Earlier this month we officially launched UK regional support on Umbraco Cloud. This means that you can now choose to host your Umbraco Cloud sites in a UK data center in addition to the EU and US options.
This is another milestone for Umbraco Cloud making it easier for partners and end clients to go with Umbraco Cloud as the preferred development and hosting option for Umbraco projects. If you’re interested in learning more about the advantages you’re welcome to join the webinar we’re hosting tomorrow - you’ll also get access to the recording if you can’t make the live event.
Released on February 1, 2023.
That’s not all we’ve been working on for Umbraco cloud users. Throughout February we launched multiple new features for managing your projects and added updates to increase stability and performance with a particular focus on deployments and content transfers.
The new features include the ability for organizations to enforce a specific type of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and a brand-new project creation workflow. Get the full story on all the new features and improvements in the latest Umbraco Cloud release notes.
New minor release is out for Umbraco CMS focusing on stability and performance. This is an easy upgrade that aside from enhancing cold boot performance adds a long list of smaller tweaks and fixes. You can get the full story in the release blog post.
Umbraco 11.2 was released on February 23, 2023.
A new integration for Umbraco CMS will be released. This time it’s for the popular inriver Product Information Management service.
With the package installed, you will have access to a custom product picker that can be used as a property editor for content, a value converter providing a strongly typed model for rendering, and a sample rendering component for the selected product. See the release blog post for more information.
Released on February 6, 2023.
Forms 8.13.6, 9.5.6, 10.2.3, and 11.0.2
Includes a number of resolved issues for versions of Umbraco Forms from 8 and above. Release notes and links to the specific issues included in the updates are available from our.umbraco.com.
Released on February 7, 2023.
Deploy 4.7.3, 9.5.3, 10.1.3, and 11.0.1 and Deploy.Contrib 4.2.1, 9.1.1, 10.1.1, and 11.0.1
Includes a number of resolved issues for versions of Umbraco Deploy from 8 and above, with a focus on improvement of performance and reliability with content transfers and restores. Release notes and links to the specific issues included in the updates are available from our.umbraco.com.
Released on February 14, 2023 (for Umbraco 9+) and February 21, 2023 (for Umbraco 8).
Plumber 2.1.10
Contains a fix for SignalR registration on Umbraco 8 to ensure it no longer interferes with other packages using the same technology. The latest version is available on NuGet.
Released on February 7, 2023.
This minor release adds the ability to configure deleting workflow history (similar to the tools available in CMS and Forms).
Configuration can be set globally for the entire site, for all content of a document type, or for a single content node, where the workflow history of particular statuses is deleted after x days. This will keep your workflow history more concise and manageable.
The release candidates for both Umbraco Workflow 11.1 and 10.1 are available NuGet.
Targeted for release on March 7, 2023.
New minor releases are also in the works for Umbraco Forms for Umbraco 10 and 11. These releases focus on providing improvements and new features to the form editing experience. Release candidates are in the works and should be available on March 9, 2023.
Targeted for release on March 21, 2023.
We'll also release another round of patches for resolved issues for versions of Umbraco Forms from 8 and above. Release notes and links to the specific issues included in the updates are available from our.umbraco.com.
Targeted for release on March 7, 2023.
This minor release of the UI Library is expected to land later this month. It contains a number of bug fixes as well as 5(!) new components built by Umbraco MVP Bjarne Fyrstenborg that introduces various color controls such as swatches, sliders and a color picker. The Release Candidate is available for testing through NPM and the release notes are available on GitHub.
Targeted for release in March, 2023.
The next minor release of Umbraco 11 has been postponed 1 week as the scheduled release date collides with a public holiday in Denmark. This means you’ll get an additional week to test out the release candidate which is still scheduled to go out on March 23, 2023.
New target release date: April 13, 2023.
A bunch of updates to the Product Roadmap this month:
With Umbraco 11 released in December last year, the focus has shifted to the next major version. One of the main features in this release is the new built-in REST API that will ship with Umbraco CMS going forward. This item has been moved from “Next” to “Now”.
Target release: June 29, 2023 (as part of Umbraco 12)
The new project creation flow on Umbraco Cloud is released, as mentioned above, but it’s just the beginning. For the next iteration, we’re adding the option to install a selection of packages when setting up the project making it even easier to get started. The target release date has been updated from Q1 to Q2.
Target release: Q2, 2023.
The ability to integrate your own GIT repositories and build-pipelines with Umbraco Cloud is a big focus. The item has been moved from “Next” to “Now” and has received a target release date.
Target release: Q2, 2023.
We’re in the planning phase for providing configuration options for a lazy-loaded content cache. This will improve performance and minimize memory footprint, especially for larger sites. This item has been moved from “Later” to “Next”
Target release: December 2023 (as part of Umbraco 13)
Providing better statistics by synchronizing with telemetry data from Umbraco CMS. This item has been moved from “Later” to “Next”.
The last update for the roadmap is moving the newly released package for integrating Umbraco CMS and inRiver PIM to the Roadmap History page. You can read more about the package in the release blog post.
Released February 7, 2023.
A few weeks ago we opened up submissions for the Core Collaborators Community Team. This is the team responsible that ensure contributing to Umbraco CMS is a great experience. They provide help and guidance where needed and ensure incoming PRs are updated (and merged!).
As with all our community teams, we shuffle the cards (and team members) roughly once per year to make room for new faces and provide a natural transition for the ones that may want to hand over the reins to someone else.
And wow, the response has just been amazing. We had so many fantastic applications and it’s been really hard to pick. We even expanded the number of team members considerably. Jump over to the blog where team steward Sebastiaan Janssen has all the details on the new team.
Congrats to all the new team members and a big thank you to the ones that are not signing on for another season - HIGH FIVE YOU ROCK 🙌
A large part of the work we do is inspired by the feedback we get from you. If you find issues or have specific feature requests, you can find the issue trackers for our products on the Umbraco Github account.
If you have product feedback, you’re welcome to reach out to us at product@umbraco.com.
Last month we announced that we were looking for a fresh group of people on the Core Collaborators community team. After talking to many applicants, I’m excited to announce we have formed a new team. So now, introductions are in order!