The Umbraco Roadmap

Ready for project development: Umbraco CMS is running on .NET 5/ASP.NET Core, official packages are supported and new projects can be developed using the latest version.

Target release: August, 2021

Tabs will be an optional tool to organise properties in the Umbraco backoffice.

You can still continue to use property groups as you’re used to in Umbraco 8. We’ll have more information about this in coming product updates and release communication.

Target release: Q3, 2021

A shared component library for building Umbraco products and packages based on web standards. The UI library is available on Github and open for contributions. Documented using Storybook.

This is Part 1 of Future-proofing Umbraco's backoffice and is detailed further in the UI Component Library RFC (request for comments).

Target release: Q3, 2021

With persisted queries you can define and save your GraphQL queries up front, so you only allow pre-defined queries to be executed against your Content. Another benefit of having persisted queries is that the popular Apollo GraphQL client library supports this approach and will thus send a hash instead of the entire query, which might be a a big payload to send multiple times, so a lot less to send across the wire.

The Block Editor functionality is similar to the one introduced in Umbraco 8.7 and allows you to structure the content in your Heartcore backoffice in a new way. The main concept of the editor is to manage lists of blocks that represent a web page's structure, where each block is both a collection of content and a way to configure that collection to be rendered. Each content block and configuration is defined by an Element Type to make administrating and editing with the new Block editor consistent.

The functionality will first be made available for new Umbraco Heartcore projects and then enabled for existing projects. 

Expected release: Q3, 2021

Uncovering the current APIs for extending Umbraco’s backoffice and defining how this should work in the future in order to provide a standardised extension API. This work is being done in collaboration with the Backoffice Community team and will result in an RFC (request for comments) detailing the new proposal for the extension API.

This is Part 2 of Future-proofing Umbraco's backoffice.

Target for RFC: Q3, 2021

With a new infrastructure in place we can work towards expanding hosting capabilities to include other regions. Starting with a US-based region in addition to the current Western European region.

Expected Release: 2021

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

Expected Release: 2021

Taking advantage of new CDN capabilities on Umbraco for serving media and content will enable you to control caching and deliver assets more efficiently. 

Expected Release: 2021

One of the strong features of the Umbraco Backoffice is the ability to extend it with custom Property Editors to fit the needs of the Content Editors. This feature will enable for Umbraco Heartcore as well.

With this feature, you'll be able to configure how many versions (revisions) of content is stored in the Umbraco database. You'll be able to control this on a per document type level and configure how far back versions should go. This will have a positive effect on performance. Especially for sites with a lot of activity and a lot of content.

Once a new extension API has been proposed and accepted through the RFC process, implementation can begin and the bac in collaboration with the Backoffice Community team.

This is Part 3 of Future-proofing Umbraco's backoffice.

Umbraco Uno will be enhanced with support for multiple languages in the editing interface of the backoffice. This will make it easy to work with content variations over several languages on your site.

With the launch of Umbraco Uno you are limited to one theme. We will introduce several inspirational themes with broader use-cases and a wider set of configurations to best suit your needs.