Manual Change
The PHP APC cache module must be enabled.
Append the following settings to the /Node/etc/php/php.ini file.
Manual Change
(when updating from 5.0.0 or older)
If you attempt to update from Gentics Content.Node 5.0.0 or older, a special patch needs to be applied. Extract the patch file which can be downloaded (gcn5_update_patch.tgz) in /Node/.node:
Security
Improved various permission checks and change password mechanism
Security
Adds XSS checks for tagfill/page_save and folder/page/node/file properties. Also adds the “policy” field for TagParts.
Security
Improved security checks for serving images & files from the backend
Enhancement
Performance Improvement: getCurrentTIme() is not called anymore if the RuntimeProfiler is not enabled
Enhancement
Performance Improvement: parttypes are now cached, thus increasing render performance
Enhancement
Performance Improvement: The communication between PHP and the Java backend now happens via the native PHP Streaming API
Enhancement
Automatic update mechanism adapted for new Gentics Content.Node 5 package structure
Enhancement
Performance Improvement: Refactored the newline to html-break transformation of text part types. Some edge-cases of the old behaviour have been fixed. This change improves render-performance of pages in edit, preview and publish mode noticeably
Enhancement
Performance Improvement: added indices for id and contenttag_id to the ds_nodeversion table for improved performance
Enhancement
Performance Improvement: improved IE6 JavaScript performance by ceaning up jQuery itemlist handlers
Enhancement
Setting the page language will now trigger a dirtevent for all language variants.
Enhancement
Performance Improvement: disabled output buffer for user images
Enhancement
Performance Improvement: improved response times for viewing and editing pages
Enhancement
Feature “tagfill2” is not supported anymore – the dialog will fallback to the standard tagfill dialog.
Enhancement
Made isEditMode() and isPreviewMode() available for editing with Aloha.
Enhancement
Performance Improvement: content files are now served with a fingerprint instead of the current timestamp, so that the browser-cache is used more effectively
Enhancement
New Feature: “no_userlist_on_startpage” hides user list on startpage for faster loading
Enhancement
New changelog mechanism (unique change ids instead of build dates)
Enhancement
Switched deletion of publish directories to pure Java, so that no processes are forked anymore.
Enhancement
Performance Improvement: diff between page versions will now be handled in Java, thus increasing the performance
Enhancement
Gentics Content.Node velocity configuration is now available to the JavaParser.
Enhancement
Improved publish workflows and the page queue, which will now directly lead you to the page preview.
Enhancement
Added LSB Tags for nodectl script to allow usage of dependency boot system.
Bugfix
Fixed a problem that caused invalid page editor assignments.
Bugfix
Fixed page-save errors if the same aloha link tag occurs more than once in a page.
Bugfix
Fixed incorrect prompts on clicking the cancel button in the switch template dialog.
Bugfix
Fixed incorrect information in publish log about pages being written to disk even if publishing to the filesystem is disabled.
Bugfix
Fixes JCS configuration. The cache stopped working after Gentics Portal Node was removed. This was because the system property that configured the location for the cache.ccf file did not get set by the portal node configuration setup code.
Bugfix
Fixes consistency check during a CRSync. The contentstatus table could not be created with a customized name.
Bugfix
Fixed a timing problem when deleting or taking pages offline while the publish process started.
Bugfix
Fixed errors in CR browser and tagmap list
Bugfix
Fixed possible NPE for objects without NodeObject representations like construct categories.
Bugfix
Fixed XNL Function registry.
Bugfix
Fixed a problem with IE which didn‘t always show the resizable in itemlist columns.
Bugfix
Fixed dependency calculations when rendering pages within other pages.
Bugfix
Deletion of tagtypes is now decoupled from the browser-request, so that an aborted browser-request doesn‘t leave tags in the system, that have references to the deleted tagtype
Bugfix
Fixed error when uploading a new file or image.
Bugfix
Fixed encoding bugs with user name.
This Gentics Content.Node version includes the Aloha Editor 0.20.5 – 2012/02/09