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See the latest Basker releases, website builder updates, integrations, and CMS improvements.

A More Consistent Admin

Buttons, typography, and spacing across the admin now follow one design system

Improvement Admin

Collapsible Groups in Block Editors

Long block forms are now split into collapsible sections, one open at a time, so editing a busy block means less scrolling and less hunting.

Improvement Website Builder

Image Size Overrides at a Glance

Media fields show when an image has a custom version for a specific size, and a new permission controls who can manage image sizes.

Feature Media

Translatable Booking Button Labels

The Book Button Label on events and event instances can now be translated per language, and Booking app fields make clear whether they apply to the event or a single instance.

Feature Localisation

Calendar Views and Themed Modals

New calendar, What's On, and Featured Calendar blocks, themeable modals, and better mobile spacing for Website Builder sites.

Feature Website Builder

Subsites

Give a section of your site its own layout, navigation, and logo, while it stays part of the same site and shares the same content.

New Website Builder

Stronger Firewall Protection Across Every Site

Basker's web application firewall now covers media and theme delivery as well as public sites, and enforces a broader set of rules against exploit scanners.

Improvement Security

Steadier Sites Under Heavy Automated Traffic

A regional cache layer, cache headers on every public API response, and strict limits on page and list parameters keep sites fast when bot traffic surges.

Improvement Infrastructure

Performance Images In The Event Instances API

The event instances list endpoint now returns each performance's own main image alongside the parent event's artwork.

Improvement API

Onboarding Improvements And Page Previews

Onboarding gains a live preview of the pages you have chosen, along with clearer selection controls and easier navigation through every step.

Improvement Onboarding

Screens Brings Digital Signage Into Basker

Basker now designs, schedules, and plays the content on your foyer and box office displays, using the same events, seasons, and venues that power your website.

New Screens

Richer Social Sharing Cards

Shared links now present a purpose-built social image crop that respects focal points, a clean single description, and assets served from the right addresses.

Improvement SEO

Broken-Link Reports for Your Site

Basker now tracks page-not-found responses across every site and emails a report of the top missing paths, so teams can fix broken journeys with redirects.

New SEO

Timezone-Aware Date Attributes Show Local Time

Datetime custom attributes with a timezone now render in their configured local time on public pages, matching what editors set in the admin.

Fix Events

Redirects That Scale to Tens of Thousands of Rules

Redirect matching now resolves through a single indexed lookup with the most specific rule winning, and individual performances join the supported targets.

Improvement Website Builder

Faster, More Stable Page Delivery

A broad round of performance work makes pages render faster, deliver fully styled from the first paint, and pick up published changes promptly.

Improvement Infrastructure

Direct Collection Lookups in Theme Templates

Load only the posts and categories a theme needs by filtering their real relationships instead of fetching heavy linked structures.

Feature Themes

Builder API Learns Your Site's Style

Give AI agents your site's visual language with a style-profile endpoint, then capture existing web pages as Basker blocks through the Builder API.

Feature API

Image CDN Background Colour Controls

The image CDN now accepts a background colour that fills letterbox bars and flattens transparency, so logos and artwork render consistently in every format.

Feature Media

Faster Saves and Snappier Relationship Fields

Autosave and relationship-heavy editors now do far less database work per keystroke, so large pages and event records save and load noticeably faster.

Improvement Admin

Smarter Related Posts on Blog Pages

Blog post pages can build their own related-reading section, showing posts that share a category with the one being read.

Improvement Blogs

Pagination for Joined Content and Smarter API Caching

Build faster blogs and event pages with full pagination metadata for joined lists, plus busy API views pre-generated and refreshed on publish.

Improvement API

SVG Uploads, WAV Audio, and In-Library Playback

The media library now accepts SVG and WAV uploads, adds a play button for audio files, and keeps animated WebP images animated through every transformation.

Feature Media

Storage Usage Now Appears in Settings

A new Usage settings view shows storage against plan and add-on limits, so teams can understand capacity before it becomes urgent.

Feature Admin

Default Media Upload Folders

Editors can now choose a default media upload folder for each site, so new uploads land in the right library section automatically.

Feature Media

Increased Version History Retention

Version history now keeps up to 100 recent versions for core content, giving editors a longer recovery window for pages, events, and records.

Improvement Admin

CSV Exports for Redirects

Redirects can now be exported from the admin as CSV files, so teams can audit, share, and reconcile redirect rules without manual copying.

