Gentics Content.Node Changelog Summary

Gentics Content.Node 5.14.27


Enhancement RT56970

Updated the feature overview guides and added the missing features:

  • advanced_parallel
  • aloha
  • autocomplete_folder_path
  • custom_streams
  • file_fetch
  • hardlink_files
  • history
  • image_manipulation2
  • instantmessages
  • instantmessages_customtime
  • maintenance_mode
  • nodecopy
  • nodecopy_files
  • objprop_page_edit_assistant
  • page_cleanup
  • quickjump
  • redirect_check_referer
  • roles
  • set_folder_start_page
  • suspend_scheduler
  • symlink_files
  • useDaisyDiff
  • UTF8
  • versiondiff
  • view_perms

Also, the list of deprecated features has been updated with:

  • aloha010
  • cn_page_import_fill_editable_part
  • image_manipulation
  • quickrecursivetranslations
  • realeditor

Bugfix RT57819-RT57627

Follow-up from Bugfix RT57627.
When a Page is imported and no weekdays are set for per-weekday-publishing it automatically sets all weekdays.
Since GCN 5.15.8 all weekdays are set for per-weekday-publishing by default.
This fixes importing a page from a system prior 5.15.8, where pages would appear online if no weekday was set for per-weekday-publishing.


Bugfix RT57849

When opening a page for editing with Aloha Editor, the toolbar entries to insert new tags into editables are created asynchronously.
In cases, where this takes longer and the editor activates an editable before the initialization is done, a wrong set of icons was shown.
This has been fixed now. If an editor activates an editable before the tag insert icons are initialized, a “loading” icon will be shown
in the toolbar as placeholder for the tag insert menu. When the the tag insert icons are ready to be used, the placeholder will immediately be
replaced with the tag insert icons.


Bugfix RT57745

When subscribing to the event channel ‘tag.rendered‘ or ‘page.rendered‘ in the Gentics Content.Node JavaScript API,
the handlers were not called when inserting new tags and the insertion failed (tag was not inserted) without any
visible error messages.
These errors have been fixed now, when inserting a new tag, the handler for the channel ‘tag.rendered‘ will be called
and insertion will succeed.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.26


Bugfix RT57867

Previously, the purgeversions job would corrupt the page cache and a subsequent “Page Cancel” on a corrupted page would revert it to its first recorded version. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT57793

Nodes having updates of filesystem/ContentRepository disabled were not rendered italic in the content maintenance dialog.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT57610

Internet Explorer 11 failed to be recognized as browser that is compatible with Live Editor, therefore the Live Editor was deactivated when using Internet Explorer 11.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT57663

Part types: Fixed some tag part types not having a “cnTagPart_“ HTML class set. This has been added for the following types now:

  • URL (file)
  • URL (folder)
  • URL (image)
  • URL (page): Has “cnTagPart_NAME_internal“ and ”cnTagPart_NAME_external

Bugfix RT57888

An broken i18n translation string was fixed in the User administration. The broken translation caused an input error when a new user was being added. This issue has now been resolved.


Bugfix RT57828

Multiple fixes/enhancements for the GCN fileuploader:

File properties:

  • Fixed changed filename not being taking over when uploading a new file for an existing file
  • When the filename of the new file has a new extension, the old extension will be replaced automatically
  • Added new button “Take over new filename” to take over the filename of the new file by clicking

Bugfix RT57815

A bug in the File Upload Manipulator was fixed. Previously the “fileId” property was not set in the request to the FUM script. This issue has now been resolved.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.25


Bugfix RT57808

The message count in the top right corner had a bug that caused it to always be 0. It has been fixed to show the current number of unread messages of the user.


Bugfix RT57787

Page import: Fixed links sometimes not being rendered correctly when publising the pages during import.
The links were published as static links (like they have not been transformed), however in the page preview it was rendered correctly.
Now when using instant publishing, links will probably be rendered as “#” first (when the target page does not exist yet and will be imported later), but with the next publish run they will be rendered correctly.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.24


Bugfix RT57764

Fixed the permissions check when moving a folder into another folder.
The user needed the “create File“ permission on the target folder and the “create Folder” permission was ignored.


Bugfix RT57813

Previously, Gentics Content.Node would not publish pages from a channel in the filesystem, if the master node has either updates disabled or publishing into filesystem disabled.
Now it will correctly publish as indicated in the properties of the channel node.


Bugfix RT57774

Fixed a database consistency problem that occured whenever a master folder with localizations was moved inside a channel node.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.23


Bugfix RT57750

Gentics Content.Node now fails earlier if it detects common serious problems with GlobalID generation. (e.g. if you accidentally reset globalidsequence, import different objects with identical GlobalIDs or try to generate GlobalIDs with a NULL globalprefix)

This fix contains database changes that might take some time (~10min for 12M mappedglobalids) and might fail if your database is already corrupted (duplicate GlobalIDs or NULL GlobalIDs).

In order to prevent data corruption, the webapp will refuse to start if a modification to mappedglobalidsequence is detected (See error message in catalina.out).


Bugfix RT57712

When pushing pages to master nodes using the channel synchronization, pushing of pages
will be prevented, if they use local templates (that are not available in the master node).
The user will receive a notification about the inability to push pages due to local templates.


