Posted by on September 19th, 2025

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Backdrop CMS 1.32.0 Released — New Features, UX Enhancements, and Performance Boosts

The Backdrop CMS community is excited to announce Backdrop CMS 1.32.0, the latest stable release in our regular 4-month update cycle. Version 1.32.0 delivers major improvements for site builders and developers alike — including responsive layout options, expanded configuration control, CKEditor 5 updates, and key performance and stability fixes.

New Features

  • Responsive Views Grid Style — Adds responsive behavior and customizable settings to Views grid layouts (#5719).
  • Original Sort Order for Views Table — Improves how table-style Views handle sorting. When users click a column to sort, the view now keeps the original sort order as a secondary “tiebreaker.” (#6708).
  • CKEditor 5 Upgrade (v46.0.2) — Integrates the latest CKEditor with a backward-compatibility layer for existing Backdrop plugins (#6904).
  • Entity Label Callback — The label() method now supports a new label callback property, giving developers more control over label rendering (#6877).
  • Config-based Module & Theme Activation — Modules and themes can now be enabled via configuration sync/import (#5163).
  • Book Navigation Cache Bin — Improved caching for Book module data results in faster navigation (#6787).

User Experience Improvements

  • Password Reset Form Modernization — Updated to use the same Form API elements as account creation and editing, providing a consistent and more user-friendly experience (#4440).

Key Bug Fixes

Backdrop 1.32.0 also includes all the fixes from 1.31.1, addressing numerous bugs and performance issues:

  • PHP 8+ deprecation notice in hook_user_presave() (#6943)
  • Display of translated system.core configuration values (#6941)
  • Trusted host settings handling (#6935)
  • Admin bar search field scaling issue (#6925)
  • Multiple file browsers on one node form (#6924)
  • Filter module configuration cleanup warnings (#6920)
  • Field types not resetting after module install (#6919)
  • Minimum PHP version consistency (#6914)
  • Fatal error when an entity type reuses a reserved field name (#6900)
  • Missing callback error in layouts (#6885)
  • Missing Excel MIME types (#6882)
  • Duplicate validation cleanup (#6879)
  • File display form loading issue (#6578)
  • Node access filtering bug with joins (#6421)
  • Y2K38 date overflow fix (#6307)
  • Alias malfunction in multilingual setups (#5947)
  • Translation test semaphore fix (#5943)
  • Repeated language prefixes in Link module (#4984)

Update Notes

  • No changes were made to .htaccess, robots.txt, or settings.php.
  • Run the update script at /core/update.php after upgrading.

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Backdrop CMS 1.32.0 is available now!

Download or upgrade today:
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UPDATE: 1.32.1 is also available

Since the original release of 1.32.0 on Sept 15th, we released 1.32.1 on Oct 7th to address bugs found in the earlier release. If you experienced any difficulties with the original 1.32.0 release, please upgrade to 1.32.1.

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