Gentics CMS Changelog Summary

Gentics CMS 5.42.31

Bugfix SUP-15067 Link to this entry

Fixing long running task of setting group permissions in the Admin-UI. After a wait time of 5 seconds, the task will be executed in the background and the user will be notified when the task has finished.

Bugfix SUP-15130 Link to this entry

Editor User Inferface: Selecting elements in an overview with stickyChannel enabled, now correctly loads and displays the entries from the channel they were picked from.

Gentics CMS 5.42.30

Bugfix SUP-15114 Link to this entry

When using the feature Publish Cache together with the feature Nice URLs republishing of already published pages possibly failed with a NullPointerException, if the publish cache of that page had been generated before the feature "Nice URLs" was activated. The problem could be solved by clearing the publish cache and is now also fixed.

Bugfix SUP-15113 Link to this entry

Fixes publishing error when the focal point of a resized image is out of bounds.

Bugfix SUP-15119 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Changes to forms were sometimes not properly submitted and therefore lost, which has been resolved. Additionally, performance when editing forms has been improved to prevent race-conditions.

Gentics CMS 5.42.29

Bugfix SUP-10306 Link to this entry

Admininistration User Interface: Fixed the following permission issues:

  • Delete icon in the User list is only visible when the logged in user has permission to delete that User.
  • User Properties are editable only when the logged in user has permission to edit that User.
  • Remove icon in the Group list is only visible when the logged in user has permission to remove a User from the Group.
  • Group assignment is available when the logged in user has permission to assign a User to Group.

Bugfix SUP-15071 Link to this entry

Fixes a problem where object would not be correctly marked as published when resumable publish process is enabled and the publish process was interrupted. Published objects are now marked as such when the CMS is for example stopped during a publish run.

Gentics CMS 5.42.28

Bugfix SUP-14989 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The node-selection and breadcrumb styling has been fixed to properly align again.

Bugfix SUP-12731 Link to this entry

Fix Devtools Package NullPointerException when CheckboxPartType is synchronized.

Gentics CMS 5.42.27

Bugfix SUP-13084 Link to this entry

Editor User Inferface: In the Overview tag property editors, when the Sticky Channel option is enabled localized channel nodes can be saved now otherwise the root folder in the folder path list of Overview items now showing the name of the current node/channel.

Bugfix SUP-14924 Link to this entry

When using the Copy & Paste for Tags copying links did not convert the copied links correctly into anchor tags, but into div tags. This has been fixed now.

Bugfix SUP-14255 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Linking and Unlinking Templates to Folders is now performed in a batch rather than individually. Notifications are now also only shown for the entire (un-)linking process rather than for each template/folder combination.

Gentics CMS 5.42.26

Bugfix SUP-14837 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Usage dialog displays all usage of the given item, even if the Gentics CMP Version is not available.

Bugfix SUP-14848 Link to this entry

Changes in the order of the fields referenced in the property “urlFields” of a Mesh schema were incorrectly identified as relevant by the publish process, which could lead to unexpected schema changes (and following schema migrations). This has been changed now, so that if only the order of the fields changes, no schema update will be done.

Bugfix SUP-14801 Link to this entry

The ability to cancel a running publish process has been improved.

Bugfix SUP-14351 Link to this entry

Fixes outdated object properties after updating them with the old editor UI. The cache is now invalidated properly to reflect changes in object properties.

Gentics CMS 5.42.25

Bugfix SUP-11769 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed a permission issue at Search Index Maintenance which checked wrong permission to access Search Index Maintenance.

Bugfix SUP-11269 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When creating a new form, an error message is shown upon the node has no active language.

Bugfix SUP-10341 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed a language issue in the Editor User Interface which displayed wrong language name when the user added a new language.

Bugfix SUP-14536 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Form Attachements are displayed correctly in the Form Reports and they can be downloaded seperately.

Bugfix SUP-14533 Link to this entry

It is now possible to set the port of the internal Apache Http server in the CMS container to a different port than 80 with the environment variable APACHE_PORT. See the guides for details.

Bugfix SUP-14814 Link to this entry

Calling the endpoints

  • GET /admin/publishInfo
  • GET /admin/content/publishqueue

might cause long running queries in the database, if many objects have been marked for publishing. To avoid high resource consumption, if those endpoints are called multiple times, the information will no longer be fetched from the database on each request, but will be periodically fetched in a background job. The delay between subsequent jobs can be configured in milliseconds with the configuration setting $PUBLISH_QUEUE_STATS[“refresh_delay”], which defaults to 60000 ms (one minute).

