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Jahia from the Field #1 — Product Updates & What’s Next

Clement Egger

This article is written by the Jahia Product team for platform users. We plan to publish regular editions throughout the  year, depending on product news and your feedback. This first edition is more extensive than future ones: it covers all developments from the second half of 2025.

This semester brought major improvements across the platform: editing experience, modernization of the technical stack, performance, security, and cloud capabilities. Some of these changes complete initiatives launched over several previous versions (Page Builder, native JavaScript support, Elasticsearch 9), while others strengthen operational reliability and improve the consistency of everyday interfaces.

This article provides a structured overview of the main new features and improvements introduced during the period, as well as work currently in progress. Its goal is to give you a clear view of product directions and the concrete improvements delivered to Jahia.
 

Page Builder, Content Management & Asset Management


Page Builder

Our new WYSIWYG page editing interface, Page Builder, introduced with Jahia 8, has now reached its final version.

Functionally, it covers 100% of the scope previously handled by Page Composer. However, the ergonomics have evolved to provide a smoother, safer, and clearer editing experience, with less crowded pages.

Editors accustomed to the previous interface may need a short adaptation period, but the transition remains natural, as the two tools share many core concepts.
 

CKEditor 5

We have also integrated CKEditor 5  into Jahia. This modernized version offers improved usability, produces natively accessible HTML, and can optionally integrate with generative AI tools to assist content creation.

We provide four default configurations (toolbars) corresponding to different editing roles, with the ability to add additional configurations as needed. CKEditor 4 and CKEditor 5 can coexist within the same multisite platform, although only one version can be active per site.

The use of AI through CKEditor 5 (assisted writing, rewriting, instant translation) remains fully optional and under your control. Our approach is to make these capabilities available without imposing their activation.


Enhanced CMS Experience

Many other improvements have been made to CMS interfaces and editing forms, including:


A dedicated effort was also made at the end of 2025 to improve media management (available in jContent 3.5):

 

Platform & Developer Experience


Building Jahia Sites with JavaScript

A major development for our ecosystem: it is now possible to develop Jahia sites entirely in JavaScript, both server-side and client-side.

Native support for React TSX (TypeScript) allows developers to build sites without requiring Java knowledge.

JavaScript components can seamlessly coexist with Java/JSP components within the same page or template, enabling progressive modernization of existing projects. JavaScript modules significantly simplify onboarding and expand the pool of developers able to work with Jahia. Detailed documentation is available on Jahia Academy.

It is also worth noting that GraalVM is no longer required: JavaScript modules are fully compatible with OpenJDK.


New Template Set

Native React support in Jahia also simplifies the integration of design systems. Our new demonstration package, Luxe (available on GitHub), illustrates this approach.

Luxe templates gradually replaces Digitall as the reference templating project. It implements many best practices, promotes the use of out-of-context content (stored in folders), and encourages simple templates built with stacked sections, avoiding unnecessarily complex structures and deeply nested components.
 

Improved Reliability & Operations

We have also improved the stability of imports and exports, with numerous fixes to this essential feature used by many of our customers.

A new version of the authentication valve accompanies Jahia 8.2.3.

Several monitoring probes have also been added or extended. The Server Availability Manager (SAM) includes numerous probes to monitor critical services with different severity levels.

SAM is currently used across more than 200 Jahia Cloud environments, and we strongly recommend that on-premise customers also use it to monitor their environments.

 

jExperience
 

Improved Integration with Page Builder

Integration with Page Builder has been improved.  jExperience elements are now identifiable through a dedicated color code (purple).

The default variant of personalized content or an A/B test is now visible directly within Page Builder without opening the personalization window.


Dashboard Redesign

All dashboards have been redesigned.

New dashboards have been added, including: A/B testing dashboards , personalization dashboards, login event dashboards.

New filtering options are also available.

You can still create your own dashboards to extend the product according to your needs.
 

Security
 

New Security Section on Jahia Academy

We have created a new security section on Jahia Academy.

This section details our internal processes for vulnerability detection and analysis. A dedicated CVE analysis page allows you to consult the results of our investigations whenever a CVE is detected in Jahia or one of its dependencies.

Another section lists CVE vulnerabilities that do not affect Jahia but have received significant media attention. This page is designed as a reference resource for customers seeking clarification about a vulnerability reported by security teams, scanning tools, or the media.

We also publish SBOMs (Software Bills of Materials) in this section, listing the components and dependencies used by Jahia and its modules, as well as VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) files containing the results of our analyses. 
These files follow industry standards and are provided in JSON format, allowing them to be integrated into your existing security tools.
 

Search
 

Augmented Search 4.0 Based on Elasticsearch 9

Augmented Search 4.0, released in November 2025, now relies on Elasticsearch 9. This evolution required several months of work and was necessary following the announcement that Elastic 7 instances on Elastic Cloud will reach their end of life in early 2026.

Elasticsearch 9 consumes less memory and includes several performance optimizations, as well as fixes for various bugs. A version 4.1 with additional fixes is planned soon.

LLM Integration Under Evaluation

Elasticsearch 9 introduces an integration layer with several LLMs, making it “easier” to build conversational agents. We are currently evaluating these possibilities, although the additional costs involved (Elastic licensing and server sizing) require careful consideration.

 

Jahia Cloud
 

CloudImage Integration

We have integrated CloudImage from Scaleflex. This service allows the reduction of image size delivered to visitors, without any changes to page source code and without modifying the original images.

Depending on the format and size of the original images, the reduction can reach up to 75%. Images are automatically distributed via a CDN, significantly improving user experience and SEO performance.

This feature involves additional costs. If you are interested, whether you are a Cloud or on-premise customer, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

New Datadog Dashboards

All Jahia Cloud users have access to Datadog to analyze their data. We have added new dashboards to analyze traffic coming from major LLMs, as well as WAF (firewall) logs and CDN (cache) logs.

New Asia-Pacific Cloud Region

A new Asia-Pacific cloud region is now available to improve performance for projects targeting users in Asia.

 

External Modules & AI
 

DAM Connectors Available on the Jahia Store

Integration modules with external DAM systems Keepeek and Cloudinary are available on the Jahia Store.

The source code for the Cloudinary module is available on GitHub. Since integration principles are similar, these modules can serve as a foundation for developing additional DAM connectors.

On Generative AI

Generative AI is now widely present across the CMS industry. Many announcements focus on content generation or rewriting features integrated into editing interfaces.

These features have already been available in Jahia for several months through translation modules and are now also accessible through CKEditor 5.

However, the most transformative change lies elsewhere: the ability to develop Jahia projects (modules, components, views) almost entirely with AI-assisted development tools, drastically reducing development time and costs.

 

Coming Soon
 

Here are the main topics currently in progress or planned.

Page Builder, Content Management & Asset Management


Security


Cloud