Changelog

What's new in Basker

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 General

Faster, More Reliable Cached API Responses

Public event and event-instance API responses are now served from a pre-built, compressed cache that refreshes automatically when you publish, so visitor-facing pages load faster and stay reliable under load.

Feature API

Trusted Embeds With Stronger Content Security

Allowlist trusted third-party embeds inside rich text while a hardened Content Security Policy keeps untrusted scripts off published sites.

Feature General

Import And Export Any Collection As CSV

Bulk-load and back up content like events, seasons, and custom objects by importing or exporting whole collections as CSV files, with create and override modes, key-matched updates, validation, and an export preview.

Feature General

Link Content Across Sites In Relationship Fields

Teams managing multiple sites can pick and link content from other sites in relationship, link, and theme-block fields, with consistent scoping and a clearer picker.

Feature General

Theme Developers Get 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

A New Public GraphQL API For Events And Instances

Query events and event instances through a single typed GraphQL endpoint with batched relations and built-in query-depth limits, instead of stitching together multiple REST calls.

New API

Rich Text Titles, Descriptions, And Names Everywhere

Titles, descriptions, and names across pages and every content record now support rich text formatting, so headings can be more expressive than plain strings allow.

Feature General

Bulk And Version-Targeted Field Updates In The Partner API

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 With Deep-Link Redirects

Sites connected to Tessitura can tag series and seasons with their Tessitura references and link them with redirects that send visitors to the matching series or season page.

Feature Ticketing

Guided Onboarding Builds A Personalized Site Preview

New customers move through a guided onboarding flow that sets up their site with branded content, navigation, and live preview pages tailored to their organization.

New General

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 General

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 Shared Across Every Page

No-code themes can now define reusable button, card, and colour patterns that every block on the site can reference.

Feature General

French Is Now A Supported Language

Basker now supports French across CMS labels, content locale handling, preview state, and runtime language switching.

Feature General

Hero Sections Live Alongside Every Other Page Block

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

Changed General

Partners Can Onboard And Transfer Sites Directly

Partners can now handle signup and site transfer flows directly in Basker without manual coordination with the Basker team.

Feature General

Set Your Own Canonical URL On Any Page

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

Feature General

Event Cover Images

Upload a dedicated cover image per event, separate from the hero and gallery.

New Events

Scheduled Publishing

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

Feature Apps

Smarter, More Precise Builder Controls

Editing controls in the Website Builder are more precise and faster to use for teams building real pages every day.

Improvement General

Query Strings Survive Redirects And Domain Migrations

Redirects now preserve query strings as visitors move through legacy URLs, custom redirect targets, and domain migrations.

Improvement General

Theme Assets And Uploads Are More Reliable

Theme assets use stricter immutable cache headers, uploads support larger files, and media uploads stay properly scoped to each tenant.

Improvement General

Blog Draft Collaboration

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

Improvement Blogs

Orange Logic Syncs Are Easier To Diagnose

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

Improvement General

Tessitura Gets Performance Links And Per-Instance Sync Overrides

Tessitura-powered sites can now use performance-link redirects and control which attributes sync automatically on a per-instance basis.

Improvement Ticketing

TNEW Ticketing Journeys Carry More Context

TNEW flows now support session sharing, promo-code handoff, and improved cookie handling so more ticketing context stays intact across page transitions.

Improvement Ticketing

API Cursor Pagination

The events and blog endpoints now support cursor-based pagination for more reliable large result sets.

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

The v5.7 release line completes the Website Builder with smarter collections, a redesigned no-code search experience, and richer blog and author data.

Feature General

Elevent Membership And Ticketing Blocks Work More Reliably

Elevent membership blocks, widget loading, cart state, and booking buttons now behave more reliably across Website Builder pages.

Improvement Ticketing

Orange Logic DAM Is Now Inside The Media Library

Basker now includes a native Orange Logic app for browsing, importing, and enriching DAM assets from inside the media library.

New General

Site Activity Gives Teams An Audit Trail

Basker now records site activity for important admin changes, giving teams a timeline of who changed content, settings, themes, and launch configuration.

