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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 10/06/2026

Hey Apostrophe Community! 👋 v4.31.0 is out and it's all about Developer Activation. What's new: ✨ JSX server-side templating ⚡ Redesigned CLI installer 🗄️ PostgreSQL + SQLite support 🔒 Security patches (update promptly!) See the new CLI in action 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uotx...

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New interactive CLI

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 13/05/2026

Also as part of this release we've refreshed our roadmap to reflect the new release schedule, give editors control over spacing in the Layout widget, improve accessibility, and update a number of security concerns. roadmap.apostrophecms.com/roadmap

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Find out what the ApostropheCMS team is working on and leave your feedback.

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 13/05/2026

ApostropheCMS 4.30.0 launches a new two-track release schedule: monthly maintenance updates + quarterly feature releases. Safer, more predictable upgrades for production teams. Details apostrophecms.com/blog/apostro...

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ApostropheCMS - ApostropheCMS 4.30.0: A New release cadence, accessibility improvements, and bug fixes

Release notes for Apostrophe 4.30.0 and extensions for the cycle ending May 13th, 2026.

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 15/04/2026

ApostropheCMS 4.29.0 is out! Highlights: recently edited documents manager, Styles editor for layout widgets + new background preset, Apostrophe-Astro static build improvements, and security updates. Full details: apostrophecms.com/blog/apostro...

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ApostropheCMS - Apostrophe 4.29.0: Recently Edited Documents Manager, Unified Styles Editor

Release notes for Apostrophe 4.29.0 and extensions for the cycle ending April 15th, 2026.

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 18/03/2026

ApostropheCMS 4.28.0 brings support for static site builds to our @astro.build integration, pretty URLs for shared files and PDFs, and a round of stability improvements. Read the full breakdown of the release apostrophecms.com/blog/apostro...

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ApostropheCMS - Apostrophe 4.28.0: Static Builds for Astro and Pretty URLs for PDFs

Release notes for Apostrophe 4.28.0 and extensions for the cycle ending March 18th, 2026.

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 19/02/2026

ApostropheCMS 4.27.0 is out now. The latest release introduces a redesigned widget editing experience with a flexible interface, graduates the Styles Editor from beta to stable, and adds support for right-to-left languages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax7g...

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ApostropheCMS 4.27.0 Floating widget editor preview

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 26/01/2026

You can also add Style fields directly to widgets. These give editors scoped CSS controls for widget styles so that they can customize individual uses throughout the site. Check out a preview here www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRaO...

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ApostropheCMS 4.26.0: Widget Styles

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 26/01/2026

We've open sourced Apostrophe Palette and added it to core as Styles. This gives editors direct CSS control of global elements throughout their site using an in-context UI. Included is a migration script for those coming from Palette, docs cover the rest apostrophecms.com/docs/guide/g...

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Global Styles

Global styles allow content creators to modify CSS properties through the ApostropheCMS admin interface. Developers define which properties can be modified using schema field configuration, and conten...

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 26/01/2026

☃️ ApostropheCMS 4.26.0 lands today! This release we've moved Palette into the open source core and renamed it Styles, added similar styling control for widgets, added structured data to support the SEO module, and provided a new OpenAPI spec generator for custom API docs.

A summary of what is included in ApostropheCMS's 4.26.0 release

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I read a quote today - buried in another piece, so I can't give credit. "Companies rarely fail because no one cares. They fail because the people who care most aren’t empowered or protected." It really hit home.

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 25/11/2025

🦃 ApostropheCMS 4.24.0 rolls out the tablescape a bit early this month. This year we're bringing native Windows development support (bye, WSL), default settings for areas, and our favorite workhorse widget, Layout, gets marked stable! Let's eat www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Wh...

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ApostropheCMS Release 4.24.0: Native Windows dev support, area defaults, Layout widget marked stable

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 30/10/2025

Also-also UI/UX improvements like an improved color field, sticky widget controls (for those loooong widgets), quickly switch between different locale documents, case-insensitive login support, more widget operation options, and more. Full write here apostrophecms.com/blog/apostro...