Bugfix RT57710

When the name of a node was changed using the backend UI, dependent objects were not dirted.
This has been fixed now, changing the node name will now correctly trigger object dirting.


Bugfix RT57633

Page versions: Fixed data inconsistencies in the database table (duplicate data in nodeversion table) caused by users double clicking on the publish link.


Bugfix RT57712

When a page in the master node links to another object (file, image, page or folder) that exists
locally in a channel and the source page is rendered in the master node, the link will be rendered as empty (#) now.
Before this fix, the URL to the channel local page was rendered, which resulted in a dead link.


Bugfix RT51701

In the list of scheduler jobs, some execution plans of jobs were not readable in the tooltip due to css styling issues.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT57769

FileUploadManipulator: Fixed the “folder” object not being sent in the json script request object. See the FUM documentation for more information.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.22


Manual Change

Server JRE Update

A jvm bug was discovered that caused OutOfMemory errors due to non garbage collected image data.

Please update the used Java version to Server JRE 1.7.0_51-b13 64 bit
Download the Server JRE package and extract it in e.g. /Node/.
Update the /Node/java symlink to point to the new ‘Server JRE‘ directory.
Restart the tomcat once you finished this step using the /Node/bin/nodectl script.


Enhancement rt57204

The documentation about the publish process has be reorganized and enhanced.


Bugfix RT57500

A behaviour in IE caused fields to remain greyed out in the tagfill
dialogue. When clicking the “display content” checkbox the area should change.
The behaviour was fixed for IE.


Bugfix RT57688

When saving or importing a template, a NullPointerException would sometimes be thrown if the containing folder of the template has been deleted.
Now you can also handle templates where the containing folder is deleted.


Bugfix RT57717

A bug in the migration feature was fixed. In some cases the migration of pages changed the page status to ‘being edited‘.
This issue only occurred for pages that used templates that were modified recently.
Additionally the logging of the migration process was enhanced.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.21


Enhancement RT57609

The performance of rendering statistics in the maintenance dialog has been improved by around 50% on systems with many nodes.


Bugfix RT57635

Permission checking for translation was updated, so that edit rights are not required anymore for the source language of a translation.


Bugfix RT57565

File upload: The description field in the “New -> File / Image” dialog has been removed. It was confusing for some users that the description was only set for files that were added/uploaded afterwards.


Bugfix RT57684

The way the changelog will be presented in the autoupdate dialog has been changed. Previously all changelog entries would be shown in the changelog dialog.
Starting with the next release only the new changelog entries will be shown.
Additionally the way how the changelog must be confirmed was changed. It is now mandatory to confirm each manual change.


Bugfix RT57627

Various small fixes concerning per-weekday publishing in timemanagement.
Previously, per weekday publishing only worked with a start time set. Now it works unconditonally.
Previously, page/load REST-API calls would return time management information with weekdays initialized to false if a start time was not set, now they are more intuitively initialized to true.


Bugfix RT57658

When using the REST API to create a page, file or folder in a folder that exists locally in a channel without
specifying a nodeId, the object was created in the master node, but could never be seen in the master node, because
its folder did not exist in the master node.
This has been changed now, if no nodeId is specified in the request, the object will be created in the folder‘s channel.
If an invalid nodeId is specified (nodeId of a channel, in which the specified folder is not visible), the request will fail now.


Bugfix RT57697

Live URLs: Fixed icons not being displayed anymore because the image is broken.


Bugfix RT57658

When using the tagfill dialog via frontend editing for uploading a new file or image into a page
in a channel, the new file or image was not uploaded to the page‘s channel, but to the master node instead.
This has been changed now, new files or images uploaded in the tagfill dialog will now be created in the page‘s channel.


Bugfix RT56361

A potential php out of memory error has been fixed in the maintenance dialog.


Bugfix RT57708

A NullPointerException that sporadically happens if a dependency gets deleted while the publishing process is running has been fixed.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.20


Bugfix RT56904

When importing a folder but not the templates, which are assigned to the folder on the source system,
the templates will now be assigned to the folder on the target system, if the templates already exist on the target system.
Before this fix, templates were only assigned to folders, if the templates were imported.


Bugfix RT57568

A bug has been fixed, that prevented instant publishing of new folders, that were imported using the page import.


Bugfix RT57670

Previously, certain filenames of pages could not be uniquified automatically. This has been known to cause problems with e.g. imports.
The code has been changed to allow for more filenames to be uniquified automatically.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.19


Enhancement RT57646

Fileuploader: Enhanced the mimetype detection of uploaded Files, mimetypes in container formats are now correctly recognized.
Previously, a Microsoft Office .docx document was recognized as application/zip because the container is actually a zip.
It is now recognized as “application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document”.


Bugfix RT57644

Since a recent Chrome Update, the first column with the checkbox in GCN lists (pages in folders, scheduler, etc.) was cut. This is fixed now.


Bugfix RT57650

Previously, when moving files in the backend, the permission check on possible target folders was not performed correctly. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT57588

Previously, some templates found in recursive searches could not be displayed even if the user had permission to do so. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT57599

An additional info text has been added to the keyword field in the creation dialog for object properties, tagtypes and tagtype parts. The info text will notify the user that special characters inside the keyword may cause problems when those element are being referenced within an tagmap mapping.


Bugfix RT57462

A bug in the migration feature was fixed. Previously the tagtype migration changed the status of offline pages to being edited. This issue only affected the offline pages within migration jobs.


