Craft CMS November newsletter

View in browser Craft CMS Newsletter It’s been an eventful couple of weeks! Last week we released Craft 5.12, which added MCP servers and an authenticated GraphQL API. Then on Tuesday, we launched the Craft 6 Beta. Craft 6 has over 250 new features and enhancements, making it the biggest Craft release ever. What’s New Craft 6 Beta craftcms.com A refreshed control panel, new command palette and compare views, publishing workflows and releases, an AI assistant, and so much more. Oh, and Craft 6 is fully ported to Laravel. Craft 5.12 craftcms.com MCP servers for connecting your AI agents to Craft, and an authenticated GraphQL API. Craft Cloud and php2shell craftcms.com Our recap of the php2shell incident, and how we handled it for our Craft Cloud customers. Why Craft is Publishing More Security Advisories craftcms.com Brad wrote about why seemingly every Craft release includes security fixes now. Coincidentally published four days before php2shell. Community Updates The 2026 Craft CMS conference as it happened webdna.co.uk webdna’s recap of Dot One London. Craft CMS: Looking ahead to the next chapter www.nzime.com Nzime’s recap of Dot One London. The Rebirth of Work With Craft www.doublesecretagency.com Double Secret Agency relaunched Work With Craft, their unofficial Craft CMS job board. State of CMS stateofcms.com The State of JS/HTML/CSS people have launched a new survey: State of CMS, for people who work with content management systems. The Craft 6 Beta Is Here opus.ing Jason Morehead’s initial thoughts on the Craft 6 Beta. New in Craft CMS 5.12 craftentries.io Thomas Sausen wrote about the new features in Craft 5.12. Tools, Tips, and Fundamentals Craft 6, as it happens. craftquest.io CraftQuest has been publishing short lessons on new features being added in Craft 6, including a quick 6 Features in Craft 6 overview video. Protecting Craft CMS with Cloudflare www.mutual.agency Andrew Fairlie wrote about Mutual’s approach to protecting Craft CMS with Cloudflare. How to Get Client Sign-Off on Craft CMS Blocks Before Launch b10k.nl Bohdan Feniuk wrote about how demos components to clients using a Craft install and Live Preview. How I Took PHP Offline Without Taking My Sites Down putyourlightson.com Ben Croker recently discovered a cool plugin called “Blitz” and wrote about it. Optimizing a Craft CMS Project with 127 Sites samuelreichor.at Samuel Reichör wrote about some performance optimization work he recently did, bringing a massive reduction in page load times to a large content site. VerWatch verwatch.com New service that PR’s Craft CMS updates for you. Featured Sites Ventoux TypeMates by Village One Viget by Viget Seasonal Studios by COMMON Skiguard by 99x New Partners About GOMO Digital Senior Craft developer in Portugal. I build and maintain multilingual, content-heavy sites for design agencies and direct clients. About Hallingcast Norwegian Craft CMS agency with in-house photo and film. We build, host and maintain sites for 30+ clients across Norway. About XM Media We are a long-standing agency with over 20 years of experience. We build and maintain Craft sites alongside custom web apps. About Design Workshop We create marketing solutions for clients in retail, FMCG, manufacturing, construction & professional services. Notable New Plugins Recurrence EE-Forge Recurring dates for native Craft entries, with indexed occurrences, dated URLs, per-date overrides and ICS feeds. hostily Captcha connect – Media & Teledienst Privacy-friendly proof-of-work captcha hosted in Germany: protects your own forms, Formie, Freeform and the account forms. Hibira Realtime Hibira Editing presence, live entry updates and Commerce order status for Craft 5. CoworkingView CoworkingView Coworking and flexible office price data from CoworkingView, inside Craft CMS. Enquiries by ROOGUL ROOGUL Contact form handling for forms you build in Twig: store, filter spam, and send