Feature General

Ticket Hold Timer

Display a countdown timer on booking pages when tickets are held in a patron's basket.

New Ticketing

More Powerful Rich Text For Pages And Theme Blocks

The rich text editor now supports safer HTML handling, class controls, and richer block output inside theme-managed fields.

Feature General

Event Filtering Improvements

Filter panels now support multi-select and persist state across navigation.

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 General

Theme Developers Get 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

Automatic SEO Meta Defaults

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

Improvement General

Bulk Event Import

Import an entire season of events from a spreadsheet or iCal feed in one step.

New Events

Scheduling Calendar View

Visualise your scheduled and published content on a monthly calendar in the admin.

Feature Scheduling

Tessitura Sync Settings Are Clearer And More Controllable

Tessitura sync settings now support per-instance custom attribute overrides and clearer connection-state messaging.

Improvement Ticketing

Legacy Embed Widget Removed

The v1 JavaScript embed widget has been removed. Migrate to the Block API before upgrading.

Removed General

Smarter Image Handling And CDN-Safe Media Variants

Media transformations now give teams a more flexible way to manage derived images, overrides, and CDN-safe variants across cards, heroes, galleries, and social previews.

Feature General

Patron Notification Settings

Notification preferences have moved from the ticketing integration settings to a dedicated Notifications section.

Changed General

Relationship Fields And Admin Builds Are More Stable

The March admin foundation refresh makes CMS builds more reliable and reduces friction around relationship-heavy editing surfaces throughout the admin.

Improvement General

Stronger 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 General

YesPlan Is Now Connected For Event Planning

Basker now includes a YesPlan connection, expanding its role as the place where planning, editorial publishing, and public event presentation can meet.

New Events

Welsh, Spanish, And Japanese Locale Support Expands

Basker now has a broader locale foundation for multilingual organisations, with Welsh admin labels and Spanish, Welsh, and Japanese date-formatting paths.

Improvement General

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 General

Author Pages For No-Code Sites

No-code sites can now publish author pages with mastheads, post listings, and avatar support, giving writers and contributors a dedicated public profile.

Feature Blogs

Collections Load Progressively As Visitors Scroll

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

Improvement General

Generic Collection Blocks And Media Overlay Cards

The builder now includes generic collection blocks, media overlay cards, carousel improvements, and theme-level colour scheme handling.

Feature General

Images And Media Inside Rich Text

Editors can now place media blocks inside rich text areas used by Website Builder and theme content.

Feature General

Build Team Access From Reusable Role Templates

You can now build team permissions from reusable role templates, duplicate roles, and remove roles without rebuilding every permission set from scratch.

Feature General

Locale-Aware URLs And Stronger Navigation Controls

The v5.2 releases add locale-aware URLs, stronger drawer navigation controls, footer newsletter sections, and collection sort options.

Feature General

Partner API Supports Custom Object Definitions

Partner API clients can now create and manage custom object definitions through REST endpoints.

Feature API

Headers And Booking Buttons Work More Reliably Together

Headers now have clearer configuration options while ticket and booking buttons hydrate more reliably across calendar, event, and Elevent flows.

Improvement General

A Single Field Controls What Appears In Search

The Show in Search field now controls whether pages, events, and other records appear in both Basker search and external search engines.

Feature General

Structured Data And Noindex Controls Work Across The Platform

Basker now centralises structured data generation and respects noindex settings consistently, so search engines see accurate metadata for every page.

Improvement General

AI-Assisted Alt Text And SEO Descriptions

Basker can now assist editors with image alt text and SEO description generation, providing a starting point that editors can review and adjust before publishing.

Feature General

Basker v5: Website Builder Becomes The Centre Of The Product

Basker v5 turns the no-code Website Builder into the primary way teams manage public websites, with a new design system, blueprints, and a rebuilt block model.

Feature General

Search And Discovery Is Now A Configurable Product Surface

Basker now includes the Search and Discovery app for managing boost terms, discovery settings, and tenant-specific search behaviour.

Feature General

Theme Developers Get Command-Line Tools

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

Feature General

Blogs Now Manage Multiple Posts In One Place

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

Feature Blogs

Event Scrollers And Posts Grids For Discovery Pages

Website Builder now includes event scroller and posts grid blocks for highlighting upcoming events and recent articles without bespoke template work.