Bugfix RT57190

Instant publishing a page that uses XNL functions will no longer hang when there is a concurrent publish process that uses XNL functions.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.18


Bugfix RT57624

The GCNJSAPI has been fixed to work as documented when you try to get or set a value of a “Tag (page)” part.
Documentation on this has been clarified, too.


Bugfix RT57606

Importing of localized templates always created a conflict due to missing target folder, if the localized template did not yet exist on the target system.
Because of this, it was impossible to successfully finish the import.
This has been fixed now. For localized templates, no check for target folders is done, because localized templates are always linked to the same folders as their masters.


Bugfix RT57607

When deleting folders, localized copies of templates linked to that folder were deleted, regardless of whether the (master) template was still linked to other folders or used in pages.
This bug, which was introduced in Gentics Content.Node 5.13.25, 5.14.13 and 5.15.0 has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT57605

The SQL statements used to find reusable data files for filesystem attributes in multichannelling aware contentrepositories were inperformant and have been improved.


Bugfix RT56058

When files in the CMS lost their binary content (or were incompletely created without binary content), the publish process failed (due to missing binary data).
The display of such files in the backend was inconsistent and it was not possible to delete such files to resolve the publishing error by using the backend.
This has been fixed now, broken files that cause the publish process to fail will now be shown in the backend specially marked (with an alert icon and in red) and it is possible to delete them.
Additionally, it is now possible to search broken files using either the extended search in the backend or the REST API.


Bugfix RT56622

Removing of objects from a multichannelling aware contentrepository with instant publishing did not work. The objects were removed at the next publish run.
This has been fixed now, when instant publishing is enabled, objects will be immediately be removed unless more than one object is deleted at once.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.17


Bugfix RT57550

When selecting elements for an overview using the repository browser, the order of the already selected elements was not always shown consistently.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT56031

Pausing the scheduler could take a very long time due to an inperformant SQL statement.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT57596

When writing pages into the contentrepositories was slower than rendering the pages, the internal job queues could grow very big, which could cause memory problems.
This has been fixed now. If one of the queue exceeds the limit of 1000 pages, no more pages will be rendered (and put into the queue), until the queue is below the limit.


Bugfix RT56835

When using small browser windows (e.g. on systems with low resolutions), some data shown on the startpage of the CMS could overlap each other.
This has been fixed now. If the window is too small to show the info boxes side by side the boxes will be shown one on top of the other.


Bugfix RT57556

A minor issue in the autoupdate feature was fixed. Additional protection checks were added to prevent multiple autoupdate invocations.


Bugfix RT57212

When loading the binary contents of a file via the REST API by using /rest/file/content/load/{id} the response always had the ‘Content-Type‘ ‘application/octet-stream‘.
This has been changed now, the response to /rest/file/content/load/{id} will now have the correct ‘Content-Type‘ set.


Bugfix RT53165

When part of type “URL (Page)“ was set to be required in the tagtype, the tagtype itself could not be filled without providing a default value for that part.
This behaviour was different than the behaviour for other parts (e.g. type “Text”) where the part only has to be filled for tags, but not for the tagtype itself.
The behaviour has been changed now to be consistent for all part types: If a part is required, it still can be left empty for the tagtype, but has to be filled in tags (e.g. in pages).


Bugfix RT57297

A bug in the scheduler view was fixed. Previously no error message was being displayed when the user was trying to delete a scheduler task that still got tasks that depended upon it. This issue has now been resolved.


Bugfix RT57590

On some systems the Regex.Admin view did not display properly. A security check prevented the correct rendering of the view. The check has been adapted and the view will now render correctly.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.16


Security RT54513

Rest API: Removed the “description“ and “login” field for all responses that return user objects (ie. creator and author)
However, methods in the UserResource will still output those two fields for user objects.


Security RT54513

Previously, when an error occured while requesting a page from Tomcat (404 or 500), the Tomcat version number and a detailed message was shown.
That information is now hidden (a static error page is shown). Detailed error output can be found in the log files.


Security RT54513

Fixed security issue that could possibly allow someone to take over your user account by sending you an URL and doing social engineering.


Bugfix RT57386

When creating folder overviews by manually selecting the folders and having the “recursive“ flag activated, the subfolders were not added, if the feature multichannelling was activated.
This has been fixed now, manual folder overviews with “recursive” activated will now render like expected.


Bugfix RT57434

When migrating tags from a tagtype that contained non-editable parts using the tagtype migration tool, the filled value of the non-editable part in the source tagtype was removed, which should not happen.
This has been fixed now. When migrating tags the source and target tagtypes are not changed.


Bugfix RT57499

When the action “check data“ or “repair data“ for a ContentRepository was started, the status changed to “Running“, even though the job was actually queued (along with other dirt or maintenance events or even the publish process).
This has been changed now. The status will now show “Queued“ as long as the job is in the Queue and will only switch to “Running“ when the job really is started.
Additionally, queued ContentRepository jobs will now be shown as “ContentRepository Maintenance Action“ instead of “Dependency Calculation” in the maintenance dialog.


Bugfix RT57387

Moving of inherited or localized folders is not allowed, because they must be moved in their master node. If an editor tried to move a localized or inherited folder,
nothing happened, but the editor got no information telling why.
This has been fixed now: If an editor tries to move an inherited or localized folder, an information will be displayed that this is not possible (similar to moving pages, images or files).


