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title: Recipes
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summary: What Recipes are, and how they are used in Silverstripe CMS
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icon: clipboard
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# Recipes
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Silverstripe CMS is powered by a system of components in the form of Composer packages. It consists of two types of
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package:
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- **Modules**, which provide pieces of functionality (such as `silverstripe/cms` and `silverstripe/framework`)
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- **Recipes**, which group related Modules together to make them easier to install and release.
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When we announce a new version of Silverstripe CMS and publish a changelog for it, we refer to a new set of _Recipe_
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versions, which include new versions of some or all of their associated Modules. The easiest way to keep up to date with
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new Silverstripe CMS releases is to depend on one of the core Recipes:
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- [`silverstripe/recipe-core`](https://packagist.org/packages/silverstripe/recipe-core): Contains only the base
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framework, without the admin UI or CMS features.
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- [`silverstripe/recipe-cms`](https://packagist.org/packages/silverstripe/recipe-cms): Includes `recipe-core`, and adds
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the admin UI and CMS features. We recommend specifying this recipe in your dependencies.
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- [`silverstripe/installer`](https://packagist.org/packages/silverstripe/installer): Includes `recipe-cms`, and adds a
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default theme for the front-end of your site. We recommend creating new projects based on this recipe (
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via `composer create-project silverstripe/installer myproject ^4`).
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When determining whether you are running the latest version of Silverstripe CMS, it is easier to refer to the Recipe
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version than the individual Module versions, which may not align with Recipe versions. You can use Packagist to find
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detailed information on what versions of individual modules are contained in each Recipe release.
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