Gentics Content.Node Changelog Summary

Gentics Content.Node 5.23.11


Optional Manual Change

The implementation of the gtxalohapagelink tag has been updated because it did not work correctly for links to images.

In Detail: the implementation used a fixed type “10008“ for files and images, but images have the type “10011“. The corrected implementation reads the url target type correctly with “${parts.fileurl.target.ttype}“. Please update your implementation of the tagtype “gxtalohapagelink” accordingly to fix this problem.


Optional Manual Change

Various fixes have been made to the activiti integration:

  • Group permissions on the “Task Management“ will now be mapped to group types in activiti
  • The modal dialog for tasks will now display newline characters in the task description as line breaks.
  • Minor styling issues have been fixed.
  • Users can now delete tasks they have created.
  • The button to complete a task is now labelled with “Complete task“
  • The list of completed tasks is now labelled with “Completed tasks”
  • eMails that were sent for inbox messages regarding tasks contained a placeholder for the task, which has been removed.
  • Opened tasks will now be added to the history in the assistent frame.

Installations using the Activiti Integration need to have the Activiti Server updated to get those fixes.


Bugfix SUP-2967

Fixed the quickjump also opening deleted pages when pressing enter instead of selecting an autocomplete result. Deleted pages will not be opened anymore. Also disabled the cache for the autocompletion as it could show old search results.


Bugfix SUP-2549

Pagetags were still rendered, even if the targeted page was put into the wastebin. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-2968

When the publish directory of a folder or the hostname of a node was changed, republishing of pages did not always work correctly, when the node published only into the file system. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-2926

Objects that were put into the wastebin and restored from the wastebin between two publish runs where sometimes incorrectly removed from the content repository during the next publish run. This has been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.23.10


Bugfix SUP-2981

Rendered plinks always contained the parameter channelid, when source and target of the link were in different nodes. This has been fixed now, so that the parameter channelid will only be added to the plink, when source and target nodes are different, and the target node actually is a channel.


Gentics Content.Node 5.23.9


Optional Manual Change

Several minor issues in the Activiti UI have been fixed:

  • Task lists were empty, when no paging was selected in the user settings
  • Some layout issues with the pagination have been fixed
  • It is now possible to filter for tasks created by the current user
  • Task lists will now by default be sorted by creation time with newest task first

Installations using the Activiti Integration need to have the Activiti Server updated to get those fixes.


Bugfix SUP-2872

Files and folders were not correctly published after restoring them from the wastebin. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-2162

When using the CASIntegrationFilter or HttpAuthFilter for SSO to the CMS backend, it could be possible that multiple identical users were created in the CMS backend database, if multiple concurrent requests with the same new user where done. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-2829

Removing a construct from a node failed with the incorrect error message “Array”, if the construct would only be linked to nodes that user had no permission to unlink constructs from. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-2704

An internal pool for prepared database statements was not properly sized and could consume a large amount of memory during a long running publish process. This could lead to memory exhaustion and failing publish processes. The maximum number of pooled connections has been reduced to 10000 by default, and can now be configured as described in the guides.


Bugfix SUP-2620

The SQL Statements used to get the migration status for tagtype migrations was inefficient and could cause long running REST Requests. This has been fixed. Additionally, it is now possible to configure the polling interval for getting the migration status (default is still 1 second). See the guides for details. If the previous request to get the migration status did not return before the next request is due, the next request will be omitted now.


Bugfix SUP-2620

Requests to the REST API created write locks to the user‘s systemsession entry, that would persist for the whole request duration. This caused parallel requests with the same session to be blocked until the first request was finished. This has been fixed now, the write lock to the systemsession will be lifted as soon as possible.


Bugfix SUP-2860

Due to an incorrect consistency check, it was not possible to reinherit an object into a channel, when the parent folder was localized in that channel. This has been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.23.8


Optional Manual Change

The datasource “[Navigation] sortby“ in our Standard CMS installation can‘t be used for folder sorting in navigations unless you change the entry “Folder Sorting / Ordnersortierung“ from “obj.sortby“ to “object.sortorder”. This is fixed in the mysql dump for new installations.


Bugfix SUP-2594

ContentRepository browser: An error was printed, when one of the CRs is using the same MySQL username and password like the CMS itself and persistent database connections are activated. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-2863

Rest API: Fixed a bug in the auth/validate method where a session with ID -1 was considered as valid.


Bugfix SUP-2877

The elements selection of an overview could contain elements that were already put into the wastebin (deleted). This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-2833

An error in the node library has been fixed, which could cause the CMS to hang when using instant publishing into multichannelling aware contentrepositories.


