Changes with Gentics CMP 8.0.0

Date: 30.06.2023

Gentics CMS EE 6.0.0

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With this update, the architecture of the CMS has been changed significally.

Instead of the hybrid architecture of prior versions (with PHP code running in an Apache HTTP Server and Java code running in an Apache Tomcat Server),
the CMS now consists of only a single .jar file, which will start an embedded HTTP Server.

For migration of existing installations, please follow the migration guide in our infoportal.

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Support for encoding in XML has been dropped for the REST API. Requests and responses have to be encoded in JSON format.

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Change RoleModel property name and description to type String and add nameI18n, descriptionI18n of type Map respectively.

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Optionally embed referenced objects in API response of:

  • GET objectproperty/{id} embed category and construct
  • GET user/ embed group
  • GET user/{id} embed group
  • GET scheduler/schedule embed task
  • GET scheduler/schedule/{id}/executions embed scheduler
  • GET template/tag/{id} embed construct
  • GET construct/{id} embed category
  • GET construct/load/{id} embed category
  • GET construct embed category

Manual Change required as construct category datatype has changed and is now of Type ConstructCategory instead of String.

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Improve existing endpoints:

  • GET /node add masterName and contentRepositoryName fields to response
  • GET /group/{id}/users add embed option to embed groups into response
  • GET /devtools/packages/{name}/objectproperties add embed option to embed constructs and categories into response
  • GET /devtools/packages/{name}/construct add embed option to embed categories into response

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Publishing to a Mesh Content Repository has been improved to use less requests and less memory in the CMS.

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Adds form resource endpoints POST /rest/form/{id}/export and GET /rest/form/{id}/export/status to request asynchronous export creation and check availability of the export respectively. Available exports are downloaded via GET /rest/form/{id}/download/{downloadUuid} where the downloadUuid is provided in the status response. Analogously asynchronous downloads for a forms binaries can be requested and checked with POST /rest/form/{id}/binaries and GET /rest/form/{id}/binaries/status respectively.

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Adds resolution of missing references during synchronizing a devtools package from the filesystem. Any referenced object that are not yet present will be referenced correctly once they are created.

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Updates the default implementation of the gtxalohapagelink construct to include SEO optimizations.

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A new admin endpoint was added to batch delete dirt queue entries with a time based filter as well as a filter based on the state.

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Added new endpoint GET template/{id}/tag endpoint that allows filtering and sorting.

Deprecate old endpoints:

  • GET /user/list
  • GET /group/list
  • GET /template/getTags/{id}

Gentics Aloha Editor 1.5.0

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GPU-883: Improved visibility of editable content by always showing an outline around them.

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When a list element contains a break at the end you could not end the list by pressing enter two times. This is because the cursor could not be placed after the break, because the break is invisible. This fix makes breaks as last elements visible.

Gentics Mesh 2.0.0

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OrientDB: Basic experimental support for OrientDB native filtering/sorting is added. The GraphQL Mesh options has a new preference `nativeQueryFiltering` with options: `NEVER` (old filtering, default value), `ALWAYS` (DB filtering is forced),
`ON_DEMAND` (GraphQL parameter `nativeFilter` is considered).

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GraphQL: Added new filters for field types: list, micronode, (s3)binary. Added a new experimental filter for referencedBy nodes.

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GraphQL: A simplified, native filtering friendly version of `regex` string operation, `like`, has been added, accepting wildcards `%` as a zeroable set of characters, e.g. `like: “hello%world”` requests filtering in the strings, that start with `hello`, end with `world` and have zero-to-unlimited number of any characters in between.

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Core: Support of database level filtering/sorting has been added to the low level Java API.

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GraphQL: Support of database level filtering/sorting has been added. New `sort` parameter in added for structured sorting, forcing the usage of DB filtering. New GraphQL parameter `nativeFilter`
is added to the selected entity lookup methods, with options `NEVER` (old filtering is forced), `ALWAYS` (DB filtering is forced), `IF_POSSIBLE` (if the requested filter is supported by a DB, DB filtering is used, otherwise filtering is fallen back to the old filter mechanism).
Please note that not all the currently existing filters are supported by the DB.

Gentics Mesh SQL 2.0.0

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OrientDB: Basic experimental support for OrientDB native filtering/sorting is added. The GraphQL Mesh options has a new preference `nativeQueryFiltering` with options: `NEVER` (old filtering, default value), `ALWAYS` (DB filtering is forced),
`ON_DEMAND` (GraphQL parameter `nativeFilter` is considered).

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GraphQL: Added new filters for field types: list, micronode, (s3)binary. Added a new experimental filter for referencedBy nodes.

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GraphQL: A simplified, native filtering friendly version of `regex` string operation, `like`, has been added, accepting wildcards `%` as a zeroable set of characters, e.g. `like: “hello%world”` requests filtering in the strings, that start with `hello`, end with `world` and have zero-to-unlimited number of any characters in between.

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GraphQL: Support of database level filtering/sorting has been added. New `sort` parameter in added for structured sorting, forcing the usage of DB filtering. New GraphQL parameter `nativeFilter`
is added to the selected entity lookup methods, with options `NEVER` (old filtering is forced), `ALWAYS` (DB filtering is forced), `IF_POSSIBLE` (if the requested filter is supported by a DB, DB filtering is used, otherwise filtering is fallen back to the old filter mechanism).
Please note that not all the currently existing filters are supported by the DB.

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Core: Support of database level filtering/sorting has been added to the low level Java API.

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GraphQL: A support of database level filtering/sorting has been added. New `sort` parameter in added for structured sorting, forcing the usage of DB filtering. New GraphQL parameter `nativeFilter`
is added to the selected entity lookup methods, with options `NEVER` (old filtering is forced), `ALWAYS` (DB filtering is forced), `IF_POSSIBLE` (if the requested filter is supported by a DB, DB filtering is used, otherwise filtering is fallen back to the old filter mechanism).
Please note that not all the currently existing filters are supported by the DB.

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Adds asynchronous checks for uploaded binaries. When the new property `binaryCheckUrl` is set for a binary field in a schema, a request for checking the binary will be sent to that URL. The service is expected to send a request to the callback endpoint for that binary to set the check status to either ACCEPTED or DENIED (status for binaries with pending checks is POSTPONED). Requests for binaries with a check status other than ACCEPTED will result in a 404 response.

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Database: Support for DB SQL filtering/sorting is added for all the supported databases.

Gentics Mesh Commercial Plugins 2.0.0

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Forms: Add endpoints for asynchronous export and binary downloads.

Gentics Portal | java 3.0.0

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Gentics Portal | java is now compatible with Gentics CMP 8.0 components.

Gentics Portal | php 3.0.0

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Gentics Portal | php is now compatible with Gentics CMP 8.0 components.