Feature General

Theme Publishing Is Safer And More Observable

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 General

AI Website Builder Gets Onboarding Settings And Preview Content

The AI website builder now has onboarding settings, global preview media, and a clearer setup path, so new sites start with more realistic preview content.

Feature General

Custom Objects Are Now A First-Class Content Surface

Basker now has a richer custom object model for partner and tenant-specific data, letting teams model structured records that do not fit default collections.

Feature General

Custom Attributes Work Across More Of The Content Model

Custom attributes now extend to event instances, organisation-level settings, posts, and more field configurations.

Feature General

Rich Text Inside Theme-Managed Blocks

Theme-managed blocks can now carry rich text content with relationships, media, and reusable structured output.

Feature General

Calendar Blocks With Filters And Screening Views

Website Builder calendars now support filter drawers, screening lists, and more resilient rendering.

Feature Scheduling

Site-Wide Announcements For Urgent Messages

You can now create site-wide announcements for public pages, publishing closure notices, campaign banners, and urgent visitor updates without editing every page individually.

Feature General

Theme Block Drafts Preserve Work More Reliably

Theme block drafts now preserve row state, relationship formatting, and saved field values more reliably while editors work.

Improvement General

Image Variants And The First AI Alt Text Flow

The media library now supports tenant-specific image sizes and variants alongside the first AI alt-text generation flow.

Feature General

Share 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 General

Background Jobs Have Per-Queue Controls

Background jobs now have clearer per-queue controls for scheduling, concurrency, and time budgets.

Improvement General

Blueprints And Static Theme Generation Speed Up New Site Starts

Blueprints now package repeatable site and page structures, while static theme generation improves how headers, footers, and templates are prepared after publishing a theme.

Feature General

Audio Files, Smarter Search Indexing, And Safer Theme Uploads

Basker now accepts audio files, improves search indexing for dates and venue data, and tightens theme upload confirmation and tenant-lock validation.

Feature General

Posts Now Support Custom Attributes

Custom attributes can now be applied to posts, giving editorial teams the same structured metadata flexibility already available across events.

Feature Blogs

Admin Security And Stability Update

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

Improvement General

AI Website Builder Generates A First Draft Of Your Site

Basker can now generate an initial website draft during onboarding, turning organisation details and preferences into a starting structure editors can refine straight away.

Feature General

Self-Serve Domain Setup Moves Into Launch Operations

Domain management becomes more self-serve, with domain records, validation states, and clearer post-launch tooling available directly in the admin.

Feature General

Partner API, Domains, And Post-Launch Operations

The v4.9 releases extend Basker beyond build-time capability into the operations phase with Partner API work, domain support, and post-launch tooling.

Improvement API

Filter Tessitura Imports By Keyword

Tessitura sync now supports keyword filtering, so organisations can decide which productions and performances flow into Basker based on configured ticketing metadata.

Feature Ticketing

Stronger Theme Fallbacks And Series Event Images

Templates and theme settings now have stronger fallbacks, and series API responses can carry event relationship images.

Improvement General

Forms Add Spam Protection And Safer Submissions

Forms now support spam protection and safer public-site submission handling.

Improvement General

CMS Admin Navigation And Performance Improvements

Admin navigation moves toward a clearer tab structure, and the platform refreshes the foundation beneath relationship fields, previews, and connected-system surfaces.

Improvement General

AI Website Builder Shows More Realistic Previews

The AI website builder now shows stronger preview imagery, event scroller previews, and organisation-specific onboarding copy.

Feature General

AI Site Setup Learns More About Your Organisation

The AI website builder now gathers organisation information, font choices, logo handling, and ticketing-system selection to generate a more useful first site.

Feature General

Richer Data Lookups For Custom Theme Developers

Theme developers now get stronger lookup tools, including all_* lookups and improved relationship lookups.

Improvement API

Onboarding Flow And Search Visibility Begin Taking Shape

The onboarding flow now has richer layout components, file upload handling, skip controls, and early animated preview surfaces, while the Show in Search field begins moving into the publishing model.

