Gentics CMS Changelog Summary

Gentics CMS 5.40.33


Bugfix SUP-13753 Link to this entry

Fixes an invalid SQL statement when dirting only specific attributes of forms via content maintenance.


Bugfix SUP-13753 Link to this entry

The GET /admin/content/publishqueue REST endpoint now includes information about forms, and form is now an admissible type for ContentMaintenanceActionRequests to POST /admin/content/publishqueue.


Gentics CMS 5.40.32


Bugfix SUP-13017 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Sorting settings in the Repository Browser will be saved now.


Bugfix SUP-10589 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Loading animation now shows the progress of the Content Permissions and Administration Permissions tree expansion and also optimized the loading strategy of these permissions which leads to faster loading times.


Bugfix SUP-13678 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed a focus loss issue on input fields while editing item properties.


Bugfix SUP-13075 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue when page items‘ usage property was not loaded in some edge cases.


Bugfix SUP-11563 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Usage badges are now correctly updated when switching between derived nodes (channels).


Gentics CMS 5.40.31


Documentation SUP-13279 Link to this entry

Corrected the property name `allowedSelection` (previously `selectionType`) in the options object passed to the openRepositoryBrowser function.
Added explanation for the default values for the other repository browser options.


Gentics CMS 5.40.30


Bugfix SUP-13604 Link to this entry

Fixed an error when installing an Import from an Update URL.


Bugfix SUP-12097 Link to this entry

Fixes a problem while inserting block tags where the parent element was not correctly split up, resulting in invalid markup (like a div element inside a p element).


Bugfix SUP-13454 Link to this entry

Fixed an issue that prevented Gentics CMS DevTool packages to be synced if a template included a tag with an overview where no selection type (folder or manual) was defined.


Gentics CMS 5.40.29


Enhancement GP-119 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Introduced Tagpart.keyword as CSS classes in Custom Tag Editor markup.


Gentics CMS 5.40.28


Bugfix SUP-13419 Link to this entry

Fixes repairing of Mesh Content Repositories with Micronode tagmap entries. When the schemas for the Content Repository were already created in Mesh, adding a tagmap entry of type Micronode, caused a 400 Bad Request error in Mesh.


Gentics CMS 5.40.27


Security Link to this entry

A security issue in the import was fixed: Importing a maliciously crafted import file could possibly execute unwanted code on the server.


Security Link to this entry

Several XSS vulnerabilities in the old Admin UI have been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-12352 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Editor Save-button is now displayed independant from user permission.


Bugfix SUP-9949 Link to this entry

Admin User Interface: Enabled loading animations for lists.


Bugfix SUP-13135 Link to this entry

When applying this update, the packaged Tomcat will be updated to version 9.0.59.


Bugfix SUP-13214 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When editing a form, the save button is now properly disabled and enabled again based on the validity of the form.


Bugfix SUP-13399 Link to this entry

Failing SQL statements (e.g. due to the database becoming unavailable during a request) could lead to incorrectly cached data, which could cause subsequent errors. This has been fixed now.


Gentics CMS 5.40.26


Bugfix SUP-12718 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The Content frame header item name field now updates on form name field update.


Bugfix SUP-13092 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed regression issue where users were unable to edit the latest version form a page within publish queue.


Bugfix SUP-13148 Link to this entry

When publishing into a Mesh CR and using tagtypes of type micronode, the check for schema migrations (used in the publish process and in the CR check/repair) will now also wait for micronodes to be migrated.


Bugfix SUP-12638 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Improved stability in the form generator.


Gentics CMS 5.40.25


Bugfix SUP-12160 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The new tag editor‘s HTML (long) tag inputfield now scrolabble after the field is overflown.


Bugfix SUP-12865 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Item list on reload now loads and properly calculates with the previously used items per page value.


Bugfix SUP-10707 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Language selection in the repository browser is now hiden for item lists that show folders, files or images.


Bugfix SUP-12710 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Display properties show in image grid view too within repository browser.


