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

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

Individual event instances now get the same semantic web addresses as your works, people, and seasons, with short links that keep resolving even when an event is renamed.

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 now pull related posts and list works by their creator with a single filter, so theme teams write less template code and pages stay fast.

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

Event publishing now runs reliably in one pass with accurate preview, grants independent control over events and instances, and keeps closing-night performances visible to patrons through their final day.

Improvement Events

Media Renaming with Reliable Crops and Focal Points

Upload renaming now works in place with focal point edits that persist, automatic cache refreshes, animated GIFs that keep moving, and an instant Usage tab showing asset usage.

Feature Media

Sharper Mastheads, Headers, and Live Preview

Editors get theme-aware mastheads and headers, reliable blueprint edits, live preview that syncs with saves, custom sections for any block, and smarter collection previews that start from your default layout.

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 which event instances appear publicly with publish-window dates and on-sale indicators, and fall back to series or season artwork when an event image is missing.

Feature Ticketing

Onboarded a Single Show or Production Site

Onboarding now offers a dedicated show-led path that collects show details and goals, takes your logo and hero artwork, infers a colour palette from your image, and builds a show homepage and pages.

Feature Onboarding

Smart Collections Filter Events by Custom Attributes

Filter events automatically by custom attributes like category and genre, control sort order per block, hide empty collections, and preview results before publishing.

Feature Events

Added Control Over Public and Partner API Responses

Tune how much each field returns across the public and partner APIs, look events up by their external id, and safely manage custom-theme blocks through a dedicated partner endpoint.

Feature API

New Gallery, Opening Hours, and Carousel Scroller Blocks

New gallery, opening-hours, and carousel scroller blocks, along with group height controls and a link field, enable richer page layouts for custom themes.

Feature Website Builder

Added Semantic Web Addresses and Creator Fields

Content now uses semantic web addresses with automatic disambiguators, works gain a dedicated creator field, and relationship pickers show contextual two-line labels across the admin.

Feature General

Added Images Directly Inside Rich Text

Editors can now add images inside rich text by uploading from the media library or pasting a direct image URL, each with its own alt text and caption, 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 and export whole collections as CSV files with create and override modes, key-matched updates, validation, and export preview for bulk operations across events, seasons, and custom objects.

Feature Admin

Linked Content Across Sites in Relationship Fields

Teams managing multiple sites can now pick and link content from other sites in relationship, link, rich text, custom-object, and theme-block fields with consistent scoping.

Feature General

Theme Developers Got Pre-Upload Validation Checks

Theme builders now catch unsupported field types, bad assets, deprecated tags, over-nested schemas, and duplicate field names before upload, so broken themes never reach a live site.

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

Titles, descriptions, and names across all content types now support rich text formatting with a lightweight inline editor, enabling more expressive headings while keeping editing familiar.

Feature Admin

Bulk and Version-Targeted Field Updates

Partners can update configured fields across many records in a single API call and target either the published or draft version, with error responses that follow Partner API conventions.

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

Customers answer brand and organisation questions to generate a fully configured starter site 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

Define reusable button, card, and colour patterns once at the theme level and reference them across all pages, so theme authors build design systems without per-block style configuration.

Feature Themes

Added French Language Support

French is now fully supported with CMS labels, locale handling, preview state, and runtime language switching for regional publishing.

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

Set up performance-link redirects and per-instance sync overrides with clearer connection-state messaging, giving you finer control over 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

Collections gain filtering and sorting, search becomes a destination page, and blogs support author pages, with canonical URLs, connection settings, and Orange Logic support.

Feature Website Builder

Improved Elevent Membership and Ticketing Block Reliability

Widget loading, cart persistence, and booking button initialisation are now more reliable across page transitions in Website Builder.

Improvement Ticketing

Orange Logic DAM Integrated Into Media Library

Browse, import, and enrich digital assets directly from Orange Logic within the media library, with source metadata, credentials, and publishing workflows fully integrated.

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

April's Website Builder consolidation connects shared blocks, media flattening, masthead cleanup, layout groups, and composable section tabs into a more coherent authoring system.

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

Teams can manage derived images, overrides, and CDN-safe variants with improved handling for GIFs, non-image files, EXIF orientation, focal point crops, 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 destination.