Feature General

Theme Blocks Are Now Easier To Manage And Update

Theme manifests and block definitions now live in dedicated managed collections rather than scattered across theme configuration files.

Changed General

Tessitura Sync Configuration Is Now Easier To Read

Tessitura settings now display sync fields, event mappings, and app-level configuration more clearly.

Improvement Ticketing

Page Graphs, BlocksOffice Images, And Faster Theme Routes

Basker now exposes page graph data for parents, children, and siblings, BlocksOffice image lookup endpoints, and leaner event API responses.

Feature API

Spektrix Ticketing Journeys Work Inside Website Builder Pages

Spektrix sites can now use web-component and iframe-based blocks for account management, basket, donations, memberships, and booking directly inside Website Builder pages.

Feature Ticketing

Tessitura Themes Can Now Resolve BlocksOffice Images

Tessitura-powered themes can now use BlocksOffice image lookup endpoints to resolve image assets for ticketing-led pages.

Feature Ticketing

Smarter Image Cropping, Cache Clearing, And Calendar Archive Options

Media now supports focal point and cropping improvements, public sites get cache-tag invalidation, and event calendars gain a hide-past-events option.

Improvement General

Custom Theme Development Now Has A Local Dev Loop

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

Feature General

New Custom Attribute Options Appear On Existing Events

When new select or radio options are added to a custom attribute, those options now appear on existing event instances without requiring the instances to be recreated.

Improvement Events

Reusable Blocks Now Render Inside Custom Themes

Reusable blocks now render inside custom themes, bringing no-code content reuse and custom theme rendering closer together.

Feature General

Custom Theme Blocks And Reusable No-Code Blocks

Developers can now extend themes with custom blocks while editors reuse more content through Website Builder blocks.

Feature General

Elevent Booking And Calendar Improvements

Elevent event dates now handle timezones more reliably, booking blocks initialise more consistently, and calendar blocks can show Elevent ticket buttons.

Improvement Ticketing

People Blocks And Flexible Event Publishing

Website Builder now includes a people block with event participant support, and events can be published without a start date.

Feature Events

Custom Blocks Work With Collection Data And Plan Controls

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

Feature General

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

Archive Blocks And Works Relationships Improve

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

Improvement General

Custom Attributes Now Support File Uploads

Custom attributes now support file upload use cases, and validation fixes make it safer to remove or update older attributes.

Feature General

AI Dashboard With Chat History And Token Visibility

Basker now includes an AI dashboard with chat history navigation, token usage visibility, and a home for AI-assisted publishing features.

Feature General

The Website Builder Now Renders Through The Public Site Stack

No-code editing now renders through the public site stack, with reusable content block templates, nested document support, and targeted live preview.

Changed General

Theme Admin Tabs And Navigation Visibility Improvements

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

Improvement General

Collection Block Settings And Navigation Overlay Controls

Collection block settings are now easier to understand, with non-collection options reorganised for clarity. Navigation overlays also split desktop and mobile behaviours.

Improvement General

Form Blocks Come To The Website Builder

Website Builder now includes form block support, so editors can place forms into page flows without treating them as separate implementation work.

Feature General

Website Builder Calendars Add Ticketing-Aware Controls

Website Builder calendar blocks now support improved width handling, colour-scheme behaviour, sticky styles, and ticketing-aware buttons.

Feature Scheduling

Elevent Ticketing Joins The Website Builder

Basker now includes the Elevent app and Website Builder support for Elevent-aware blocks, placed directly alongside editorial sections.

Feature Ticketing

Lineup App Brings A New Ticketing Integration

Basker now includes a Lineup app for syncing events, tickets, availability, and booking links into Basker-managed event pages.

New Ticketing

Security Settings, Verification, And Cookie Controls

Basker now includes email verification, IP address tracking, security settings, and cookie-banner configuration in the admin.

Feature General

Membership And Donation Blocks Gain Attribute Filtering

Editors can now filter membership and donation blocks by audience, campaign, membership type, or programme context without building separate block variants.

