Announcements
Concrete CMS 9.5.0 is officially out. That's the headline this month. Here's everything else that happened.
We don't spend a lot of time patting ourselves on the back around here, but when TechRadar one of the largest technology publications in the world runs a piece calling Concrete CMS an "impressive, open-source solution" worth serious consideration, we'll take a moment to appreciate that.
Portland, OR — April 28, 2026 — PortlandLabs, the company behind Concrete CMS, announced today that Concrete CMS has received the Spring 2026 Leader Award from SourceForge, the world's largest B2B software review and comparison website. The award recognizes products that land in the top 5% of favorably reviewed software out of more than 100,000 listings based entirely on real user reviews.
May 4-7, 2026 : Do. Or do not. There is no try.
Three of our core team members (Myq, Korvin, and Andy) are clearing their calendars for four straight days to do nothing but fix bugs, harden security, and dial in the details for the next version of Concrete CMS.
We're calling it Squash Week, and we want you there.
Let’s be honest, not every month is about big shiny releases. Some months are about lining things up so the next one actually matters. This is one of those months.
March 2026: Version 8 Is Done, Two Releases, and AI Gets Philosophical
Light news month, but there's some important stuff in here including a milestone we've been telegraphing for a while. Let's get into it.
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention, but we want to be clear about it: as of this month, we are no longer providing security patches or releases for Concrete CMS version 8.
It’s February. This month Franz is in Buffalo NY. It’s minus twenty with the wind chill.
So naturally, we shipped a release candidate.
Day one at the AI & Big Data Expo didn’t feel like a parade of shiny demos. It felt like a collective reality check. Across keynotes, panels, and hallway conversations, the same message kept resurfacing in different words: AI adoption fails when organizations treat it like software instead of infrastructure for human work.
You know that moment when you are casually scrolling, coffee in hand, and suddenly you do a double take because you recognize a name? That was us this week.
Concrete CMS has been featured in a Forbes Advisor roundup of the best content management software. Not a sponsored mention. Not a blink-and-you-miss-it footnote. An editorial inclusion alongside platforms businesses actually trust.