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March, 2024

Heya everyone!

We skipped April Fools' Day this year and are working hard on shipping Statamic 5. In the meantime, here's the new issue of your favorite newsletter, hot off the press! ๐Ÿ“ฐ

Lets look back at what happened at both Statamic HQ and in the community in the past couple of weeks. It's actually so much that here's a quick overview for what's below the fold. ๐Ÿชญ

  1. The upcoming launch of Statamic 5 ๐Ÿ–๏ธ
  2. Laravel 11 got released ๐Ÿ”ฅ
  3. Statamic won two awards ๐Ÿ†
  4. Jack and Joshua speaking at conferences ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ
  5. Flat Camp is getting closer ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
  6. The Statamic London meetup ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ’‚๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Statamic 5 (and Laravel 11) ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Shipping Statamic 5 in the next couple of weeks is our top priority right now. There will be a brief alpha and beta period where you have the chance to give things a try with your projects while we collect your feedback and can fix bugs and tidy things up before tagging the 5.0.0 release.

Besides official support for Laravel 11, Statamic 5 will have a huge focus on performance improvements , stability, and breaking changes will be minimal. Parts of Statamic will see performance improvements by factor ten and more. ๐ŸŽ๏ธ

Amongst other things, v5 will have support for Laravel Reverb. Reverb is a new first party package by Laravel itself and is a self hosted alternative to services like Pusher. It plays really well with our real-time collaboration addon.

There'll be even more new features and improvements. More details in the dedicated newsletter on Statamic 5 when it launches.

Statamic Won Two Awards! ๐Ÿ†

CMS Critic People's Choice Awards Banner

CMS Critic announced the winners of the 2023 CMS Critic Peopleโ€™s Choice Awards and Statamic won two awards, thanks to you! Both the awards for โ€œBest Flat File CMSโ€ (third year in a row) and โ€Best Static Site Generatorโ€ have been awarded to your favorite CMS.

More about this in our blog.

Thank You again for voting for us! ๐Ÿ’œ

Statamic Coming to a Conference Near You ๐ŸŽค

Social card image mashup of the Laracon US and Laravel Live Denmark ones

Both Jack and Joshua are going to speak at conferences this year!

While Jack will give a talk at Laracon US in Dallas at the end of August, Joshua is heading to Copenhagen to give a talk at Laravel Live Denmark the week before.

Talks will be recorded so you can watch them even if you can't make it in person.

We are planning on doing Statamic meetups around those conferences too. So look forward to more details on that in the coming months!

Experience Flat Camp with Us ๐Ÿ•๏ธ

Flat Camp tickets have been on sale and more than half of the tickets have already been sold.

Here's Jack telling you why you should come to Rome and join us for an unforgettable experience if you need any more convincing:

Why you should come to Flat Camp YouTube thumbnail

Need help or assistance with literally anything? Just let us know and reply to this email.

For more details head over to flatcamp.com.

Interested in sponsoring Flat Camp? Just reply to this email and let's chat.

Statamic London Meetup ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง

Group selfie at an Indian restuaraunt in central London

About a dozen people met up in London at the end of February to enjoy some comradery and spend a day in London together. Duncan and Joshua from the Statamic team also flew in from Glasgow and Germany to join the other gentlemen.

It was an awesome day that shall be done again sometime! We played minigolf, tasted craft beers, went to a street food market, and ended the day with some spicy Indian food.

Thanks to everyone who came and to Jay for organizing it!

Newest Addons

Flexipic

Generate responsive images with placeholders and lazy loading on the fly

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Alt Inbound

IP allow and deny list management via the control panel

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Alt Cookies

Cookie and Google Analytics management via the control panel

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New Partners

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I have been creating websites for over 15 years as a web developer. Pragmatic and functional, without unnecessary data overload, with a particular eye for design and form, and always using the latest web standards for mobile devices and Desktops. Scalable in scope, function, and content and always tailored to the needs of my clients.

New Site Launches

By Dave Smyth ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
By David Zumini ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
By WADM ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
By kiwikiwi and Theen ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
By Jay George
By Laradev ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
By Jelle Roorda ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
By Dominik Mรผller ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช
By WeAreFramework ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
By Futureman Digital ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
By Michael Aerni ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
By Spatie ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช
By speedracer ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ
By Cloud Artisans ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
By JustBetter ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
By Lindbak ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด
By text & bytes ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ

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