May Momentum: Real life tests let us fixes bugs!
May brought serious momentum to the django CMS ecosystem — from bug-squashing releases to exciting first-time contributions! Here's everything you need to know from this month's update.
🚀 Releases
🔧 django CMS 5.0.1 A focused bugfix release that resolves circular import issues and ensures all text-enabled plugins work seamlessly with djangocms-text. Clean and stable!
🌓 djangocms-text 0.8.7
- Icons for tables now dark-mode compatible
- Re-introduced
CKEDITOR_BASEPATHfor CKEditor 4 - Fixed a migration failing on MySQL
- Better support for django CMS 5
🔁 djangocms-versioning 2.3.1:Improvements to default version copying, plus minor bugfixes for a smoother content lifecycle.
🧱 djangocms-alias 2.0.3:This one’s laying the groundwork for django CMS 5.1 to run on the current django CMS main branch!
🎉 Community Contributions
43 contributions in total this month! Here’s the breakdown:
- 🧩 16 to django CMS core
- ✍️ 10 to djangocms-text
- 📡 5 to djangocms-rest — a REST API for django CMS 4.1+
- 🎨 5 to djangocms-frontend
Special shoutouts: 💥 @metaforx for awesome work on djangocms-rest 👏 @stefanw and @PeterW-LWL for boosting django CMS 5 and djangocms-text 🙌 And congrats to PeterW-LWL for what looks like their first contribution to django CMS core!
💬 That’s a Wrap!
Whether you’re fixing bugs, testing features, or making your first commit — thank you for moving django CMS forward. The momentum is real, and it’s all thanks to you.
👉 Stay tuned for what’s brewing in June, and as always — happy coding!
Fabian Braun
django CMS Fellow
Release
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.
Release
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.
Case Studies
How we built our professional services digital platform using django CMS
Compound Partners is a UK digital consultancy specialising in audience-centric user experience and content architecture for professional services firms. Fifteen years ago, a developer's recommendation pointed us at django CMS. Today, our entire business is built on it.