Welcome to the May 2025 edition of the Concrete CMS Monthly Round-Up. It’s been an exciting and productive month for the Concrete community, with the release of Concrete CMS 9.4.0, a quick follow-up patch in 9.4.1, a host of new marketplace add-ons, and some great questions and answers from the forums.
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Concrete CMS 9.4.0 Released
We’re proud to officially release Concrete CMS 9.4.0 — a feature-packed update that brings modern design options, smarter automation, and better tools for site editors, developers, and content teams.
Here’s what’s new in 9.4.0:
- Dark Mode for the CMS and Dashboard — set your interface to light, dark, or follow your device’s settings.
- 5 new Atomik theme skins, including Midnight Velvet, a dark-mode-friendly design.
- Boards now auto-refresh — no more manually regenerating boards when content changes.
- Smarter background tasks with better error handling, logging, and recovery tools.
- Open Graph support added to the core for better social sharing previews.
- A new Appearance Dashboard page to control theme settings and accessibility.
- Bulk editing tools in the Dashboard for page types, templates, themes, and caching.
- Better file tracking with a new “Total Downloads” column in the File Manager.
- Major improvements to import/export, Express objects, multilingual setups, and more.
Note: Go straight to 9.4.1 when upgrading, which includes additional fixes.
Community Shoutouts
As always, our open source project thrives thanks to contributions from the community. This month, we’d like to give a big thank-you to:
Documentation: mnakalay, mlocati, fabianbitter
GitHub activity (issues and code): nickratering, ManChicken1911, RLHawk1, klickparkdominik, hissy, aashish-aenow, moriaiy, khdesignverignde, mlocati, bitterdev, biplobice
Welcome to new contributor Manchick1911 — great to see new faces in the GitHub activity!
Site in the Wild: Panasonic Connect PC Support
This month’s featured site is the Panasonic Connect PC Support portal. Built on Concrete CMS, this multilingual site provides support resources for their Toughbook line, including documentation, troubleshooting, and downloads. It’s a great example of what Concrete can do for global support centers.
New Marketplace Add-Ons
This month saw a wave of new add-ons from community developers, including some great tools for galleries, content layout, and interactivity.
Video Lightbox II
Free
Panorama Viewer
$25
Masonry Grid
$25
Glossary List
$25
Uploader Dropzone Attribute $35
Temporary Redirect Attribute
Progressbar
$25
Masonry Gallery
Free
Team Member
$25
Floating Action Button
$25
HTML Beautifier
$25
Counter
$25
Horizontal Scroll Gallery
Free
Compare Images
$25
Simple Tables
$25
Forum Highlights
- Creating Pages with Express – A deep dive into how to use custom Express controllers and entry managers to create pages from form submissions.
- Exporting Calendar Events to ICS – Turns out the feature already exists in the Calendar block. Sometimes the best support is discovering it's built in.
- Custom Notification Implement dynamic, conditional notification for Express Form submissions.
Have questions or insights of your own? Join us in the Concrete CMS Forums.
See You Next Month
Thanks to everyone who contributed code, answered questions, built new features, or upgraded their sites to 9.4.0. We’ll be back next month with more updates, more features, and more community news.
– The Concrete CMS Team