Feature Admin

Clean, Stable Addresses for Event Instances

Give every event instance a semantic web address and durable short link, consistent with works, people, and seasons even after renaming.

Feature Events

Warnings for Oversized Image Uploads

The media library now flags images larger than 10MB as you upload them, so you can resize before oversized files slow your pages.

Improvement Media

New Theme Helpers for Related Posts and Creators

Custom themes can pull related posts and list works by their creator with a single filter each.

Feature Themes

Published Changes Go Live in Seconds

Published edits now appear on your live pages within seconds instead of after a minute or two, so what visitors see keeps pace with your work.

Improvement General

Smarter Smart Collection Exclusions

Smart collections now treat missing custom attributes more naturally in exclusion rules, so broad event lists return the records editors expect.

Improvement Events

Improved Event Publishing Reliability and Scheduling

Publish events reliably in one pass with accurate previews, separate event and instance control, and closing-night performances visible on their final day.

Improvement Events

Media Renaming with Reliable Crops and Focal Points

Rename uploads and edit focal points reliably, with refreshed caches, working animated GIFs, and an instant Usage tab for asset references.

Feature Media

Sharper Mastheads, Headers, and Live Preview

Edit pages with theme-aware mastheads and headers, reliable blueprints, save-synced previews, sections for any block, and default-layout collection previews.

Improvement Website Builder

Built and Published No-Code Sites via Builder API

Agents and scripts can now build, edit, and publish complete no-code sites through a REST API with changesets, batches, rollback, and dry-run drift detection.

New API

Added Instance Visibility Control and Image Fallbacks

Control public Tessitura instances with publish windows and on-sale indicators, plus series or season artwork fallbacks when event images are missing.

Feature Ticketing

Onboarded a Single Show or Production Site

Launch show-led sites through onboarding that gathers show details, goals, logo, and hero artwork, infers its colours, then builds the homepage and pages.

Feature Onboarding

Smart Collections Filter Events by Custom Attributes

Smart collections can filter events by custom attributes, honour block sort order, hide when empty, and preview results before release.

Feature Events

Added Control Over Public and Partner API Responses

Control field responses across public and partner APIs, find events by external ID, and manage custom-theme blocks through a dedicated endpoint.

Feature API

New Gallery, Opening Hours, and Carousel Scroller Blocks

New gallery, opening-hours, and carousel scroller blocks, plus group height controls and a link field for custom themes.

Feature Website Builder

Added Semantic Web Addresses and Creator Fields

Give content semantic URLs with automatic disambiguation, a dedicated creator field for works, and contextual relationship labels in admin.

Feature General

Added Images Directly Inside Rich Text

Add media-library or URL images inside rich text with individual alt text and captions, rendered consistently on every published page.

Feature Website Builder

Authenticator App MFA and Email Sign-In Codes

Secure admin accounts with an authenticator app or a one-time code emailed at login, adding a strong second factor to the CMS.

Feature Security

Faster, More Reliable Cached API Responses

Event API responses are now cached and compressed, refreshing automatically on publish for faster, more reliable visitor-facing pages.

Feature API

Added Bulk Event Import

Teams can now import entire seasons of events from CSV files, with field mapping, preview, and validation before creation.

New Events

Enabled Trusted Embeds with Content Security

Editors can safely embed third-party content in rich text with an allowlist system and hardened CSP, with consistent rendering across all pages.

Feature Website Builder

Added CSV Import and Export for Collections

Import or export collections via CSV with create and override modes, key-matched updates, validation, and previews for events, seasons, and custom objects.

Feature Admin

Linked Content Across Sites in Relationship Fields

Link content across sites through relationship, link, rich text, custom-object, and theme-block fields, with consistent scoping.

Feature General

Theme Developers Got Pre-Upload Validation Checks

Theme validation flags unsupported fields, bad assets, deprecated tags, deep nesting and duplicate names before upload, reducing live-site risk.

Feature Apps

Public GraphQL API for Events and Instances

Developers can query events and instances through a single typed GraphQL endpoint instead of chaining REST calls together.

New API

Rich Text Support for Titles, Descriptions, and Names

Format titles, descriptions, and names across every content type with a lightweight rich text editor, while keeping familiar editing workflows.

Feature Admin

Bulk and Version-Targeted Field Updates

Update configured fields across many records in one API call, target drafts or published content, and receive consistent Partner API errors.

