Beta: Monday 2 February, 2026 Full Client Release: Mon 9 & Tue 10 February, 2026
🎉 What’s new in Release 225?
Our latest release restores full CMS editing, introduces BI analytics tools, improves accessibility across the platform, and welcomes Ticketsolve as our newest ticketing partner.
🆕 New CMS features now available
What changed?
- The temporary editing block on older pages has been lifted.
- Create, edit, and duplicate any page in the new CMS without restrictions.
- Restores full functionality to recently released features like the new page part parameters editor from Release 222.
- Build content faster using all the intuitive controls we've been adding throughout the year.
How do I use it?
- Look for the Beta tag in your CMS menu to access the new Pages module.
We're monitoring closely to ensure everything runs smoothly, so if you notice anything unusual, please let us know.
🎠 Homepage carousel that everyone can navigate
What changed?
- Your Homepage showcase carousel now matches the accessibility standards we rolled out for other carousels.
- Better navigation controls that work seamlessly with keyboard-only users and screen readers.
- Carousel autoplay respects user preferences for reduced animation.
- Improved readability with dark gradients behind text on videos.
- Video autoplay now only works in single showcases (mixing video autoplay with slideshow animation creates a confusing visitor experience).
How do I use it?
- No action needed – these improvements work automatically for all visitors.
📅 Tell visitors when there are multiple showtimes
What changed?
- New Template text appears when a production has multiple events on the same day.
- Reduces visitor confusion when not all start times are shown due to space constraints.
- Works on list layouts with date on top of the title, and on all mobile and grid cards.
How do I use it?
- Find the new text field called "FE3_dateFormat_multipleTimes" in your Template Texts module. Customise the message to match your voice. Something like "Multiple times available" or "Various start times."
📊 RESTful API Part 2: Your data, your BI tools
What changed?
- New RESTful API endpoints for anonymised analytics data.
- Access visitor information, ticket sales, and enriched statistical sector data (Belgium only).
- Example use cases:
- Spot which postcodes buy the most tickets and target your marketing accordingly.
- See which age groups prefer matinees versus evening shows.
- Compare your sales patterns against sector benchmarks.
- This is the second phase of our new API. Part 1 covered events and productions. Part 2 unlocks audience intelligence.
How do I use it?
- Connect your preferred business intelligence tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio, etc.) to these new endpoints. Find the API documentation in your API Access Key module.
🧭 Wayfinding that scales beautifully
What changed?
- All wayfinding content now scales intelligently based on screen aspect ratio.
- Fonts and icons adjust proportionally for landscape or portrait displays.
- Your digital signage looks professional and readable on any display format without manual adjustments.
- Perfect for venues using different screen orientations throughout their building.
How do I use it?
- For best results, use a resolution of 1920 × 1080 (landscape) or 1080 × 1920 (portrait). The system will automatically optimise how your content appears on each screen.
⚙️ Yet another round of accessibility wins
We've made significant accessibility improvements across the platform:
Main menu navigation: Following WCAG guidelines, we've improved markup for all menu items with consistent use of the aria-hidden attribute. This means better keyboard navigation through your main menu, search, account menu, language toggle, and other controls. Try tabbing through your menus to try it out for yourself.
Homepage carousel accessibility: New accessible navigation options show visitors how many items they're browsing, with clearer positioning that works seamlessly with screen readers. Carousel autoplay respects "reduce animation" preferences in user system settings.
Improved iframe handling: We've restored the default parameters in iframe parts, ensuring embedded content maintains proper accessibility attributes.
🎫 Welcome Ticketsolve to the CultureSuie community
What changed?
- Seamless connection to Ticketsolve.
- Brand new event updater specifically for Ticketsolve-powered venues.
- Ticketsolve venues can now benefit from CultureSuite’s powerful website and content management capabilities.
How do I use it?
- No action needed - Integration will be set during implementation, contact our Customer Success team if you have any questions.
For Tixly Venues:
🔐 SSO 2.0: Smarter, more reliable login
What changed?
- Tixly's single sign-on completely rebuilt with improved synchronisation.
- Visitors get a smoother, more reliable experience managing their account across your website and Tixly.
- New presale time slot feature gives you more flexibility in releasing tickets to different audience segments.
What's new:
- Patrons can now access a personalised account area within your website.
- Reliable synchronisation of login status between your website and Tixly.
- Logout option directly in the website account.
- Temporary landing page when returning from Tixly login (prevents unnecessary page reloads).
- Wishlist support in the new account section lets patrons save events and receive notifications when tickets go on sale.
- Newsletter opt-in management allows patrons to manage preferences for multiple newsletters, synced back to Tixly.
- Personal pages menu in account section.
- Time slot-based presale planning.
- Opt-in management.
- "My Agenda" overview of purchased events.
How do I use it?
- Your visitors will automatically benefit from these improvements – no action needed on your part.
- To active the Wish list go to Control panel > Wish list
⚙️ Additional fixes & Improvements
We've made numerous behind-the-scenes improvements to keep Peppered running smoothly:
Performance & Security:
- Fixed occasional blank spaces in image grids.
- Improved webhook payment handling.
- Optimised padding on 2-column production parts in mailings.
- More robust update and cache clearing for TNEW styling – guarantees updates publish instantaneously.
- Cookies now flagged as http-only to prevent JavaScript access (thanks to Parktheater Eindhoven for sharing your security scan results).
CMS Experience:
- Date range presets in date picker now use correct ranges in all languages ("today," "this week," etc.).
- Edit buttons from the Special Access menu now open in the new CMS modules when available (Pages, Productions, Themes).
- Direct links from CMS to ticketing systems work correctly (Ovatic fix).
- Course type genres now indicated in new CMS.
- Related productions parts hidden on Homepage (it's not meant for homepage use).
Technical Fixes:
- Fixed missing parts in stories feed.
- Added support for slideshow variant in Theme page parts.
- Fixed IBAN number validation in cancellation form (Itix).
- Improved password reset flow after changing passwords.
- Fixed layout of ticket-sharing acceptance page.
- Deleted visitors who had accepted shared tickets can now be fully removed.
- Fixed margin issue affecting other parts when using announcement bar on top of menu.
Farewell to the old mailing list import
The original mailing list import module is retiring after 20 years of service. It has been replaced by the new CMS Mailing List Import module with significant performance improvements, faster processing speeds, and better error handling. We're simply removing the old version now that the superior replacement is well established.
Have questions about any of these updates? Contact your Customer Success team or visit our Knowledge Base for detailed how-to guides.
Spot something unexpected? We're monitoring the restored CMS editing closely. If you notice anything unusual, please let us know.
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