Codegarden 2025 was a fun and memorable experience packed with thought-provoking sessions. But stealing the show were a few major product announcements that could drastically benefit Umbraco users, specifically Umbraco Compose and Umbraco MCP Server.
Umbraco Compose Announced
During the keynote, Umbraco introduced Umbraco Compose, its new SaaS content orchestration hub designed to support modern composable architectures. Umbraco Compose simplifies the aggregation and integration of data from multiple sources—such as CMS, PIM, DAM, ERP, and CRM systems—for use across websites and other digital channels.
In composable setups, product data might live in one system (like a PIM), customer records in another (CRM), and marketing teams rely on other tools for analytics or personalization. Although composable architectures offer tremendous flexibility, they often require developers to build complex integration layers, which can be costly and time-consuming.
Umbraco Compose addresses this challenge by providing a centralized hub that ingests data via an ingestion endpoint and exposes it through a GraphQL Delivery API. It’s backed by a Management API that lets users model and connect data sources and transform content.
Although Compose will integrate with Umbraco CMS natively, technically it’s CMS-agnostic—meaning it doesn’t require Umbraco CMS to feed or consume data.
Umbraco Compose is currently headed for a private beta release this summer, with a commercial launch planned for early 2026. Umbraco’s goal is to make composable architectures far more accessible, reducing the development burden of stitching together content from diverse systems.
Umbraco MCP Server
Also revealed was the new Umbraco MCP Server. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard for secure two-way connections between AI systems and other tools and platforms. Essentially, the Umbraco MCP Server makes it so that prominent AI clients like Claude and Cursor can access your Umbraco project and complete tasks on your behalf.
For example, as a content admin, you could run the Umbraco MCP server locally, and it could assist with tasks related to content creation or migration. You could use it to reorganize pages and files, scan content for accessibility-related issues, and handle pretty much any of the tedious or time-consuming back-office tasks you’d normally need to do manually. During the Umbraco Business Summit, keynote speaker Chuck Gahun of Forrester shared that investment in CMS is on the rise predicting that AI will help content teams produce personalized content at scale. Umbraco MCP Server puts that possibility squarely within reach.
Further, from the development standpoint, access to both the back office and the codebase should create opportunities to reduce friction between content admins, developers, and QA teams in building out content models and new page types. These examples are just the tip of the iceberg, so I’m excited to try this out and see what’s possible.
Other Product-Related News
For a more in-depth look at product updates, check out the Umbraco Product Release blog, detailing the enhancements included in the recent minor release of Umbraco 16, leading up to the highly anticipated launch of Umbraco 17 in November. Umbraco 17 is the next LTS (long-term support) version being released. It also goes into more detail about other features like Flexible Environments for Umbraco Cloud and improvements to search.
