Gentics CMS OSS Changelog

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.23

Documentation SUP-19203 Link to this entry

Server: A mandatory parameter --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED has been added to the installation documentation , to actualize the instructions against the modern Java runtimes.

Bugfix SUP-19294 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: An unnecessary request of updating the folder breadcrumbs on every change in an editor has been removed, eliminating resources waste.

Bugfix SUP-19369 Link to this entry

A possible NullPointerException during the publish process has been fixed.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.22

Bugfix SUP-19335 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed the editing of select options in forms.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.21

Documentation SUP-19141 Link to this entry

Aloha Editor: It is discouraged to use IDs in the construct‘s root tag(s), as those may malfunction the editor‘s tagging mechanism. The description of this effect has been added to the documentation.

Documentation SUP-19276 Link to this entry

Handlebars: The documentation of transition of the complex object structure referencing from Velocity to Handlebars has been extended to have more details.

Bugfix SUP-19166 Link to this entry

Form Generator: Now the user input of form element values is trimmed against spaces and caret returns. This also means no empty value is allowed for the form element.

Bugfix SUP-19206 Link to this entry

When a new template tag (not editable in pages) was created, pages were not dirted, even if they were published with a tagmap entry referencing that tag. This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-19032 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When editing a form, the label of a element will be updated while editing again, and does not have to wait until the form has been saved.

Bugfix SUP-19217 Link to this entry

Resolving properties using the .get() notation in a velocity part type or a handlebars helpe did not work and has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-19012 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Updated the way breadcrumbs are displayed for searched elements, to be easier readable.

Bugfix SUP-19039 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue where it was not possible to save the properties of a page when the user had no permissions to view templates.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.20

Manual Change

The feature publish_cache is now be default disabled. If publish_cache is required, make sure to explicitly enable it in the configuration.

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The feature publish_cache is now be default disabled. If publish_cache is required, make sure to explicitly enable it in the configuration.

Documentation SUP-18983 Link to this entry

Cleaned up the documentation on memory performance settings to remove obsolete PHP settings.

Documentation SUP-19187 Link to this entry

Fixed the configuration example in the Scheduler API documentation. The example used the incorrect setting scheduler_job_failure instead of scheduler_job_failure_email.

Documentation SUP-19202 Link to this entry

The CMS guides have been extended with a section about “Configuring the CMS”.

Documentation SUP-19056 Link to this entry

The example configuration for Aloha-Editor plugins has been updated.

Bugfix SUP-19019 Link to this entry

The usage information for pages possibly returned incorrectly high counts. This has been fixe.

Bugfix SUP-19023 Link to this entry

Fixes an error when adding an object property to a devtools package. The object property was still added to the package but a general backend error message was shown and the list was not updated. This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-19083 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The indicators for active/inactive object properties were swapped and have been fixed now.

Bugfix SUP-19014 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed the display of elements when user information was missing.

Bugfix SUP-18939 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: The management of template folders has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-19024 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Scheduled page and form time-management settings can now be removed.

Bugfix SUP-19055 Link to this entry

Editor UI: Fixes an issue where the Editor UI sometimes only showed a blank page after closing edit mode.

Bugfix SUP-19140 Link to this entry

Editor UI: Fixes an issue while pasting link tags, that caused an error in the JavaScript console.

Bugfix SUP-19118 Link to this entry

Core: If in a multilanguage node a page language encoding is set either to `PATH` or `FILENAME`, and the page‘s language has been switched through the object properties, it is gotten duplicated on being published to Mesh, keeping the old language variant around. This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-19165 Link to this entry

Editor UI: Fixed an issue with editing link information. For external links or links to sections on the same page, the anchor was not stored with the link until the page was saved.

Bugfix SUP-18935 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Updated the loading of users to only be done when required.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.19

Optional Manual Change

The default configuration for aloha_settings.plugins.block.rootTags was changed to include a tags. If this setting is overwritten in your setup and copy & paste of links does not work, add the a tag to the list of allowed root tags.

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If the Aloha configuration constrains insertable tags via tagtypeWhitelist, make sure to add the Aloha link tagtype (@gtxalohapagelink@ by default) to the list.

