Hey Neos Community!
August was great for Neos. We had various bugfix releases which include huge performance improvements for Neos 8 and 9. Read further to learn, how much faster our page tree is with the latest Ui release.
Beside those improvements great progress has been made with the recently started Neos 9.1 UX project, in which the project team already implemented drag & drop features and is now knee-deep in shaping a more context aware and less distracting new inline editing experience. Read until the end for details and some screenshots.
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:
Core releases
We didn’t have a new Neos core release in July, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy with various fixed and merging contributions. Stay tuned for new releases soon!
- Neos 8.3.26 & 9.0.5 & Neos 8.3.27 & 9.0.6
- Autofocus the username in the login screen!
- Various CSS fixes for the backend
- Updated SVG sanitization library to address CVE-2025-55166
- Neos 9 specific:
- Fix for resolving node uris from cache (should reduce DB queries by a lot when rendering a navigation)
- More details in the user show and list commands
- Various other fixes and cleanups
- Neos UI Bugfix Release: 8.3.15
- Much faster page tree loading, search and copy
- Optimised node preview uri generation and remove the need to cache most of them
- Don’t resolve content child nodes for page tree nodes
- Don’t resolve children of copied nodes recursively in response
- We measured between 2-5x improved loading/interaction times in real world projects with these changes!
- Update hidden state of node when updated via inspector
- Various fixes to the node creation dialog when opened via a plugin
- You can now select Flow entities in an inspector select box without a value error being shown
- Updated moment.js to latest version 2.30.1 due to a security issue with the previous version
- The matching Neos 9 Ui patch release will follow soon
- Much faster page tree loading, search and copy
- flowpack/postgres-doctrine-tools 1.0
- Provides a wrapper for postgresql-for-doctrine
Community package releases
These are optional packages maintained by the Neos community, which might be used in your Neos installation.
New packages:
- jonnitto/prettyembedpresentation 1.0
- The presentational layer for the PrettyEmbed Series
- upassist/prototypegenerator 1.0
- A prototype generator to quickly generate prototypes based on Neos nodetype definitions
- genesisdb/neos-genesisdb 1.0
- Enables the use of Genesis DB with Flow and Neos
Updates:
- carbon/includeassets 7.0
- Include your frontend assets (css, js) in an easy and ordered way
- netlogix/jobqueue-scheduled 3.3
- A PDO based scheduler for JobQueue jobs to defer and debounce execution
- vivomedia/neos-privacy-shield 1.3
- Privacy Shield for third party content
- New build for the included overlay
- medienreaktor/meilisearch 1.4
- Integrates the Meilisearch search engine into Neos similar to the ElasticSearch integration
- This release improves the documentation and default settings
- netlogix/jsonapiorg-consumer 4.4
- This release includes an exception class mapping for HTTP status codes
- ttree/cornerstone 2.2
- An opinionated site package companion
Neos Community
Read up and comment on some interesting new RFCs:
A reminder for the upcoming Neos events:
- Neos Sprint Dresden, October 20–23, 2025
- Organised by Sandstorm
- Theme is still open – bring your ideas in!
- Sign up here
- Neos Barcamp October 24, 2025 – Dresden
- Hosted by Sandstorm
- Right after the Neos Sprint in Dresden (same location)
- Snacks, drinks, lunch included
- Get your tickets here
- 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
Neos Foundation
- Funding request: “Improve Editing UX for Neos 9.1”
- The funding for the UX project was confirmed and we already made good progress on prototypes and concepts.
- We already have one change in review that introduces drag & drop for nodes in the content area and one for drag & drop of text editor content inside the editor and other editable areas
- We also created a concept and implemented a prototype that enables the usage of the toolbars provided by CKEditor itself to move most formatting functionality next to the edited area
- This allows us to remove lots of special code and styling from Neos as CK already provides many of the features we need.
- Like using their much better inline table editor
- We can more quickly adapt the features from CKEditor
- like inline image support (we have a working prototype 😉), code editor and more
- It will be possible in the future to add CKEditor plugins without the React part for the Neos.Ui
- It’s much for fun and quicker to edit text when everything you need for your text is at hand
- This topic is still very much in progress in terms of layout, styling, functionality and so on, and we have regular open discussions and feedback rounds to touch even more areas related to the inline editing. Please join in Slack in #guild-ux and take part!
- This allows us to remove lots of special code and styling from Neos as CK already provides many of the features we need.
Thank you for reading our monthly and have a great September and keep on contributing and spreading the Neos message!