Gentics CMS 5.42.24

Enhancement SUP-13734 Link to this entry

Channel Directive: Enable Channel Directive to use global UUIDs.

Bugfix SUP-9591 Link to this entry

The REST Endpoints

  • GET /group?perms=true
  • GET /group/[id]/groups?perms=true
  • GET /user/[id]/groups?perms=true
    will now return the current user‘s permissions for “userassignment“ and “setperm” on the returned groups.
    The REST Endpoints
  • GET /group/load
  • GET /group/list
    will now also return permission information for the current user when called with the query parameter perms=true.
    The REST Endpoint
  • @GET /perm/[perm]/[type]/[id]
    can now also be used to check the current user‘s permissions for “userassignment“ and “setperm” on the given group.

Bugfix SUP-14504 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Changed default labels for Form Selects (@SELECTABLE_OPTIONS@) and made the labels overrideable via new properties key_label_i18n_ui and value_label_i18n_ui. An example of these new override properties can be found in the Forms Feature Page form-editor.json.

Bugfix SUP-14647 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Properties are now correctly opening when navigating from one module to another.

Bugfix SUP-14588 Link to this entry

Improves publish run times for Mesh ContentRepositories by speeding up the process to determine which objects must be deleted from the ContentRepository.

Gentics CMS 5.42.23

Bugfix SUP-14509 Link to this entry

Editor User Inferface: Form reports did sometimes not correctly display the entered labels, but the internal id.

Bugfix SUP-14291 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When entering a search term, it will not add the node chip automatically anymore. The node filtering has the exclusion of a node removed as it isn‘t supported.

Bugfix SUP-14551 Link to this entry

User Interfaces: The connection to the Usersnap API for it‘s integration has been updated.

Bugfix SUP-10684 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Enable entity manager service tests.

Bugfix SUP-14613 Link to this entry

When publishing forms the download base URL will be automatically added, which can be used in exports and emails to download submitted binaries via the CMS editor UI. This functionality requires the most recent version of the Mesh forms plugin.

Bugfix SUP-14613 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: A new proxy route has been added to allow authenticated ressources to be accessed via direct links. See Editor User-Interface Proxy for more information.

Gentics CMS 5.42.22

Bugfix SUP-12915 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When the form configuration is invalid, an error text is shown.

Bugfix SUP-13564 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Download buttons are now properly disabled and enabled again based on whether the data fetch of the form was successful in properties tab.

Bugfix SUP-13587 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Image elements are completely disjoint from the form section and svg files have preview images.

Bugfix SUP-14195 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Save button is enabled, when confirmation page is linked in form properties.

Bugfix SUP-14362 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: File name is now shown in form report list.

Bugfix SUP-14476 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface and Editor User Interface: Dismiss button is now hidden in Notification toasts when it‘s disabled.

Gentics CMS 5.42.21

Bugfix SUP-11342 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed issue with overlapping icons on the dashboard and Administration Permissions interface.

Bugfix SUP-14301 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Activity message is shown, upon sync from/to filesystem button clicked in packages.

Bugfix SUP-11735 Link to this entry

When publishing into a Mesh ContentRepository, all calls to get data using graphql will now have the parameter “wait“ set to “false” and will therefore never wait for the search sync to be idle in Mesh.

Bugfix SUP-14422 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Synchronizing Dev-Tool Packages from or to the File-System will now wait for 5 seconds to complete. If it is not able to complete in time, the sync will be continued in the Background. The User will now also receive the appropriate messages for the status of the sync.

Bugfix SUP-14380 Link to this entry

Changing the language reloads the page and updates the language.

Bugfix SUP-14392 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When the Maintenance-Mode is activated, the user is now properly signed out with a correct error message.

Bugfix SUP-14424 Link to this entry

Editor UI: Error message is shown and prevent the saving, when clicking on the ‘save and close‘ button after closing the image properties editor and it contains invalid data.

Bugfix SUP-14489 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: While creating a Node, it‘s now possible to change the SEO and Internationalization settings. The default values for these settings have also been updated to hide file extensions and without additional file-encoding.

Bugfix SUP-14491 Link to this entry

When adding a contentrepository to a devtool package, which is assigned to a node, and the node has no contentrepository assigned, the node is modified to have the contentrepository assigned. Before this fix, this was done with user ID 0, which changed the last editor of the node to 0, causing errors when reading the node over the REST API. This has been fixed now.

Gentics CMS 5.42.20

Bugfix SUP-14255 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Linking templates now asks for how to apply the new selection and will update the available templates accordingly.