Feature Website Builder

Author Pages for No-Code Sites

Publish dedicated author profiles with mastheads, previews, post listings, and avatars without custom templates, giving contributors a public presence connected to their blog work.

Feature Blogs

Collections Load Progressively as Visitors Scroll

Collection grids and scrollers now support progressive loading, prefetching, and larger trigger margins so large event or blog collections feel fast without loading every card at once.

Improvement General

Introduced Generic Collection Blocks and Media Overlay Cards

Editors can use generic collection blocks and media overlay cards, with carousel improvements, button tabs, masthead edit links, and theme-level colour handling.

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

Build team permissions from reusable role templates you can duplicate or remove, so growing teams keep access consistent without rebuilding every permission set.

Feature Admin

Locale-Aware URLs and Stronger Navigation Controls

Serve locale-specific URLs for multilingual sites, control navigation through drawer settings, add conversion content with footer blocks, and sort collections intentionally.

Feature Localisation

Partner API Supported Custom Object Definitions

Define repeatable content models at scale during partner onboarding without manual team involvement.

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

A single toggle controls visibility across internal and external search, so records hidden from Basker search automatically receive noindex metadata.

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

Teams can now manage public websites directly through the no-code Website Builder with design systems, blueprints, reusable content, new block models, CLI improvements, and admin enhancements.

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

Editors can highlight upcoming events and recent articles with new scroller and grid blocks, eliminating bespoke template work.

Feature Website Builder

Improved Theme Publishing Safety and Observability

Theme logs, upload progress, deploy tracking, upload confirmation, and static template generation all improve, giving teams better feedback when publishing or replacing a theme.

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

Teams can add structured metadata across events, posts, and organisation settings without schema changes.

Feature General

Rich Text Support for Theme-Managed Blocks

Editorial content in theme blocks now supports rich text with relationships, media, and structured formatting without custom text fields.

Feature Themes

Improved Calendar Blocks with Filters and Screening

Calendar blocks now offer built-in filters and screening without custom theming, plus improved handling of complex event structures.

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 now generate shareable preview links for draft content, so reviewers can see work in progress without needing full CMS access.

Feature Admin

Added Per-Queue Controls for Background Jobs

Background jobs can now be tuned per-queue with individual controls for scheduling, concurrency, time budgets, 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

Supports audio files in the media library, improves search accuracy for dates and venues, and adds theme upload confirmation with validation that prevents uploads to the wrong site.

Feature Media

Added Custom Attributes to Posts

Editorial teams can now apply custom attributes to posts and gain tightened SSO redirect handling for more predictable account switching.

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 initial website structure from organisation details during onboarding, giving editors a meaningful head start instead of a blank canvas.

Feature Website Builder

Enabled Self-Serve Domain Management

Teams can now manage domain records, validation states, DNS configuration, and post-launch checks directly in the admin without infrastructure support.

Feature Admin

Partner API, Domains, and Post-Launch Operations

Handle more of the go-live checklist directly in Basker with Partner API extensions, domain support, post-launch tooling, and account-level constraint hardening across the v4.9 release line.

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 toward a clearer tab structure, and Basker refreshes the foundation beneath relationship fields, previews, and connected-system surfaces.

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

AI setup now collects organisation details, branding preferences, ticketing system info, page generation rules, and footer content to create more tailored first sites.

Feature Website Builder

Improved Data Lookups for Theme Developers

Expanded data lookups and relationship resolution give theme developers cleaner code, with client sync paths tuned for production safety and correctness.

Improvement API

Onboarding Flow and Search Visibility Began Taking Shape

Richer layout components, file uploads, skip controls, and animated previews enhance the setup experience, while search visibility integrates into the publishing model.

Feature Onboarding

Simplified Theme Block Management

Block definitions now live in managed collections, providing editors with clearer admin screens and theme authors with more control over versioning and configuration updates.

Improvement Themes

Improved Tessitura Sync Configuration Readability

Sync fields, event mappings, instance mappings, and app-level configuration are now clearly organised for faster auditing and troubleshooting.

Improvement Ticketing

Page Graphs, BlocksOffice Images, and Block Descriptions

Access page graph data for navigation layouts, plus BlocksOffice image endpoints and self-explanatory block descriptions, so themes build menus and breadcrumbs directly from the API.

Feature API

Enabled Spektrix Ticketing Journeys in Website Builder

Teams get web-component and iframe-based Spektrix blocks for account management, basket, donations, memberships, event details, gift vouchers, merchandise, offers, and seating directly in Website Builder pages.

