The Umbraco UI Library (UUI) 2.0, set for stable release in June 2026, consolidates 84 npm packages into a single @umbraco-ui/uui package, aligning with the updated Umbraco styleguide. The changes primarily affect projects directly installing UUI, while most users will experience no code changes.
Niels Lyngsø discusses the Context API in Umbraco, illustrating how it facilitates seamless communication within the Backoffice UI. By using a restaurant metaphor, he explains Contexts as communication scopes for Extensions. The article provides examples of integrating logic and customizing workspaces, emphasizing the importance of scope in implementing functionality.
Joe Glombek discusses changes in the "read more" functionality in Umbraco versions 9-13, where descriptions below a horizontal rule no longer render as a "Read More" link. Instead, the native HTML `<details>` element can be used to recreate this feature, allowing for rich, intuitive property descriptions incorporating markdown and UUI web components.