Feature API

Tessitura Series and Seasons Redirect Links

Tag series and seasons with their Tessitura references, then use stable redirect links that automatically route visitors to the correct page.

Feature Ticketing

Guided Onboarding Built a Personalised Site Preview

Generate a configured starter site from brand and organisation answers, with live preview, personalised navigation, and selectable brand personalities.

New Onboarding

New Split Hero Banner Block

A dedicated split-layout hero banner gives builders side-by-side media and copy, with controls for media placement, content background, and section height.

Feature Website Builder

Drafts, Autosave, and Version History for Every Content Type

Every content collection now supports working drafts, autosave, and version history, so teams can edit safely without touching the live site.

Feature General

Design Tokens Available Across All Pages

Build consistent theme design systems by defining reusable button, card, and colour patterns once, then using them across every page.

Feature Themes

Added French Language Support

French is now a fully supported language: CMS labels, locale handling, preview state, and runtime language switching.

Feature Localisation

Hero Sections Integrated into the Block Model

Mastheads now sit inside the same block model as all other page sections, ending their status as a special-case template corner.

Improvement Website Builder

Partners Onboarded and Transferred Sites Directly

Partners can now manage signup and site transfer flows independently, including site ownership, operational state, and access boundaries.

Feature Onboarding

Override Canonical URLs on Any Page

Editors can now override canonical URLs from the SEO tab on any page without developer involvement.

Feature SEO

Scheduled Publishing

Schedule content to publish automatically at a date and time you choose.

Feature Apps

Smarter, More Precise Builder Controls

Colour pickers, spacing sliders, relationship fields, and button rules are now faster and clearer to use in the Website Builder.

Improvement Website Builder

Query Strings Survive Redirects and Domain Migrations

Query strings now survive redirects and domain migrations, plus the admin redirects list is easier to search.

Improvement Infrastructure

Improved Theme Assets and Upload Reliability

Theme assets use stricter immutable cache headers, uploads support larger files, and media uploads stay scoped to each organisation's site.

Improvement General

Blog Draft Collaboration

Multiple team members can now edit a blog draft simultaneously without overwriting each other.

Improvement Blogs

Orange Logic Syncs Made Easier to Diagnose

Orange Logic API calls now report richer telemetry across sync and lookup paths, making integration failures easier to identify.

Improvement API

Added Performance Links and Per-Instance Sync Overrides

Performance-link redirects, per-instance sync overrides, and clearer connection status for Tessitura configuration.

Improvement Ticketing

TNEW Ticketing Journeys Carried More Context

Session state, promo codes, and cookies now persist across transitions from Basker to TNEW purchase flows, keeping ticketing context intact.

Improvement Ticketing

Added Pagination to Events and Blog APIs

Events and blog endpoints now support page-based pagination with metadata including page numbers, totals, and navigation state.

Improvement API

Blog Posts Now Show Author Names and Publish Dates

Blog and post feeds now carry author names and publish dates in the data public themes use for bylines, listing cards, and editorial archives.

Improvement Blogs

Collections, Search, and Author Pages Round Out the Builder

Help visitors find content with filtered and sorted collections, destination search, blog author pages, canonical URLs, connection settings, and Orange Logic.

Feature Website Builder

Improved Elevent Membership and Ticketing Block Reliability

Widget loading, cart persistence, and booking button initialisation now behave consistently across page transitions in Website Builder.

Improvement Ticketing

Orange Logic DAM Integrated Into Media Library

Browse, import, enrich, and publish Orange Logic assets from the media library with their source metadata and credentials intact.

New Media

Added Site Activity Audit Trail

Track who changed content, settings, themes, and configurations with an audit trail of admin actions.

Feature Admin

Safer HTML and Class Controls in Theme Block Rich Text

Rich text in theme blocks now adds HTML sanitisation, CSS class controls, and structured block output on top of the existing relationship-aware editor.

Feature Themes

Improved Event Filtering

Filter panels now support multi-select, persist state across navigation, and feature improved keyboard navigation for better accessibility.

Improvement Events

Shared Blocks and Section Tabs Unify the Builder

Author Website Builder pages more coherently with shared blocks, flattened media, cleaner mastheads, layout groups, and composable section tabs.

Improvement Website Builder

Theme Developers Got Field-Level Event Data APIs

Event data access is now more precise for theme developers, with field-level APIs that reduce over-fetching while keeping custom themes expressive.

Feature API

Added Automatic SEO Meta Defaults

Pages without manually set meta titles and descriptions now inherit smarter defaults from their content.

