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Oct 9, 2026 · Headless CMS

Storyblok Leads G2 Rating for Headless CMS in Fall 2026

According to the company, Storyblok has achieved first place in the Headless CMS category in the G2 Grid Report for Fall 2026. The company announced the placement on its blog on August 25, 2026. In addition to the Lead…

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Oct 9, 2026 · Headless CMS

Storyblok Leads G2 Rating for Headless CMS in Fall 2026

According to the company, Storyblok has achieved first place in the Headless CMS category in the G2 Grid Report for Fall 2026. The company announced the placement on its blog on August 25, 2026. In addition to the Lead…

Sep 3, 2026 · Magnolia

Magnolia after NEXT 26: From agentic promise to release

In June, I was sitting in the audience at Magnolia NEXT 26 in Basel when Magnolia presented its vision of an “agentic CMS”. A good two months later, a second look is worthwhile: conference demos are one thing. What matters is what actually arrives in the product afterward. And this summer, quite a lot happened at Magnolia.

Sep 2, 2026 · Liferay

AI Access to Liferay Content Becomes Controllable

Whether an AI connection can be used in production is rarely decided by the interface alone. Liferay DXP 2026.Q3 adds profiles, masking and traceable access controls to the MCP Server – and thus addresses key questions of data protection, auditing and approval.

Aug 30, 2026 · Mobile

GenUI and AI-Driven UIs — Flutter's Paradigm Shift in 2026

Flutter has fundamentally repositioned itself in 2026. Not as an optimization project for individual features, but as infrastructure for agent-driven application architectures. The Flutter GenUI SDK, built on the …

Aug 30, 2026 · Headless CMS

Contentful Closes the Gap Between Data and Action

Contentful Personalization is rolling out three significant updates: the Optimization Agent is now available in General Availability, analytics are fully included in all Personalization plans, and the platform n…

Aug 28, 2026 · Liferay

Liferay DXP 2026.Q3, Part 3: The SEO Package

Shorter URLs, controllable facets, more precise sitemaps and unique domains: together, the SEO innovations in Liferay DXP 2026.Q3 add up to more than the sum of their parts. For existing installations in particular, however, the migration strategy determines whether clean URLs also result in clean SEO signals.

Aug 27, 2026 · Liferay

Liferay DXP 2026.Q3, Part 2: The new CMS becomes the standard

Liferay's new CMS is leaving the feature flag – and with DXP 2026.Q3 it becomes a regular part of the platform. What does this mean for editorial teams, governance and headless architectures? In the third part of our release series, we put the most important new features and their practical value into context.

Aug 26, 2026 · Liferay

Liferay DXP 2026.Q3 Is Here: A Stopover on the Way to Liferay's Future

Liferay DXP 2026.Q3 is here – and gives a good outlook on where the platform is heading. We took a closer look at the quarterly release: from the new CMS to SEO and AI governance to consent management and new marketing features. Read our article to find out which new features are particularly relevant and why Q3 is interesting above all for testing and preparing for upcoming LTS versions.

Jul 19, 2026 · Liferay

Portalworks Is Now a Liferay Silver Partner

We have been working with Liferay since 2008 – now also as an official Silver Partner. What that is, what it means in concrete terms for our customers and what doesn't change as a result

Jun 20, 2026 · Headless CMS

Headless CMS June 2026 — Honesty About Trade-offs Instead of Hype

In June 2026, headless CMS vendors are for the first time speaking more openly about real trade-offs, not just about flexibility, APIs, and omnichannel publishing. This is more than a change of mood – it signals market maturity. The h…

May 22, 2026 · Headless CMS

Strapi v5.46.1: Focus on Security Review and Stability

On May 20, Strapi released v5.46.1, just one week after v5.46.0. The changes are concise and show a clear operational focus: SonarCloud security review, several dependency updates and linting opt…

May 22, 2026 · Liferay

Liferay as the Foundation for GEO-Ready Digital Experiences

Artificial intelligence is changing how content is found. With more than 60% of all search interactions in 2026 including an AI-generated component, GEO has become the most important digital marketing discipline for companies …

May 15, 2026 · Liferay

Liferay 2026 Q2: What Has Really Changed in the CMS

The new Liferay CMS can do more – and you notice it in everyday work. We took a close look at the four biggest CMS innovations in the 2026 Q2 release: editable content structures, linked entries, platform-wide search and replace, and the long-overdue switch to CKEditor 5. What this means in concrete terms – in the article.

