Beta: Monday 31 August, 2026 Full Client Release: Mon 7 & Tue 8 September, 2026
🎉 What’s new in Release v235?
This release brings more clarity for your visitors at the point of purchase, a tidier CMS, and a more reliable connection for our UiTdatabank clients.
🎟️ Give your visitors full transparency over booking fees
What changed?
- A cost explainer can now be shown above the list of events on any production detail page.
- It sets out clearly how the ticket price is put together, so visitors know what they're paying for before they get to checkout.
How do I use it?
- Go to Configuration > Control panel > Events & Productions > Display cost explainer first.
🔍 Hidden content stays hidden in search results
What changed?
- Search indexes have been updated so that text inside hidden page parts, including those hidden via Advanced Visibility, is no longer searchable.
How do I use it?
- No action needed. This runs automatically on your website's search.
♿ A smoother experience for keyboard and screen reader users
What changed?
- Image lightbox navigation is now fully accessible.
- The price shown on hover is now picked up correctly by screen readers.
How do I use it?
- No action needed. These improvements are already live on your website.
⚙️ The CMS continues to be tidied up for better UX
What changed?
- A new Configuration menu group brings together the CMS modules you're most likely to need, previously mixed in among many others in the System group.
- System is now mainly used by CultureSuite itself.
- A major upgrade to the underlying CMS framework (EasyAdmin 5) brings clean URLs to every CMS page. Easier to share, and nicer to look at.
- A new Events module with a prices table is now available in Beta.
- Genres are now clearly labelled as "genre" or "tag" in drop-down menus, and shown as "hidden" where relevant.
How do I use it?
- No action needed for the new menu group, clean URLs, or genre labelling. Find the new Events module (Beta) in your CMS menu if you'd like to try it.
🔗 A more reliable connection to UiTdatabank
What changed?
- The UiTdatabank event sync connection has been modernised, with a new authentication method required by publiq.
- A new export protocol and CMS module bring improved reliability for keeping your events in sync.
How do I use it?
- Your Customer Success team will configure this for you. The new CMS module will show once it's activated, and you can continue using the old module in the meantime.
⚙️ Additional fixes & Improvements
CMS improvements
- Themes dropdown no longer shows Courses as they can not be displayed on Theme pages
- Fixed the "view" button for theme groups.
- Fixed searching for people in the CMS.
- Added search fields for autocomplete in the Cluster and Role Controllers.
- A warning now appears when your CMS session is about to expire.
Cookie fixes
- Fixed the cookie reset button so it displays the time in your local timezone.
- Fixed the cookie banner not displaying inline correctly on embed parts.
For Ticketmatic venues
- Ticketmatic: "My vouchers" overview now shows expiration dates.
System & Other fixes
- Fixed the logo/icon for Threads.
- Added /feeds/ to the Queue allow list, so it's no longer blocked when the queue is active (thank you to Co-op Live for flagging this!).
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 immediately.
CultureSuite is a digital platform built exclusively for arts and culture venues. For over 25 years, we've helped these venues take control of their digital presence without the cost and disruption of constant rebuilds. Learn more about the CultureSuite Public Roadmap.
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