Issue No 126
Admin Only property using Granular Permissions in Umbraco 17
by Bernadet Goey
How do we protect critical backoffice properties, making them admin-only, using Umbraco 17’s granular permissions system? Bernadet explains how to do it with the shift from visibility-based rules to exclusion-based permissions, plus a reusable approach you can package for multiple sites.
PostgreSQL Support for Umbraco
by Dirk Seefeld
Adding PostgreSQL support to Umbraco turned out to be less about databases and more about consistency. Dirk explains how replacing raw SQL with typed NPoco queries, extending DTOs, and tightening the persistence layer made true multi-database support achievable.
Issue 125 :: March 2026
Issue 124 :: February 2026
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