Bugfix RT57495

When editing tags as blocks using Aloha Editor and the tagtype implementation contained script tags and a jQuery version >= 1.9.0 was used,
the script tags were replaced by some random numbers when the tag was re-rendered in the page after being modified using the tagfill dialog.
These numbers were not saved to the page and did not affect the published content of the page, but were just shown while editing the page.
This has been fixed now, re-rendering tags containing script tags will now also work with jQuery versions >= 1.9.0.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.15


Bugfix RT55037

Ordering the file or image list by file size works now correctly.


Bugfix RT56720

The action “Delete (only this language)“ on pages has been removed for nodes with no languages assigned, for it does nothing.
You can use “Delete (all languages)“ instead.
For pages that have no language set, although the node has languages assigned, the action “Delete (only this language)” will now delete the page.


Bugfix RT57368

Multichannelling: Fixed the mother_obj_id of a folder not getting updated in the CR when the mother folder gets localized.


Bugfix RT57371

Email sending: Fixed deleted user receiving notification emails from GCN
Now deleted users don‘t receive notification emails anymore.


Bugfix RT57259

Sending messages to groups using the GCN Javascript API did not work at all and has been fixed.


Bugfix RT57329

Executing the command ‘Change Template‘ on page variants failed with an error, which has been fixed now.
When changing the template for multiple pages at once, the pages will now be processed one by one so changes to every single page will now be visible immediately.


Bugfix

When pages were dirted due to changed dependencies, this was not logged any more.
This has been fixed now: when a page is dirted, an entry in the logcmd table will be made.


Bugfix RT57435

Previously, if you translated a page using the page/translate REST-API call, it would create excessive language versions of the same language if the master page was not located in a master node.
Now, the page/translate call will not create multiple language variants of the same language any more.


Bugfix RT57460

The dirting mechanism has been slightly changed to avoid changes to the page table.
This will avoid unnecessary locks of the page table that could cause errors while pages are edited during a long running dirt process.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.14


Bugfix RT57442

When resizing images during a publish run using the GenticsImageStore, some file handles were not closed. This subsequently could cause publish run failures caused by a “too many open files” error.
This has been fixed now, file handles will now immediately be closed after usage.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.13


Bugfix RT56838

When a folder was deleted in a multichannelling environment, local channel objects existing in that folder were not removed.
This caused data inconsistencies in the database, which could cause errors in subsequent publish processes.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix

Fixed unnecessary dirting of dependent pages when other pages were republished (and did not go online or offline).


Bugfix RT57248

Clicking in ‘Back to folder‘ after loading images/files redirects to Files or Images depending on the type of file(s) we uploaded.
When uploading images/files in a new GCN session and then clicking on ‘Back to Folder‘ button, it takes us to File Folder but
the side bar component which contains the history and folder elements are not shown.
Also when uploading Images it takes us to the File Folder.


Bugfix RT57285

Rest API: Fixed /user/me not returning the user‘s groups as shown in the documentation example response.
A new query parameter “groups” (default: false) has been added for this.


Bugfix

Fixed some Javascript Errors when loading page object properties.


Bugfix RT57198

After editing a file/image you are redirected to the list of files or images, depending on the type of the object you were editing.
Before this fix: after editing a file/image you were always redirected to the list of files, no matter if you were editing a file or image.


Bugfix RT57317

Clicking publish from the page menu or the assistant frame will now also trigger the GCN JS API channel ‘before.page-publish‘


Bugfix RT57194

Changing the creation date of a page in the time management changes the page status to ‘modified‘.


Bugfix RT57013

The sorting of folders has been changes to be closer to Content.Node‘s
canonical order. This means that folders that start with square brackets (eg:
“[Templates]”) will be listed towards the bottom of the list.


Bugfix RT56799

When editing a page with Aloha Editor the tagname is now shown when hovering the mouse over a tag icon.


Bugfix RT55796

Fix problem with scrollbars when editing an object property of a page. The scollbar show for the body element and for the frame, this cause very difficult to scroll to the properties.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.12


Bugfix RT57211

Previously, when publishing files took longer than the MySQL wait_timeout, the publish process
would fail because of a lost MySQL connection. Now, there‘s a keepalive in the file publishing
loop, which prevents the MySQL connection from timing out.


Bugfix RM12471

A regression within the fileuploader was fixed. A fileupload could fail while updating an exiting file with a new file upload.


Bugfix RT57156

Fixed a possible dependency issue that affects files being taken offline when using the contentfile_auto_offline feature.


Bugfix RT57133

GCN JS API: Fixed page.takeOffline() not working


Bugfix RT55801

Previously, an exception would halt the publish process, if the number of characters of the “directory“ field of a
page‘s folder and the “hostname“ and “page directory” fields of the page‘s node exceeded a total of 255. Now, you
can use the full length of all of those fields and still have the corresponding pages published correctly.


Bugfix RT56774

Pages: Fixed object properties sometimes not being returned by the RestAPI (/page/load) and GCN JS API when creating a page in a channel.
The problem occured when the object properties are restricted to the master node. Because restriction only works for master nodes the channels are inheriting the restriction from the master node.


