Amazing new Payload features and much more

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What’s up, everyone? In this issue, I discuss 3 incredible Payload CMS features, AI updates, and more.

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It was a big week for Payload CMS this week. The team released 3 new and incredible features that I can't wait to use. The community call this week reminded me of how bright Payload's future is as the best open-source CMS on the market.

Be sure to read more about version 3.58 to get all the goodness that was released.

But wait...there's more.

Some new features are planned with Payload CMS.

First, a new UI is coming. Payload and Figma are teaming up to present a new admin UI. I'm looking forward to what they come up with. You can use the above link to leave comments on this project.

All the following links go to the request for comment posts on GitHub. The following changes are also coming:

Last thing, I promise. The modular UI for Payload CMS is on the way. It should be ready soon.

If you missed it, I released a video tutorial on how to use custom views. I show you how to add Plausible analytics to your admin UI.

Figma had two updates worth calling out:

Not a lot to write home about here.

There were no minor updates to Next.js this week. Still a lot of turbopack and cache components updates, in the canary branch, though.

Tailwind had an update! It's all bug fixes.

OpenAI released Sora 2. From what I can tell, most of the videos are still uncanny and not fully believable. The physics in the videos I saw are still far from realistic. Should we be concerned the models are getting better? Probably.

Coincidentally and definitely not related to Sora 2's launch, OpenAI also introduced parental controls.

Cursor Agent now has autocomplete in the IDE's chat.

They also released a feature called "Hooks." This feature allows you to influence the Agent's behavior at runtime.

There are quite a few other updates as well. These include:

It was a big week for Cursor, I guess.

Claude introduced new ways to use it with Slack. Now you can choose to talk to your coworkers or Claude. Who needs friends, anyway?

Anthropic released Sonnet 4.5, as well. It's a marginal improvement to Opus and a slightly better improvement to Sonnet 4. Loving the real-time law of diminishing returns chart we're seeing as new models are released.

Railway added object storage to its platform. It's S3 compatible, so it should be usable with Payload CMS. Buckets are free to use while they're being previewed if you have a Hobby or Pro plan.

The team added better errors to their database tabs. And now you can see performance metrics for your replicas.

What did I miss? There’s so much happening in modern web dev that I’m sure I have missed something. Please share your thoughts in the comments or reply to this email. I want to address your suggestions and may include them in future newsletters.

Thanks for reading. See you next time.