Bugfix SUP-2810

If users where deactivated in the CMS, but not removed from their groups, those users were still returned by the list method of the REST API. This has been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.23.7


Optional Manual Change

Fixed a bug that breaks updating the CMS from the local filesystem. If you currently have a version installed, that has been released between 23.03.2016 and 24.05.2016, please read this page in order to update.


Bugfix SUP-2810

The activiti integration has been improved:

  • Task lists and process lists can now be sorted
  • The paging of task and process lists is taken from the user settings
  • Process filters have been improved
  • Group names of Activiti groups contain the paths of the CMS Groups
  • Tasks can be filtered for “eligible“ tasks (current user is candidate)
  • Tasks can be filtered for “finished” tasks (finished by current user)
  • Comments and file attachments can be configured per task key
  • The usertask dialog has been improved (task must be claimed before it can be finished)
  • Several styling issues have been fixed

Bugfix SUP-2233

Fixed a “Data inconsistent” (missing construct) error that could happen when loading, saving or publishing objects that have been created during the deletion of a tagtype. This affected content tags, template tags and object tags.


Gentics Content.Node 5.23.6


Bugfix SUP-2816

If a user had no paging acitivated he could still only see a maximum of 18 entries in the wastebin. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-2794

The constraint expression in the Activiti configuration was not evaluated in the scope of the triggering object‘s channel. This has been fixed.
Also a typo in the configuration examples has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-2683

On some occasions page links where missing in inbox messages. This bug was introduced with GCN Version 5.22.15 and does not affect previous major releases. This has been fixed.


Gentics Content.Node 5.23.5


Documentation SUP-2577

Added a missing migration step in the package migration guide for “SUSE Enterprise Linux Server”. ImageMagick also has to be installed during the package migration.


Bugfix

The publish log will now contain render times for the content and other attributes of pages separately.


Bugfix SUP-2775

When selecting objects in the repository browser from a channel in order to create a link to the object, the channel ID will now be set into the link. This allows creation of channel specific links by using a special implementation of the Aloha Link Tagtype.


Bugfix SUP-2750

When using the old archive workflow to move files into another folder (instead of deleting them), the workflow failed, when the archive folder already contained a file with a name that was only different in case. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-2475

The unlocalize REST endpoints required the channel sync permission to unlocalize object, even when a user had enough permissions to delete them. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-2753

The DPI value shown for a file in the image list of a folder wasn‘t always correct and sometimes differed from the DPI value from the Rest API/database. The DPI value output is now the same.


Bugfix SUP-2731

When a node was copied, where the source node contained templates that were linked to folders in the wastebin, the copies of the templates were also linked to the source folders in the wastebin. This has been fixed now, the copied templates will only be linked to folders in the target node.


Bugfix SUP-2775

When the channel directive #gtx_channel is used with an empty channel id, it will no longer log an error but will not change the channel scope (as if the channel directive was not used at all).


Bugfix SUP-2783

The error message for duplicate folder names (when creating or updating a folder) will now contain the full path of the conflicting folder. When the conflicting folder exists in another channel, the path will be shown in that channel.


Bugfix SUP-2776

Fixed inconsistent user IDs in pages causing the publishing of the demo node to fail. This only affected fresh installations with 5.23.x.


Bugfix SUP-2728

The cache for node objects can now be individually configured for object type. See the Guides for details.


Bugfix SUP-2634

Enhanced fetching the latest available CMS update from the update server, so it doesn‘t block the CMS start page loading unnecessarily. That means if the update server is unreachable, the start page will still work. Also the current CMS version is now read from the Rest API, and not the database anymore.


Bugfix SUP-2728

The performance for the display of objects in the wastebin has been improved. The object counts in the assistent frame will now be fetched asynchronously. This means that the numbers might appear (or be updated) with a slight delay.


Gentics Content.Node 5.23.4


Bugfix SUP-2736

Installation: The SQL dump contained trigger information that could cause SQL errors when the MySQL user didn‘t match ‘node_cms@localhost. The triggers have been removed out of the dump file.


Bugfix SUP-2730

When copying a page to the root folder of a channel it was copied to the master of the root folder of the channel instead. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-2736

Installation: Enhanced the database import script to be more bulletproof.


Gentics Content.Node 5.23.3


Bugfix

The publish statistics for rendering pages have been improved to distinguish between rendering content and rendering other attributes.