Bugfix RT57243

Migration feature: In some cases the page status would not be handled correctly. The page status of migrated pages was set to modified instead.
This issue only affected migrations that were using at least one post processor.


Bugfix RT55801

The tooltip on folder‘s “directory” field has been rewritten to clarify the field‘s restrictions.


Bugfix RT57252

The performance of checking for online/offline files during a publish run (when feature contentfile_auto_offline is used) has been improved.


Bugfix RT50796

Added proper escaping for : and = in $ALOHA_SETTINGS which enables you to use :not selectors etc.


Bugfix RT57208

When creating page variants using the REST API (or the Gentics Content.Node Javascript API) from pages having very long page names, the REST call returned an error, but created a page with empty filename.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT56910

Previously, publishing or taking offline individually selected pages in an overview would not cause
the overview to be updated. Now, the overview is updated correctly.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.11


Enhancement RT55238

When encountering errors during editing the page, like when the backend server is offline,
several technical error messages were displayed to the editor. A single message now replaces
these messages. Technical messages are displayed on the console.


Bugfix RT57092

When publishing pages into non MCCR contentrepositories using multithreaded publishing, the log entries for writing the pages into the CR showed the contentid of the folder instead of the page.
This bug only affected the publish log, but had no other functional consequences and has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT56930

Validation feature: Fixed SGB error
The error occured in the tagfill dialog, when using using Frontend-Editing with the “proxyprefix” URL parameter.
The proxyprefix was wrongly used for doing internal request to the RestAPI in the validation feature.


Bugfix RT56663

Channel folders: When creating a new folder inside a local(ized) folder in a channel, it didn‘t inherite the object properties from the mother folder from the channel, but from the master. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT57120

A browser caching issue was fixed. Previously the login/logout action did not enforce the update of all cached javascript files.
This issue has now been fixed.


Bugfix

A translation issue was fixed in the tag type creation view.


Bugfix RT57097

The DB structure of the table nodesetup has been changed so that the table now has a primary key.
This should improve the performance of statements against this table and minimize locks when changing the table.
Additionally, a dependency from INSERT statements into other tables to the nodesetup table has been removed.


Bugfix RT56013

Creating and saving multiple object with the GCN JS API will not result in
having the JavaScript objects‘ ids going out of sync.


Bugfix RT56775

Previously, when importing a template with templatetag with a changed construct, pages
containing contenttags based on that tag would not be updated to the new tagtype as it would
be the case if you changed the template by hand in the backend. Now the behavior is the same
in both scenarios.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.10


Bugfix RT57123

When selecting folders for an overview to list pages, images or files in multichannelling environments, in rare cases, the folders were not stored correctly.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT57120

The regression that was introduced through an attempt to fix positioning of context menus in IE with RTL (Right-To-Left) pages has now been removed. The problemantic fix has been reverted. The issue with positioning menus in RTL pages therefore remains.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.9


This update will make a structural change in the table dependencymap2, that might take longer than usual depending on the size of the table.


Bugfix RT57063

The storing of channel specific dependencies of inherited objects has been optimized to reduce the number of entries in the dependencymap2.
Additionally, the number of statements necessary to read the dependencies of inherited objects has been reduced.
Both optimizations will reduce the size of the dependencymap2 table and will improve the overall publishing performance for systems that have many channels with many inherited objects.


Bugfix RT57077

A possible NullPointerException during the publish process has been fixed, that occurred when using the feature contentfile_auto_offline and dependencies of non-existing objects were still found in the dependencymap2 (due to unclean removal of objects).


Bugfix RT57034

Using the REST API pages could be saved with an empty string for page name or page filename. This is not possible any longer now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.8


Enhancement RT57018

The quickjump box was starting to search for pages right after the first character being typed.
This has been increased to a minimum of three characters to lessen database load and provide more meaningful search results.


Bugfix RT56516

It is now possible to upload files over https on NodeJS with the GCN JS API.


Bugfix RT56783

Previously, when multichanneling was used, the languageset.pages meta attribute would not honor the
language ordering of the node. Now, the order of page.languageset.pages is the correct sort order.


Bugfix RT56403

Folder images/file/page views: Fixed two problems.

  • Searching in a folder or applying a filter was slow when there are allot of files, images or pages in the folder. It should now be allot faster.
  • Fixed bug when changing the “Items per page” value in the settings to a lower value or applying a search filter. Under some circumstances the list only showed empty objects.

Bugfix RT56602

Previously, pages with links to a newly localized page would not get dirted
and therefore would not be updated correctly. Now, these pages will be dirted, too.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.7


Bugfix RT56879

Taking offline of pages did not work due to a caching problem. The displayed page status did not change and the page would not go offline in the next publish run.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT56571

Tagtype parts: Fixed performance issue when deleting a part of a tagtype.
When the database contains lots of pages, this could take multiple hours. It should take only a few seconds (or less) anymore now.


Bugfix RT56477

Previously, a scheduler task could be started twice at the same time under certain conditions.
Synchronisation has been added to prevent this from happening.


Bugfix RT56980

Localized files and images inside a channel were not correctly displayed in their respective list overviews. This issue has now been resolved.


