Changes with Gentics CMS OSS 6.1.0

Date: 26.04.2024


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The no longer used attributes icon, editdo, newEditor and hopeditHook have been removed from the REST model of constructs.

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The CMS has been updated to Java 17 (LTS version).

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The CMS has been updated to Java 17 (LTS version).


Enhancement GPU-1159 Link to this entry

Support of serving over HTTP/2 (h2c) protocol has been added.


Enhancement GPU-1159 Link to this entry

Support for Mesh CR connections over HTTP/2 has been added.


Enhancement GPU-1059 Link to this entry

For Mesh ContentRepositories, the new REST API Endpoint /rest/contentrepositores/[id]/proxy will act as a proxy to the Mesh REST API. The new REST API Endpoint /rest/contentrepositories/[id]/proxylogin will perform a login with the credentials stored in the Mesh ContentRepository.


Enhancement GPU-1115 Link to this entry

An integration with the new Mesh image variant manual creation feature has been added. Now each Node contains an option to create the manipulation variants of each GenticsImageStore-referenced image during the publish process.


Enhancement GPU-937 Link to this entry

Adds WebP support for images. The Gentics Image Store now handles webp files correctly and activating the new feature WebP Conversion will automatically convert uploaded image to WebP format for nodes which have the feature enabled. An image conversion task has also been added which converts already existing non-WebP images to WebP format.


Enhancement GPU-895 Link to this entry

Devtools: Assigned nodes are now synced with object properties. Syncing an object property to the CMS will automatically assign it to the respective nodes.


Enhancement GPU-676 Link to this entry

Mesh Content Repository now has an ability to mark the selected entry or content type as excluded from indexing process, to prevent sensitive data leaks.


Enhancement GPU-1465 Link to this entry

The default object properties object.navsortorder and obect.startpage where changed to not be inheritable. This only affects new CMS instances, where the default elements will be imported. Existing CMS instances, which are updated are not affected.


Enhancement GPU-353 Link to this entry

Devtool Packages can now be checked for completeness/consistency.

  • GET /packages/{name}/check
  • GET /packages/{name}/check/result

This feature has also been added to the Administrator User Interface to a dedicated tab in the Package module.


Enhancement GPU-1116 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: The Mesh Browser has been integrated to the UI as a new module.


Enhancement GPU-1253 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The Edit-Mode has been overhauled and is now fully integrated into the Editor-UI.


Enhancement GPU-933 Link to this entry

It is now possible to define several properties using environment variables:

  • Hostname of a Node
  • Portal Preview URL for a Node
  • Username and Password for ContentRepository
  • Connection URL for ContentRepository
  • Attribute Basepath for ContentRepository

Enhancement GPU-942 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Management for Mesh Content-Repositories has been added. This allows direct management of Mesh via it‘s API and it‘s administrative content.


Enhancement GPU-1543 Link to this entry

Some Dependencies on Java Libraries have been updated.


Enhancement GPU-938 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Added node-specific features to open the object-properties of a newly uploaded file or image.


Documentation GPU-1252 Link to this entry

The usage of the GCN-JS-API inside of Aloha has been deprecated.
Usage of the GCMSUI Object (GCMSUI Bridge) is recommended instead where possible.


Bugfix SUP-16632 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: The loading of packages for channels has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-16644 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: The date range fields for triggering content maintenance actions were always disabled. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-16644 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Triggering content maintenance actions without restricting to content repositories had no effect. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-16648 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The button closes the sidebar modal now properly.


Bugfix SUP-16646 Link to this entry

The copying of channels is now disabled.


Bugfix SUP-15801 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The misrepresented warnings for missing translations in the form generator has been fixed.


This Gentics CMS OSS version includes the Aloha Editor 2.0.0 – 26.04.2024