Changes with Gentics Content.Node 5.29.0

Date: 20.12.2017

Optional Manual Change

PHP 7 is now supported. PHP 7 comes with a great performance boost. You can update to PHP 7.x at anytime after applying this CMS update. Be sure to install all PHP extensions required by the CMS (according to the installation guides).

Optional Manual Change

Maria DB Connector/J is the default MySQL driver now.

It increases the performance and is compatible with Oracle MySQL database servers. Please read the documentation in case you want to switch back to the Oracle MySQL JDBC connector.

Optional Manual Change

OpenJDK 8 is the default JDK now. You can switch to OpenJDK (JDK 8) at anytime now after updating and remove the Oracle JDK installation. Make sure to remove the /Node/java symlink if it exists.

Enhancement GTXPE-50

The new feature elasticsearch allows indexing backend data in elasticsearch.

Enhancement GTXPE-136

The deprecated (and non-functional) SOAP entry of the tree has been removed.

Enhancement GTXPE-85

The new REST API endpoint /file/create with Content-Type: application/json allows creating files with the binary data loaded from URLs.

Enhancement GTXPE-160

The REST API endpoints /folder/getFiles/[id] and /folder/getImages/[id] have been extended with a new query parameter usedIn that can be used in combination with the query parameter used to search for files/images that are used or unused in specific channels.

Enhancement GTXPE-156

The new REST API endpoint rest/page/pubqueue returns all pages currently in the publish queue.

Enhancement GTXPE-161

The Debian package installer has been updated for Debian 9 Stretch.

Enhancement GTXPE-162

The REST API has been enhanced:

  • The endpoint rest/page/usage/linkedPage returns pages, which are referenced from a given set of pages
  • The endpoint rest/page/usage/linkedFile returns files, which are referenced from a given set of pages
  • The endpoint rest/page/usage/linkedImage returns images, which are referenced from a given set of pages

Enhancement GTXPE-84

The new spellcheck plugin integrates the LanguageTool proofreading service in Aloha Editor. See the documentation for configuration options.

Enhancement

The new REST endpoint rest/contentrepositories allows management for ContentRepositories. For details see the REST API documentation

Enhancement

It is now possible to access monitoring data provided by JMX beans with http calls. See the Guides for details.

Enhancement

The list of folders will now show the publish directories of the folders.

Bugfix SUP-5380

The xml response of the REST API endpoints /file/usage/total and /image/usage/total did not contain any usage info. This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-5431

Fixed that users that are restricted to a certain channel and have no permissions on the master node were not able to create new files in certain cases.

Bugfix SUP-5472

When editing the object properties for pages using the new UI, sometimes the action to apply an object property to all language variants of the page was not available. This has been fixed now.

Bugfix

The total numbers contained in the response of the REST API call rest/page/usage/total did not consider pages which would be returned by the REST API call rest/page/usage/page. This has been fixed now.

New UI Update

UI Version 1.15.0

  • Show confirm delete modal if user doesn‘t have wastebin permissions
  • Allow clearing dates in the time management modal
  • Allow sorting of wastebin contents
  • Correctly fetch template information when working in a channel
  • Improve performance when navigating by eliminating redundant API calls
  • Searching for a number no longer returns irrelevant results
  • Add paging support to repository browser
  • Improve version restoring of current item in editor
  • Allow filtering repository browser by page ID
  • Add ability to localize more items at once
  • Implement ‘always localize‘ feature
  • Remove redundant API calls when navigating
  • Searching for a page ID no longer returns irrelevant results
  • Always compare new to old when comparing page versions
  • Filter/search in repository browser can be cleared
  • Fix size of search bar chip with long inputs
  • Refresh/change folder after copying items
  • Refresh ItemList after restoring from wastebin with an active search
  • Enable users with no template permissions to create pages
  • Fix repository browser selection for “image” overviews
  • Fix old file picker being used for the Aloha gcnfileupload plugin
  • Internal links correctly navigate when clicked
  • Fix unresponsive publish queue when there are many nodes

This Gentics Content.Node version includes the Aloha Editor 1.4.38 – 14.12.2017

This Gentics Content.Node version includes the .Node Version 2.3.0