Improvement SEO

Improved Tessitura Sync Settings Control and Messaging

Override sync behaviour per instance, with clearer connection-state feedback and safer handling for inactive controls in Tessitura configuration.

Improvement Ticketing

Smarter Image Handling and CDN-Safe Media Variants

Manage image variants and overrides with better handling for GIFs, non-image files, EXIF orientation, focal crops, CDN safety, and Orange Logic imports.

Feature Media

Relationship Fields and Admin Builds Are More Stable

Relationship field resolution is now more consistent, eliminating broken admin states and reliably rendering deeply nested relationship data.

Improvement Admin

Improved Accessibility Defaults for Builder Sites

Public sites now get stronger accessibility defaults across landmarks, ARIA labels, and carousel announcements without requiring custom theme work.

Improvement Website Builder

Integrated YesPlan for Event Planning

Connect YesPlan event data to your public site without manual duplication, integrating planning with editorial publishing and SEO.

New Events

Welsh, Spanish, and Japanese Locale Support Expands

Welsh admin labels, shared content-locale definitions, and Spanish, Welsh, Japanese date-formatting support strengthen the multilingual foundation.

Improvement Localisation

Faceted Collections and a Redesigned No-Code Search Page

Collection pages now support faceted filtering, progressive loading, and author pages, alongside a redesigned no-code search page.

Feature Website Builder

Author Pages for No-Code Sites

Give contributors dedicated author profiles with mastheads, previews, post listings, and avatars, without building custom templates.

Feature Blogs

Collections Load Progressively as Visitors Scroll

Keep large event and blog collections responsive with progressive loading, prefetching, and wider trigger margins instead of loading every card upfront.

Improvement General

Introduced Generic Collection Blocks and Media Overlay Cards

Generic collection blocks, media overlay cards, improved carousels, button block tabs, masthead edit links, and theme-level colour schemes.

Feature Website Builder

Added Images and Media Inside Rich Text

Rich text now supports inline media, blocks, and internal record links, enabling flexible content layouts without separate sections.

Feature Website Builder

Build Team Access with Reusable Role Templates

Keep growing-team access consistent with reusable role templates that can be duplicated or removed instead of rebuilding permissions.

Feature Admin

Locale-Aware URLs and Stronger Navigation Controls

Serve multilingual visitors with locale-specific URLs, drawer navigation controls, footer conversion blocks, and intentional collection sorting.

Feature Localisation

Partner API Supported Custom Object Definitions

Partner API clients can now create and manage custom object definitions over REST as part of onboarding.

Feature API

Headers and Booking Buttons Now More Reliable

Booking buttons now hydrate reliably across calendar, event, and Elevent flows, with improved header configuration including drawer close button support.

Improvement Website Builder

Unified Search Visibility Control

One Show in Search toggle controls both Basker search and external search indexing; hidden records receive noindex metadata automatically.

Feature SEO

Added Structured Data and Noindex Controls Across Basker

Structured data generation and noindex settings now work consistently across Basker, with canonical URLs resolving against each site's primary domain.

Improvement SEO

AI-Assisted Alt Text and SEO Descriptions

Editors get AI-generated alt text for images and SEO descriptions for content, plus token usage tracking to monitor AI feature consumption.

Feature SEO

Website Builder Became the Centre of the Product

Manage public websites in the no-code Website Builder with design systems, blueprints, reusable content, new blocks, CLI updates, and admin improvements.

Feature Website Builder

Made Search and Discovery Configurable

Teams can tune search behaviour, set boost terms, and adjust discovery settings without developer involvement or code changes.

Feature Apps

Theme Developers Got Command-Line Tools

Theme developers now have command-line tools for local theme workflows, launch checks, and packaged site work.

Feature Developer Tools

Added Dedicated Posts Tab to Blogs

Blog collections now have a dedicated Posts tab, giving editorial teams a clearer way to manage multiple posts under the same blog.

Feature Blogs

Added Event Scrollers and Posts Grid Blocks

New event scroller and posts grid blocks let editors highlight upcoming events and recent articles without template work.

Feature Website Builder

Improved Theme Publishing Safety and Observability

Publish and replace themes with clearer logs, upload progress, deployment tracking, confirmation, and static template generation.

Improvement Themes

Added Onboarding Settings and Preview Content to AI Builder

Configure AI generation with onboarding settings, global preview media, richer event scrollers, and a clearer setup path for realistic starting sites.