Bugfix RT56960

Sometimes, the scheduler loses the connection to a publish process it started, although the publish process is still running due to timeout problems.
In this cases, the scheduler job is marked as “failed“.
When the scheduler tries to start the publish process again, this also failed, because the process was still running.
Such cases will be handled differently now: if the scheduler tries to start a publish process and finds the process already running, it will “join“ the publish process, like if it just had been created.
Therefore if the scheduler loses the connection to a still running publish process, subsequent job runs will not fail with reason “Publish process already running” any more.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.6


Manual Change

The database layer has been updated to better estimate the length semantics of varchar/varchar2 columns.

This will enable you to use more of the characters in “Text (short)“ attributes in contentrepositories. If you are using Oracle for content repositories, you must check if your NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS is set to “CHAR“. If so, you must ensure that contentattribute.text_value as well as all optimized “Text (short)“ columns in contentmap also use “CHAR” semantics.


Bugfix RT56249

The default folder for file and image upload now correctly depends on the user‘s view permissions for the folder.


Bugfix RT56623

Editables that are nested inside of other editables will now be encoded and
saved correctly when editing with the GCN JS API.


Bugfix RT56765

If an online page was scheduled to be republished using the function “publish at”, in special cases it could happen that the page was republished too early.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT56765

The title of the icon for pages in status “publish at“ in the page list incorrectly was “not in time frame” and has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT56667

Folder settings: Fixed “Cancel”-button not redirecting back to the last folder view.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.5


Enhancement RT56697

It is now possible to change the cache clear behavior. For more information please take a look at the following FAQ


Enhancement RT56697

The performance of the tagtype migration was enhanced. A new option was added to the tag type migration in order to skip the dependency calculation and internal event handling.


Enhancement RT56682

Updater: There will be a warning printed now, when starting a Gentics Content.Node update when there have been java patches installed.


Bugfix RT56683

Fixed an error with the REST API that would not allow to create pages in a channel – the pages were always created in the master.


Bugfix RT56251

When using IE10 to translate pages that modify their DOM, under some circumstances, the upper
frame used to shrink sometimes. Now the frame stays correctly sized.


Bugfix

Possible missing publish log error messages have been fixed.


Bugfix RT56403

Folder image/file view: Fixed performance issues with folders that contain more than 1000 images or files. The performance issues were caused by always loading all objects in the folder instead of only the objects for the current pagination view.


Bugfix RT56615

When the time management of pages was handled during a multithreaded publish process, the publish process could freeze (never finish).
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT55659

Deleting nodes is now no longer possible if tagtypes are linked to no other nodes than the deleted ones.
This prevents a data inconsistency, where orphaned tagtypes were invisibly lingering inside tagtype categories.
A dialog informs the user which tagtypes are blocking the deletion of the node.


Bugfix RT56765

The time management for pages did not always work as expected. Sometimes, pages were not taken off- or online due to time management at all, sometimes not at the desired time, but some time later.
This has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT54963

A misleading tooltip that was shown when choosing elements in a selection-tagpart was removed.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.4


Security RT54513

We recommend that the apache server signature will be hidden.

Set the following settings in the /Node/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-default.conf file:
ServerSignature Off
ServerTokens Prod

A restart of the apache webserver is required in order to enable the settings.


Enhancement RT56609

Multichannelling contentrepositories have now a new option to choose between differential check for removed objects (which is faster) or the full check (which is saver) on every publish run.
The default value is the differential check.
Additionally, the number of SQL statements necessary to publish an object into a multichannelling contentrepository has been reduced to improve performance.


Enhancement RT56615

The internal logging of a publish error has been enhanced.


Bugfix RT56601

Fixed regression in the GCN JS API so that, now, the callback that is passed to
the tag.save() method will receive the saved tag as its only argument.


Bugfix RT56642

Accessing the table dependencymap2 has been optimized to avoid synchronization between threads when using multithreaded publishing.
This will increase the overall performance of a multithreaded publish process. As a side-effect, the table dependencymap2 is no longer locked during a publish process.


Bugfix RT56498

Moving pages/files/folders: Fixed multiple issues

  • Files couldn‘t be moved to inherited channel folders
  • Folders/pages: Folders were selectable, even tho when the user doesn‘t have permission on the folder (However the permission was checked when clicking)
  • Folders: Moving folders to inherited/localized folders didn‘t work.
  • After moving an object, the folder changed to the new folder, but the selection in the tree didn‘t update.

Bugfix RT56518

Part type “Url (image)”: Fixed this part not correctly working in the tagfill dialog, when there were multiple parts of this type.


Bugfix RT56477

Previously, a task scheduled to be executed after another task finishes
would sometimes start twice at the same time. Now it will only start once.


Bugfix RM11868

Previously, an SGB occured when pressing “cancel” in the page create dialog. Now the list of pages appears instead.


Bugfix RT56423

A bug in the tagtype migration post processor handling was fixed. Removed tags will now be deleted. Previously tags that were removed from the restmodel would not be removed.


Bugfix RT56245

Fixed selection of translators in the todo tool.


Bugfix RT56251

Previously, in the page translate view, syncing of scrollbars didn‘t work if
the lower page contained an iframe and Aloha Editor was not used. Now, syncing
works under these conditions, too.


Bugfix RT56642

The number of SQL Statements for publishing objects into contentrepositories, when using multithreaded publishing has been reduced to increase the overall publish performance.


Bugfix

Fixed an error when using the feature contentfile_auto_offline is used when publishing into a multichannelling contentrepository.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.3


Enhancement RT56423

Various minor enhancements were added to the migration feature.

