Introducing Umbraco 12 - a significant release that brings exciting new features such as the Content Delivery API for headless capabilities, support for Entity Framework Core, and an updated ImageSharp for better image processing. Additionally, Umbraco 12 has updated its other dependencies and add-ons, including Umbraco Forms, Deploy, and Workflow.
Key features:
- Content Delivery API
- Omnichannel Content Delivery
- Flexibility, consistency, and support
- Support for Entity Framework Core
- A new version of ImageSharp
- Add-ons: Umbraco Forms, Deploy, and Workflow 12
Forms, Deploys & Workflows Umbraco has released new versions of Umbraco Forms, Umbraco Deploy, and Umbraco Workflow. Although these are major updates, their primary purpose is to ensure full compatibility with Umbraco 12.
In Forms, the headless API has been updated to align with the new Content Delivery API from a documentation, library, and feature perspective. Deploy has also seen significant performance improvements, leveraging cache refresh optimizations made in Umbraco 12. As a result, deployment operations like restoring/transferring content and updating the Umbraco schema have seen a 35 to 50% boost in performance.
Headless Previously, Umbraco only had a built-in templating engine and language for traditional CMS approach. However, if you required headless capabilities, you had to create them from scratch or add them through an extension. But now, Umbraco has a fully functional Content Delivery API, which enables you to go headless in all of your Umbraco projects.
Umbraco Heartcore - still beats strong There may be some confusion regarding whether the release of our Content Delivery API replaces Umbraco Heartcore, umbracos headless SaaS offering. However, this is not the case. Heartcore offers several benefits including CDN features, caching, GraphQL, and various tools in the backoffice that are designed to support all the Heartcore-specific features. If you require a pure headless approach, Umbraco Heartcore is still the best solution for your project.