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📰 uProfile December 2023 - Sean Thorne

Sean Thorne shares his journey into the Umbraco Community, highlighting his contributions as a helper, craftsman, and evangelist. He emphasizes the collaborative and supportive nature of the community and discusses his current projects and future aspirations. Thorne also provides tips for newcomers and shares personal interests outside of coding.

📰 Umbraco's in-depth look at CMS trends for 2024

In 2024, Umbraco anticipates significant changes in Content Management Systems (CMS). The top trends include AI integration for personalized experiences, a focus on sustainable digital practices, enhanced security and privacy features, ROI and efficiency emphasis, and the importance of trust-building for digital success. These trends reflect Umbraco's commitment to innovation and user-friendly CMS solutions.

📰 Join the new Commerce Community Team!

Umbraco is forming a Commerce Community Team, welcoming diverse talents to elevate Umbraco Commerce. The team aims to engage in dynamic discussions, virtual meet-ups, and influence roadmaps. Applications are open until December 20th, targeting a vibrant mix of experienced users, MVPs, strategists, and industry experts. Join the commerce excellence journey!

📰 Hacktoberfest 2023 Recap

A recap on Hacktoberfest 2023 with emphasis on collaborative achievements. Participants significantly contributed to open source projects, enhancing the Umbraco ecosystem. The blog spotlights the community's collective success and meaningful contributions during the event.

📰 Umbraco Forms Release Candidate 12.2

Umbraco Forms Release Candidate 1.22, introduces enhanced features and optimizations for a more efficient form creation and management experience. This release marks a notable advancement in Umbraco's form-building capabilities, providing users with streamlined and improved functionalities.

📰 Umbraco Deploy Release Candidates 4.9/10.3/12.1

Umbraco Deploy Release Candidates 4.9.10 and 3.1.21 introduce advanced features for streamlined deployment processes. Explore the latest optimizations, ensuring a seamless and reliable experience in web development workflows with Umbraco.

📰 Umbraco Workflow 12.2 and 13 - now with Advanced Search

Umbraco Workflow 12.2 and 13 bring enhanced features for streamlined content management. Explore the latest updates optimizing workflow processes, ensuring efficient content creation, and collaboration within the Umbraco platform.

📰 Unlocking Efficiency and Flexibility with Umbraco Cloud

Great State, a Umbraco Platinum Partner, relies on Umbraco Cloud for efficient web development. Leveraging Umbraco's versatility, Umbraco Cloud offers benefits like seamless deployment, version control, continuous integration, security, scalability, API capabilities, and cost-effective hosting. This cloud-based solution combines Umbraco's strengths with cloud computing advantages, providing a compelling choice for technical prowess and ease of use.

📰 Umbraco Product Update - November 2023

Umbraco Cloud introduces Automatic Minor Upgrades and teases Umbraco CI/CD Flow. The Umbraco 12.2 and 12.3 releases enhance headless features. The Umbraco Winter Keynote 2024 is announced, promising insights into 2024 plans. A new Umbraco UI Builder add-on is introduced for efficient data handling. Upcoming releases include Umbraco 13 LTS, Umbraco 10.8 RC, and Umbraco Cloud enhancements.

📰 uProfile November 2023 - Büşra Şengül

An interview with Busra Sengul in this months uProfile series. Busra, a Software Engineer using Umbraco, shares insights into her role, experiences, and contributions to Umbraco CMS development. The interview provides a glimpse into her journey and the collaborative and inclusive culture at Umbraco.

📰 Black Friday Rush: Is your website ready for the big day (and the even bigger week)?

As Cyber Week approaches, Umbraco HQ emphasizes the significance of Black Friday for businesses and the potential impact on website traffic. They discuss the importance of ensuring a smooth online shopping experience for customers during the surge in visitors. The focus is on Umbraco Cloud's Dedicated Resources, providing flexibility to handle increased traffic and positive feedback from users like IMPACT, an Umbraco Gold Partner.

🐘 The Codegarden 2024 Call For Speakers is OPEN! 🎤

📰 Umbraco 13 Release Candidate

Umbraco 13, the next Long Term Supported version of the CMS, is ready for testing. The release candidate includes upgrades like .NET 8 and C# 12 features, the Minimal Hosting Model, Webhooks for headless initiatives, Nested field limiting, Blocks in the Rich Text Editor, and a new Login Screen. Developers are encouraged to try it out and provide feedback to help ensure a successful final release, which is targeted for December 14, 2023.

📰 Umbraco 12.3 release

Umbraco 12.3 introduces several improvements, including UI support for preview URLs in a headless context, access to protected content through the Content Delivery API using the OpenID Connect flow, and a new setting to improve boot times for large websites by fetching all data from the database at once. The release features community contributions, with 32 out of 50 bug fixes and additions coming from 22 unique contributors.

📰 Introducing Umbraco UI Builder

Umbraco UI Builder is a new data management tool for Umbraco, simplifying data handling and configuration. It automates the creation of custom management interfaces, saving development time. UI Builder offers a low-code approach, aligning with Umbraco's UI concepts, providing data sovereignty, and being available through Umbraco Cloud or as an add-on subscription for web agencies.

📰 Umbraco Authorized Services 0.3

Umbraco Authorized Services 0.3, a new release, brings improved stability, security, and updated dependencies. Users can trust this package for secure access to Umbraco backoffice services, making it easier to integrate external services while adhering to best practices.

📰 Annual price changes 2024

Umbraco is updating its prices for various products and services starting January 1, 2024, mainly due to price indexing. The changes affect Umbraco Cloud plans, Umbraco Heartcore, Forms, Deploy On-premises, Workflow, training courses, onsite training, certified master bundles, and support plans. Existing customers will see these prices on their 2024 invoices.

🚨 [Breaking change]: User accounts will be prevented from creating simultaneous sessions by default in Umbraco 13

Umbraco 12.3 introduced a new configuration setting to limit concurrent logins which will have it's default value changed to false in Umbraco 13. This will prevent a user account from creating simultaneous sessions by default, meaning that only 1 session is allowed to be active at a time. This setting can always be set to true to not invalidate other active user sessions.

📰 uProfile October 2023 - Laura Weatherhead

Meet Laura Weatherhead, a 5x Umbraco MVP and Full-stack .NET Developer with a decade of experience. She contributes actively to the Umbraco community, speaks at events, and co-hosts a podcast. Laura values Umbraco's openness and honesty. Currently, she's working on an Umbraco headless solution and enjoys circus training and unique experiences.

📰 Umbraco Heartcore Update October 2023

Umbraco Heartcore, a headless SaaS offering, is undergoing a core dependency upgrade for performance enhancements and new features like the Block Grid editor. Plan tiers are changing in 2024, offering more lenient restrictions. Rate limits on APIs and deprecation of Nested Content and Grid property editors are also announced.