Feature Onboarding

Custom Objects Became a Native Content Surface

Teams can model structured records for custom datasets like sponsors, venues, and membership tiers that don't fit default collections.

Feature General

Expanded Custom Attributes Across Content Model

Custom attributes now cover event instances, posts, and organisation settings, with more field configurations.

Feature General

Rich Text Support for Theme-Managed Blocks

Theme-managed blocks now carry rich text with relationships, media, and structured formatting.

Feature Themes

Improved Calendar Blocks with Filters and Screening

Calendar blocks now include filters and screening lists without custom theming, and handle complex event structures better.

Feature Scheduling

Site-Wide Announcements

Teams can publish announcements across the site for closures, campaigns, schedule changes, and urgent updates without editing individual pages.

Feature Admin

Theme Block Drafts Preserve Work More Reliably

Drafts now handle complex nested fields and reuploads without losing content, making page-building safer and more predictable.

Improvement Website Builder

Image Variants and AI Alt Text Generation

Editors can create account-level image variants for different contexts and use AI-generated alt text to improve accessibility.

Feature Media

Shared Preview Links for Draft Content

Editors can generate shareable preview links so reviewers can see draft content without a CMS account.

Feature Admin

Added Per-Queue Controls for Background Jobs

Keep background jobs predictable with per-queue controls for schedules, concurrency, limits, syncs, theme generation, media processing, and cache invalidation.

Improvement Infrastructure

Blueprints Speed Up New Site Starts

Reusable site and page structures launch faster, with static headers and footers reducing page render time and improving predictability.

Feature Themes

Audio Files, Search, and Theme Uploads

Manage audio in the media library, find dates and venues accurately, and prevent wrong-site theme uploads through confirmation and validation.

Feature Media

Added Custom Attributes to Posts

Posts now take custom attributes, matching events and programmes. SSO redirect handling is also tightened.

Feature Blogs

Improved Admin Security and Stability

A focused round of security patches, admin stability improvements, and compatibility updates keeps Basker safe and dependable.

Improvement Admin

AI Website Builder Generates Initial Site Drafts

Generates an initial website structure from organisation details during onboarding, so editors start from a draft rather than a blank canvas.

Feature Website Builder

Enabled Self-Serve Domain Management

Domain records, validation states, DNS configuration, and post-launch checks are now managed directly in the admin.

Feature Admin

Partner API, Domains, and Post-Launch Operations

Complete more go-live work in Basker with expanded Partner APIs, domain support, post-launch tools, and stronger account constraints in v4.9.

Improvement API

Filtered Tessitura Imports by Keyword

Filter Tessitura imports by keyword so organisations sync only relevant productions and performances automatically.

Feature Ticketing

Stronger Theme Fallbacks and Series Event Images

Theme configurations get automatic fallbacks for missing settings, and series API responses now include event relationship images for richer theme displays.

Improvement Themes

Improved Forms Spam Protection and Safer Submissions

Contact, interest, and signup forms now include spam protection by default and more reliable submission handling on custom domains.

Improvement Website Builder

Improved Admin Navigation and Performance

Admin navigation moves to a clearer tab structure, with state handling and performance improvements beneath relationship fields, previews, and connected-system screens.

Improvement Admin

Realistic Previews in AI Website Builder

Realistic previews with actual brand imagery, event scrollers, and organisation-specific copy help teams visualise their future site during setup.

Feature Onboarding

AI Site Setup Learned More About Your Organisation

Create more tailored starter sites with AI setup that gathers organisation details, branding, ticketing, page rules, and footer content.

Feature Website Builder

Improved Data Lookups for Theme Developers

Expanded data lookups and relationship resolution for theme developers, with client sync paths tuned for production.

Improvement API

Onboarding Flow and Search Visibility Began Taking Shape

Complete setup more easily with richer layouts, file uploads, skip controls, animated previews, and search visibility built into publishing.

Feature Onboarding

Simplified Theme Block Management

Give editors clearer block screens and theme authors control over versioning and updates by storing block definitions in managed collections.

Improvement Themes

Improved Tessitura Sync Configuration Readability

Tessitura settings now show sync fields, event mappings, instance mappings, and app-level configuration in a clearer layout for auditing and troubleshooting.

Improvement Ticketing

Page Graphs, BlocksOffice Images, and Block Descriptions

Build menus and breadcrumbs from the API with page graph data, BlocksOffice image endpoints, and clearer block descriptions.