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ApostropheCMS - ApostropheCMS 4.23.0: Layout Widget, and Improved Astro Integration

Release notes for Apostrophe 4.23.0 and extensions for the cycle ending October 30th, 2025.

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 30/10/2025

We've also updated our @astro.build integration to fully support Section Template Library, a Pro feature that allows you group widgets into reusable components. Check out the extension page for the scoop apostrophecms.com/extensions/s...

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ApostropheCMS - Section Template Library

Apostrophe is the open source CMS for everyone. Manage content elegantly with developer forward tech.

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 30/10/2025

Release day! ApostropheCMS 4.23.0 is out (and it's a good one). LAYOUT is now in core, a new widget that offers an in-context layout building experience. Drag'em, drop'em, stretch'em, hide'em on mobile. Check out the preview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppFd...

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Apostrophe 4.23.0: Layout Widget (Beta), Enhanced Widget Operations, and Improved Astro Integration

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I love Robin Hobbs and the assasin series. But it is awfully hard to forgive them for the dog.

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Heading out for a 1 week vacay in the great outdoors for some glamping. Going to be working on giving some ApostropheCMS + Astro extensions some update love, hicking, reading, maybe even some writing! Oh yeah, hopefully making an ApostropheCMS MCP with API and docs.

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 03/09/2025

🖼️ ApostropheCMS 4.21.0 has landed. Now you can drop images from your device directly onto your image widgets! This release also sets the stage for our upcoming AI generated layouts feature 📰

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I've been writing tutorials on e-commerce for the open-source ApostropheCMS. I focused on the e-commerce starter kit, but also wrote an extension for easily adding Stripe buy now buttons. It still needs some testing, so it is in beta. www.npmjs.com/package/@bod... Feedback would be great!

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GitHub - apostrophecms/starter-kit-ecommerce: An eCommerce-flavored starter kit for Apostrophe 3

An eCommerce-flavored starter kit for Apostrophe 3 - apostrophecms/starter-kit-ecommerce

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 09/07/2025

⌨️ ApostropheCMS 4.19.0 is published! Batch tagging for images, keyboard shortcuts for widgets, a new user information endpoint, dynamic choices in filter configurations, rich text import enhancements, probably a few more 👇

Summary of improvements to ApostropheCMS in the 4.19.0 release

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 26/06/2025

👀 New layout. New tutorials. Better docs = better dev experience. Check out what's new in the ApostropheCMS tutorials section. 🔗 docs.apostrophecms.org/tutorials/

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Tutorials

Step-by-step tutorials that go beyond the technical explanations in our Guide or Reference sections. Explore real-world implementations, from full project builds to focused how-tos, designed to help y...

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I have the utmost respect for the tech chops of the people who have created homebrew. I also have seething hatred for how when I try to do a quick install homebrew decides that it should also do some updating and neatening with about 50gb of tarballs regurgitated into my terminal.

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 12/06/2025

Swapping CKEditor for @tiptap.dev was a huge leap for ApostropheCMS ✅ Better UX ✅ Developer-first flexibility 🤯 Tiptap is open sourcing tons of premium features! We revamped the defaults, added inline tables & images, and more. Check it out 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmVO...

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Apostrophe's new default rich text toolbar

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 11/06/2025

🔗 ApostropheCMS 4.18.0 drops in today to offer a more nuanced conditional field syntax, out-of-box link schemas for rich text images and image widgets, and better defaults for rich text toolbars

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I doubt anyone really wants to know this, but if you have a Vitepress site under development and want to look at how some markdown will look. You can symlink the files, but make sure you configure Vite to preserve them in the build. #devrel

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 14/05/2025

No video this time around but we'll show you what to look for. As always you can take the deep dive on the blog apostrophecms.com/blog/apostro...