Bugfix SUP-12928 Link to this entry

Linkchecker: recheck link validity using GET even after the HEAD request fails with status code 503


Bugfix SUP-12905 Link to this entry

FormResource: The /rest/form/ID/data and /rest/form/ID/export endpoints now accept the optional publishedOnly query parameter (must be true or false), and will determine whether unpublished (i.e. incomplete) form data should be included in the list or export respectively.


Bugfix SUP-12944 Link to this entry

Some issues with deleting forms haven been fixed:

  • When completely deleting a form in the CMS, the publish process failed with an error, if the form data had already been posted.
  • When only a language variant of the form was removed, the language variant would not be removed in Mesh.

Bugfix SUP-12628 Link to this entry

Several problems with multichannelling and disinheriting have been fixes:

  • Creating pages in a folder, which was disinherited from channels did not work, if a filename was provided and creation should fail for duplicates
  • Disinherited folders could not be reinherited due to incorrect permission checks

Bugfix SUP-12956 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixes an issue that caused the Repository Browser to open with the previously selected content language instead of the page‘s language when editing a page.


Bugfix SUP-12962 Link to this entry

Exporting of channels with objects using object properties failed with an internal error, if object properties were restricted to the master node. This has been fixed.


Gentics CMS 5.40.24


Documentation SUP-12821 Link to this entry

Fixed a typo in the example code in the spellcheck plugin documentation


Bugfix SUP-12888 Link to this entry

Admin User Interface: The Publish Directory Segments on the Node Management page now only visible if the Publish Directory Segments feature is enabled.


Bugfix SUP-12543 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The overview tag property editor now properly shows selected items in channels, when the selected item also has a localization in the same channel and the “Sticky Channel” option of the overview tag part is disabled.


Bugfix SUP-12120 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: In User Module > User Groups tab > Assign User to Groups modal, groups table can now be toggled between list table or tree table.


Bugfix SUP-12895 Link to this entry

Editor and Administrator User Interface: The CMP Version check will no longer be shown on the login screen – this was previously only shown after a successful login and logout. The CMP Version information is still available at the bottom of the user menu, when logged in.


Bugfix SUP-12744 Link to this entry

Custom Tools now no longer get the current CMP version info during setup. Detecting the CMP version info can take some time as all connected Mesh and Portal instances will be checked. This speeds up the process to get custom tools ready to use on large systems.


Bugfix SUP-10447 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Advanced search results are now paginated.


Bugfix SUP-10380 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Update Link Checker filter fields on language change.


Gentics CMS 5.40.23


Bugfix SUP-12765 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The link to the user manual now points directly to the user manual instead of the cms guides overview.


Bugfix SUP-12612 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The form properties field “Email template” is now a dropdown with options that can be configured in the `form-editor.json` file. If no configuration is provided, the input field is ( / continues to be) shown as a text field. See Gentics CMS Forms for details.


Gentics CMS 5.40.22


Bugfix SUP-12563 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The Usage Modal now properly shows the expected objects, when using the Repository Browser and clicking on the usage detail of an item.


Bugfix SUP-12440 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: CMS Forms can now be deleted.


Gentics CMS 5.40.21


Bugfix SUP-12634 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Images that are not resizable with the Gentics Image Store (like SVG) do now get properly displayed in the item list with a scaled thumbnail image.


Bugfix SUP-12635 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixes an issue with the Repository Browser when one or more entities does not have a usage count pagination is not usable anymore.


Bugfix SUP-12636 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fix a regression introduced with Bugfix SUP-10708. Open the repository browser at the default location if no previous selection was done.


Gentics CMS 5.40.20


Bugfix SUP-12562 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Auto completion of publish directories when creating new folders now works as expected when the feature “autocomplete_folder_path“ is enabled. Previously, faulty paths were generated. Furthermore, when enabled, feature “pub_dir_segment“ now works in conjunction with “autocomplete_folder_path”.


Gentics CMS 5.40.19


Bugfix SUP-12536 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The correct images are now shown when navigating the repository browser. Furthermore, total usage count is now also correctly displayed when selecting items (e.g. images, forms, files) from the repository browser.


Bugfix SUP-10708 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When a selection has been made previously, then the default folder of the repository browser is now the parent folder of the selection (or the folder itself if the selection is a folder).


