What's NEOS in June 2025

 

The party is over - let's get the party started!

 

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Hey Neos Community!

Here comes your June 2025 update, packed with the latest releases, improvements, and news from the Neos team and our awesome community. This month, we’re again excited to highlight many fresh package releases for Neos 9, an inspiring story from two of our Neos sponsors, and the updates of our own websites. A big thanks goes out to everyone who contributed, sponsored, or shared feedback—your support keeps Neos moving forward!

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. And don’t forget: if you missed NeosCon in Karlsruhe, stay tuned for our upcoming recap!

Thanks for being part of the Neos journey!

Table of contents:

Core releases

Make sure to take a look at these changes, as they affect all Neos installations!

Core package releases

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

  • flowpack/media-ui 2.0 and 3.0 (both beta)
    • A media browser replacement with many additional features
    • 3.0 supports Neos 9
    • 3.0 has native fast asset usage functionality thx to the new CR and the unused filter is available by default
    • Both versions use a new custom, faster and fully typed GraphQL adapter with less and up-to-date dependencies
    • Funded by the Neos foundation through long-term sponsorships
  • flowpack/neos-whatsnewdashboard 1.0.0 & flowpack/neos-whatsneweditor-inmyproject 1.0.0
    • The WhatsNewDashboard is a backend module that adds different news-pages to Neos CMS. Target audience are editors that work with Neos but do not have a technical background.
    • Created and sponsored by Sandstorm and presented during NeosCon!
  • flowpack/neos-debug 1.1.0
    • Use this package to quickly find cache, query and resource issues in your Neos project
    • Improved db query and cache views and fixed thumbnail generation tracking

Community package releases

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

Updates

Neos Community

Neos Foundation

Q2 in Numbers

In Q2, we spent about 22.000€ to keep everything running and moving forward. Our income during that time was around 16.000€, with 14.200€ of that coming from our amazing long-term sponsors – thank you!

For a more detailed breakdown, feel free to check the Exply Dashboard here: https://exply.sandstorm.de/exply/shared-dashboard/72029873-c04d-49a0-8e5d-87c070f06b52

We also had a small shift in our sponsor lineup: 
We lost one Bronze Sponsor, but we’re happy to welcome a new Silver Sponsor, 180Hearbeats+JvM! 

Outlook for 2025: 
We’re estimating around 33.000€ in income from our long-term sponsors for the rest of the year. 
Our fixed costs – things like tools we use (e.g. Zammad) and accounting services including our 2024 year-end-report – will be about 4200€. 

We’re also allocating 7.500€ for the excellent work of Philip from WORTRAT, who has been a tremendous support to the Marketing Guild. His contributions are essential for pushing Neos forward, and we’re already seeing the first positive effects of his work. We’re excited to continue working with him throughout the rest of 2025.
Based on this projection, we anticipate a remaining budget of around €12,000 for Neos development.
This calculation includes a conservative 20% buffer to account for any unexpected changes or uncertainties.

  • The Neos foundation is planning a budget with the focus on improving the editor experience in Neos.
    • Sebastian Helzle takes technical lead on this topic with Sandstorm providing project management capacities
    • Besides funding we are also looking for user feedback and implementation & conceptual help
  • In addition Sebastian Helzle is looking for sponsorship of 2 Media.Ui features:
    • Batch operations on multiple assets
    • Drag & drop functionality for assets

To keep up our current momentum and continue improving Neos 9, we need your support! We truly appreciate any financial contributions – whether as a long-time sponsor or a one-time donor. 

Onetime sponsorhips: https://shop.neos.io/neosfunding/onetime-badges/
Longtime sponsorhips: https://shop.neos.io/neosfunding/abo-badges/

The Neos Con team is currently finalising the event accounting. In the next Neos monthly we’ll be able to share more details on whether the Neos Conference generated a surplus that can benefit the Neos project. 

If you want to know more about our projects or want to be involved, get in touch with us via hello (at) neos.io.