Gentics Content.Node Changelog Summary

Gentics Content.Node 5.26.9


Bugfix SUP-3876

When translating a page to the same language that already exists in the wastebin and as not deleted page, it was possible that the translation would create a duplicate of that page. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3871

When using the feature copy_tags to Copy & Paste multiple tags at once, the tags were copied but not inserted at the paste position due to a javascript error. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3873

When an update of an import would remove a template in the CMS, which is still used by pages, the resulting conflict could be handled with the behaviour “Overwrite“ which would remove the template and leave the pages in an inconsistent state. This has been fixed now, such conflicts can now only be handled with behaviour “Ignore” (leaving the template untouched).


Bugfix SUP-3867

Some actions in the CMS (like e.g. filling a tagtype) could lead to SGBs, when they were performed with a fresh session without selecting a node first. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3908

When groups with subgroups were deleted in the CMS, the Java caches were not properly cleared, which could cause subsequent errors. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3832

The menu items and related links in the assistant frame for tagtypes were inconsistent for users with view but without edit permission. The entries have been changed to be consistent now.


Bugfix SUP-3591

When a node is copied (with pages) and objects reference pages in the wastebin, the copies of the objects would reference the same pages, which caused unexpected results, when the reference pages were restored from the wastebin. This has been fixed now, references to pages in the wastebin will be unset for the copied objects.


Gentics Content.Node 5.26.8


Enhancement SUP-3699

It is now possible to use a custom location for the configuration file of the Task Management App (gentics-activiti.properties). This is useful when the application server on which the Task Management App is deployed does not have access to the /Node/etc/ directory which is the default location for the configuration file.


Documentation SUP-3884

The documentation of imps has been improved in the Gentics CMS Guides


Bugfix SUP-3878

Some german umlauts were wrongly encoded. This bug only affected the cms webinterface. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3725

The internal pools for prepared SQL statements used large amounts of Java Heap Space, which could cause memory problems (including OutOfMemory exceptions). Therefore pooling of SQL Statements has been disabled.


Bugfix SUP-3857

Flash movies stored in the CMS could not be viewed in pages in preview-mode or edit-mode because the cms delivered them as attachment to the browser. (HTTP-header “Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=example.swf“) This has been fixed, the CMS will now set the proper HTTP-headers for flash videos. Additionally to get flash videos working in the CMS it is necessary to set the proper “type“ and “data” attributes on the flash OBJECT-html-tag, e.g.: <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="<node videourl>">


Bugfix SUP-3897

Some inefficient SQL statements for updating data from the tagfill dialog have been improved.


Gentics Content.Node 5.26.7


Documentation SUP-2680

Updated documentation to avoid a common mistake in velocity implementions from tagtypes that are editable with the aloha editor.


Bugfix SUP-3786

When selecting pages for an overview by clicking the language icon of the page in the repository browser, an SGB occurred while saving the tag. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3601

When a user tried to create a language variant of a page, where this language variant was put into the wastebin before, and the user had no permission to delete pages in the folder, an error occurred. This has been fixed now: The page in the wastebin will be deleted regardless of the user‘s permission and replaced by the node language variant.


Bugfix SUP-3830

When objects were exported where the name contained some characters which are not allowed in attribute values of XML nodes, the resulting XML files was invalid. This caused errors while importing. Generation of the XML files has been fixed now, so that the invalid characters will be removed from the names. Additionally, the handling of invalid XML files while importing has been improved to provide explicit error messages hinting at the root cause.


Bugfix SUP-3811

When rendering a tag of another page with the render directive, tags contained in the rendered tag were resolved in the scope of the original page. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3819

When a node publishes into a multichannelling aware contentrepository, all channels of the node will automatically also publish into that contentrepository. This auto-assignment was not shown in the list of nodes or considered when checking the data of the contentrepository for channels that were created after the node was assigned to the contentrepository. In such cases, the result of the “Check data“ operation for the contentrepository would incorrectly state, that the channel was not assigned to the contentrepository and its data would be removed in the next publish run (which was not the case). This has been fixed now. The “Check data” operation will correctly consider the auto-assignment of channels to multichannelling aware contentrepositories exactly like the publish process does.


