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Out with the old, in with the new. This release brings official support for PHP 8.0 and PHPUnit 9.5 while dropping support for legacy technologies like PHP 7.2 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 11. Upgrade today and set up your project for long term success.

We're giving the Silverstripe CMS community a heads up about three changes that are coming up around adding support for PHPUnit 9, dropping support for end-of-life PHP releases, and dropping support for Internet Explorer.

This release is jam-packed full of exciting improvements. Better website performance out of the box? Check. Stronger CMS account management of logged-in devices? Check. A new release pattern that gives faster access to bug fixes? Check. There’s even more too!

Silverstripe CMS 4.8 is here! In this release, we're introducing a smooth transition for projects to adopt the latest improvements to the new GraphQL v4 module and some security changes to the log-in process.

What happens when open-source moves from being a hobby to being a full-time job? Take a look at the recollections of a Silverstripe CMS open-source developer.

Customer experience agency, UnDigital, has been working with Landcom, the NSW Government’s land and property development organisation, to develop multiple websites using Silverstripe CMS. Both Landcom and UnDigital have been pleased with how simple it is to build exceptional websites. This article explores the different sites built by the team and shows the multiple elements of functionality available to Silverstripe CMS users.

The world of content management is becoming increasingly API-driven. Learn how you can use Silverstripe CMS to create a high-performing GraphQL API with just a few lines of configuration in this 45-minute presentation by Aaron Carlino (Uncle Cheese).

With CMS 4.x supported until at least 2023, we're taking the time to incrementally innovate on the Silverstripe CMS ecosystem rather than prioritising a monolithic CMS 5.x release. Change should be a choice, and we hope to make it an easy one by continuing our work on APIs, Decoupled, and a modern CMS UI architecture.

We’re bringing in the new year with the recently released Silverstripe CMS 4.7. This release focuses on an improved view for Content Managers to track where files are being used in your project. Highlights for Developers include PHP 8 support, the ability to trigger actions from the toast notification component, plus a wide range of house-keeping improvements and fixes.

How are you tracking security advisories in your dependencies? Silverstripe regularly publishes security fixes and there are various tools to get notified. Read all about them here.

Gatsby is a development framework that delivers high performing websites and apps. And if you’re willing to experiment, it’s a match made in heaven with Silverstripe CMS. Lead Developer at First Table, Gene Dower shares his experience with this web development dream team.

Silverstripe Professional Partner, Evans Hunt, recently launched a new site for Canada-based multidisciplinary design practice, DIALOG. The new site needed to provide a platform to communicate DIALOG’s complex service offering and represent their visually exquisite projects.

We’re excited to bring you our latest minor release, Silverstripe CMS 4.6. We've stayed focused on how to keep your content within Silverstripe CMS secure to avoid any potential content leaks.

Our annual Community Survey highlights how the community are using Silverstripe CMS and offers important insight for our product development team. In this post, we round up the key findings from this year’s survey.

A new security patch release has been made available for sites on CMS 4 to address issues identified with restricting access to some files saved in the CMS.

At Silverstripe, our teams have been thinking about how we can support our communities while we unite against COVID-19. We're here to make sure that we can help the people we work alongside stay up and running during this period of uncertainty.

It’s time to have your say again! We’re running our (slightly delayed) annual community survey. This is your chance to tell us about you, how you’re using Silverstripe CMS, and if we’re going in the right direction.

We're excited to bring you the latest minor release of Silverstripe CMS 4. Silverstripe CMS 4.5 is packed with improvements to general content editing tasks and file management, as well as lifting the accessibility of the content you create.