Roadmap History

Umbraco 8.7 contains a bunch of new features such as the new Block List Editor, support for segments at API level, Content Apps for Document Types and complex validation in property editors. It also contains a lot of bug-, stability- and accessibility fixes from both HQ and community contributions.

A new back-office editor that handles common page structure editing in a simple and intuitive way. The main concept of the editor is to manage list of blocks that represents 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.

This editor aims to be an alternative to the popular editors in Umbraco version 7 such as the Grid, Stacked Content, LeBlender and Doc Type Grid Editor.

A Request For Comments has been accepted on this topic on GitHub. You can see it right here.

Umbraco Uno improved with a complete overhaul of the widget engine and layout. This adds several improvements to the ability to easily edit and manage content within the Umbraco backoffice for Uno editors.

With this updates, it is easy to configure a long list of important SEO parameters for your Uno website - without any need to access the code directly.

Examples of improvements:

• Noindex/nofollow settings on individual page level
• Manual 301 redirects
• Management of image ALT text
• URL management on individual page level

Instead of storing Form items in files, it is now possible to store all items, forms, workflows, data sources and pre-value sources, in a database. This gives benefits in a load-balanced setup, as files do not have to be synchronized between hosts. This also aligns with general practice on Umbraco Cloud.

Backoffice is operational on .NET Core. We can build a version that can be end-to-end tested for content management. This milestone was acompanied by the first alpha release of Umbraco running on .Net Core (including installing on MacOS and Linux as well as Windows).

Read more about it in the alpha release blog post.

Aside from the Rest API and client libraries, this feature expands options for consuming content by providing native support for the Graph QL querying language in Umbraco Heartcore projects.

Read more about the GraphQL functionality in Heartcore in the release blog post.

The Custom Code feature in Umbraco Uno allows you to open up for additional components, custom Umbraco code, packages etc. This empowers you to take your Uno project to the next level as you get more flexibility and customization options.

By enabling Custom Code, you get access to Git repositories as well as the Settings and Package sections in the backoffice on your Development/Staging environments. The feature is available on the Standard, Professional and Enterprise plans. 

For more details, see the Uno pricing and feature page. 

Umbraco source code solution is re-structured and everything is .NET Core compatible. This first phase in the transition to .NET Core provides a cleaner architecture and makes it easier to work with and contribute to Umbraco. For detailed information information see the Project Structure for Project UniCore RFC.

Uno is our new SaaS offering that enables you to built impressive websites without writing a single line of code. 

By the help of widgets, you're able to design and structure a functional on on-brand websites in no time. Umbraco Uno is perfect for creative and marketing agencies. 

With this new feature, your content editors will get a better overview of the usage of various media items (images, pdfs etc.) across the created content. This makes it easier to do editorial changes based on the media items used, without having to search through all content or remember where you’ve used your media.

A Request For Comments has been accepted on this topic on GitHub. You can see it right here

Released on the 31st of March as part of the Umbraco 8.6 release.

Umbraco 8.6 includes Media Tracking, Custom Validation Messages, Updated Media Picker, Stability improvements on Azure and Content Apps for Members. Get the 8.6 highlights here

This item has been split in to several new items on the current roadmap.

We currently use .NET Framework which is being replaced by .NET Core in order to give you better performance and a more modern framework. Moving to .Net core will be a big transition but we aim to keep it simple and as smooth as possible.

For more information, please see the two first Request For Comments: Introduction to Project UniCore and Project structure for Project UniCore on Github.

Umbraco 8.5 includes the core Umbraco Modelsbuilder. Get the 8.5 highlights here

With this extended Partial Restore feature you are no longer required to restore all content in an empty Umbraco Cloud environment. You will be able to restore a single content node or a specific part of the content tree giving you more control and the ability to work faster.

With REST APIs being one of the main parts of a headless cms we want to ensure that Umbraco Forms is just as useful in a headless context as on a regular Umbraco based website. The first part will be to ensure that Umbraco Forms has endpoints for getting a form definition and for submitting a form entry, which is what this roadmap item will deliver.

Umbraco 8.4 contains Data Type Tracking, improved backoffice search, Property Actions, faster Media Library, UI and accessibility improvements and more than 180 community contributions.

Umbraco Heartcore brings Umbraco CMS to any project that needs content management. The platform is available as a headless SaaS offering and will provide a flexible connection to a range of platforms with APIs and source code libraries.

• Connect with any technology via APIs and open source code libraries
• Access to Umbraco backoffice through a SaaS platform
• Heartcore available through Umbraco Cloud
• No limitation on front-end rendering technology and no dependency on Umbraco website rendering.

For more information, please see: Umbraco Heartcore product description

Umbraco 8.3 is a small minor release and most notably, it ability to change the culture of a language.

This version contains 91 features and fixes. Once again, there is a big focus on making the backoffice an even friendlier place to work. Both through numerous community contributions but also adding some new functionality to the rich text editor and further improvements to the cache layer - making both developers and content editors happier! 

Umbraco 8.2 contains the first round of improvements for the Rich Text Editor (RTE), performance improvements, drag and drop image upload and a whole lot more, making working and updating content in the RTE more delightful for content editors!

The first minor release of Umbraco 8 containing improvements to the editor and backoffice experience, content migration possibilities from Umbraco 7 to 8 and breaking changes. 

Read more about the 8.1.0 release: Release blog post; Umbraco 8.1 Release, release notes: Umbraco 8.1.0

The final planned minor release of Umbraco version 7. Including some new features, a security fix and a few bug fixes.

Read more about Umbraco 7.15.0: Release blog post; Umbraco 7.15 Release, release notes: Umbraco 7.15.0

With the release of Umbraco 8.1.0, a built-in content migration tool was introduced to help support you in moving your Umbraco 7 sites to Umbraco 8. 

Read more about the migration: Release blog post; Umbraco 8.1., documentation; Umbraco Cloud: Migrate Umbraco 7 Cloud project to Umbraco 8, stand-alone Umbraco: Migrating content to Umbraco 8​

5 years wait is finally over and Umbraco 8 is released with confetti 🎉 and cheers from the friendly Umbraco community. 

With Umbraco 8, we're introducing new features, new design, new code syntax and a new structure to the Umbraco CMS. All to improve your experience with Umbraco. The three major features in Umbraco 8 are:

• Infinite Editing - a smoother, and more intuitive workflow for your editors in the Umbraco backoffice
  
• Content Apps - improve your content with insightful data and tips directly in the backoffice
  
• Language Variants - built-in features that support multilingual content 

More about Umbraco 8: blog post: Introducing Umbraco 8, Product info: Umbraco 8