  • An additional option was added to the migration feature. It is now possible to disable the export backup.
  • The logging and documentation for page migration jobs has been enhanced.
  • The restAPI cancelMigration call will now be able to abort the migration in additional phases of the migration.

Enhancement RT56111

Scheduler: Updated documentation, documented setting $MAX_SCHEDULE_RUNTIME.


Bugfix RM8723

The word “Folder“ and “Name” in the mini-browser now has the proper
internationalization for both German and English.


Bugfix RT56570

When publishing a node and its channels into content repositories, it could happen, for a localized object, also the master was published into the channel‘s contentrepository.
Additionally, too many dependencies were stored for localized objects, which could lead to unnecessary dirting of objects.
Both issues have been fixed.


Bugfix RT56423

A minor bug was fixed in the new tag type migration enhancement in version 5.14.2. Previously not all pages were added to the set of pages that should be migrated.


Bugfix RT56438

When translating localized or inherited pages in a channel that already existed in this language,
a new copy of the page was created in the channel. This issue has been fixed, the translate call
now correctly returns the page that existed before.


Bugfix RT56480

Calling tag.edit() will no longer result in a 404 error in frontend editing if
the GCN Intergration plugin‘s “link“ property is not configured. We now default
this property to “backend” so that links are rendered as they would appear when
using the GCN Intergration Plugin in Content.Node backend.


Bugfix RT55753

Fixed problems with permission checks that would keep a user from updating his own email address.


Bugfix RT56423

A bug in the tag type migration of pages was fixed. Previously the post processors did not receive the migrated page. Migrations that did not use postprocessors were not affected.


Bugfix RT56282

Quickjump: Fixed wrong folder when opening a multichannelling page. When selecting a page in the quickjump autocomplete dropdown and then going from the page into the folder you landed in the master folder instead of the channel folder.


Bugfix RT55802

Page publishing: Fixed Nullpointer exception when publishing a page that contained an objecttag or templatetag with an invalid part type.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.2


Enhancement RT56423

An additional option was added to the tag type migration of single pages. This option allows the user to specify whether the defined mapping should be used as a template on a set of pages. The option is documented in detail in the GCN guides.


Enhancement RT55738

The Content.Repository check and repair action was enhanced.
Similar to the CRSync sanitycheck2 and autorepair2 option a check for quick columns will be performed when the check or repair method was invoked.


Bugfix RT56500

When publishing multiple master nodes into the same multichannelling contentrepository, the objects in the contentrepository were checked more than once for deleted objects.
This has been fixed now, so that unnecessary checks are avoided.


Bugfix RT56497

When publishing into an Oracle MCCR, integer attributes of objects were written again, even if they did not change.
This produced unnecessary UPDATEs in the DB and has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT56274

Previously, some kinds of JPEG images that trigger bugs in Java ImageIO could not be
uploaded using the REST API, as they were saved as files with content type
“application/octet-stream“. These images are now correctly recognized as “image/jpeg”.


Bugfix RT56020-RT56407

This fix makes the “publish at” feature work again.


Bugfix RT56328

When a filesystem attribute is written again with unchanged value, and the data file does not exist, the data file will be recreated.
This enables recreation of missing filesystem attribute data files by republishing the objects in the backend.


Bugfix

If the property gcnLibVersion is not configured for the GCN Intergration Plugin,
it will automatically default to “bin“, in order to use the “binary” version of
the GCN JS API in production.


Bugfix

When a file or image was marked for being republished using the maintenance dialog, its binarycontent was not written (again) into the content repository.
This could lead to missing binarycontent attributes in the content repository, if e.g. the content repository was newly assigned to the node, and has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT56456

Page editing: Fixed rendering error that occured when editing pages with velocity tags that are not visible (visible when first edited).
Those tags were not rendered at all, and the following errors in the browser console were shown: “gcn: Error while rendering part type“ and “No template found”.


Bugfix RT56429

The GCN Intergration Plugin will properly use the renderBlockContentURL setting,
when provided to process rendered tags. This makes it possible to render plink
as proper urls for frontend editing.


Bugfix RT56435

When using multithreaded publishing in very long running publish processes (longer than 8 hours) a timeout in the database connection to the backend database could occur, which has been fixed now.


Bugfix RT56517

When inherited pages were published in channels and the rendered source of the master page was reused, the dependencies of that page were re-written even if they did not change.
This was unnecessary and will be avoided now. Dependencies will only be written to the database if they effectively changed.


Bugfix RT56436

The logging of multithreaded publish processes has been improved.
Jobs, that are processed in separate threads (like writing data into content repositories), will now also be logged.


Bugfix RT56437

Fileuploader: Fixed multiple issues:

  • The mimetype was editable in the file properties and tagfill dialog, even tho when mimetype editing wasn‘t turned on.
  • Internet Explorer: Uploading a new file in the tagfill dialog didn‘t work due to a ie bug.
  • The filename was overwritten when clicking “OK” when it was edited before.

Gentics Content.Node 5.14.1


Manual Change

Rest API: Removed the template “source” attribute from all Rest API responses except /template/load/.

This has been removed to decrease the size of the response, it was too big and could lead to memory_limit issues in the rest client when there were many elements returned.
With /template/load/ you can still get the templates source.


