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Have you ever been frustrated by getting custom icons into the Umbraco backoffice UI? Søren saves you all the trouble with his new Icoover package - letting you upload SVG files into a folder and load them right into the back office, and his blog post gives you a couple quick do's and don't's for your setup!

Ever wondered what an Umbraco hackathon is like and what kind of difference it actually makes? Lotte takes us through her adventures with the Umbraco Spark Hackathon, what people got up to, why they're important (and fun!) and what a difference they can make in open source projects.

Last year, Harry wrote about how extending Umbraco page models can seem like a simple way to create ViewModels, but there can be unexpected consequences such as exposing member data! His update gives you a very handy snippet so you can detect if there's bad code sniff in your models.

With v8 now at end of life, how difficult is the upgrade to v13? Of course it varies from site to site, but Corne recently used Umbraco Deploy to handle the content migration and it was much easier than he expected! Check out his article for both the challenges he ran into and quick tips to streamline your upgrades!

UmbNav's newest beta is now out for v15! The updates to this awesome package are directly thanks to community contribution from Matt Wise and Niels Lyngsø, adding the requested MaxDepth configuration option and Max Level parameter to the IsActive extension. Go update if you haven't yet!