Feature General

The Website Builder's CMS Foundation Accelerates

A rapid sequence of CMS foundation releases underpins the no-code builder's growing feature surface, covering builder package wiring, forms, email delivery, and richer theme settings.

Improvement General

Folders For Organising Admin Content

The admin now supports folders, letting teams group related records into structured groups rather than scrolling through flat lists.

Feature General

Password Protection For Website Builder Sites And Custom Themes

Website Builder sites and custom themes can now be password protected, giving teams a practical staging gate before a site goes public.

Feature General

No-Code Website Builder Is Now Ready For Teams

The Website Builder moves out of experimentation and into a product teams can rely on, with direct links from CMS themes, password protection, and a live colour scheme editor.

Feature General

Date Formatting And Password Gates Work Together Before Launch

Website Builder and custom-theme sites now have stronger date and time formatting controls alongside password protection, for private launches where dated content renders correctly from the start.

Improvement General

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 General

Block Spacing Controls And Locale-Aware Routing

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

Feature General

Membership And Donation Blocks Read Connected App Settings

Membership and donation blocks can now read connected app settings and filter available options for the site being edited.

Feature General

Calendar And Media Blocks Expand The Builder

Website Builder adds calendar improvements and a richer first round of media-block layouts, giving event-heavy sites more visual options for programme dates.

Feature General

Donation Blocks Join The Website Builder

Editors can now add donation blocks directly to no-code pages, placing fundraising calls to action alongside campaigns and event pages.

Feature General

Booking Buttons And Connected Blocks Work Inside Builder Pages

Booking buttons and event lists now work inside Website Builder pages with full connected-app state.

Feature Ticketing

Tessitura App Updated For The New Editor Foundation

The Tessitura app now works reliably on the newer editor foundation, keeping connection settings, event fields, and sync controls accessible.

Improvement Ticketing

Website Builder Launches As A Product Surface

The Website Builder arrives as a distinct product surface, establishing the path from CMS-managed content to no-code page assembly.

New General

Columns, Banners, And Form Blocks Fill Out The Builder

Website Builder now adds columns, banners, forms, and additional block variants for richer page compositions.

Feature General

Venue Data Included In 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

Availability Counts In Event Instance Feeds

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

Feature Events

Smarter Theme Routing For Multi-Site Teams

Dynamic theme routing, a CMS tenant registry, and theme CDN refactors give multi-site teams more reliable routing between tenants and themes.

Feature General

Spektrix Sync Updated For The Modern Platform

Spektrix gets a modern app release for syncing events, instances, attributes, booking links, and ticketing metadata into Basker.

Improvement Ticketing

Basker AI And GitHub Workflows Are Now Available

Basker now includes early AI and GitHub workflow support, pointing toward making the platform easier to operate and support with connected tooling.

New General

Mode-Of-Sale Filtering For Tessitura Instances

Tessitura instance sync now supports mode-of-sale filtering and hidden instance mapping.

Improvement Ticketing

Events API, Stripe, And Tessitura Rebuilds

The v3.8 and v3.9 lines rebuild Tessitura sync, add Events API capabilities, and bring Stripe into the platform.

Feature Events

Theme Preview, CDN, And Production Safety

Theme preview URLs, production CDN improvements, cache invalidation, and theme upload folder safety are now available, moving theme work into production operations.

Improvement General

Writers Theatre Goes Live On Basker

Writers Theatre is now live on Basker, the first production customer launch on the platform.

Feature General

Timezone-Aware Event Instances

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

Feature Events

Sitemaps, Robots, And Custom Error Templates For Public Sites

Custom themes now get generated sitemap.xml, robots.txt, favicon routes, and custom error templates.

Feature General

TNEW Layout Jobs And Custom Domain Launch Paths

Basker can now generate TNEW layout jobs and manage more custom-domain launch paths, giving ticketing projects a clearer route from configured event data to a live site.

Feature Ticketing

Theme Fields Add Constraints And Fallback Images

Theme fields now support number and text constraints, select options load more reliably, and fallback images work when content is incomplete.

Improvement General

Theme Editor Gains Render Fields And Schema-Aware Blocks

The theme editor now includes render fields and updated block schemas, giving Basker a clearer picture of what a theme can render and how editors should fill in content.

