---
status: Accepted
date: 2026-09-09
applyTo:
  - "Fuchs/wwwroot/lib/tinymce/**"
  - "Fuchs/Scripts/tinymce/**"
supersededBy: ""
---

# 0013 — TinyMCE pinned to 6.8.6

## Context
TinyMCE releases from 7.0 onward are licensed under a proprietary/commercial
license (with a source-available "open core" carve-out that no longer covers
the full feature set previously used). TinyMCE 6.8.6 is the last release
published under the plain MIT license. The active app vendors TinyMCE
directly under `Fuchs/wwwroot/lib/tinymce/` (currently 6.8.6) rather than via
a package manager that enforces license terms automatically. A second,
older vendor drop lives at `Fuchs/Scripts/tinymce/` (currently 6.3.1) used
only by the legacy `Intranet_Legacy` VB.NET app — it is not required to
match the active app's version, only to stay under the same ceiling.

## Decision
TinyMCE must never be upgraded beyond **6.8.6**, in either vendored copy.
Any change that touches `Fuchs/wwwroot/lib/tinymce/` must keep `version` in
its `package.json` at `6.8.6` or lower. Do not pull in a newer TinyMCE
release, plugin, or skin — including via `npm`/`bower`/`composer` metadata
files bundled in the vendor folder — even to pick up a bug fix or new
plugin.

## Consequences
- Security/bug fixes for TinyMCE past 6.8.6 will not be available; any such
  issue must be worked around locally (patch the vendored copy) rather than
  by upgrading.
- New TinyMCE features/plugins released in 7.x+ are off-limits unless the
  project separately decides to accept the commercial license (a decision
  that would supersede this one).
- The two vendored copies do not need to share the same version, but neither
  may exceed 6.8.6.

## Alternatives considered
- **Upgrade to latest TinyMCE and accept the commercial license terms** —
  rejected: no budget/approval for a commercial license, and the project has
  no other proprietary runtime dependencies of this kind.
- **Switch to a different MIT-licensed rich text editor** — rejected for now
  as out of scope; would require rewriting the existing draft-editing
  integration (see `Fuchs/Docs/Concepts/live-draft-editing.md`). Can be
  revisited later.