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Igloo is ready for Umbraco 17

Igloo now runs on Umbraco 17, the new long-term support release built on .NET 10. Here is what that means for your site, what Igloo adds on top, and how upgrades work from here.

Why Umbraco 17 matters

Umbraco 17 is a long-term support (LTS) release, built on .NET 10, which is also an LTS release. That pairing makes it a solid version to build on and stay on, with a long support window for security fixes and updates.

Some of the headline changes in Umbraco 17:

  • Load-balanced backoffice: the editing side of Umbraco can now scale across servers, not just the public website.
  • A new rich text editor built on Tiptap, replacing TinyMCE.
  • Better dates and times: dates are stored consistently in UTC, with new editors for date, time and time zone.
  • More extension points for developers building on the new backoffice.

 

What Igloo brings on Umbraco 17

Igloo now supports Umbraco 8, 13 and 17. The Umbraco 17 version keeps everything editors know from earlier releases, from the block-based page builder to more than 30 widgets, and adds a few things worth knowing about:

  • Feeds for blogs, news and case studies, with categories, tags, filtering, related items, previous and next links and share buttons. You are reading one now.
  • Feed item layouts: design the article template once with blocks, and every post follows it.
  • Latest from feed: drop a block onto any page to show the newest posts, like the one on our homepage.
  • Designs and palettes: fonts, colours and button styles live in one place, and every section picks from them, so pages stay on brand.
  • Block previews in the backoffice, so editors see something close to the real page while they build it.

 

Upgrading an Igloo 17 site

From version 17, Igloo sites can be upgraded to newer Igloo 17 releases without manual intervention. In practice that means:

  1. Update the LittleNorth.Igloo NuGet package alongside Umbraco.Cms. Igloo 17.4 needs Umbraco 17.3 or later.
  2. Build and run the site. Database migrations run automatically on first start, and the site shows a short maintenance page while they finish.
  3. Check your pages, forms and any custom code before going live.

On Umbraco Cloud, push the upgrade to your development environment first and check it there before deploying to live.

Coming from Umbraco 13 or earlier? Igloo sites on older versions cannot be upgraded to Igloo for Umbraco 17. Moving to Umbraco 17 means setting up a new Igloo 17 site.

 

Licences and trials

You can try Igloo free for 14 days with no credit card. Licences start at €299 per domain and include 12 months of support and updates, so you can move to any new Igloo release in that first year.

 

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