Feature API

Enabled Spektrix Ticketing Journeys in Website Builder

Build Spektrix account, basket, event, donation, membership, voucher, merchandise, offer, and seating flows in Website Builder with web components or iframes.

Feature Ticketing

Tessitura Themes Now Resolve BlocksOffice Images

Tessitura-powered themes can pull season, production, and performer imagery from BlocksOffice through image lookup endpoints.

Feature Ticketing

Improved Image Cropping, Cache Clearing, and Calendar Options

Control image focal points for smarter crops, enable precise cache clearing, and configure calendars to hide past events.

Improvement General

Added Local Development Loop for Custom Themes

Theme developers now have a local development environment for custom themes with live reload and real CMS data.

Feature Themes

Custom Attribute Options Now Appear on Events

Add select and radio options to existing events automatically, with safeguards that leave unrelated event data untouched.

Improvement Events

Reusable Blocks Render Inside Custom Themes

Reuse editor-built blocks across pages without losing custom theme presentation, easing the move from custom themes to Website Builder.

Feature Website Builder

Added Custom Theme Blocks and Reusable No-Code Blocks

Give developers custom theme blocks and editors reusable no-code blocks, with iframe sandboxing, event ordering, people blocks, and timezone support.

Feature Website Builder

Elevent Booking and Calendar Improvements

Better timezone support, more consistent booking initialisation, and calendar blocks can display Elevent ticket buttons.

Improvement Ticketing

People Blocks and Flexible Event Publishing

List artists and unscheduled programme items without workarounds using people blocks, event participants, and events that no longer require dates.

Feature Events

Custom Blocks Enabled with Collection Data and Plan Controls

Custom blocks now support collection data and plan-aware visibility across Website Builder and custom-theme modes.

Feature Website Builder

API Pagination and Elevent Booking Reliability

Handle larger event collections with more consistent API pagination and more reliable Elevent booking blocks and actions.

Improvement API

Improved Archive Blocks and Works Relationships

Archive blocks now support individual selection and chronological ordering, and Works can be used as relationship data through attributes.

Improvement Website Builder

Added File Upload Support to Custom Attributes

Extend custom attributes with file uploads for documents and images, with validation improvements that make it safer to modify attributes.

Feature Developer Tools

AI Dashboard with Chat History and Token Visibility

A new AI dashboard brings chat history navigation and token usage visibility into one place, giving teams a clearer view of AI-assisted publishing.

Feature Admin

Website Builder Renders Through Public Site Stack

The builder now renders through the public site stack with reusable templates, nested documents, live preview, and performance improvements.

Improvement Website Builder

Improved Theme Admin Tabs and Navigation Visibility

Theme admin tabs now respond to the selected render mode, and the Show in Navigation flag is respected more consistently across public sites.

Improvement Themes

Improved Collection Block Settings and Navigation Controls

Organise collection block settings with clarity and split navigation overlays between desktop and mobile for independent control.

Improvement Website Builder

Added Form Blocks to Website Builder

Form blocks now integrate directly into page layouts alongside other sections, with submissions flowing through the same pipeline regardless of placement.

Feature Website Builder

Website Builder Calendars Added Ticketing-Aware Controls

Calendar blocks now display ticketing actions for each event and serve as a discovery tool, combining layout, event data, and booking capabilities.

Feature Events

Elevent App Now Available in Website Builder

Website Builder blocks now support membership levels, donations, cart state, account areas, and ticketing actions, all sharing your site's theme and styling.

Feature Ticketing

Added Line-Up Ticketing Integration

Use the Line-Up beta to bring event details and booking links into Basker pages while Line-Up remains the source for checkout.

New Ticketing

Security Settings, Verification, and Cookie Controls

Email verification, IP address tracking, security settings, and cookie-banner configuration are now managed from the admin.

Feature Security

Tixly Ticketing Integration (Alpha)

Connect Tixly as your ticketing provider while event pages and editorial content stay in Basker.

New Ticketing

Membership and Donation Blocks Gain Attribute Filtering

Target membership and donation blocks to specific audiences, campaigns, membership tiers, and programmes from a single block instead of creating duplicates.

Feature Admin

CMS Foundation Updates Enhance Website Builder

Build richer sites with nested fields, forms, email delivery, theme settings, and improved previews across the Website Builder's CMS foundations.