Feature General

Theme Updates And Site-Wide Globals

Custom themes can now use stronger theme-update flows, site globals, and cache controls for development and launch testing.

Feature General

Tessitura Performance Sync Expands

Tessitura sync now supports richer performance and multi-performance data, so event instances can carry more schedule, availability, and booking context.

Improvement Ticketing

Rich Text And Block Foundations For Theme-Driven Content

The rich text and block system gets a rebuild, adding theme asset proxy work, colour select controls, and migrations for the modern editor foundation.

Feature General

Custom Theme Blocks And Relationship Fields Switch On

Custom theme blocks and relationship-backed fields can now be enabled together, allowing themes to include media blocks, arrays, custom attributes, and structured rich text.

Feature General

Tessitura Data Reaches Event Instance Endpoints

Tessitura data now reaches event instance endpoints, so public themes can work with ticketing-aware instance data rather than treating Tessitura values as admin-only metadata.

Feature Ticketing

Theme Asset Proxy Brings Preview Closer To Production

Theme assets now flow through a stronger proxy path, and live preview handles the theme router changes needed for production-style previews.

Improvement General

Modern Admin Foundation Reaches The Main Development Line

The modern CMS foundation reaches the main development line, bringing better global search, connection selection, settings filtering, and more reliable media and search APIs.

Improvement General

Security Headers And Event Routes Harden Public Sites

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

Improvement General

Global Search And Dedicated Event Search Endpoints

Basker adds global command search and dedicated search endpoint work, giving editors faster navigation around the admin and giving public search routes a stronger base for discovery.

Feature General

TNEW Purchase-Flow Templates Generate From Basker

Tessitura-powered projects can now generate TNEW template output from Basker-managed pages and settings, giving ticketing-led sites a clearer path from CMS content to purchase flows.

Feature Ticketing

TNEW Template Jobs Start From Basker Settings

TNEW template jobs can now start from Basker-managed settings and theme configuration, so teams can generate purchase-flow layouts while keeping site content and settings in one place.

Feature Ticketing

Tixly Ticketing Integration

Basker now includes a Tixly app for connecting Tixly credentials and exposing Tixly as a ticketing option in event and Website Builder workflows.

New Ticketing

Tessitura Settings Get 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 tenants.

Improvement Ticketing

Basker 3.0: Multi-Tenancy, Settings, And Site Tree

Basker 3.0 collects the early product foundations into a coherent release: multi-tenancy, settings, custom routes, site configuration, and a maturing admin shell.

Feature General

Public Themes Read Connected App Settings And TNEW Values

Public themes can now read connected app settings and TNEW values, making ticketing configuration available to the visitor-facing theme layer.

Feature General

Custom Themes Can Now Be Tested In A Production-Like Environment

The custom-theme runtime can now be deployed for production-style testing, with tenant registry work, CDN routing, and serverless rendering support.

Feature General

Theme Blocks And Rich Text Work Across Grouped Content

Theme blocks and rich text now work across more grouped content types, with relationships, arrays, media values, and HTML conversion handled more consistently.

Feature General

Forms, Preview, And Rich Text Are Now In The CMS

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

Improvement General

Tessitura Sync Alpha

Basker's Tessitura sync path enters alpha, with the first working route for ticketing-led event data connecting performance records, event content, and public site rendering.

Feature Ticketing

Theme Manifests Generate 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 General

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 General

Public Site Runtime Becomes A Dedicated Product Surface

Basker now has a dedicated public-site runtime for custom themes, separating visitor-facing site behaviour from admin-only editing work.

Feature General

Modern CMS Foundations Enter The Product

Basker begins migrating onto its modern CMS foundation, rebuilding custom render fields, refreshing the site tree, and improving account and login screens.

Changed General

Basker Launches For Arts And Live-Event Websites

Basker is now available as a CMS and website platform for arts, culture, venue, and live-event teams.

New General

Spektrix App Launches With Basker

The first Basker release ships with Spektrix support, giving arts organisations their first connected ticketing integration from day one.

New Ticketing

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