Security SUP-18984 Link to this entry

Some dependencies have been updated:

Nimbus JOSE+JWT: 9.37.4
Apache Commons Lang: 3.18.0
Apache Commons IO: 2.20.0
Apache Commons Compress: 1.28.0

Bugfix SUP-18873 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Selecting elements in an Overview with sticky channel enabled did not correctly save the channel elements were selected from. This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-18856 Link to this entry

Editor UI: The Rich Text feature ignores text input changes, if there are no rich test elements added or removed, This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-18877 Link to this entry

Administrator UI: Mesh browser opens the editor for the multilingual item (page/image/file) inconsistently, so that its particular language variant could have never been reached. This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-18765 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Sorting of the construct categories has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-18982 Link to this entry

In cases where a scheduler execution finished (successful or with an error) during unavailability of the backend database the execution could not be marked as finished. This caused the scheduler to no start any more executions until the CMS was restartet. The behaviour has been improved so that the scheduler will no mark the execution as finished as soon as the backend database is available.

Bugfix SUP-18537 Link to this entry

Fixed a validation issue that prevented copy & paste of links.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.18

Bugfix SUP-18802 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When saving objects with a “published“ state (like pages and forms) from the properties dialog, the save notification will now also show a “Publish” button to immediately publish the modified object.

Bugfix SUP-18859 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Forms will now always correctly load when switching nodes or when logging into for the first time.

Bugfix SUP-18850 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The initial loading of a folder has been refactored, eliminating several race conditions on loading different folder data parts.

Bugfix SUP-18928 Link to this entry

Some dependencies have been updated:

Jetty: 9.4.58.v20250814

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.17

Bugfix SUP-18692 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: It was not possible to remove a value of an number input field completely, if there was one. This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-18679 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When editing a page, the page list will no longer lock onto the currently open page and allows for regular browsing.

Bugfix SUP-18694 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Editing of forms has been updated to correctly display referenced pages.

Bugfix SUP-18781 Link to this entry

REST API: When getting constructs with their construct category embedded, the category will no longer have its constructs embedded

Bugfix SUP-18781 Link to this entry

REST API: The performance of getting lists of constructs or construct categories has been improved. This also improves the performance of opening pages for editing in the Editor User Interface on systems with many constructs.

Bugfix SUP-18781 Link to this entry

REST API: The endpoint to get a list of construct categories has new query parameters pageId and nodeId to restrict the returned construct categories to the ones that have at least one construct which is assigned to the given node.

Bugfix SUP-18781 Link to this entry

REST API: The endpoint to get construct categories will only have the constructs embedded when the parameter embed=constructs is given.

Bugfix SUP-18791 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed The context menu of a page to be always unlocked.

Bugfix SUP-18778 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The handling of the asset-management configuration has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-18714 Link to this entry

When stopping a publish process, and delaying objects, the following publish process would sometimes also publish the delayed objects. This has been fixed now.

Bugfix SUP-18787 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When opening a page for editing, sometimes some constructs were available before an editable was activated. This has been fixed now, so that no constructs will be available before an editable is activated by clicking into it.

Bugfix SUP-18786 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Editors no longer need administration privileges to see the construct categories when editing pages.

Bugfix SUP-18768 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When editing pages, the construct categories will now be shown in the defined order.

Bugfix SUP-18792 Link to this entry

Editor: Now the pagination and items-per-page count are kept after doing various actions with the distinct item.

Bugfix SUP-18788 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed the selection handling when interacting with the toolbar in the edit mode. After interacting with a toolbar element, it‘ll no longer scroll, unless the edited or inserted element is not visible.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.16

Bugfix SUP-18686 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When inserting a tag into a page, the dropdown will now close directly instead of waiting for the tag to be inserted.

Bugfix SUP-18671 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When editing a page, and using the top bar to edit content, it will now correctly restore the selection and correct scolling behaviour.

