Beta: Monday 12 October, 2026 Full Client Release: Mon 19 & Tue 20 October, 2026
🎉 What’s new in Release v237?
The new queue takes a national onsale in its stride, the CMS gets easier to navigate, and two new ticketing partners join us. This is also our last release before the new release rhythm begins.
🚦 The new queue takes your biggest onsales in its stride
The new queue passed its first major test during a recent national onsale in the Netherlands. Fourteen CultureSuite venues went on sale at the same time, and the queue handled thousands of visitors per minute while every website stayed online and performed as normal.
What changed?
- Faster overall performance.
- More reliable delivery of queue messages to waiting visitors.
- See historical queue activity.
How do I use it?
- We are halfway through rolling out the new queue. If you don't have it yet, it will be activated for you very soon. Thank you for your patience.
- Already using the new queue? We'd love to hear your first impressions. Share them with our Customer Success team.
🗂️ Find what you need faster in the CMS
What changed?
A major update to the CMS templates makes tables and overviews easier to read, filter and navigate.
Tables and overviews
- Tables are cleaner, show more information and have better-aligned columns.
- Every table now has quick filter options.
- Status labels show the state of an item at a glance, such as "active" or "inactive" in Scheduled messages.
- Counters show how many items are connected, where this is useful.
- Links to connected items take you straight to their edit form. For example, from the Events overview you can jump directly to a specific hall or status.
Forms, help texts and uploads
- Clearer help texts in the Privileges and SMS verification modules.
- When you change the group of an event, the help text updates straight away to show that group's visibility and on-sale dates.
- Forms and detail pages now have a maximum width, making them easier to work with on larger screens.
- Clearer information about file sizes and upload limits in media galleries.
New Redirect module (Beta)
- A new version of the Redirect module is available in Beta.
How do I use it?
- No action needed. The table, form and help text improvements are live across all new CMS modules.
- To try the new Redirect module, open the Beta version as shown below.
🔍 Show upcoming events first in your website search
What changed?
- A new setting lets you sort productions in your website search results by event date, so visitors see your upcoming shows first.
- Relevance sorting stays as the default. It's the heart of the CultureSuite Search engine, matching visitors with the most relevant results first.
How do I use it?
- Go to Configuration > Control Panel > Events & Production > Switch on "Sort productions by event date".
🎫 Welcome Tickster and Paylogic to the CultureSuite community
Two more ticketing systems now connect seamlessly to CultureSuite.
Tickster
What changed?
- Seamless connection to Tickster.
- A brand new event updater, built specifically for Tickster-powered venues.
- Tickster venues can now benefit from CultureSuite's powerful website and content management capabilities.
How do I use it?
- No action needed. The integration is set up during implementation. Contact our Customer Success team if you have any questions.
Paylogic by Eventim
What changed?
- Seamless connection to Paylogic.
- A brand new event updater, built specifically for Paylogic-powered venues.
- Paylogic venues can now benefit from CultureSuite's powerful website and content management capabilities.
How do I use it?
- No action needed. The integration is set up during implementation. Contact our Customer Success team if you have any questions.
For Stager venues
📰Grow your mailing list with a Stager sign-up form
What changed?
- A new Stager newsletter sign-up page part is now available.
How do I use it?
- Create a new API connection in Configurations > API connections, setting the Type to Optin.
- Add fields for URL and token
- Open the page where you want the sign-up form to appear.
- Add the Stager opt-in form part from the parts library.
⚙️ Additional fixes & Improvements
A handful of improvements that tidy things up and makes working with your website easier..
Payments
- Extra safeguards to prevent double payments in rare situations.
- Our connection with Mollie has been upgraded to the latest version of their API (version 3).
Website
- Cinema Planner: smoother scrolling in the day filter, and an improved layout that fits film posters of different sizes.
- SVG files are now supported as favicons (the small icon shown in browser tabs).
For Tixly venues
- Fixed an issue with how the Servicemail opt-in is set when a visitor creates an account.
For Itix venues
- Podiumpas and Cineville membership card numbers are now correctly sent to Itix during the purchase process.
📅 A reminder: our new release rhythm starts after this release
Release 237 is our last release on the current three-weekly cycle. From here, we're introducing a clearer two-tier release structure.
What changed?
- Preview releases: new features and updates every three weeks, available first to a group of Preview users.
- Core releases: released every quarter. This is where everything from the preceding Preview releases reaches every venue in the CultureSuite community.
- Releases 238, 239 and 240 will be Preview releases. Release 241 will be the first Core release, arriving in January 2027.
- Development continues every three weeks, exactly as it does now. What's changing is how new work is packaged and communicated to you.
What does this mean for me?
- No action needed. Every new feature reaches your website in the next Core release, bundled together with clear communication about what's new.
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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