May 12, 2026 · Magnolia

Magnolia Makes Portal Scenarios Its Core Strategy

On May 7, 2026, Magnolia launched a new video series showing how to build secure, integrated portals with single sign-on (SSO), self-service solutions and personalized content using Magnolia CMS…

May 5, 2026 · Magnolia

Magnolia GEO: When AI Search Engines Change Your Content

Classic SEO is a thing of the past. With Magnolia 6.4.4, Magnolia has introduced GEO support directly in the Pages app, allowing authors to generate structured data for AI search engines and voice assistants. This is not…

May 4, 2026 · Headless CMS

Agentic AI in the DXP: When the platform stops being a tool

In early May 2025, with the launch of the newly evolved version of Optimizely Opal, Optimizely marked a moment that goes far beyond a product announcement for the entire CMS and DXP market. On May 7, 2025, O…

Apr 29, 2026 · Magnolia

HTTP Caching Fix for CDN Projects: Magnolia DX Core 6.4.5

Magnolia DX Core 6.4.5 was shipped on April 16, 2026 as a stability release that fixes critical HTTP response code inconsistencies for non-existent pages and resources and ensures that downstream cach…

Apr 18, 2026 · Headless CMS

Strapi v4 End-of-Life: What Your Projects Need to Know Now

Strapi 4 officially reaches end-of-life (EOL) in April 2026; from that point on, security fixes will no longer be provided. For Portalworks customers still working with Strapi v4, this deadline is not just an organi…

Apr 17, 2026 · Headless CMS

Visual Editing Fixes the Headless Achilles' Heel: Mainstream Trend 2026

While early headless CMS systems focused almost exclusively on developer experience, the industry shifted fundamentally at the turn of 2025/2026: the best headless platforms are now closing the gap with visual editor tools featuring real-time previews and drag-and-drop functionality.

Apr 14, 2026 · Liferay

MCP: The Quiet Update That Is Changing Every CMS Platform Right Now

In November 2024, Anthropic, the maker of Claude, released the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an open standard. No big marketing event. Just a specification. And yet: since then, Liferay, Magnolia, Contentful, Strapi, and other enterprise CMS platforms have been busy integrating this standard into their core systems.

Apr 10, 2026 · Magnolia

Magnolia 6.4: When AI Meets Enterprise Substance

Magnolia has released version 6.4, which at first glance looks like a typical incremental update – and at second glance shows how a mature enterprise CMS is systematically setting the course for the next decade. No hype, no rebranding, but three fundamental pillars: AI integration deep into authoring, a new publication architecture, and a technology foundation that finally makes the leap to Jakarta EE 10. We take a look at what this means in practice.

Apr 6, 2026 ·

Portal CMS Digest Week 15 2026

A brief overview of developments in the CMS market: Liferay phases out the CE edition, Magnolia makes AI a core element, headless and mobile in focus

Apr 6, 2026 ·

Accessible Portals According to WCAG & BITV with Liferay

Starting in June 2025, accessibility becomes mandatory for many digital services. This article shows what WCAG, BITV and BFSG mean in concrete terms – and how accessible portals can be implemented cleanly and sustainably with Liferay. 

Apr 6, 2026 ·

Liferay 2026 Q1 Is Available

The most important Liferay release in years: new headless CMS, Jakarta EE, Data Sets, MCP Server – and the end of Liferay CE. We explain everything you need to know.

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