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Some dependencies have been updated:

commons-fileupload: 1.6.0

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.15

Bugfix SUP-18736 Link to this entry

Updated Aloha-Editor due to a regression that caused Aloha-Editor to not load properly.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.14

Enhancement SUP-18506 Link to this entry

UI Core: Tables have an additional way to handle selection, in the form of a Map. Has to be enabled per table with the useSelectionMap Input. Allows for the indeterminate state to be set and correctly handled.

Bugfix SUP-18595 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When comparing page versions with each other, the difference is now computed with another algorithm, which better handles HTML differences.

Bugfix SUP-18506 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed an issue of adding or removing links to elements, when managing the assignment of multiple elements. For example, when managing multiple templates and their assignment to nodes.

Bugfix SUP-18598 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed an issue where the assigned users of a group would not refresh when switching between details of a group.

Bugfix SUP-18641 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The pagination will now display the correct amount of items which have been configured.

Bugfix SUP-18655 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Improved loading indication when searching or when browsing content.

Bugfix SUP-18668 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: The list of groups of a user allowed to perform the actions for creating subgroups, moving groups and even deleting groups. This was confusing and has been removed.

Bugfix SUP-18670 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: The list of groups of a user now has a button “Assign user to Groups” which opens the modal for assignment of the user to groups.

Bugfix SUP-18660 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The selection handling of the tabs while editing a page has been improved.

Bugfix SUP-18654 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: The modals for creating new entities will now all show a loading indicator during the request to add the entity in the backend. This will prevent involuntary creation of duplicates (by clicking the “create” button multiple times).

Bugfix SUP-18701 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Inserting a tag into a page now remembers the position correctly and also shows a more detailed placeholder.

Bugfix SUP-18674 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue in the edit-mode, where the state of the control buttons would not always update correctly.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.13

Bugfix SUP-18558 Link to this entry

Now an information about an image exceeding the dimension limits contains IDs and a name of this image.

Bugfix SUP-18589 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed an issue where changing the language in the mesh browser would change the UI language as well.

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Some dependencies have been updated:

commons-beanutils: 1.11.0

Bugfix SUP-18599 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed potential modal locking when uploading a content-package zip file.

Bugfix SUP-18602 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed the link in the usage-list, to navigate to the correct item.

Bugfix SUP-18607 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: When changing the language in the Mesh Browser, the content will be correctly reloaded to dipslay the content in the new language.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.12

Bugfix SUP-18495 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed the formatting of durations in the scheduler module.

Bugfix SUP-18497 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed visual artifacts which could occur when opening the tag-editor.

Bugfix SUP-18524 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When creating a new folder, the “description“ field showed the dummy content “initial-unset-value”. This has been fixed now.

Bugfix SUP-18540 Link to this entry

Database records with empty uuid could lead to NullPointerExceptions during various actions. This has been modified so that the action involving the empty uuid will succeed and a warning will be logged.

Bugfix SUP-18541 Link to this entry

The preview for a modified tag was not rendered correctly (did not show the modified, but the original content), when the tag rendered the modified part by referencing the text attribute of that part. This has been fixed.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.11

Enhancement SUP-18442 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Some styling updates in the Mesh CR Administration window, for better user experience.

Bugfix SUP-18389 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Validation of TagPart order has been fixed. Additionally, styling for inputs which are invalid have been updated to show the status correctly.

Bugfix SUP-18320 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When editing a form, you may now only add elements via drag and drop. Clicking on the element on the right menu will not add it to the form any more. Updated the visuals in the form-editor to improve usability.

Bugfix SUP-18415 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed an issue when creating a new Checkbox TagPart, where during crating the default value could not be set.

Bugfix SUP-18399 Link to this entry

Mesh: The proxy now correctly processes Mesh calls, if they contain a `HTTPOnly` cookie setting.

Bugfix SUP-18395 Link to this entry

User Interface: Modals which lock user-input will properly unlock on error. Modals with user-input will not automatically close on error, to prevent user-input data loss.

Bugfix SUP-18440 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Added hostname validation to node properties, and the node creation modal will not close the modal on errors, to prevent losing entered form data.

Bugfix SUP-18470 Link to this entry

User Interface: Fixed an issue where channels would always display the root node as the parent, which is not the case for more deeply nested inheritances.

