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Concrete CMS vs Grav
The same facts for both, read from GitHub every night, and the relation a person reviewed.
| Fact | Concrete CMS | Grav |
|---|---|---|
| Language | PHP | PHP |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Stars | 852 | 16k |
| Latest | 9.5.4 | 2.2.4 |
| Last push | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-05 |
| Release cadence | about 18 days between releases | about 3 days between releases |
| Active contributors | 16 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days | 12 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days |
| Flags | none | none |
How they relate
Both replace Squarespace. Alternatives to Squarespace →
PartialConcrete CMSIn-context page editing with blocks and themes, on a PHP server you run.
PartialGravA flat-file CMS with an admin plugin and themes, no database and no hosted editor.
Concrete CMS
- 9.5.42026-09-08Test mail settings: show email sender, add links to configuration pages (#13078) (thanks mlocati)
- 9.5.32026-09-01Added a Sort by dropdown above the folder tree in the Move to Folder dialog (thanks digitmaster)
- 9.5.22026-06-03Page attributes are now grouped by set in the Composer Add Form Control dialog.
- 9.5.12026-05-19We now detect whether your Concrete site and/or its add-ons are installed via Composer. If so we will disallow direct i…
- 9.5.02026-04-28Added support for the Twig templating languages in block views, page templates, single pages and more.
Grav
- 1.7.53.52026-10-05[security] Updated the bundled DOM sanitizer from 1.0.11 to 1.0.18, bringing the fixes from the 2.x line for sanitized…
- 2.2.42026-10-02A page's Markdown version (<route>.md) and llms-full.txt include the full page again on sites running the Archives plug…
- 2.2.32026-09-29Updated Twig to 3.30 (through Grav's getgrav/Twig fork), which brings upstream's fixes since 3.29, among them faster ob…
- 2.2.22026-09-28The .htaccess and Caddy configs now let browsers keep the Admin panel's bundled files for a year, since their names cha…
- 2.2.12026-09-25The .htaccess files under user/ no longer use mod_rewrite, so hosts that broke on them, such as some shared Apache setu…
Concrete CMS
✓ signed The latest release, 9.5.4, carries a signature GitHub verified.
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Grav
✓ signed The latest release, 2.2.4, carries a signature GitHub verified.
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