Bugfix SUP-14175 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Icon tooltips are updated in the content permissions of group.

Bugfix SUP-14376 Link to this entry

A description for default content language DA / Danish has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-14374 Link to this entry

When a node is copied, the following data will now also be copied:

  • Activated features
  • Assigned devtool packages
  • Translated folder properties
  • Alternate URLs of pages and files

Bugfix SUP-14414 Link to this entry

In rare cases, it could happen that failing transactions would remain open, possibly leading to database locks. This has been fixed.

Gentics CMS 5.42.19

Bugfix SUP-14316 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Validation of Object-Properties has been fixed and now correctly prevents the user from saving invalid properties.

Bugfix GPU-342 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface, Editor User Interface: Fixed visual bug that caused the screen to jump up and be out of view when a checkbox is clicked.

Gentics CMS 5.42.18

Documentation SUP-14257 Link to this entry

Added example configuration for conditionalcontainer elements in the form-editor.json.

Bugfix SUP-14242 Link to this entry

When rendering a tag of another object with velocity, the tag will completely be rendered in preview mode, even if the original object is rendered in edit mode.

Bugfix SUP-14252 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Permission checks to display the context-menu entry for pushing an element back to a master node have been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-14196 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: When assigning groups to multiple users at once, the groups will be added to the users instead of replacing their groups.

Gentics CMS 5.42.17

Enhancement SUP-10093 Link to this entry

Core: Now authentication cookie contains SameSite attribute. The attribute value is set via contentnode.global.config.session_cookie_samesite configuration. Default value is lax.

Bugfix SUP-13407 Link to this entry

Core: The spring-security-core dependency has been updated onto version 5.7.3.

Bugfix SUP-11002 Link to this entry

When Elasticsearch is not available, the generic error message has been replaced with a note, that the search service is currently unavailable.

Bugfix SUP-14087 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When creating a new language variant of a page, the template field is now properly updated.

Bugfix SUP-10337 Link to this entry

The included version of Aloha Editor has been updated to 1.4.60. This fixes some issues with selecting and deleting tags in editables or other tags. For details, see the Aloha Editor Changelog

Bugfix SUP-10641 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Link checker filter fields retain their value on node change.

Gentics CMS 5.42.16

Bugfix SUP-11822 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixes an issue where uploads are getting canceled/cause errors when uploading multiple files.

Bugfix SUP-12917 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed issue in the Form Editor, regarding the key and value input field being draggable, thus preventing selecting its text.

Bugfix SUP-14030 Link to this entry

When a selection intersects with an block/editable, and a deletion (keypress, paste, cut) would occur, the user is now asked if the block should be removed and the action is canceled.

Bugfix SUP-11619 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed Content Repository assignment issue in the Node Properties editor.

Bugfix SUP-14063 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The button for taking a page offline was missing in the list when a node had no languages assigned. This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-14039 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed a folder object property issue when object properties saved recursively in a channel‘s local folder with the old tag editor.

Bugfix SUP-13139 Link to this entry

Core: Under some circumstances a new Keycloak login creates a new CMS user with no groups. This is unacceptable and has been fixed. A case of the user with no groups now throws an exception, aborting the CMS user generation.

Gentics CMS 5.42.15

Bugfix SUP-13266 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Usage now displays correctly without needing to reload the page.

Bugfix SUP-13898 Link to this entry

Fixes a name collision check when creating folders in a channel, where a folder with the same name already exists in a different channel of the same master node.

Bugfix SUP-13710 Link to this entry

When the image, which was requested from the GenticImageStore could not be resized (like SVG for example), the original image data was returned, but the Content-Type was incorrectly set to ‘application/octet-stream‘. This has been fixed, so that the returned Content-Type will now be the correct one.

Bugfix SUP-13709 Link to this entry

Fixes the PUT /rest/user/{id} endpoint which did not update the users password if it was included in the update request.

Bugfix SUP-12739 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Added dragging indicator icon to the filter pop-up windows.

Bugfix SUP-13985 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Scroll issue has been fixed for long tag properties in the Properties Editor.

Bugfix SUP-12893 Link to this entry

Setting permissions on various object instances using the REST API was not possible due to incorrect permission checks, which have been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-13884 Link to this entry

The docker image has been changed, so that Tomcat will direct its own log to the console.

Bugfix SUP-13567 Link to this entry

When publishing into a Mesh ContentRepository and using a roles object property, which returned a role, that did not exist in Mesh, the publish process failed with an error. This has been fixed now, inexistent roles will just be ignored.

