What's NEOS in November 2025

"Oh content tree, oh content tree,
how lovely are your branches!"

 – Written by Sebastian Helzle, Marika Hauke, Philip Berghoff

Hey Neos Community!

In November 2025 the Neos team grew, we had a winner of the Neos community prize and many new packages releases, a visual Neos health check, including a brand new templating language for Neos!

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 Foundation

  • Project News: “Improve Editing UX for Neos 9.1”
    • We finally merged the new link editor and only some small visual adjustments are left and finishing up the new inline editing toolbars and features, and also reimplementing the new inline link editor.
  • Funding was been requested and granted for upgrading PHPUnit to version 11 in Neos 8.4 and 9.
  • Marc Henry Schultz and Sebastian Helzle will manage the upcoming release of Neos 9.2 with a planned release date in mid December.

Neos Community

We've grown

Sophia Grimm from queo joined the Neos core team! She joined many Neos events, contributed, helped in the Neos Slack and already felt like part of the family. We are very happy to welcome our new team member and look forward have her help in shaping & improving the project. We will also hear more about how she joined in an upcoming post. Did you know you can find all active team members on our team page?

The winner of the community survey prize

Our community is at the heart of everything we do. That’s why, earlier this year, we launched a community survey that ran until the end of October. We wanted to understand what you love most about the Neos community, where you see room for improvement, and what your personal experiences with Neos and its ecosystem have been so far.
Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us. We’re currently in the process of analysing all responses and will soon share the insights and our key takeaways. Stay tuned for our upcoming blog post! 

As a little thank-you for participating, every respondent had the chance to win a small prize. And now the draw has spoken! Congratulations to Claudia from babbadeggl! 

Claudia is a communication designer from Neu-Ulm and started using Neos just four months ago — a true Neos newcomer. What sparked her journey was a specific client request: they needed an easy-to-use CMS for their website, one that was simple to maintain, and their previous system just couldn’t deliver. That’s when Claudia discovered Neos — thanks to a mix of Google searches and a little help from ChatGPT. Insights like hers help us understand how we can make getting started with Neos even easier, reduce hurdles, and create an even more welcoming experience for everyone. Thank you to everyone who took part in the survey — and once again, congrats, Claudia! 

A reminder for the upcoming Neos events

  • 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
  • NeosCon 2026 June 1–3, 2026
    • We are still looking for sponsors to support the conference and the Neos community. There are various categories and price ranges available for which we appreciate support.
    • A post Con sprint is also once again being planned.
  • Sitegeist also plans to have a Neos sprint in Hamburg in autumn of 2026. More details will follow.

Core releases

  • Neos Bugfix Release 8.3.29, 8.4.1
    • Better support for PHP 8.4 & MariaDB and some improvements to the Fusion migrations.
  • Neos.Setup 6.0
    • This release brings an overhauled architecture with various new checks, and allows you to visually check your Neos installations for problems. Find out more here.

Thanks to all contributors for this great release!

Community package releases

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

New packages:

Congratulations to all maintainers of those package for their first stable releases!

Updates:

  • digicomp/flow-translation-endpoint 4.0.0
    • This package is designed to help bringing needed translations to javascript components, without pushing them to the DOM in your views.
    • The latest release makes the package compatible with Neos 8.4.
  • flownative/sentry v3.1.0
    • This packages integrates the sentry bug tracker with Neos.
    • The latest release contains various refactorings and improvements to exception inclusion.
  • neosidekick/ai-assistant v2.6.0
    • This package makes AI tools available in the Neos backend.
    • The latest release improves the UX and adds new image data editors.
  • tms/hcaptcha 1.2.0
    • This package makes the privacy focused hCaptcha available in Neos
    • The latest release makes it easier to install.
  • tms/select 2.0.0
    • This package makes a new editor available which allows selecting nodes instead of searching via reference editor.
    • The package is now Neos 9 compatible!

Special mention

The "Component Engine" was introduced by members of the Neos core team as early alpha community package family. It is designed as a type-safe, highly performant alternative to Fusion that treats presentational components as first-level, or even the only, citizens. So you might want to keep your ears open for future news if your project might need fully testable components and maximum performance. You can also join #component-engine in Slack to discuss the topic. One day this might become part of the Neos core, but if you don't need these features, don't worry, the Fusion templating language will stay with us for a long time.

Thank you for reading our monthly and have a great December and keep on contributing and spreading the Neos message!