode and `InModelsBuilder` models builder mode due to deprecation of Razor runtime compilation support in .NET
Andy Butland announces that Razor run-time compilation is now obsolete, urging against its use in production. This change affects Umbraco features like the BackOfficeDevelopment runtime mode and InMemoryAuto models builder, which will be removed in Umbraco 19. Users are advised to edit templates as .cshtml views and utilize dotnet watch for hot reload.
2025-10-01
📰 Annual price updates 2026
Umbraco will increase product, add-on, and partnership prices by 5–7% effective January 1, 2026, or at first renewal. Updates cover Cloud, Heartcore, Forms, Deploy, Workflow, Commerce, Engage, Training, and Support Plans.
2025-09-24
📰 Security Advisory, September 23, 2025: Security Patches are now available
Andy Butland reports that moderate and low security vulnerabilities in Smidge, an upstream dependency for Umbraco 13.0.0 - 13.10.1, have been addressed with patches. Users are advised to upgrade to the latest version, while Umbraco Cloud projects will receive automatic updates. Further details are available in the release notes.
2025-09-10
🚨 [Breaking change]: Serverside generated preview URLs
Umbraco 17 introduces a new method for generating preview URLs through IUrlProvider implementations, replacing the previous internal and external preview URL generation methods. This change addresses the removal of SendingContentNotification in V14 and supports the demand for external previews. Custom URL providers must adapt to this new structure.
📰 uProfile September 2025 - Paul Seal
Paul Seal, Technical Lead at ClerksWell and long-time Umbraco MVP, has significantly contributed to the Umbraco community through tutorials and helpful packages. His journey began over 12 years ago, evolving from a newcomer to a mentor. Paul emphasizes community engagement, sharing knowledge, and learning from mistakes in his teaching approach.
2025-09-03
📰 Introducing the Autumn Contribution Challenge 2025
Sebastiaan Janssen announces the Autumn Contribution Challenge, encouraging year-round contributions to the Umbraco community. Participants can submit code samples, blog posts, and ideas to enhance a new community website's "Developer" section. The initiative fosters collaboration, visibility, and learning, culminating in a site launch that showcases contributors' work.