Improvement Website Builder

Added Admin Content Folders

Teams can organise related records into folders, supporting complex hierarchies for campaigns, seasons, and migration projects.

Feature Admin

Password Protection for Website Builder

Gate Website Builder sites and custom themes with passwords before launch, enabling stakeholder review and controlling timing for campaign reveals.

Feature Website Builder

Website Builder Launched for Teams

Teams now have direct links from CMS themes, password protection, and live colour scheme editing for building and maintaining public site pages without code.

Feature Website Builder

Improved Date Formatting with Password Protection

Date and time formatting works reliably alongside password protection, enabling accurate content previews before public launch.

Improvement Website Builder

Theme Reuploads and Block Validation Are More Reliable

Theme reuploads are now easier to recover from, and Website Builder blocks get stronger validation across relationships and nested fields.

Improvement Website Builder

Added Block Spacing Controls and Locale-Aware Routing

Website Builder blocks now have spacing controls, and public routes become more aware of locale state.

Feature Website Builder

Membership and Donation Blocks Now Read Connected Settings

Membership and donation blocks automatically pull configuration from connected apps, eliminating manual setup for each page.

Feature Website Builder

Calendar and Media Blocks Expanded

Build richer event pages with calendar blocks for more configurations and new full-width, grid, and callout media layouts.

Feature Website Builder

Added Donation Blocks to Website Builder

Fundraising calls to action can now live directly on campaign, event, and membership pages without developer involvement or separate templates.

Feature Website Builder

Added Booking Buttons to Builder Pages

Ticketing blocks are now composable within pages, initialising with connected apps and showing the correct booking options for each context.

Feature Ticketing

Tessitura App Updated for the New Editor Foundation

Ticketing teams now have reliable access to connection settings, event fields, and sync controls as the editor foundation evolves.

Improvement Ticketing

Website Builder Launched as a Product Surface

Build real pages without code using block libraries, connected ticketing, theme-owned design settings, and live preview capabilities.

New Website Builder

Added Columns, Banners, and Forms to Builder

Editors can now build page layouts with columns, banners, and forms without developer involvement.

Feature Website Builder

Added Venue Data to Event Feeds

Event feeds now include flatter venue data, making it easier for Website Builder blocks and custom themes to display venue information without extra lookups.

Feature Events

Added Availability Counts to Event Instance Feeds

Event instance feeds can now include availability counts, allowing themes and ticketing feeds to surface clear availability information.

Feature Events

Improved Theme Routing and Multi-Site Management

Dynamic routing, a site registry, CDN refactors, git support, block hooks, and event sequencing improvements keep multi-site operations reliable.

Feature Infrastructure

Spektrix Sync Modernised

Keep Spektrix events, instances, attributes, booking links, and ticketing metadata in sync through modern architecture aligned with Basker's events and themes.

Improvement Ticketing

Launched AI and GitHub Workflows Integration

Automate more operations with early AI tools, GitHub workflow integration, version control connections, refined theme settings, and improved event feeds.

New Developer Tools

Added Mode-of-Sale Filtering to Tessitura Sync

Event teams can now control which Tessitura performances appear publicly and by sales channel, with automatic filtering based on configured rules.

Improvement Ticketing

Events API, Stripe, and Tessitura Rebuilt

v3.8 and v3.9 rebuilds bring Stripe payments, Events API capabilities, and durable event data to Basker.

Feature Events

Improved Theme Preview, CDN, and Production Safety

Reliable theme previews, optimised CDN routing, cache invalidation, and upload safety let teams confidently hand over themes to production.

Improvement Themes

Writers Theatre Website Launches on Basker

See Basker proven at Writers Theatre with custom themes, organisation-specific domains, Tessitura and TNEW, preview URLs, event data, SEO routes, and caching.

Feature Website Builder

Added Timezone Support to Events

Event instance processing now supports timezones, making date and time handling more reliable for public listings, sync jobs, and visitor-facing schedules.

Feature Events

Added Sitemaps, Robots, and Custom Error Templates

Themes now auto-generate production-ready sitemaps, robots.txt, favicons, and custom error pages for search engines and visitors.

Feature SEO

Added TNEW Layout Generation and Custom Domain Launch Paths

Generate TNEW layout jobs from Basker settings and access expanded custom-domain launch paths for ticketing-led projects moving from configuration to live.

Feature Ticketing

Theme Fields Added Constraints and Fallback Images

Theme fields now support number and text constraints, fallback images, and safer relationship resolution for more reliable field rendering.

