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The CMS Is Not the Application

Imagine you're building a customer portal. Customers sign in, manage their subscriptions, download invoices, update account details and interact with data from your product.

Then someone asks a perfectly reasonable question: "Can marketing edit the help pages?" You now need a CMS.

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django CMS 5.1 is here: easier setup, flexible deployments, and a fresh editing experience

This release reduces friction across the whole project lifecycle: creating a new project, adding django CMS to an existing Django application, configuring larger deployments, controlling which plugins editors can use, and working with the CMS every day.

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django CMS 5.0.9 released: security, accessibility, and stability improvements

This release addresses three medium-severity security vulnerabilities and includes improvements to accessibility, Django compatibility, permissions, Content Security Policy support, and general editor stability.

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django CMS 5.0.8 released: a security update everyone should install

We're happy to announce the release of django CMS 5.0.8. This is primarily a security release, and we strongly recommend that all users upgrade as soon as possible.

Community news

Tiptap, Slots, Security, and 429 PRs: Spring 2026 in django CMS

The django CMS ecosystem has had an exceptionally productive spring. Since March, contributors across the django CMS organization have merged 429 pull requests, delivering major improvements to content editing, security, frontend components, developer tooling, and future platform compatibility.

Addons

Markdown meets django CMS

The default rich text plugins work well for many editorial workflows — but if you regularly deal with long-form content, documentation-like pages, or AI-generated text, a different approach can be far more efficient.

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What’s New in django CMS 5.0.7

This release focuses on stability, security, editor experience, and compatibility improvements across the CMS core. It includes fixes for frontend editing, permissions handling, plugin behavior, apphooks, migrations, and performance-related edge cases.

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django CMS 3.11 & 4.1 Reach End of Life: Final Patch Releases and What to Do Next

April 2026 officially closed the chapter on two long-standing django CMS LTS branches: 3.11 and 4.1.

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Full CKEditor 5 Support Lands in djangocms-text: A Milestone for Rich Text Editing

The final missing piece for djangocms-text-ckeditor5 has arrived: complete support for text-enabled CMS plugins.

Community news

DjangoCon Europe 2026 — A Brief Report

DjangoCon Europe 2026 took place from 15–19 April 2026 at the Athens Conservatoire in Athens, Greece, marking the 18th edition of the conference.

Technical articles

Automating translations with django CMS and DeepL

If you run a multilingual django CMS project, you already know the friction: translating one page is easy, translating fifty pages while keeping structure, plugins, and links consistent is not.

Community news

Markdown meets django CMS

The default rich text plugins work well for many editorial workflows — but if you regularly deal with long-form content, documentation-like pages, or AI-generated text, a different approach can be far more efficient.

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django CMS 4.1.10 Released: Stability Improvements for django CMS 4.1 LTS

We're pleased to announce the release of django CMS 4.1.10, a maintenance update for the Django 4.2 LTS branch.

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django CMS 5.0.6 Released – Maintenance Update for our current LTS Version

We’re happy to announce the release of django CMS 5.0.6, a focused bug fix and compatibility release that improves stability, compatibility, and overall reliability.

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🚀 django CMS 5.1 Alpha Is Here — A Fresh Look and Greater Flexibility

This release introduces a refreshed user interface, powerful new configuration flexibility, and improved plugin control.

Community news

django CMS 5.1 in Motion: A Dynamic Step Toward the Next Release

December and January were all about getting the final features and stability in place for django CMS 5.1 — and it’s been a very productive stretch.

Technical articles

Why Now Is the Right Time to Migrate from django CMS 3.11

Support for django CMS 3.11 ends April 2026. Learn why you should migrate now, best migration steps, and how to upgrade safely to CMS 4 and 5.

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djangocms-rest 1.0 Released — A New Frontier for Headless django CMS Experiences

As we close out 2025, we’re thrilled to share a major milestone for the django CMS ecosystem — djangocms-rest 1.0 is now officially released! 🚀

Community news

Django CMS Fellows & Community Annual Report 2025: A Year of Extraordinary Contributions

The Django CMS Fellowship Program continues to drive the development and maintenance of one of the most powerful open-source content management systems in the Python ecosystem. This report covers the contributions made by the two Django CMS Fellows—Fabian Braun and Vinit Kumar —from January 1, 2025, to December 3, 2025.

Technical articles

djangocms-stories-agenda: a lightweight, flexible event system for Django CMS

Django CMS has many strengths, but we encountered a few limitations while creating websites for our clients, one of them is the lack of an efficient agenda/event package. On the other hand, the blog system provided by djangocms-stories is powerful, extensible, and widely used.
 

Community news

Djangonaut Space Session 5: Small Fixes, Big Impact in django CMS

This is Mar Bartolome and Vanessa Bedzra from the Djangonauts Space program which is run bi-annually by the Django community as an initiative to ease the onboarding of new code contributors and boost community involvement.

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django CMS 5.0.5 Released — Bugfix Update for Our LTS Version

We’re happy to announce the release of django CMS 5.0.5, a bugfix release for our long-term support (LTS) version. This update focuses on improving the stability and reliability of multilingual content management and editing workflows.

Tutorials

How to Integrate a Custom App into Django CMS 5 (with Frontend Editing)

Once you understand apphooks, placeholders, and frontend editing, Django CMS becomes more than a CMS — it’s a developer’s content framework.

Community news

Django CMS September and October Highlights

The Django CMS community has been on fire this month — new features, smarter builds, fresh faces, and exciting milestones across the entire ecosystem.