Gentics CMS 5.40.18


Documentation SUP-10919 Link to this entry

Added additional instructions to properly pass the CMS sid as a query parameter to custom tools: See custom tool configuration


Bugfix SUP-11585 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed a race condition with loading animation and add a meaningful message for the Logs module when loading takes more than expected.


Bugfix SUP-10794 Link to this entry

User Interface: Fixed display of elasticsearch configuration in ContentRepository entries when using older php versions


Bugfix SUP-11444 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed an issue that prevented displaying version informations on the CMS Status widget when a user missing the AutoUpdate privilege.


Bugfix SUP-12349 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fix icon component style, fix permission table layout when resizing.


Bugfix SUP-11612 Link to this entry

On a import conflict an exception was thrown with a missing page id. This has been fixed.


Gentics CMS 5.40.17


Bugfix SUP-12406 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed a race condition where permissions were not fully loaded when the content-frame was opened. This led to users being unable to edit pages although they had sufficient permissions.


Bugfix SUP-8574 Link to this entry

The REST API will now always return a 401 response, when called without a valid SID. When saving a page fails, due to an invalid SID, the user will now be notified accordingly and given a link to log in again.


Bugfix SUP-12414 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue that caused empty entries list for the Overview tag with the new tag editor.


Bugfix SUP-11457 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed the unnecessarily highlighted file uploader when it was in the background.


Gentics CMS 5.40.16


Bugfix SUP-10150 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Add dative german translations.


Bugfix SUP-12353 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed folder properties image list not including usage values. Done by fetching those values separately alongside images request if usage property is displayed in the list.


Bugfix SUP-10277 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Adding default language and folder chips into searchbar when search is called either by entering search query and pressing Enter or by selecting chip in searchbar filter.


Bugfix SUP-10700 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue that language variants could disappear on some requests, so page fetch requests now includes language variants on every request.


Bugfix SUP-11827 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Form Editor interface sidebar has now fixed position and is always visible.


Bugfix SUP-11245 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Data Sources are now sortable by drag and drop.


Bugfix SUP-11852 Link to this entry

Editor and Admin User Interfaces: Improved styling for login form when a single sign on option is enabled and selectable.


Bugfix SUP-10486 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: In Groups module, under the content permissions tab, long folder names now breaks lines instead of cutting them off.


Bugfix SUP-11437 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed the bug where the icon and name was not clickable to edit the Folder properties.


Bugfix SUP-10419 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The name of the folder‘s startpage is updated on language change.


Gentics CMS 5.40.15


Bugfix SUP-11792 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When switching users, fetching the corresponding permissions does not require a page reload anymore.


Bugfix SUP-12328 Link to this entry

Link Checker Aloha Plugin: Fixed a corner case, where the “delete” button for a broken Aloha link which was not visible in the page would not show up. This happened only if the link was the only broken link on the page.


Bugfix SUP-10290 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed styles for context menu to move / delete groups in the groups module.


Bugfix SUP-9945 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Gentics CMS Feature `autocomplete_folder_path` now uses the ‘sanitize replacement character‘ correctly.


Bugfix SUP-9945 Link to this entry

The REST API endpoint /folder/sanitize/publishDir allows to sanitize a publish directory path.


Gentics CMS 5.40.14


Bugfix SUP-12310 Link to this entry

User Interface: This is a follow up to SUP-12073 finalizing the intended fix. Applying automatic translation (e.g. with google translate built-in with Chrome) perviously also tried to translate some icons. This resulted in missing or broken icons.


Bugfix SUP-12163 Link to this entry

When publishing images using the GenticsImageStore into the filesystem, errors about adding dependencies could flood the log. Those dependencies are not needed at this point, and are no longer processed during creation of GenticsImageStore URLs.


Bugfix SUP-12171 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Folder names may now contain slashes `/` please note: when the feature autocomplete folder paths is active, these characters will be sanitised in the resulting publish directories


Bugfix SUP-12281 Link to this entry

Fixes a bug when sticky channels was activated in an overview tag.


Bugfix SUP-11817 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue that caused folder object properties to not be fully displayed.


Bugfix SUP-11466 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: There was a problem that breadcrumbs of selected internal success page for forms are not shown when reloading the properties. The problem was fixed.


