Changes with Gentics CMS 5.42.0

Date: 22.12.2021


Manual Change

The dependency on the .Node library has been changed to 2.4.1.

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This includes an update of the logging mechanism to log4j 2.17.0, which requires the following changes:

  • The logging configuration file /Node/tomcat/conf/gentics/nodelog.properties has to be migrated to the configuration file /Node/tomcat/conf/gentics/nodelog.yml, in the log4j2 format. See Gentics CMS Log Files and Log4j 1.x Migration for details.
  • The interfaces com.gentics.api.contentnode.migration.IMigrationPreprocessor and com.gentics.api.contentnode.migration.IMigrationPostprocessor were modified to reference
    instances of com.gentics.lib.log.NodeLogger instead of org.apache.log4j.Logger. Any custom implementations have to be updated.
  • If extension classes (like Custom Part Type Implementations, or Publish Handlers)
    reference any classes of log4j1, they should be updated to either reference com.gentics.lib.log.NodeLogger or the corresponding classes of log4j2.

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The feature Forms has been extended:

  • Forms of different types are now supported. In addition to “generic“ forms, “poll” forms can be created.
  • Custom form generator configurations can now be provided per form type.

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The version of the included Jackson library has been updated to 2.12.6.


This Gentics CMS version includes the Aloha Editor 1.4.58 – 12.11.2019

This Gentics CMS version includes the .Node Version 2.4.1