Bugfix SUP-2718

LDAP: Fixed an issue with Windows 2003 Active Directory referrals when someone tries to login by setting the LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS option to 0. If you encounter an error after updating, please set the setting $LDAP_LOGIN[‘referrals‘] = 1; in the configuration.


Bugfix SUP-2717

Fixed a problem where the permissions of templates linked to a folder in the wastebin only can‘t be determined anymore. This can cause imports to fail with an “Insufficient permissions” error.


Bugfix SUP-2702

When changing the definition of an object property, the internal cache of the definition was not invalidated correctly. This could cause the change not to take effect immediately. When, for example, the “inheritable” flag of folder object property definition was changed, and a new folder was created, it could happen that the old inheritance behavior was executed. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-2714

A language in a node can‘t be deactivated when there is a page in the wastebin for this language. The error message has been improved to also display the count of pages in the wastebin for this language.


Bugfix SUP-2717

Previously, templates that were only linked to one folder were wrongly deleted when the folder was moved to the wastebin. Now templates will only be removed when a folder is permanently deleted.


Bugfix SUP-2721

Multichannelling: Renaming the publish directory of a localized folder back to the one of the master folder didn‘t work in some cases. This has been fixed.


Gentics Content.Node 5.23.2


Documentation SUP-2698

Updated compatibility list and installation guide. It is mandatory to use the Oracle JDK with Gentics CMS.


Documentation SUP-2664

A note has been added to the faq for contentrepositories that explains the output of the data check.


Bugfix SUP-2635

Changing permissions produced unnecessary database locks. This could cause errors while changing permissions due to lock wait timeouts. The SQL statements for changing permissions have been modified to avoid unnecessary locks and reduce the possibility for lock wait timeout errors.


Gentics Content.Node 5.23.1


Bugfix SUP-2376

Aloha links were rendered with the “aloha-block” CSS class, which was removed when the page was fully loaded. This lead Aloha editor to believe pages containing links have been modified, even if nothing was changed. This has been fixed.


Bugfix

PLinks with attributes other than id were not processed properly by the Aloha renderer which could cause problems with front end editing. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-2419

Fixed the following bugs in the task management view:

  • when viewing a task, its name was not properly translated
  • filtering tasks by name was case sensitive
  • the OK button in the bulk edit confirmation was always disabled
  • when a task had no due date set, this information was not visible in the edit dialog

Gentics Content.Node 5.23.0


When applying this update, the packaged Tomcat will be updated to version 7.0.68 which contains important security and bug fixes. You can delete the old Tomcat directory (/Node/apache-tomcat-7.0.*) after updating.


Enhancement

The Activiti Integration Feature can now react to certain “CMS events” like saving, deleting or moving objects and publishing pages. Please refer to the Activiti configuration documentation for further details.


Enhancement

The REST API has been extended:
New REST endpoints The following endpoints will return a list of localized copies together with their channel IDs for the respective object types:

  • /file/localizations/{id}
  • /folder/localizations/{id}
  • /image/localizations/{id}
  • /page/localizations/{id}

If the feature activiti_integration is activated, two new endpoints are available:

  • /activiti/processqueue returns a list of processes due to be triggered
  • /activiti/status returns status information about the connected activiti server

Enhanced REST endpoint The endpoint /folder/breadcrumb{id} now accepts an optional query parameter tags. If this parameter is true each folder in the breadcrumb list will also contain information about the tags associated with the folder.


Enhancement SUP-37

The package contained some default users, which are normally not used. They have been removed from the package now. When updating, those users will also be deactivated, if they never have been used.


Enhancement

Added a new script called “setup-database.php”, that allows you to import the SQL structure needed for the CMS setup. Read the installation documentation for more details.


Enhancement SUP-2320

With setting the new JVM parameter com.gentics.contentnode.exitonstartuperror to true the startup behaviour of the Tomcat can be changed:
If the CMS Webapp fails to start and the JVM parameter is set, the Tomcat will be terminated. The default behaviour is such that the Tomcat will be started, even if the CMS Webapp cannot be started.


Enhancement

A new Velocity directive #gtx_channel has been added, which allows to render velocity code in the scope of another channel. Please read the Guides for more information.


Enhancement

The new Part Type “Node” allows selection of a Node.


Bugfix SUP-1632

Installation Package: Correctly install and enable nodectl service.


Bugfix

The REST endpoints /node/create and /node/save/{id} ignored the languagesId field. This has been fixed.


Bugfix

The presence of certain query parameters for the REST endpoint /user/list could cause the request to fail. This has been fixed.