Overview of UI updates in ApostropheCMS 4.17.0

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 14/05/2025

😅 ApostropheCMS 4.17.0 makes the scene unhurried, unbothered, unstoppable 🧘‍♀️. A modest release, this month we offer widget previews by default, a reorganized (and customizable!) widget control UI, and a handy lil shortcut for image cropping and adjustments.

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Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 25/04/2025

I did it. I blogged again! This time, I wrote about what Developer Advocacy looks like in 2025.

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Ashley Willis – ashley.dev

Developer advocate, open source champion, and maker of things.

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

For those that use claude.ai on a regular basis, do you ever feel like some days the answers you are getting back are perfect and others you almost want to ask if it has been huffing glue?

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 16/04/2025

Apostrophe 4.15.0 is here to help wrangle those rich text tables! Also in this release: A live preview of widgets being edited, import & translate documents in one step, and batch operations come to the media manager

An image describing the updates to Apostrophe 4.15.0, including In-Context Live Preview, Enhanced Tables, and Translation Tools

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Sarah Rainsberger @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca · 10/04/2025

Themes are SUCH an important part of our ecosystem! I get SO excited seeing our themes used "in the wild" like, yeah, you can just do that. Shout out to all our @astro.build theme authors, who make it ridiculously quick to claim your corner of the web: astro.build/themes (And check out the pod!)

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Themes | Astro

Elevate your style with our stellar designs.

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Sarah Rainsberger @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca · 10/04/2025

And, nothing says you can't "make a theme your own." I mean, one of these things is not like the other... 😅

A grid of 12 website thumbnails under the heading "Sites: Starlight Blog is already being used in production. These are some of the sites around the web:" 11 of the websites are various versions of a dark black background and lighter black sidebar with occasional tiny splashes of different accent colours.

*My* site, however, is shades of deep red/brown burgundy with gold text.

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 08/04/2025

We added new videos to the first few chapters of our ApostropheCMS + @astro.build tutorial series — step-by-step walkthroughs, deeper context, and a focus on the developer experience — with more coming soon.

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Building Websites with ApostropheCMS and Astro

Introduction The tutorials in this section will guide you through building modern websites using ApostropheCMS as your content management system with Astro powering your frontend. This combination of...

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 08/04/2025

Over the last few weeks we've been building out some more tools and resources for developers working with ApostropheCMS + @astro.build. Here's a quick update: 🧵

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 20/03/2025

🪷 Spring is in the air as is ApostropheCMS 4.14.0! From enhanced table support in the rich-text editor to better piece management, this release brings several quality-of-life improvements for both developers and content managers. Let's dive in

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Currently in the midst of world building, my favorite part! #indieGame #gameDev

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I occasionally jump onto FB - try to avoid, but... When I'm on there I will take a glance at the Reels for fun dog/cow/llama vids. Now it is filled with Christian F8cksticks, Charlie Kirk, other misogynistic f*ckers. Thanks for ruining sh*t Zuck you f*ck!

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Astro @astro.build · 13/03/2025

It’s no myth: Astro 5.5 is here Dive deep with better diagramming tool support, typesafe sessions, and improved Markdown compatibility astro.build/blog/astro-5...

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Astro 5.5 | Astro

Astro 5.5 dives deep with better support for diagramming tools, improved Markdown compatibility, and type-safe sessions!

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ApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 12/03/2025

Love Astro but need a powerful open-source CMS with real visual editing? Our new tutorial series shows how to integrate ApostropheCMS with @astro.build for a headless experience that content teams will love.

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Building Websites with ApostropheCMS and Astro

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Uhh..., dumb question, but how do starter packs work?

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bodonkey.bsky.social @bodonkey.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

ApostropheCMS keeps its i18n strings in JSON files. Core had accumulated English strings that weren't translated. So, I wrote a quick node gist that compares one file to a directory of files and then submits missing keys for translation. #opensource #javascript gist.github.com/BoDonkey/434...

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Node.js process for comparing and translating missing key:string values in two JSON files

Node.js process for comparing and translating missing key:string values in two JSON files - sync-translations.js

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