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NET CORE VERSIONS AND FEATURES UPGRADE

In short - no need to wait if you want to upgrade your Umbraco skills today.

NET CORE VERSIONS AND FEATURES FREE

This means that the knowledge you'll gain by going on courses today will still be valid in Umbraco 9.Ĥ courses will change significantly, but for these courses, you'll get free access to the Umbraco 8 to 9 bridging courses which will be available in 2022. The changes and improvements you'll see from going from Umbraco 8 to 9 are only in certain areas of the CMS. After the release of the final minor version of Umbraco 8 no more features will be added to version 8.įor Umbraco 7 projects, the Security phase started in July, 2021 and EOL is September 2023.įrom 2022, all Umbraco training courses will be taught in Umbraco version 9.īut no need to wait to upgrade your skills! So you can stay safe on Umbraco 8 for quite a while.

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When the final minor version of Umbraco 8 is released (TBD - we’ll communicate about this in future Product Updates), that version will be supported for 2 full years + an additional year of “security”-updates. When Umbraco 9 is released, it will be the main Umbraco release which means that you’ll get access to new features and fixes every 6 weeks as part of the Minor release cadence. Umbraco 9 is better than previous versions in many ways, including runtime performance.įor projects that are no longer in development and where runtime performance is not important, we recommend you take the Long Term Support of Umbraco 8 into account when considering whether to take the plunge or not.

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For the pieces of your code that interact with Umbraco, please refer to the “What has changed from Umbraco 8 to 9” blog post where you’ll find a description of the areas you should be aware of.įor more details, take a look at the migration guide in our documentation. For templates, the changes are mostly syntactical, and some namespace changes. Code migrationĪs for your own code, there will be some work needed. Many Umbraco packages are already available for version 9, but in some cases, you might need to look for alternatives or reach out to the package creator and ask for their plan to upgrade to Umbraco 9. Your packages and other dependencies will need to work with Umbraco 9 and. Your content will “just work”, as there are very few database changes (and there are automatic migrations in place for these). Here are some of the main areas that need your attention during the migration: Content migration The guide includes Cloud-specific terminology but the overall approach would apply to non-cloud sites, too. We have created a basic migration guide for your projects on Umbraco Cloud. The biggest change is the move from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core, so the biggest deciding factor in your projects migrations is how tightly coupled you are to ASP.NET and. How big of a task it will be, depends on your current project setup. This goes both for the open-source CMS and for projects on Umbraco Cloud (Uno and Heartcore projects will be upgraded automatically to Umbraco 9 at a later stage).Īll projects can be migrated.

You won’t find an upgrade button - but you will be able to migrate existing projects to Umbraco 9.

The backoffice will look the same and editing capabilities will be on par with Umbraco 8. NET Core is focused on getting the backend and source code updated to run on the new framework. For some tips on some of the larger changes see the What has changed from Umbraco 8 to 9 blog post. You will find that many of the Umbraco conventions you know and love are the same, or similar, so getting started with Umbraco 9 should be a familiar experience. This depends on what type of functionality your project(s) contain and how tightly coupled to.

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