Headless CMS News
Recent announcements, product launches, and funding news from across the headless CMS industry.
Agility CMS has been recognized as a Leader in the headless CMS category on G2 for the Spring 2026 Grid Reports, earning 38 badges across overall, mid-market, enterprise, and regional grids. The platform also received High Performer, Momentum Leader, and Easiest to Use designations, with reviewers citing page management flexibility and strong developer experience as standout strengths.
Contentful announced the general availability of its AI Content Actions feature, enabling marketing and editorial teams to automate taxonomy tagging, content summarization, and translation workflows directly within the platform. The update targets large enterprise accounts managing content across multiple regions and languages.
Vienna-based headless CMS Storyblok announced it has surpassed 3 million registered developers on its platform and closed an extension to its Series C funding round to accelerate expansion into North America and the Asia-Pacific market.
Sanity.io unveiled a new suite of e-commerce templates and integrations designed for retail brands, including native connectors to Shopify, Medusa, and commercetools. The release includes pre-built product detail page schemas and real-time inventory content sync.
The Payload CMS team released version 3.1 of its open-source TypeScript-native CMS, featuring full compatibility with Next.js 15 App Router, an improved live preview system, and a redesigned admin UI built on React Server Components. The release marks a major milestone for the project, which now claims over 25,000 GitHub stars.
Agility CMS announced a deeper technology partnership with Vercel, enabling joint customers to trigger on-demand incremental static regeneration directly from the Agility content editor. The integration eliminates full-site rebuilds for content-only changes and is available to all Agility CMS Pro and Enterprise accounts.
Hygraph launched enhanced GraphQL Federation capabilities, allowing developers to merge content from Hygraph with external schemas from other services into a single federated graph. The feature is aimed at enterprise engineering teams managing complex microservices architectures alongside their content layer.
Strapi announced the general availability of Strapi 5, a major rewrite of its open-source headless CMS. Key changes include a new document-based data layer, a fully typed plugin API, and a rebuilt admin panel with improved role and permission management. Strapi 5 also introduces a managed cloud tier with built-in preview environments.
Kontent.ai, the AI-powered content platform from Kentico, announced a new Content Governance Dashboard designed for compliance-heavy industries including financial services, healthcare, and legal. The feature provides audit trails, approval workflow enforcement, and content expiration policies at scale.
Open-source data platform Directus shipped version 11 with native WebSocket subscriptions, allowing frontend applications to receive live content updates without polling the REST or GraphQL API. The release also includes a new Flows automation engine with visual branching logic.
Prismic launched Slice Machine 2.0, a redesigned local development tool for building and managing reusable page sections. The new version includes a drag-and-drop visual component builder, automatic TypeScript type generation, and tighter integrations with Next.js and Nuxt. Prismic also announced a free tier for agencies managing up to five client projects.
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