Below you’ll find the Umbraco Roadmap. A general, high-level, overview of what the Umbraco HQ development team is working on Now, Next and Later. The Roadmap will give you an idea of where our software products are going and at what state the different components are currently in so you know if your favourite feature is on the roadmap and its current state.
For more detailed information concerning upcoming releases, please see our public release overview.
For an overview of the features, projects etc. that have already been delivered, please see Roadmap History.
Projects/Features that the development team currently have their hands on. You’ll also find an expected launch date/time period on most of the components.
Projects/Features that we have started the process of planning. Once the necessary planning and preparation is done, this will be moved up to “Now” where it will be given an expected delivery time and, in some cases, split into smaller components.
Big projects that are on the team's “future board”. As work starts on the "Later" projects, they'll be broken up into smaller components before going into the "Next" level.
An improved Media Picker is in development for Umrbaco CMS. It brings new features for editors and developers alike. You can look forward to local crops, vastly improved UI, new built-in Media Types and more.
Expected release: June 3rd, 2021 (As part of Umbraco 8.14)
Existing Umbraco Cloud, Uno and Heartcore projects will be migrated to the new and improved Umbraco Cloud infrastructure. We’ll have detailed information on the migration process when we get closer to the release. For more details see The Future of Umbraco Cloud blog post.
Expected Release: March-April, 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
Umbraco CMS is running on .NET 5/ASP.NET Core and the official add-ons, Umbraco Forms and Umbraco Deploy are working on the new version.
Target release: Q2, 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.
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.
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 first stage of this project you will get:
This will provide a faster and leaner Umbraco CMS both in terms of start-up and ongoing footprint of a running website. You can follow the ongoing work on the issue tracker.
After the migration of existing projects underway is we will work to enable all projects to be created on the new infrastructure for Umbraco Cloud. For more details see The Future of Umbraco Cloud blog post.
Expected Release: Q2, 2021
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: Q2, 2021
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: Q3, 2021
Umbraco’s backoffice implementation is currently based on angularJS which is entering EOL in 2021. We want to update the backoffice using a modern approach with a better architecture. The aim is to make life easier for developers, package authors and editors alike.The project is currently divided into three milestones. Each milestone will have separate RFCs:
1. Build a UI Library (January 2021)
2. Define backoffice API (Spring 2021)
3. Implement backoffice (2021)
An RFC for the overall approach can be found here
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
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
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.
One of the biggest benefits of using Umbraco is that we have the friendliest Open Source community on this planet. A community that's incredibly pro-active, extremely talented and helpful.
If you get an idea for something you would like to build in Umbraco, chances are that someone has already built it. And if you have a question, are looking for documentation or need friendly advice, go ahead and ask the Umbraco community on Our.