CMS Squad progress update for 2024-09-11

[GuySartorelli]

Work completed in the last couple of weeks

We’ve just released Silverstripe CMS 5.3.0-beta1.

We’ve also updated the docs site to pull through CMS 6 documentation, so you can see the (very much a work-in-progress) CMS 6 changelog and start to get a feel for what that release will be like.

Changes to look forward to in future releases

• Remove DataExtension and other superfluous classes
• Upgrade to symfony 7 for CMS 6
• Remove GraphQL from the CMS
• Remove legacy nested menu items javascript and styling
• Strong typing for the view layer
• Drop support for MySQL 5 in CMS 6
• Alternate implementation for ClassName column
• Update TopPage classnames

Focus for the next couple of weeks

Other than resolving a couple of CMS 5.3 regressions, we’re in full CMS 6 mode. To name a few things we’re working on:

• Sake is getting rebuilt
• We’re upgrading our test stack to use PHPunit 11
• The template layer is getting a lift-and-shift