dotcms-core

dotCMS is the leading Universal content management system powering thousands of digital experiences for over 150 customers worldwide.

With powerful visual editing tools, multi-tenancy and a tech-agnostic architecture dotCMS empowers technical and content teams to collaborate efficiently and deliver content globally, on any stack, and at any scale.

• BSL Licensed - Generous BSL 1.1 licensing terms makes dotCMS free to use in many cases.
• Universal Visual Editing - Full featured page editing that works both headlessly and for SSR content, in your SPA or for web page rendering and delivery.
• Multi-tenancy - Manage multiple sites in multiple languages, from microsites to brand sites to intranet/extranets or knowledge centers all from a single instance.
• REST & GraphQL APIs - instant endpoints for your all your content
• Search & RAG Built in - dotCMS indexes all content and assets in Elasticsearch for real time search-abiliity and facet based searches. dotCMS can also vectorize all content and assets, offering semantic content searching to power AI applications such as chatbots or knowledge centers.
• Personalization, Rules & A/B Testing - Empower your marketing teams with targeting and content optimizations.
• Cloud, Cloud Anywhere or Self-Hosted - Flexible deployment works with your IT/cloud strategies.
• Feature Rich - Custom content workflows, scriptable APIs, push and static publishing, custom roles and permissions, osgi based plugin architecture. Do more with more.

dotCMS is available as a docker image or as a cloud based product.

• Docker Images
• dotCMS Cloud

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Licensing

dotCMS is licensed under the terms of the BSL 1.1 license and all features are free to use by companies, individuals and organizations whose total finances are below $5,000,000 USD. For more information about the BSL license terms, see the dotCMS BSL FAQ.

Contributing

CONTRIBUTING

Requirements

For a complete list of requirements, see this page.

Getting Help

Source	Location
Installation	Installation
Documentation	Documentation
Videos	Helpful Videos
Merge Queue	Merge Queue
Forums/Listserv	via Google Groups
Twitter	@dotCMS
Main Site	dotCMS.com

Release Tracks

dotCMS GA releases follow CalVer (YY.0M.0D-NN, e.g. 26.06.11-01). On top of that linear release stream we publish three floating Docker tags — release tracks — so you can pick how fresh a release each environment receives:

Tag	Age of release	Use for
dotcms/dotcms:latest	newest GA (~days)	tracking the latest release
dotcms/dotcms:standard	~2 weeks old	a short soak before adopting a release
dotcms/dotcms:trailing	~4 weeks old	the most conservative posture

Pin the track you want in your deployment manifest, e.g. image: dotcms/dotcms:standard, and you will roll forward automatically as releases age into that track. Pin an exact version (dotcms/dotcms:26.06.11-01) instead if you never want automatic movement.

One engine (under cicd/evergreen-tracks/) re-points every track tag by image digest, on two triggers: the release pipeline moves latest on-demand the moment a GA ships, and a daily scheduled job ages standard/trailing forward. Two design choices are worth understanding: