WinterCMS

WinterCMS started as a community fork of October CMS after its leadership change, and it has grown into its own mature platform. It gives you a clean, modular way to build websites and web applications using the Laravel framework. The CMS comes with a straightforward admin panel, a powerful theming system, and plugin architecture that lets you extend just about anything.

The platform runs on PHP and MySQL, with full support for modern Laravel features like Eloquent ORM, Blade templating, and queues. It includes a built-in static page generator, media manager, and user authentication out of the box. Plugins are available through a marketplace, and the community has published hundreds of free and paid extensions. WinterCMS is compatible with most October CMS plugins and themes, making migration easy.

This is a great fit for developers who want a Laravel-based CMS without the overhead of enterprise packages. The project is maintained by a volunteer community under the Winter CMS organization. It is fully open source under the MIT license, so you can use it for personal or commercial projects without licensing fees.