What's NEOS in 2025

Hey Neos Community!

2025 was a great year for the Neos project, full of progress, collaboration, and shared success.
New releases, active development, and lots of community energy kept the project moving forward.
Thanks to strong sponsor support and a successful Neos Con, we were able to invest directly into improving Neos for users, agencies and developers.
Most of all, the year showed how vibrant, supportive, and committed the Neos community truly is.

If you have ideas, feedback, or projects to share, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out anytime, especially via Slack in #guild-marketing. 

Table of contents:

Neos 2025 in numbers

Core Releases

2025 was a highly productive and impactful year for the Neos project, marked by strong technical progress, growing community engagement, and solid financial support. The release cycle was especially active, with 19 Neos patch releases, 8 Flow patch releases, and 7 Neos.Ui patch releases, alongside three major releases (Neos, Flow, and Neos.Ui 9.0) and six minor releases across the 8.4 and 9.1 lines. A significant amount of work also went into ensuring Neos 9 compatibility across many core packages, laying a stable foundation for the future.

Financials

From an organizational and financial perspective, Neos benefited from continued and expanded support. Longtime sponsors contributed €60,000, while Neos Con 2025 generated an additional €23,000 in profit, bringing total revenue to €83,000. After covering approximately €14,000 in essential operating costs, the remaining funds were reinvested directly into the development of Neos 9, underscoring a strong commitment to the platform’s evolution. The project also welcomed Ops One AG and 180heartbeats as new longtime sponsors, further strengthening its backing.

Community

Community and collaboration remained at the heart of Neos in 2025. The core team grew with the addition of Sophia as a new member, supported by three core sprints held in Vienna, Karlsruhe, and Dresden. The year also featured Neos Con 2025 in Karlsruhe, 14 blog posts, and exceptionally high community activity, with more than 11,000 messages exchanged on Slack. Together, these achievements highlight 2025 as a year of growth, collaboration, and investment in the long-term success of Neos CMS.

The increased number of blog posts, press articles, newsletters, activity on LinkedIn and other efforts in 2025, was also possible due to the higher financial contributions. Those allowed us to hire outside help and have a budget which allowed core team members to work on more marketing topics and the maintenance of our websites.

A reminder for the upcoming Neos events

• Neos Con 2026 June 1–3 2026
  • Tickets are still playing hard to get — help us out and grab yours 😉
  • We’re happy to say we’ve already secured some amazing sponsors — but we’re still looking for partners to support special highlights like the legendary social event (yes, the party sponsor 😉) and help make the conference unforgettable.
  • The post-conference sprint will once again be organized and hosted by punkt.de from June 4 to June 7, 2026 — please fill out the Doodle to help everyone plan accordingly.
  • There will also be a Pre-Con workshop on Neos 9, which can be added directly to your ticket during checkout.
• Neos Sprint Rotkreuz (Switzerland) April 17th 2026
  • Organised by internezzo AG and visol
  • This sprint will focus on improving the Neos media management, especially the Media.Ui package
  • We are looking for PHP, JS, UX and accessibility skills
  • You can already sign up which helps the agencies with planning & preparation

Core package releases in December 2025

• Neos Bugfix Releases 8.3.30, 8.4.2 and 9.0.8
  • Fixes to some backend styling regressions in the previous version due to upmerge conflicts.
  • "More" button in history module works again.
  • Resolve render error in Neos.Neos:ImageTag when asset is not set.
  • Fixes security and styling issues in the Media Browser module.
• Flow Bugfix Releases 8.3.18, 8.4.2 and 9.0.5
  • Various bugfixes including new type converters for backed enums.
• Neos UI Bugfix Release 9.0.4
  • Based on community feedback, this release reverts the default behaviour of the preview button in the Neos backend. The behaviour can now be adjusted via the settings.
  • Improved positioning and layout of dialog modals.
• Neos 9.1 & Flow 9.1
  • We released our big batch of UX improvements. Be sure to check out the release post.

Thanks to all contributors for this great release!

Community package releases in December 2025

These are optional packages maintained by the Neos community, which might be used in your Neos installation.

Updates:

• beromir/neos-icon-select-editor v1.1.0
  • A plugin which allows selecting FontAwesome icons in the Neos inspector.
  • Updated build and general maintenance to improve stability.
• shel/neos-next-node 1.2.0
  • Neos Ui plugin to simplify creation of the next content element.
  • Button size adjustment to match new toolbars in Neos 9.1
• flownative/sentry v3.2.0
  • A Sentry integration for Neos Flow.
  • The trace sample rate can now be configured.
• beromir/neos-toggle-editor v1.6.0
  • A plugin for Neos CMS which provides a toggle editor.
  • Now supports custom styles for the buttons and their wrapper.
• sandstorm/kissearch 1.1.0
  • Search Neos content in your existing database and extend it with custom entities.
  • Automatic indexing and backend search are now disabled by default as they have some drawbacks.

Thank you for reading our first yearly and have a great 2026 and keep on contributing and spreading the Neos message!