Enhancement RT55795

Previously, whenever you opened the properties dialog of a page, that page stayed locked for
the rest of the lock‘s duration unless you performed a “Page Save“ or “Page Cancel“ on
that page. Now, if you click on “Cancel” in the properties dialog of a page, the lock is
released instantly.


Enhancement RT56054

The REST API getItems performance for folders with many pages was improved.


Bugfix RT54176

Objecttag Definitions in export files are now annotated with information on
whether “assign to all nodes” has been selected for them. If such an annotated
Objecttag Definition is imported, the importer makes sure that the imported
object is associated with all nodes if the exported object was associated with
all nodes.


Bugfix RT55401

A scheduler task‘s editor is now updated correctly.


Bugfix RT54157

There was a bug in the calculation of the set of object properties available to
channel root folders. This used to prevent the user from seeing and editing
object properties of a channel root folder in the object property editor
dialog.


Bugfix RT56260

Object properties that are used or inherited in a page can now properly be disabled.
Previously, deactivating an object property did not cause the entry linked to it via
the tagmap editor to be properly removed from the Contentrepository.


Bugfix RT55614

Memory usage and performance of displaying the message inbox have been improved.
This prevents memory exhaustion even for very large numbers of messages.


Bugfix RT55968

When creating a new page from the backend the filename now will convert colons to underscore too, as colon is a reserved character by rfc3986#section-2.2


Bugfix RT56139

Page variants: Fixed bug that caused all variants of a page to be set to the status “Being edited” when opening and saving a overview tag in one page. Now the status of the other variants will not be touched anymore.


Gentics Content.Node 5.14.0


Manual Change

Java 7 Update

Please update the used Java version to Server JRE 1.7.0_25-b15 64 bit. Download the ‘Server JRE‘ package and extract it in e.g. /Node/. Update the /Node/java symlink to point to the new ‘Server JRE‘ directory. Restart the tomcat once you finished this step using the /Node/bin/nodectl script.


Manual Change

Fileuploader: The node.conf options “alwaysfileuploadfallback“ & “multifileupload” have been removed with the introduction of the new fileuploader.

As the new fileuploader comes with an automatic browser feature detection those settings are now obsolete, you can remove the settings from the node.conf.

Also, the ability to manually select File Upload Manipulator-options on the file upload page has been removed.
The decision on how files should be processed is now limited to the FUM itself.


Manual Change

MySQL 5.5 / 5.6 Update

It is recommended to update the used MySQL Database Server to MySQL 64 Bit Server version 5.6 or 5.5.

The package MySQL Server update will increase performance and ensure compatibility with feature releases. The update will also remove the 32Bit memory limitation of the old MySQL Server which was included in older package installations.

Please take a look at the updated database migration FAQ and package installation FAQ for more information on how to configure the MySQL Server and set the needed settings.
The Gentics Content.Node Compatibility List contains a list of supported MySQL versions.


Feature RM7461

When selecting an item with the link browser, the link element‘s title attribute
will be automatically set based on Aloha Editor Link Plugin‘s new
titleregex/title configuration options.


Feature RM5949

The import/export feature was enhanced. It is now possible to select update files which have been placed into the /Node/node/system/fs_import_bundles. An additional drop down box was added to the import dialog.


Enhancement RT55744

The GCN JS API TagAPI.save() method has now been corrected to rather than just saving the whole page straight away a mockup object is created to save a single tag specifically.


Enhancement RT55296

Folder objects returned by the REST API now contain the additional (read only) fields masterId, channelsetId, channelId and isMaster.


Enhancement RT54655

Fileupload Manipulator (FUM): The timeouts and connection retries for the HTTP Client that will be used to call the FUM script are now configurable.
See the File Upload Manipulator for more details.


Enhancement RT55183

Fileupload & GenticsImageStore: CMYK JPG images are now recognized as images by the fileuploader and supported by the GenticsImageStore.
The GenticsImageStore will automatically convert CMYK input images to RGB JPEGs when manipulating an image.


Enhancement RT56044

Page translation has been improved with multichannelling functionalities. If an inherited or a localized page is translated and the corresponding
language variant does not yet exist in the master node, this page is created there and taken offline, linking the versions to each other
while basing the translated page‘s content on that of the localized version.
This enhancement is applied to all translation actions (direct REST call, Edit in, Translate to, Quick Recursive Translation).


Enhancement RT56224

Rest API: Disabled the automatic output indentation of all JSON responses by default for performance reasons. The JSON responses are now ~33% smaller.
This feature can now be turned on in the GCN configuration if needed. More info can be found in the documentation.


Enhancement RT54655

This release comes with a new fileuploader which replaces the old flash uploader, its fallback and the old PHP legacy fileuploader.
It combines the features of all the old fileuploaders with automatic browser feature detection and also has HTML 5 & drag&drop support.

See Gentics Content.Node Fileuploaders for more information.


Enhancement RM9880

The common/autoparagraph plugin was added to the list of default plugin. Please take a look at the aloha editor plugin documentation to learn more about the autoparagraph plugin.


Enhancement RT53174

Added a “Localize” option to the context menu of channel folders in the tree view of the left frame of the backend.


Bugfix RM7588

An error within the tagtype list was fixed. Previously it was not possible to reassign a tagtype category to a tagtype using the tagtype list context menu. This issue has now been resvoled.