Improvement Themes

Theme Editor Gains Render Fields and Schema-Aware Blocks

Editors get schema-aware forms for theme blocks, allowing validation and clearer field definitions for what themes can render.

Feature Themes

Theme Updates and Site-Wide Globals

Themes now support site globals and cache controls, so editors set branding and shared settings once and propagate them across all pages.

Feature Themes

Tessitura Performance Sync Expanded

Create more complete Tessitura event listings with richer performance and multi-performance data, availability, and booking context.

Improvement Ticketing

Rebuilt Rich Text and Block Foundations

Editors gain theme asset proxy controls, colour select inputs, and block refinements that let content and presentation speak the same language.

Feature Website Builder

Enabled Custom Theme Blocks with Relationship Fields

Custom theme blocks can now use relationship fields for media, arrays, custom attributes, and structured rich text.

Feature Themes

Tessitura Data Reaches Event Instance Endpoints

Build production event pages from Tessitura event instance endpoints, without duplicating ticketing data or replacing Tessitura as the source of truth.

Feature Ticketing

Theme Asset Proxy Brought Preview Closer to Production

Theme assets now go through a stronger proxy path and live preview handles theme router changes, so preview matches production more closely.

Improvement Themes

Modern Admin Foundation Integrated Into Main Branch

Give editors one coherent admin with faster search, connection selection, settings filters, reliable media and search APIs, and a clearer Website Builder path.

Improvement Admin

Security Headers and Event Routes Hardened Public Sites

Public sites gain stronger security headers, event-instance route improvements, compressed responses, and sorting fixes for search and event endpoints.

Improvement Security

Added Global Search and Dedicated Event Endpoints

Navigate admin faster with global command search, while dedicated event search endpoints improve public-site discovery across events and content.

Feature API

TNEW Purchase-Flow Templates Auto-Generate from CMS

Keep ticketing sites and purchase flows aligned with automatic CMS-generated templates, improved app configuration, and connection-aware settings.

Feature Ticketing

Template Jobs Now Start From Site Settings

Generate TNEW purchase-flow layouts from Basker site and theme settings, keeping editorial and ticketing workflows in one system.

Feature Ticketing

Tessitura Settings Got a Cleaner Collection Model

Tessitura configuration moves into a collection-based app model, so settings, app state, and public theme data can be handled consistently across sites.

Improvement Ticketing

Multi-Tenancy, Settings, and Site Tree

Run each organisation's site with isolated data and settings for ticketing, domains, languages, users, and plans, managed through new tree and list views.

Feature Admin

Enabled Public Themes to Read Connected App Settings

Build dynamic booking buttons and purchase flows from connected app settings and configuration values instead of hardcoding them into custom themes.

Feature Themes

Added Production-Like Testing for Custom Themes

Custom themes can now be validated against real site data in production-like environments, catching CDN, serverless, and media path issues before launch.

Feature Themes

Theme Blocks and Rich Text Across Grouped Content

Theme blocks and rich text now work consistently across grouped content, improving reliability for theme authors and visitors alike.

Feature Themes

Forms, Preview, and Rich Text Added to CMS

The December alpha track lands forms, server-side live preview, custom rich text editing, and stronger account-level authentication in the CMS.

Feature General

Launched Tessitura Sync Alpha

Tessitura sync enters alpha, linking performance records, event content, and public site rendering.

Feature Ticketing

Theme Manifests Generated Block Schemas

Theme manifests can now generate block schemas for the CMS, giving theme authors a structured way to describe the fields a custom theme expects.

Feature Themes

Server-Side Live Preview

Live preview now uses a server-side approach, closing the gap between what editors see in the admin and what visitors see on the public site.

Feature Admin

Public Site Runtime Became a Dedicated Product Surface

A dedicated public-site runtime separates custom theme development from admin-only editing work, providing a clearer home for routes, assets, and content.

Feature Developer Tools

Modern CMS Foundations Entered Product

Custom render fields are rebuilt, the site tree is refreshed, and account and login screens improve for faster, more reliable admin experience.

Improvement Admin

Launched for Arts and Live-Event Websites

Complete CMS with pages, media, events, ticketing connections, theme customisation, scheduled publishing, and localisation for arts and cultural organisations.

New General

Spektrix Integration Launched

Connect event records to Spektrix while keeping full editorial control, establishing the connected-app pattern for future ticketing integrations.

New Ticketing