Bugfix SUP-3849

If a tag contained javascript the code wasn‘t executed again after opening and closing the tagfill. This bug was introduced with bugfix SUP-3724 in version 5.23.28 and has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3797

When publishing into a content repository with instant publishing, access to the content repository was locked longer and more often than necessary. This could cause congestion of instant publishing requests. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3820

Fixed issue where corrupted node-tags (node-notation without tagname and closing bracket: “


Bugfix SUP-3837

Files that were imported from a thirdparty media asset system using the file_fetch feature into folders with restricted inheritance (in a multichannelling environment), were not restricted in their inheritance, which subsequently caused errors in the publish process. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3858

Objects containing nested object tags were exported and imported in way which could subsequently cause errors when loading those objects via the REST API. This has been fixed now.


New UI Update

New UI updated to v1.7.2

  • Pre-select the first available template when creating pages
  • Fix application freezes in complex multichanneling scenarios
  • Synchronizing channels fixed for multi-inheritance scenarios
  • Fix regression in image editing interface
  • Fix display of long image file names in Firefox
  • Fix caching of outdated app.css file by browsers
  • Login form no longer displayed if the user has a valid session
  • Navigation no longer resets after refreshing

New UI Update

New UI updated to v1.7.1

  • Fix delete modal for pages which are localized in an inheriting channel
  • Fix sort order of display fields
  • Fix/Improve modal styling in Internet Explorer

New UI Update

New UI updated to v1.7.0

  • Localized objects are now indicated with an icon
  • User is warned when deleting an object which has localizations
  • More granular control when deleting page language variants
  • Improvements to stability of editing panel
  • Fix incorrect dialog and disabled tabs when editing properties
  • Fix property forms sending incorrect values
  • Fix multiple small styling issues

Gentics Content.Node 5.26.6


Optional Manual Change

The implementation of the gtxalohapagelink tag has been updated to prevent errors when saving a page.

In Detail: The variable “$parts.fileurl.target.id” was used without checking if it was empty. This caused an erroneous rendering when the tag linked to a file that has been deleted preventing users to save a page after editing.


Bugfix SUP-3808

When an object with localized copies in channels was moved (in its master node) and the node published into a Content Repository with Instant Publishing enabled, all localized copies were also instantly written into the Content Repository. This could cause the move process to take longer than expected and was inconsistent behaviour (since Instant Publishing normally does not affect inherited or localized copies in channels, when the master object was changed). This has been fixed now, moving objects will trigger Instant Publishing only for the master object itself.


Bugfix SUP-3743

When publishing files into a ContentRepository, errors like com.gentics.api.lib.exception.NodeException: Error while adding a dependency where logged. Those errors had no functional consequence and will be omitted now.


Bugfix SUP-3780

The permission checks when localizing objects over the REST API were too restrictive for users with permissions restricted to channels. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3679

Copying a localized copy of a file always produced an error message. This has been fixed now. When a localized copy of a file is copied, the copy will be created in the same channel now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.26.5


Bugfix SUP-3752

When a tag in a page is filled with the tagfill dialog, and a part of type URL (page) is filled, the Repository Browser will show possible target pages in the current language, even if it is different from the edited page. This has been changed now, the Repository Browser will now use the edited page‘s language.


Bugfix SUP-3775

Applying object properties of folders to subfolders did not work for channel local or localized folders and has been fixed now.


New UI Update

New UI updated to v1.6.2

  • Fix freezing editing panel after continuous navigation
  • Choosing template during page creation not persisted on server
  • Changing the template of an existing page was not indicated in the UI
  • Resolve numerous small stying issues

Gentics Content.Node 5.26.4


Documentation SUP-3715

Various documentation issues were fixed.


Documentation SUP-3719

The Part Types documentation has been updated.


Bugfix SUP-3724

After modifying a tag in the tagfill when editing a page the tag in the page was not updated correctly if the root element of the tag changed. For example, if the root element from the tag changes from a span to a div, the updated page would still render the block with a span root tag, which could also lead to invalid markup. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3614

If the startpage of a folder was moved to the wastebin (deleted) the flag symbol indicating the startpage was still visible in the page list for other language variants of the same page. This could lead to the assumption that the folder has a startpage set when the startpage was deleted instead. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3739

When publishing multiple nodes (with their channels) into the same Multichannelling aware ContentRepository, the ContentRepository Maintenance action Clean data would incorrectly remove objects from the ContentRepository for the master nodes. This has been fixed now. In cases, where objects have been incorrectly removed, the master nodes must be republished using the content maintenance.


