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Sep 24, 2026

Personalisation in CMS 13 when you go headless: variations in the CMS, decisions in Experimentation

Back in February I wrote about personalisation in CMS 13 using Audiences . Everything in that post still holds, with one condition I should have made louder: it only works when the CMS renders the page. The moment your front end is a separate application reading content from Optimizely Graph, Audiences stop doing anything. This post covers why...

Minesh Shah (Netcel)

Sep 24, 2026 - Syndicated blog

Optimizely Forms: 4.7.0 Too many concurrent connections

Optimizely Forms are eating your emails! How to make it stop!

Tomas Hensrud Gulla

Sep 23, 2026 - Syndicated blog

Optimizely CMS 13.2: Cannot find an authentication provider for 'ActiveDirectoryManagedIdentity'

CMS 13.2 upgraded SqlClient to 7, and Managed Identity stopped working in Azure until I added one NuGet package.

Tomas Hensrud Gulla

Sep 19, 2026

Composition Over Inheritance: Why Your Content Contract Is Not a Base Class

Inside the structural conformance pattern in SaaS CMS — from server-side inheritance to pipeline governance. A contract in Optimizely SaaS CMS is rarely what developers expect on day one. Create a contract called Categorizable with Category and Tags properties, apply it to a content type, and open that type's property configuration. In...

Vipin Banka

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Local Dev Meetups

We've been getting back together again since the beginning of this year and we're still meeting up.

We've got more locations coming up.
Check out our Local Dev Meetups page for more info.

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Opt-Up: Optimizely Training & Certification Program

Are you a developer currently certified in a CMS other than in Optimizely? We want you to be part of our ever-expanding developer community by supporting you with our Content Cloud training and certification program.

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You're Invited to Optimizely's Happy Hour Costume Contest

Join us on October 28th for the Happy Hour Halloween Costume Contest!

NA Happy Hour @ 3:30pm EST

EMEA Happy Hour Canceled

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.NET 5/6

Optimizely CMS Version 12 and Commerce Version 14 now released! Find out more about our latest version of CMS and Commerce - our move to .NET 5/6

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Release Notes

Release Notes

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Optimizely - update 510

^{Posted on May 14, 2024}

Bug fixes for Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) and Optimizely Connect for Marketing Automation.

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Optimizely - update 509

^{Posted on May 07, 2024}

New release for Optimizely Customized Commerce. Bug fixes for Optimizely Content Management System (CMS).

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Optimizely - update 508

^{Posted on Apr 30, 2024}

Bug fixes for Optimizely Content Management System (CMS).

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Optimizely - update 507

^{Posted on Apr 23, 2024}

New release for Optimizely Forms.

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Optimizely - update 506

^{Posted on Apr 16, 2024}

New releases for Optimizely Commerce, Optimizely Content Delivery API, and Optimizely Graph.

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Optimizely - update 505

^{Posted on Apr 09, 2024}

New release for Optimizely Language Manager and bug fixes for Optimizely Forms.

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Want to find out more on what we've been doing for each release?

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Documentation

We've moved! Please visit https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/ for your latest documentation needs.

Optimizely Most Valuable Professionals

Optimizely Most Valuable Professionals (OMVP)

The OMVP program is our way of featuring and saying 'thank you' to our most active community members.

They lead the way in our community by providing copious amounts of help, inspiration and knowledge in a manner that is open, courteous, and professional.

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Latest Forum Posts

Thread	Room	Replies	Last Update
Looking for razor/styling guidelines for custom backoffice addons	Developer to developer	4	9/23/2026 2:28:31 PM By: Johan Kronberg
Alloy template db version seems wrong	Problems and bugs	0	9/22/2026 4:17:20 PM By: Erik Henningson
Database deadlock exception	Content Management System 12	2	9/21/2026 1:01:52 PM By: Kristoffer Lindén
Content Graph: Can orderBy on nested Variants.Price.Amount be scoped to the filtered Variants?	Problems and bugs	0	9/11/2026 1:42:34 PM By: Sunil
Content Graph: Can orderBy on nested Variants.Price.Amount be scoped to the filtered Variants?	Problems and bugs	1	9/11/2026 1:42:33 PM By: Sunil