Bugfix SUP-10381 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Disabled Packages Module if `devtools` feature is disabled.


Gentics CMS 5.40.13


Bugfix SUP-12169 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: When some network requests failed we preemtively logged the user out. Now the automatic logout only occurse if the users session is actually invalid.


Bugfix SUP-12148 Link to this entry

When creating pages using the old UI, the language code was not automatically included in the generated filename, even if the settings should enforce this. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-12184 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Language specific permission settings to edit and view pages are now considered correctly.


Gentics CMS 5.40.12


Enhancement SUP-11602 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When searching for a numeric value a search suggestion for jump to ID will be shown. When clicked the object with this ID will be opened. The same behaviour can be triggered by typing “jump:” followed by the object id.


Bugfix SUP-11758 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Allowed Page input fields in New TagEditor to have cleared/empty values.


Bugfix SUP-10303 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Changed the colour of delete icons to red.


Bugfix SUP-11804 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Searching for `Filename is` or `Filename is not` only found results for pages. Now results will also include files, and images


Bugfix SUP-11465 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Default file and image directories are now respected, if no file or image uploaded yet.


Bugfix SUP-11853 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Asset Management – The selection dialog now also adjusts its width on smaller screens to fit its content.


Bugfix SUP-12129 Link to this entry

The tagpart type “Form“ was renamed to “Form (deprecated)“. New implementations for forms should use the tagpart type “CMS Forms”. See the Gentics CMS Forms guide for details.


Gentics CMS 5.40.11


Bugfix SUP-12107 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed the problem with object properties state after property saved with changes.


Bugfix SUP-12073 Link to this entry

Editor and Admin User Interfaces: Applying automatic translation (e.g. with google translate built-in with Chrome) perviously also tried to translate some icons. This resulted in missing or broken icons. This is fixed now – icons speak for themself and do not need to be translated.


Bugfix SUP-12020 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Duplicate entries form overview selections are now properly removed.


Gentics CMS 5.40.10


Bugfix SUP-10488 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Added button to remove users from groups at user module.


Bugfix SUP-12099 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: The group selection for users is now always shown as a list instead of a trable.


Bugfix SUP-11555 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed empty filename field deadlock, that prevented write to an empty field.


Bugfix SUP-12064 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: It is now possible to set the root folder of a channel as a favorite.


Bugfix SUP-10301 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Permissions in modal lists are now separated by category.


Bugfix SUP-11224 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The link to the CMS guides at the bottom of the user panel now points to the local version of the guides built for the current CMS version.


Bugfix SUP-11979 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Advanced Search – When searching for an URL and no results were found we will retry the search with an added or removed subdomain `www`.


Gentics CMS 5.40.9


Bugfix SUP-12070 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Made possible to take offline more than one language for pages using time management.


Bugfix SUP-10391 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Set default values for sorting options for Overview Tag.


Bugfix SUP-11327 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Node Management The redundant column "type" showing if a node is a multichannel was removed. The column “derived from” does show the same information.


Gentics CMS 5.40.8


Documentation SUP-12006 Link to this entry

We updated the suggested alohalink implementation to trim (remove leading and trailing whitespaces) urls used in the href attribute.


Bugfix SUP-11325 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed broken trable after editing group permissions.


Bugfix SUP-11193 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When searching for forms, now it is possible to search only for current content language.


Bugfix SUP-10040 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Users will now be redirected to the login screen, if their session has expired. Previously admin tools would load and show an error messages and empty lists.


Bugfix SUP-11818 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: “Create page variant“ modal now behaves like “copy“ and “move” modals and allows to create a variant in the root level.


Bugfix SUP-9622 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Entity Grid action buttons now have descriptive tooltips.


Gentics CMS 5.40.7


Bugfix SUP-11209 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: In the Node Module subchannels (channels derived from channels) are now displayed correctly.


Bugfix SUP-12043 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Tag editor for page urls – setting an external url will now be properly saved. Previously we wrongly indicated a successful save, but did actually unset the value.