Bugfix SUP-13908 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed an issue in the Group Module that happened when the Administration Permission tab accessed, the scroll bar and the interface got in an unusable state.

Gentics CMS 5.42.14

Enhancement SUP-9489 Link to this entry

Editor User interface: with the new feature Folder Based Template Selection, the "Link Templates"-modal can be customized: if enabled, the selection of templates to be linked is constrained to those already linked in a selected folder instead of all visible templates of the current node. See the Feature Overview for details.

Bugfix SUP-12426 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Publish queue localized page items on click properly redirect to the page editor.

Bugfix SUP-12889 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixes form reports table layout and scrollbar.

Bugfix SUP-8533 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Unpublish menu item text appears correctly based on whether user has publish permission. Page language icons are updated when user publish multiple languages.

Bugfix SUP-12474 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Upload button in the selected file preview is visible based on user permissions.

Bugfix SUP-12867 Link to this entry

Admin User Interface: Status of scheduler tasks is properly shown, based on whether failed jobs exist.

Bugfix SUP-13064 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Checkboxes and save button are disabled in edit dialog of “Administration Permissions”, if user has no edit permission.

Bugfix SUP-10589 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Optimized the loading strategy of folders which leads to faster loading times.

Bugfix SUP-13076 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Form editor menu has sticky position.

Bugfix SUP-12441 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fix an issue when user creates a form, the page is moved outside of the window.

Bugfix SUP-11227 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Search filters only in columns that are visible.

Bugfix SUP-13199 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fix saving issue, when user updates the form properties.

Bugfix SUP-13276 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Detail view now closing after navigating back to the Dashboard.

Bugfix SUP-13887 Link to this entry

Under specific circumstances (in most cases caused by conflicts with uniqueness of url or segment fields), the publishing process into a Mesh ContentRepository would never finish. This has been fixed, the publish process will now fail in such cases.

Bugfix SUP-11414 Link to this entry

When publishing into a Mesh Content.Repository and the Mesh client user has admin permissions, the publish process will check for unfinished jobs and will trigger processing of those jobs.

Bugfix SUP-13570 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue with the File/Image tag editor that prevented changing the item after save.

Bugfix SUP-13140 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Improved visibility of scroll bars in tables for web browsers Google Chrome, MS Edge and Mozilla Firefox running in Microsoft Windows.

Bugfix SUP-13172 Link to this entry

Fixes a permission check which allowed users which are restricted to channels to create file copies in the master node.

Bugfix SUP-13172 Link to this entry

The fields nodeId and targetFolder have been added to the FileCopyRequest for the /rest/file/copy endpoint, so that file copy requests can specify the source node as well as a target folder to copy to.

Gentics CMS 5.42.13

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 5.42.12

Bugfix SUP-11563 Link to this entry

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

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-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.

Gentics CMS 5.42.11

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 5.42.10

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.

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).

Gentics CMS 5.42.9

Enhancement GP-119 Link to this entry

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

Gentics CMS 5.42.8

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 5.42.7

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.

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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-13135 Link to this entry

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

Bugfix SUP-9949 Link to this entry

Admin User Interface: Enabled loading animations for lists.

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 5.42.6

Gentics CMS 5.42.5

Enhancement GPU-63 Link to this entry

Adds support for poll forms of the Mesh Forms plugin. See the feature documentation for a description of the new gtx_form directive parameters showResults and templateContext.

Bugfix SUP-12638 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Improved stability in the form generator.

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-12912 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When editing a form item, the form type is now also visible next to the language information for form items that were created in version 5.41 or below.

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.

Gentics CMS 5.42.4

Security SUP-12954 Link to this entry

The version of the logging library has been updated to log4j 2.17.1. The dependency on the .Node library has been changed to 2.4.3.

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-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-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-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-12928 Link to this entry

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

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.

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-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

Gentics CMS 5.42.3

Gentics CMS 5.42.2

Enhancement GPU-67 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: A form properties field that is a dropdown called “Template context” was added. It can be configured in the `form-editor.json` file. If no configuration is provided, the input field is shown as a text field. See Gentics CMS Forms for details.

Documentation SUP-12821 Link to this entry

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

Bugfix SUP-10380 Link to this entry

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

Bugfix SUP-10447 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Advanced search results are now paginated.

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-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-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-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-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.

Gentics CMS 5.42.1

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.

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.

Gentics CMS 5.42.0

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.

Enhancement GPU-55 Link to this entry

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.

Enhancement Link to this entry

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