Core Releases

We are pleased to announce the availability of concrete5 8 snapshot. Community members are asked to download and install the package in order to provide quality assurance for the upcoming stable release.Do not upgrade any of your production sites to the snapshot. Snapshots are ONLY intended for testing and there is no upgrade path.

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Concrete5 7.5.8 is now available. This is a maintenance release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites.


Concrete5 7.5.7 is now available. This is a maintenance release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites.


concrete5 7.5.6 is here. This is a maintenance release addressing issues with Friday's 7.5.5 release. This release fixes a few bugs related to the inability to register new public accounts and issues with deleting a file set.


5.7.5.1 fixes a number of important bugs in 5.7.5, especially for those users running PHP 5.3.8 and earlier, or running MySQL in strict mode. It is a maintenance release and is recommended for all users of concrete5.7.

Full 5.7.5.1 Release Notes

If you haven't upgraded to concrete5 5.7.5 yet now is a perfect opportunity to do so. See what's new in 5.7.5.

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Concrete5 5.7.5 is here, bringing with a long list of improvements!

  • A completely new mobile device preview, with the ability to preview a page in different devices, including support for device rotation and user agents.
  • Lots of grid improvements, including customizable layout presets at the theme level, defined in your theme's class file.
  • Design controls for layouts themselves, including custom templates and layout classes (including a parallax image custom template.)
  • The ability to hide content at different responsive screen sizes at a block or area level (found within the design controls)
  • Grid container improvements
  • Multilingual support for stacks and global areas
  • Much, much more.

This is our biggest release in awhile, and we're really proud of it.


5.7.5 isn't quite production ready but we'd love your help in testing it. Download the release candiate today and send us the bugs that you find!

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Full list of what's changed in 5.7.5

5.7.5 is going to be a big release. It features

  • A completely new mobile device preview, with the ability to preview a page in different devices, including support for device rotation and user agents.
  • Lots of grid improvements, including customizable layout presets at the theme level, defined in your theme's class file.
  • Design controls for layouts themselves, including custom templates and layout classes (including a parallax image custom template.)
  • The ability to hide content at different responsive screen sizes at a block or area level (found within the design controls)
  • Grid container improvements
  • Multilingual support for stacks and global areas
  • Much, much more.

5.7.4.2 fixes a number of important bugs in 5.7.4, including infinite redirects on certain servers, an inability to use the trailing slash setting, asset caching bugs and more. It also includes a number of edit mode improvements and improvements to the update system, and is recommended for anyone running 5.7.

Full 5.7.4.2 Release Notes

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5.7.4.1 fixes a number of important bugs in 5.7.4, including broken dialogs on Windows servers and an inability to edit your site while asset caching is enabled. It is highly recommended for all users of 5.7.

Full 5.7.4.1 Release Notes

Want to get up to speed? Check out all the things that are new with concrete5 version 5.7.4:

5.7.4 Release Notes

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Our first big release of 2015, 5.7.4 is our biggest since launching 5.7 last year. 5.7.4 includes

  • A new help system, with guided walkthroughs, multiple videos and more.
  • Much improved conversation block support, including better support for non-logged-in users, notifications on new messages, new message moderation, better conversation display in the Dashboard including contextual menu for acting on messages, Gravatar support.
  • Our rich text editor, Redactor, is updated to version 10. We now include an undo/redo plugin, special characters palette plugin and better lightbox support.
  • Better and safer dashboard updating
  • Improvements to mobile editing
  • 5.6 features return: File manager success dialog window dialog (much improved interface); Add block for page area menu
  • 20+ other improvements
  • 100s of bug fixes and developer updates