The Umbraco Roadmap

Connect your own Active Directory to your Umbraco Cloud portal, enabling secure user authentication and centralized access control management for enhanced efficiency and convenience.

Custom Identity Provider for Organizations is now in Public Beta and available on Umbraco Cloud. See the release notes for more information.

Target release: October 2025

We’re introducing a new search abstraction layer as a separate package, designed to make it easier to integrate your preferred search providers with Umbraco. This new layer will enable flexible, developer-friendly search solutions, supporting both backoffice content search and server-side website search. 

The package will ship with example implementations to help developers connect Umbraco with external search engines such as Elasticsearch. By releasing the abstraction as a standalone package, we can deliver improvements and updates independently of core CMS releases, allowing for faster iteration based on community feedback.

We expect to include the abstraction into Umbraco at some point in the 18 to 21-cycle of releases. See the The Future of Search RFC for more information.

Target release: Q3 2025

Introducing the support for load balancing in the Umbraco backoffice, enabling projects to scale out the entire Umbraco project. This will help enterprises and organizations with demand for a high number of concurrent backoffice users distribute workloads across multiple servers, improving both performance and security.

Target release: Q4 2025

Improved visibility into the traffic your website receives per hostname, including details on traffic blocked by Cloudflare services, such as bots and other unwanted requests.

Target release: Q4 2025

In addition to implicit scoring, personas and journey steps will soon support explicit scoring.
This will allow directly triggered values to help personalize visitor experiences more dynamically.

Target release: January 2026

The Analytics section of your shop will be enriched with some new Analytics widgets. Think of 'Applied Discounts', 'Most Popular Discounts', 'Top 50 Buyers' and more.

Target Release: January 2026

We are building a new product called Umbraco Compose, which embraces the best of breed and a headless approach, composing multiple data and content sources into a unified output. Our goal is to provide developers with a standard SaaS solution that addresses many of the challenges currently handled through custom code - such as in a BFF (Backend for Frontend) setup.

Read more about Umbraco Compose in this product update, or sign up for the launch list and be the first to receive news and updates about this product.

Target release: Q1 2026

From Umbraco MCP we’re introducing Tool Collections, curated sets of tools grouped by familiar Umbraco domains like Document, Document Type, Data Type, and Media.

Tool Collections act as toggles and filters, not restrictions. You can start with a minimal setup, focusing on just the tools you need, and then expand as your project grows. For example:

• Enable “Document” and “Media” for an AI content editor.

• Add “Document Type” or “Data Type” when working on setup or schema automation.

This approach keeps your active toolset lean, efficient, and focused, while still giving you access to the full MCP functionality when needed. It also helps reduce noise between tools, lower operational costs, and limit what data is sent to the model by default — all while maintaining flexibility.

In short, Tool Collections make it easier to shape your MCP environment around your workflow — whether you’re experimenting with an AI-powered editor or developing automation to streamline site management.

Target Release: Q1 2026

We’re bringing the power of Umbraco MCP to editors in a more targeted, workflow focused way. The Editor MCP provides a narrow, purpose-built set of AI capabilities designed for editorial and content teams, fully hosted by Umbraco and ready to use without any setup or developer involvement.

The Editor MCP is optimised for real content tasks, such as drafting, rewriting, translating, analysing, improving SEO, generating metadata, and working with media, all without technical steps or configuration. The Editor MCP is optimised to handle all underlying steps in one action, instead of requiring multiple technical commands like “get content by ID”, “update property,” and “save node”. Instead, editors simply describe what they need, and the MCP handles the entire process behind the scenes. Examples of editor prompts include:

• “Create a new landing page for our autumn campaign, draft the hero copy, and pull in the latest product images from the media library.”

• “Rewrite this page to match our tone-of-voice guidelines and generate a meta description under 150 characters.”

• “Review this page, highlight potential accessibility issues, and fix any missing or weak alt text.”

• “Translate this page to Spanish and adapt culturally sensitive phrases for a Latin American audience.”

