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
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Release
django CMS 5.0.11 and 5.1.2 released
Both are patch releases focused on security, stability, and compatibility. We recommend that users of the django CMS 5.0 and 5.1 series upgrade.