Updates to the Roadmap
There’s been a lot of movement on the Product Roadmap since the last Product Update. In fact, so much that I’m not going to include it all 😅 For all the updates regarding Umbraco Heartcore, please see the Heartcore Update blog post - let’s take a look at what’s happened since then:
New in “Now”
Expanded CDN capabilities for Umbraco Cloud
We’ve had to push the target release date a little bit but new CDN capabilities on Umbraco for serving media and content are getting close! You’ll be able to enable configurable caching options on a per hostname basis, as well as the ability to purge the CDN cache. This will allow you to control caching and deliver assets more efficiently.
Target release: Updated from March to April, 2022
Improvements to User 2FA for Umbraco CMS
Umbraco 9.5 is less than a month away and will include a better process of configuring and implementing two-factor authentication (2FA) providers for Umbraco backoffice users. Similar to the Member improvements in Umbraco 9.3.
Target release: Added May 5, 2022
Telemetry and consent options for Umbraco CMS
We’re also happy to say that the new telemetry options will be part Umbraco 9.5 and the target release date has been updated to reflect this. With the new telemetry options, we will start collecting anonymized and non-personal system- and usage data to help make decisions on future functionality for Umbraco. This is of course based on consent and will be asked during installation but also available to view and configure in the Settings section.
Target release: May 5, 2022 along with Umbraco 9.5
Umbraco 10 is on the horizon
Umbraco 10 is approaching rapidly. You can look forward to trying it out in a release candidate within the next month and if you want more details, take a look at the new Umbraco 10 product page we’re all the information about the new major is gathered.
With regards to the roadmap, the 2 items that will be included in Umbraco 10 have been moved to Now. This is ASP.NET Core 6 support and Cross-platform embedded database making it easier to spin up Umbraco CMS in different (read:non-windows) environments.
Target release: moved to now Q2, 2022, as part of Umbraco 10.
Custom Grid Editors for Umbraco Heartcore
With new features released for Umbraco Heartcore over the last couple of week’s, we’ve started on the next item. Grid editors are simple additions to the Grid, which will be possible to create via the backoffice. A Grid Editor will be created using HTML/javascript/CSS and Web Components, which enables developers to tailor the editor experience of the Grid in Heartcore. Custom Grid Editors has been moved to now on the roadmap.
Target release: Q2, 2022
Media storage Top 10 for Umbraco Cloud
Currently, the user can see a bandwidth top 10 for paths and referrers on the project usage page. Soon the users will be able to see the largest media files in the blob storage and whether each of these files are currently used in the CMS project or not. You will also be able to see the sum of cached files in blob storage.
Target release: April 2022
New in “Next”
Two new items have been added in Next.
Project secrets and application settings for Umbraco Cloud
We want to enhance the developer experience by introducing a secure way of storing secrets. A secret can be a connection string, credentials for a service or some other sensitive information to be used by the Umbraco CMS. Also, we will exhibit a minor set of the app service settings that can be set to enable the Umbraco Cloud project to e.g. load client certificates from the file system.
Target release: Q2, 2022
Customizable Projects Overview page in Umbraco Cloud
The target release date for a new Projects Overview page on Umbraco Cloud has been updated from Q2 to Q3. We’re currently working on modernizing the frontend layer of the Umbraco Cloud portal and want to include the new Overview as part of those updates. That’s the reason for a little longer wait until the feature is out.
Target release: Updated from Q2 to Q3, 2022
Roadmap History
Two items, both for Umbraco Heartcore, have made it to the Roadmap History page. The Google Maps Property Editor for Umbraco Heartcore was released today (!) and lets you add google maps to the backoffice and retrieve coordinates and zoom level via the REST API. Last week, on April 6, Single Sign-on was enabled for all new Umbraco Heartcore projects and we’re in the process of enabling it for existing projects as well.