Bugfix SUP-18457 Link to this entry

Possible NullPointerExceptions during sorting of elements (e.g. when rendering overviews) have been fixed.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.10

Documentation SUP-18266 Link to this entry

The REST API Documentation has been improved to no longer show object hierarchies. Also some descriptions and examples have been improved.

Bugfix SUP-18376 Link to this entry

User Interface: If the option values, sent to the select control, are numeric and start with zero, the very first one is never displayed, if being picked. This has been fixed.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.9

Optional Manual Change

When using a MariaDB version 11.6 or above the innodb_snapshot_isolation setting must be disabled in the configuration.

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When using a MariaDB version 11.6 or above the innodb_snapshot_isolation setting must be disabled in the configuration.

Optional Manual Change

The implementation for the REST model Construct was changed:

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The methods isOpenEditorOnInsert() and isEditorControlsInside() have been renamed to getOpenEditorOnInsert() and getEditorControlsInside() respectively.
The methods getOpenEditorOnInsert() and getEditorControlsInside() now return Boolean instead of boolean and can therefore return null.

Documentation SUP-18320 Link to this entry

The supported MariaDB versions have been updated in the compatibility list.

Bugfix SUP-18349 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed pagination for the CR select in the Mesh Browser module.

Bugfix SUP-18307 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When publishing pages or taking pages offline, the messages shown to the user will now be more explicit about whether the page has been immediately been written to or removed from the Content.Repository (when instant publishing is used) or the page has just been set into the requested state (which will take effect with the next regular publish process).

Bugfix SUP-18259 Link to this entry

User Interface: The validation for node publish directories and it‘s linking has been fixed in both the Editor and Administrator User Interfaces.

Bugfix SUP-18372 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue when setting the focal point, where it could be out set out of bounds, causing publishing issues.

Bugfix SUP-18367 Link to this entry

Admin User Interface: The tagtype settings “Edit on insert“ and “Display controls inside” are no longer reset when saving the changes to tagparts.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.8

Bugfix SUP-18254 Link to this entry

The dependency report will now also contain UI dependencies.

Bugfix SUP-18217 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed the display of two scrollbars which could appear when viewing/expanding tree elements.

Bugfix SUP-18263 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Changing the default upload folders of a node lets you correctly select the folder now.

Bugfix SUP-18259 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed validation and linking of page and binary directories in node settings.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.7

Enhancement SUP-17776 Link to this entry

Now a plain text property startpageurl is added to the list of folder fields of Mesh Content Repository, allowing using the external URL as a startpage, or just simplifying the start page resolving in the case of single language setup.

Documentation SUP-18180 Link to this entry

Fix MariaDB compatibility list

Bugfix SUP-18179 Link to this entry

Resolving of page.languageset.pages.[code] did not work any more and has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-18179 Link to this entry

Sometimes pages would be marked as “modified” after they had been published via time management. This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-18194 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Several issues with the node properties dialog have been fixed:

The checkbox “Publish Directory Segments“ will now only be visible, when the feature pub_dir_segments is activated.
The checkbox “Publish Directory Segments” will be disabled for channels, since this setting is inherited from the master node.

Bugfix SUP-18198 Link to this entry

When a node published into a Content.Repository with instant publishing enabled, operations which modified objects that should be published into the Content.Repository would fail with an internal server error, if the Content.Repository was currently not available or improperly set up. This has been fixed. While instant publishing itself will not be possible in such cases, the originating operation will succeed now.

Bugfix SUP-18150 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The overview of usages of an Item have been reworked and are now paginated.

Bugfix SUP-18222 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When displaying pages in preview or edit mode, occasional errors like “Record has changed since last read in table ‘systemsession‘” could occur when using MariaDB and the setting ‘innodb_snapshot_isolation‘ was switched on. Those errors have been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-18213 Link to this entry

Fixes failing image uploads when automatic webp conversion is enabled and the image cannot be converted. When conversion failed, the original image is uploaded instead.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.6

Enhancement SUP-18072 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: The value of a datasource item has been extended from 50 to 16383 symbols.

