Roadmap Update 2026-08

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Back after summer with another update to our roadmap. :star_struck:
Our live roadmap can still be found on: Official Roadmap · GitHub

Recent releases

:tada: XP8 - our biggest release in 8 years
:tada: Content Studio 6 - (brand new Interface)
:tada: Enonic CLI 4 + 4.1
:tada: React4XP 7 (Upgraded to XP8)
:tada: Next.XP 5.0 - (Upgraded to XP8)
:tada: All of our Enonic libraries - (upgraded to XP8)
:tada: We are upgrading all of our applications to XP8 - (WIP)
:tada: All of our starters - (upgraded to XP8)
:tada: Enonic UI 1.0 and 1.1 - (Visit our Storybook to try it out it live)

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Improved documentation

We have been hard at work with our documentation and the developer portal

  • Easier to see which version of documentation is the latest
  • “Next” version no longer gets indexed by search engines
  • Improved search
  • New documentation packages
  • Rewritten XP core documentation
  • Updated tutorials

Here are some links to check out:

:sunny: Dedicated CMS reference
:sunny: Dedicated Enonic Development Kit documentation
:sunny: Refreshed Enonic XP documentation
:sunny: Updated Content Studio docs (WIP)
:sunny: New Next.xp documentation
:sunny: New React4XP documentation
:sunny: New GraphQL library docs
:sunny: Updated Next.js tutorial
:sunny: Updated React4xp tutorial

The work with documenation and developer portal continues for the rest of the year.

Below you’ll find details on what to expect in the coming months

Almost there

- Content Studio 6.1 (ETA 09/2026)

  • Dynamic CSP handling
  • Mobile view improvements
  • Automatically customized pages
  • Improved Projects overview

- Enonic XP 8.1 (ETA 09/2026)

  • Support for baseMediaUrl (standard API for serving media)
  • Smart CSP injection (forget complex CSP configuration)
  • Graal.js experimental support
  • Improved background task processing

- Guillotine 9 (ETA 09/2026)

  • Built on XP8’s Universal API
  • Adapts to the new baseMediaUrl feature
  • Improved performance and stability

- Next.xp 6 (ETA 09/2026)

  • Implements the LiveView preview extension in XP8
  • Dynamic preview route resolver
  • Updated Next.js starter
  • Compatible with Guillotine 9

Juke AI update (ETA 09/2026)

  • Automatic alt-text generation for images
  • Updated models

Q4 2026

Decoupled schema deployment

For improved Front-end DevEx, schema can now be deployed without building a a traditional Enonic app (no Gradle). Manage and deploy Content Schemas from your preferred code base, including CI/CD.

New demo web

We are building a brand new demoweb, using our practices and latest tooling. It can be used by anyone to demonstrate, or evalueta Enonic. Front-end will be implemented using Next.js

Settings Admin tool

In the spirit of modern operating systems, we are replacing the current Users and Applications admin tools with a brand new Settings admin tool based on Enonic UI. It will be fully pluggable, allowing developers to provide their own settings extensions. The following extensions will be shipped by default:

  • Applications - including improved visualization of available updates
  • Users - Manage users across ID providers
  • Groups - Manage groups across ID provider
  • Roles
  • Service Accounts - “System” users are now treated as Service Accounts
  • ID providers

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Illustration of the Users extension

Additional settings will be added in later versions of XP.

Workflow MK2

This is an improvement of Content Studio’s current publishing wizard and Issue system. It will provide the following improvements:

  • New approach to Scheduled publishing - including handling of modified items
  • Improved listing, filtering and labeling of issues
  • Improved integration with publishing wizard and content checks
  • Dedicated Issues menu widget

Agentic CMS

The next step of Enonics AI integration involve an extensible MCP API, which will be directly available for the Juke AI Chat as well as 3rd party agents.

Juke (and other MCP clients) may perform operations via an industry standard interface, and align with the existing pluggbility of Enonic XP - meaning other applications can extend the tools and capabilities for interacting with XP. Communication with the MCP server will build on XP’s standard IAM and authentication system for secure and pluggable communication.

Building on the new workflow features and MCP, it will be possible to assign issues to Juke to get stuff done.

Later alligator

New Content Studio search and navigation

For improved Editorial experience we will improve the main Content Studio navigation to provide a more intuitive search oriented interface for browsing and managing your content, providing the following main menu items

  • All content
  • Browse tree
  • Favorites
  • Recent items

Additionally, the Content Studio will support developer-defined views, allowing you to pre-define content search results and views for specific and common use-cases.

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Blocks

Introducing a new content concept which can be used to create and manage content inline, or as individual content items. This concept brings the best from our current itemsets, optionsets and page components into a single intuitive solution.

That’s all folks! :clapper:

If you have comments or suggestions for improvements, write below, or create a feature request. Subscription customers may also use our support system.

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