New UI Update

New UI updated to v1.6.0

  • Fix occasional blank page after using tagfill
  • Fix select controls being cut off in “Create Page” dialog
  • Login/create forms are autofocused and submit on enter

Gentics Content.Node 5.26.3


Bugfix SUP-3655

Fixed taking offline a page in the old UI not being completed via the Rest API. The Activiti trigger “onPageTakeOffline” didn‘t work because of this.


New UI Update

New UI updated to v1.5.0

  • Repository browser disallows copy/move when user lacks permission
  • Publish queue, message inbox and other UI elements react to user permissions
  • Paginate contents of wastebin
  • Template select menu no longer inaccessible when creating page
  • User storage works for CMS versions before 5.26.0 using localStorage
  • Move/Copy/Publish buttons now correctly shown/hidden with permissions
  • Double clicking objects in FolderContents list no longer results in blank page
  • Fix editor panel not always closing immediately
  • Fix incorrect linking of object paths
  • Fix blank page in IE11 after editing a page

New UI Update

New UI updated to v1.4.0

  • User settings are now persisted on the server
  • Copy/move/publish/delete/take offline multiple items at once
  • Incorrect page filename sanitization switched off
  • Context menu is now scrollable at small resolutions
  • New tag fill dialogs and repo browser now work in IE 11
  • Modal dialogs now display correctly in Firefox
  • Performance after visiting multiple folders and items improved
  • Various iframe bugs in Firefox fixed
  • Unintended file caching of app scripts prevented
  • Tag fill checkboxes no longer change after uploading a file

Gentics Content.Node 5.26.2


When applying this update, the packaged Tomcat will be updated to version 7.0.73 which contains important security and bug fixes. You can delete old Tomcat directories after updating.


Documentation SUP-3647

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 was added to Gentics CMS 5.25.0 – The RHEL Installation Guide has been updated.
Please also note that Gentics CMS can now also be used in combintation with MariaDB 5.5 or MariaDB 10.x instead of MySQL. The Gentics Content.Node Compatibility List has been updated as well.


Bugfix SUP-3690

Fixed an SGB error when viewing a page in live preview mode in the new UI.


Bugfix SUP-3662

The nodeId query parameter of the page resource search endpoint is no longer mandatory. It can now be specified in order to speed up or limit the search to a specific channel.


Gentics Content.Node 5.26.1


Optional Manual Change

The maximum number of clients used by the Apache Web Server for the CMS backend must not exceed 200, since this is the default value of maximum connections Tomcat will accept.


Enhancement SUP-3356

Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was added to Gentics CMS 5.25.0 – The SLES Installation Guide has been updated.
Please also note that Gentics CMS can now also be used in combintation with MariaDB 11.0 instead of MySQL. The Gentics Content.Node Compatibility List has been updated as well.


Documentation SUP-3625

The backup guide has been updated.


Bugfix SUP-3434

Showing the tag status failed with an SGB for templates that contain tags with special characters (like -). This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3605

Two issues with the feature objprop_page_edit_assistant have been fixed: # The preview of inherited pages did not work (showed an empty page) # When opening the preview of a page, the page was locked


Bugfix SUP-3636

Link anchors were removed from external links when saving a page if the Aloha Link Tagtype is missing the “anchor“ part or if the link plugin setting “anchorLinks” is set to false. This bug has been introduced with Gentics CMS 5.22.0. This has been fixed and the documentation for the Aloha Link Tagtype implementation has been updated to address link anchors.


Bugfix SUP-3443

The script /Node/.node/setup-database.php for resetting the database will now set an exit status != 0 when it fails.


Bugfix SUP-3619

When the feature activiti_integration was activated without restarting the server, the maintenance dialog for users with admin permission for the task management showed an SGB. This has been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.26.0


Enhancement GTXPE-49

When uploading new files over the UI or the Rest API, it‘s possible now to overwrite existing files in the same folder that have the same file name.


Enhancement GTXPE-54

The new REST endpoint rest/user/me/data allows to store user specific data in JSON format to the server. For details see the REST API documentation


New UI Update

New UI updated to v1.3.0

  • Repository browser supports searching for live URLs
  • Preview/edit frame is shown in fullscreen on small screens
  • Files & images can be replaced by dragging and dropping new files
  • Time management available from page editor menu
  • Searching a page ID opens the page in preview mode
  • Parent folders are clickable when searching
  • Favourite button for current folder added
  • Date Picker localized to german and english
  • Display “list tools“ in overview tag fill dialogs
  • Wastebin styles fixed for Internet Explorer 11
  • Page preview correctly renders “cms-only” styles & scripts