Feature Ticketing

Tessitura Themes Now Resolve BlocksOffice Images

Theme authors can now pull imagery directly from BlocksOffice for season, production, and performer pages without manual hard-coding or duplication.

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

Select and radio options added to custom attributes now appear automatically on existing events, with safety measures that prevent overwriting unrelated event data.

Improvement Events

Reusable Blocks Render Inside Custom Themes

Editors can build a block once and reuse it across pages without losing custom theme presentation, which simplifies transitions from custom themes to the Website Builder.

Feature Website Builder

Added Custom Theme Blocks and Reusable No-Code Blocks

Extend themes with custom blocks for developers and reusable no-code blocks for editors, alongside iframe sandboxing, event ordering, people blocks, and timezone support.

Feature Website Builder

Elevent Booking and Calendar Improvements

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

Improvement Ticketing

People Blocks and Flexible Event Publishing

Build people blocks with event participant support and publish events without required dates, so cultural programmes can list artists and unscheduled items without workarounds.

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

Public API endpoints move closer to pagination parity, and Elevent booking blocks receive another reliability pass for larger event collections and more stable booking actions.

Improvement API

Improved Archive Blocks and Works Relationships

Editors get direct control over archive presentation with individual block selection and chronological ordering, plus improved Works relationships 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

Sync events, tickets, availability, and booking links from Line-Up into your event pages while maintaining editorial control and ticketing accuracy.

New Ticketing

Security Settings, Verification, and Cookie Controls

Teams can manage email verification, IP tracking, security settings, and cookie-banner configuration directly 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

Foundation releases bring nested fields, form handling, email delivery, theme settings, and improved preview capabilities to support the Website Builder's expanding feature set.

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

Calendar blocks now handle more event configurations, while new media-block layouts including full-width images, grids, and callouts give pages richer visual expression.

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

Sync events, instances, attributes, booking links, and ticketing metadata from Spektrix with modernised architecture aligned to Basker's event and theme systems.

Improvement Ticketing

Launched AI and GitHub Workflows Integration

Early AI tooling and GitHub workflow integration enable teams to automate operations, connect version control, and refine theme settings with 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 Launched

Basker now powers a production arts website, demonstrating custom themes, organisation-specific domains, Tessitura/TNEW integration, preview URLs, event data, SEO routing, and production caching in real-world use.

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

Event listings now surface richer performance and multi-performance data with availability and booking context, enabling more complete presentations for Tessitura-powered sites.

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

Themes can now combine custom blocks with relationship-backed fields to support media, arrays, custom attributes, and structured rich text in editor-friendly interfaces.

Feature Themes

Tessitura Data Reaches Event Instance Endpoints

Tessitura data now reaches event instance endpoints, enabling production-ready event pages without duplicating ticketing information into content fields while keeping Tessitura as the authoritative source.

Feature Ticketing

Theme Asset Proxy Brought Preview Closer to Production

Live preview now reflects production settings more accurately, helping teams review and approve themes with confidence before launch.

Improvement Themes

Modern Admin Foundation Integrated Into Main Branch

Editors gain enhanced global search, connection selection, settings filtering, and more reliable media and search APIs, giving the admin one coherent product surface that unlocks the 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

Editors navigate the admin faster with global command search, while dedicated event search endpoints give public sites more accurate discovery results for events and content.

Feature API

TNEW Purchase-Flow Templates Auto-Generate from CMS

Templates generate automatically from CMS content with improved app configuration and connection-aware settings, giving ticketing-led sites a single source of truth for site and purchase flow.

Feature Ticketing

Template Jobs Now Start From Site Settings

Teams can now generate TNEW purchase-flow layouts directly from Basker's site settings and theme configuration, keeping editorial and ticketing workflows in one unified system instead of maintaining separate sources.

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 independent configuration for ticketing, domains, languages, users, and plans, so teams manage content through new site tree and list views.

Feature Admin

Enabled Public Themes to Read Connected App Settings

Themes can access connected app settings and configuration values, allowing custom theme authors to build dynamic pages with configuration-aware booking buttons and purchase flows without hardcoding.

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

Connect ticketing data to event pages with Tessitura sync, linking performance records, event content, and public site rendering in one integrated path.

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