Over the past two weeks, the DNN Technology Advisory Group has continued its regular cadence of conversations focused on strengthening the DNN Platform and improving how we communicate changes to the broader community.  This information summary was delayed in posting due to travel.

Meeting Summaries

On Tuesday, January 13th, 2026, the Approvers Group met to focus on a few key discussion points in preparation for the larger community group meeting the following week

• Discussed a recently reported issue that has been present since DNN 10.0.0 and how it shall be resolved, including vendor communication needs

• Discussed new communication processes around vendor outreach and encouraging broader community understanding of issue reporting, which was added to the agenda for the January 20th, TAG meeting.

• Discussed reported CDF issues and strategized on better long-term review gates, and community requests to try and prevent future similar issues.

• Discussed the possibility of a link between reported issues, language packs, and recent changes to the update service having a related impact.

At this time, there are no publicly actionable items resulting from this meeting, but the discussions are helping shape the future roadmap and communication improvements.

The next scheduled meeting of this group will be dedicated to reviewing the currently in-progress Content Security Policy community contribution to ensure timely feedback is given.

On Tuesday, January 20th, 2026, the Community TAG Group convened with the broader community. Discussion topics included:

• Discussion around a DNN 10.x fix and the impact to the community, with a decided direction that will limit the impact to existing installations and ensure overall platform stability/security.

• Provided guidance and discussion around Release Candidates and community methods to provide feedback.  From this discussion an action item was taken to ensure that future Release Candidates are more specific in the guidance/testing that is requested, and also the creation/enhancement of documentation around "getting involved" to try and spark community assistance during the RC phases.

• Discussed a proposed future change to the JWT Token support within the platform, including a phased rollout of the changes to ensure proper support and limited impact to users.

• Received a general status update and overview regarding the in-progress community contribution for MVC Pipeline contributions, including a high-level overview of the documentation that has been created and a review of the interdependency between that contribution and other related items (Content Security Policy and CDF).

• Discussed Discord and content visibility, and possible methods to try and make the information contained within easier.

• Discussed the soon-to-be-scheduled "Vendor Meetings", which will be targeted TAG meetings with the Git Approvers Group and open to any vendor within the DNN Ecosystem to provide a more direct feedback/discussion channel for issues that are vendor-specific.  If you are a vendor and interested in attending this please reach out to Mitchel Sellers to be added.

In the upcoming TAG meeting, scheduled for 2/3/2026, we will be having a demo of CSS Cascade Layers by Jeremy Farrance to help understand how that might be supported within DNN Platform.

We’d love to have more community members involved in these conversations. The DNN Technology Advisory Group meets every two weeks at 2:00 PM Central Time. If you’re interested in joining future calls, please email Mitchel Sellers to be added to the invite list.