Enhancement SUP-18083 Link to this entry

Logging: Now, if one of the configuration files is flawed, causing the startup procedure to fail, it will be logged with the maximum severity. Also, if the contents of a config file is logically empty, e.g. contains no uncommented entries, the startup will not fail.

Enhancement SUP-17216 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Now the `Last Scheduler Task Status` shows an actual status of the last scheduled task. The failure logs link is now pointing to the Scheduler instead of Content Repositories.

Bugfix SUP-18092 Link to this entry

The default log level for the logger ‘org.eclipse.jetty‘ has been changed to ‘warn‘ to log errors that occur in servlet filters (e.g. used for single-sign-on). This change will only take effect, if no custom nodelog.yml file is present. If a custom nodelog.yml file is used, it is recommended to set the log level of ‘org.eclipse.jetty‘ to at least ‘warn‘ there.

Bugfix SUP-17206 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: It is now possible to change the keyword of a construct and the keyword of a part in a construct.

Bugfix SUP-18060 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: The behaviour of cancelling the publish process has been improved. The UI will now wait for up to 10 seconds for the publish process to stop. If the publish process is still running after 10 seconds, a warning will be shown and stack traces of all publisher related threads will be logged to the server log.

Bugfix SUP-17875 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Now the display/segment/URL field pickers from the schema editor function correctly, being filled with the field values to pick from.

Bugfix SUP-17951 Link to this entry

A column in the table dependencymap2 has been increase to avoid SQL errors during the publish process. The update to this CMS version might therefore take longer than usual.

Bugfix SUP-16591 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Links to the Administrator User Interface will now contain the ‘skip-sso‘ parameter, if the Editor User Interface was accessed with this parameter.

Bugfix SUP-18066 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Now edit mode allows the editor hyperlinks being clicked only with CTRL key, preventing accidental page leaves or reloads.

Bugfix SUP-15751 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: The `Object Type` values of the Content Repository Tagmap entries list are back.

Bugfix SUP-18109 Link to this entry

Fixes compatibility issues with Oracle MySQL databases.

Bugfix SUP-16772 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed a potential race-condition which prevented the edit-button to be displayed when previewing a page.

Bugfix SUP-17209 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed an the creation of new nodes, to also save the configured publishing settings.

Bugfix SUP-17545 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Now the list pagination is reset when a new search term is entered.

Bugfix SUP-17177 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Now the `Add languages to a node` modal window scrolls its table content correctly.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.5

Enhancement SUP-17792 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Now the folder breadcrumbs are shown for the search results, if no Elasticsearch is used.

Enhancement SUP-17501 Link to this entry

Devtools: Now when a Content Repository is assigned to the Node of a Devtools Package with CR fragments, these fragments are attached to the Content Repository.

Bugfix SUP-18031 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed the editing of template object-properties.

Bugfix SUP-18032 Link to this entry

When startup of the http server fails (e.g. due to configuration errors), the process will now terminate after the error log is written, instead of keep running in an unreponsive state.

Bugfix SUP-18035 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The link-checker in edit-mode has been updated to work with tags correctly. It requires a configuration for constructs to opt in ~~tagtypeWhitelist – to enable it for specified constructs.~~

Bugfix SUP-17987 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Assignment of multiple templates to nodes or folders always failed with some error messages (insufficient permissions). This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-17536 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Various translations of labels and messages have been corrected.

Bugfix SUP-17912 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Moving of user groups sometimes incorrectly failed with a permission error which has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-17525 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: When creating a node, languages have to be specified in order to be allowed to create the node.

Bugfix SUP-17060 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: It is now possible to change the task of an existing scheduler schedule.

Bugfix SUP-16566 Link to this entry

When importing an object property definition from a devtool package, where the object property definition does not have a description set, the description would be set to a number instead of an empty string. This has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-17353 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Fixed an impossibility of expanding contents of a folder in the content picker dialog, if this folder has no subfolders.

Bugfix SUP-17402 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The sorting of display properties of the folder contents has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-17369 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Editing overview tag-parts in template object-properties now properly scroll to display all elements.

Bugfix SUP-17749 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Long content in the mesh server details table will now correctly form multiple rows and be displayed without additional scrolling.