The result is a powerful, approachable AI assistant that feels natural, secure, and fully integrated with Umbraco (roles and permissions) — enabling editors to get high-quality results quickly without needing technical knowledge.

Target Release: Q2 2026

Umbraco CMS stores and surfaces various system dates related to events such as creation, update, and publication.  They are mostly stored as server time, without any time zone information.  We'd like to rationalize this such that we consistently store and work with UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) on the server, presenting local time on the client. We'll also create a new property editor as part of this project that explicitly stores UTC and allows for presentation to the editor in convenient time zones.

We're ensuring that the editor experience in the Umbraco backoffice meets accessibility standards by working with the criteria underlying WCAG compliance. 

With accessibility becoming a greater focus across the industry, we're also exploring ways to enhance the overall accessibility experience in the Umbraco backoffice. In this first phase, we’re prioritizing editors and content creators, making their workflow more inclusive and user-friendly.

Experience the power of load balancing in Umbraco Cloud, distributing website traffic across multiple servers to optimize performance, scalability, and user experience, effortlessly handling high volumes, and scaling with ease.

Analytics are shown directly in the backoffice on both generic and page level. Want to have custom insights with multiple dimensions in it? Simply connect the reporting API to your dashboard application and create the insight you need.

Umbraco Forms will be extended with Enhanced Form Analytics. This will provide an overview of how often Forms are being submitted, your best performing Forms, best converting moments and more.

We currently provide very restricted email functionality in Heartcore in order to limit potential abuse scenarios. We know that email is a crucial part of a modern platform, and intend to re-enable this by allowing you to configure your own SMTP server from which to send messages. Not only will this enhance workflow processes with notifications, but will also allow you to easily send emails on form submissions.

Heartcore media is presently served from an Umbraco domain. For better SEO and to make a site's hosting platform more opaque we will allow customers to add their own domains from which to serve media.

The Content Delivery MCP Server gives LLMs fast, safe, read-only access to your published Umbraco content and media. This means AI tools can understand what’s live on your site, without touching or modifying source data.

Because it works with the Delivery API, AI assistants can retrieve pages, blocks, and media exactly as they appear on the live site, perfect for content-aware features without any editorial risk.

Marketeers can use AI to analyze, search, or understand the site’s content structure, enabling scenarios like:

“Scan all articles and cluster them into topic groups, and suggest a new navigation structure.”

“Generate a structured AEO report for all my pages.”

“Generate a consistency report across descriptions, specs, and imagery for all my products.”

“Scan all media and identify missing alt text or metadata for optimization.”

The read-only surface makes it ideal for content analysis, AI chatbots and assistants, search, and personalisation logic.

With multiple Block Editors now available (Block List and Block Grid), we want to make it possible to share block content across pages, between the block-based editors, and make it possible to update this content more efficiently.

Following the initial release of the search abstraction as a package, we plan to integrate it directly into the core Umbraco CMS. This will make the search abstraction a first-class part of the CMS, simplifying project setup and ensuring consistent support across the platform.

This core integration will make it easier for developers to swap out Examine for an external search engine without needing to install additional packages or manage separate dependencies. Examine will remain the default search provider, but replacing it will be far cleaner and more maintainable.

The integration is expected to be released after Umbraco 17 in a subsequent major release. 

Allows you to schedule automatic upgrades of Umbraco CMS, Forms and Deploy. You will be given a timeframe in with you can schedule the upgrade to ensure better planning and handling of automatic upgrades.

The Visitor Profile will be enriched with properties like name, email address, organization, and custom properties. These properties can be set by a Form submission, an Umbraco Member registration, an Umbraco Commerce order, or by calling the API.

This will offer full insight into the effectiveness of your campaigns. Expect insights in traffic, form submissions, triggered goals and e-commerce orders. Everything will be related to Visitor Profiles and exportable.

We're exploring the possibilities to add a Customer overview to your Commerce shop that can be used for customer service purposes.