Gentics CMS 5.40.6


Bugfix SUP-11300 Link to this entry

Fixes an issue with Docker based CMS installations, where customer-config and customtools folders are not writeable in specific cases with OpenShift/Kubernetes, when these folders are mounted.


Bugfix SUP-11825 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Forms – When creating a Form in a Node with only one available content language, this language will be automatically selected. In this case the language selection is not displayed.


Bugfix SUP-11463 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Implemented ‘copy‘ and ‘move‘ actions for forms.


Gentics CMS 5.40.5


Gentics CMS 5.40.4


Bugfix SUP-11879 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Advanced Search – We are now better detecting wether a user wants to search in all fields of CMS objects or directly for the URL of a page.


Bugfix SUP-11942 Link to this entry

Admin User Interface: Allow usernames with 255 characters.


Gentics CMS 5.40.3


Bugfix SUP-11869 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue for recent items to work correctly.


Gentics CMS 5.40.2


Bugfix SUP-11810 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Always show dropdown actions “publish“, “take offline“ and “time management” for pages and hide these actions for forms if a user does not have the permission to publish.


Bugfix SUP-11912 Link to this entry

When publishing channels into a Mesh Content.Repository and localizing an inherited folder, the objects contained in the folder were possibly published incompletely, or were missing in the Mesh branch. The publishing error has been fixed.
In order to repair incomplete or missing data in channels, all objects of the channel need to be marked for republishing in the content maintenance.


Bugfix SUP-11886 Link to this entry

When using the feature Usersnap : browser screenshots are taken via the browser-in-built media-record-API. For older browsers like Internet Explorer where this API is not available the described limitations to the Usersnap feature apply.


Bugfix SUP-11908 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Multi-Channeling: Fixed an issue where objects selected from a different channel in an overview tag part were not displayed correctly while editing the tag.


Bugfix SUP-11771 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Only if the task-management feature is active and more than one language is available in a node the button to request a translation is shown.


Gentics CMS 5.40.1


Bugfix SUP-11815 Link to this entry

Permissions on forms (which do not take part in multichannelling) where only checked for the master node, which caused errors for users that have their permissions restricted to channels. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-11816 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixes a bug that prevented form properties from being saved in certain situations.


Bugfix SUP-11800 Link to this entry

When setting a language to pages in a multichannelling environment, that had no language before, publishing into the Mesh Content.Repository could fail with a conflict. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-11830 Link to this entry

Fetching the form data failed with a NullPointerException, which has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-11753 Link to this entry

When synchronizing templates containing overview tags into devtool packages, the overview settings were not contained in the devtool package. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-11842 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed bug that prevented users from deleting certain images in channels.


Bugfix SUP-8998 Link to this entry

The endpoints for advanced search (using elasticsearch) did not support paging properly. Due to permission constraints, the number of returned hits was possibly smaller than the given pagesize, even if more valid hits would have been available. Also the returned total hit size was possibly higher than the valid total hit size. The implementation has been changed to properly consider permissions now, so that the number of returned hits and the total hit size are correct now.
This change requires indexing of permission properties, which will be done at the first start of the CMS after the update.


Bugfix IV-218 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Using the new tag editor: When editing a tag which rendered other inline editable tags, unsaved changes to those inline editables were lost when the tag was changed and rerendered. With this fix all changes to editables are persisted on the clientside when the tag editor is opened


Bugfix SUP-11882 Link to this entry

Listing forms in a folder did not correctly check for view permissions, which has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-8998 Link to this entry

When a new Channel was created, the indexed objects were not updated and therefore no objects could be found when using the advanced search in the channel. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-11852 Link to this entry

CMS UI: Change alignment of buttons on login screen.


Gentics CMS 5.40.0


Enhancement GPU-5 Link to this entry

Comment publier un site web?
We have prepared Gentics CMS to allow more backend languages. Additional to the current languages German and English we will add French and Italian. The available languages can be configured.


Enhancement GPU-4 Link to this entry

When using SSO with keycloak, it is now possible to add a SSO Login Button to the login screen instead of doing automatic login with SSO.
See the Guides for details.


Enhancement GPU-6 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Buttons for image and file upload now can be configured to allow for external asset store upload. Find out how to setup and use an external asset store in the guide for Asset Management