Bugfix SUP-17633 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Some possible error messages when updating templates have been improved.

Bugfix SUP-18079 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue where the tag was not rendered correctly after inserting it with the “Edit on Insert” option.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.4

Optional Manual Change

The environment variable SCHEDULER_COMNANDS_PATH contained a typo and has been renamed to SCHEDULER_COMMANDS_PATH.

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Bugfix SUP-17899 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue when attempting to opening the time-management from a page when in edit- or preview-mode.

Bugfix SUP-17986 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The page properties dialog never allowed linking templates to the page‘s folder and has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-17183 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: The properties dialog of a tag in a template will now always show the currently selected construct.

Bugfix SUP-17964 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Saving of modified scheduler task properties has been fixed.

Bugfix SUP-17941 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The permission checks for publishing, un-publishing, and deleting pages have been fixed. The interface will now only use available languages, and will ignore pages where permissions aren‘t granted.

Bugfix SUP-17941 Link to this entry

Users will no longer be able to publish objects (or put them into the queue) if they do not have at least view and edit permission on the object.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.3

Enhancement SUP-17590 Link to this entry

Added documentation for custom editors and how to implement them.

Bugfix SUP-17885 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue when editing the Object-Properties of a Page, the file-name would be overritten with a default value.

Bugfix SUP-17891 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Sorting of the items in the repository browser is now synchronized with the user settings and will persist/apply for the same type across the UI.

Bugfix SUP-17881 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When updating object-properties and switching between them, the correct value will now be used/displayed.

Bugfix SUP-17877 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed the language selection in the repository browser, and added a language indicator for internally selected pages when linking them in the edit-mode.

Bugfix SUP-17860 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Resolved an issue with the Link-Checker, where the Links didn‘t properly update or broken links were not correctly detected.

Bugfix SUP-17963 Link to this entry

The version definition for the npm packages have been fixed to allow correct installation.

Bugfix SUP-17590 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue with custom editors not loading correctly, when the editor URL contained escapable characters (such as spaces).

Bugfix SUP-17994 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed focus handling when in edit mode, to allow for uninterrupted editing.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.2

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Updated Aloha-Editor to version 2.1.2.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.1

Bugfix SUP-17887 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed a race-condition which was introduced in the previous version, which sometimes causes the preview- and edit-mode to not be useable.

Bugfix SUP-17885 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue when editing the Object-Properties of a Page, the file-name would be overritten with a default value.

Bugfix SUP-17891 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Sorting of the items in the repository browser is now synchronized with the user settings and will persist/apply for the same type across the UI.

Bugfix SUP-17877 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed the language selection in the repository browser, and added a language indicator for internally selected pages when linking them in the edit-mode.

Gentics CMS OSS 6.2.0

Optional Manual Change

Object property definitions now have a boolean flag “restricted” which can be set to restrict object properties to assigned Nodes.

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When updating an older CMS instance, the “restricted” flag will be automatically set to object property definitions, which are already restricted to Nodes. All other object property definitions remain globally available. It is recommended to check the restriction settings of all existing object property definitions after the update.

Enhancement GPU-1604 Link to this entry

When publishing into a Mesh Content.Repository with “Project per Node” activated, it is now possible to define the Mesh Project and Branch names in the Node/Channel properties instead of having them derived from the name of the Node/Channel.

Enhancement GPU-1708 Link to this entry

The new “Handlebars” Part Type brings the Handlebars templating language to the CMS. See the Guides for details.

Enhancement GPU-1711 Link to this entry

Page Expire Date: After taking a page in the CMS offline, the information of when it went offline is now available to the user. Two new endpoints have been introduced to obtain this information

GET /publish/state/{type}/{objId}
GET /publish/state/

Additionally, a publish protocol of pages and forms has been added to the Editor User Interface.

Enhancement GPU-1805 Link to this entry

Some dependencies have been updated:

json-path: 2.9.0
logback: 1.2.13

Enhancement GPU-1606 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Files and Images now also have the option to set a custom create and edit date.

Bugfix SUP-17766 Link to this entry

Fixes a bug which lead to content loss in pages when using newer MariaDB versions.

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