What's NEOS in September 2025

 

Summer moved on

 

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Hey Neos Community!

Summer moved on, and so did we! With bugfixes for Neos 8.3 & 9.0, many new packages, and also feature releases & bugfixes for existing ones! 

What are your ideas to move forward in Neos? You can still sign up for our upcoming sprint in Dresden and the #guild-UX team on Slack is waiting for your feedback, ideas and support for their project „Improve Editing UX for Neos 9.1“. Have fun with our September news!

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 September, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy with various fixed and merging contributions. Stay tuned for new releases soon!

Thanks to all contributors for these great bugfix releases!
 

Community package releases

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

New packages:

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


Updates:

 

Neos Community

Did you know we have almost 100 channels in the Neos Slack community?

There are channels for countries, projects, guilds, pets, events, frameworks and so on. Make sure to check the channels from time to time and join the ones that might sound interesting to you. Not only can you join conversations there, but also bring up new topics that might be noticed more quickly by people with a similar interest.

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 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.
    • You can also still get one of the last early bird tickets or buy a supporter ticket to help the project with new developments like the "UX improvements for Neos 9.1" you can read about below.

Neos Foundation

Neos 8.4

  • The release team (Markus Günther, Sebastian Helzle, Marc Henry Schultz) is hard at work to deliver the new version in October with various helpful features and helpers to already prepare your Neos project for a Neos 9 upgrade at a later date.

Project News: “Improve Editing UX for Neos 9.1”

  • In September Marc Henry Schultz worked a lot on the simplification and integration of the new link editor into the Neos.Ui, which means we are also soon ready to merge the first version.
    • First feedback and iterations with community members already lead to huge improvements in terms of usability and complexity for daily workflows.
Neos 9.1 Linkeditor preview
Neos 9.1 Linkeditor preview

 

  • After several feedback rounds and discussions Sebastian Helzle further worked on the editing related node toolbars and how the current selection is shown.
    • The CKEditor inline toolbar got further style improvements and we enabled a few more features like the possibility to configure custom styles that can be applied to text.
    • The old NodeToolbar is now blue and on the top right of the selected node, showing its label and icon and provides a extensible contextual menu with the copy, cut, hide buttons.
    • The add and paste buttons are now positioned above, middle or below the selected node so you can already set the intended insert position, skipping the insert dialog in case of pasting a node, or skipping the mode selection in case of adding a new node.
      • With a planned smarter Add button, we will be able to skip the creation dialog for many cases completely!
    • We removed the “Current selection” from the inspector and replaced its functionality with a breadcrumb positioned above the editing area where the formatting options used to be.
    • The little known fullscreen mode was made much more usable with the breadcrumb and by allowing the inspector to be opened without leaving this mode.
The inline editing toolbars in the Neos UI
The inline editing toolbars in the Neos UI
The new breadcrumb in the Neos UI
The new breadcrumb in the Neos UI
The Neos fullscreen editing mode with the visible inspector and breadcrumb
The Neos fullscreen editing mode with the visible inspector and breadcrumb
  • This improvement project was only made possible with additional sponsorships and supporter tickets sold for NeosCon 2025 and contributors who also invest a lot of their own time and motivation.
  • Thanks again also to all the people giving feedback during demonstrations, meetings and who wrote down their thoughts in discussions and issues in the past.
  • Remember to join #guild-ux in Slack to give feedback and become a part of this project ❤️

 

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