Gentics Content.Node Changelog Summary

Gentics Content.Node 5.25.38


Bugfix SUP-5389 🔗 Link

Fixed that the deletion of import bundles didn‘t work sometimes. A white page appeared and an error was logged.


Bugfix SUP-5350 🔗 Link

When using the tagfill dialog in the new UI, selecting an image could cause an error (showing a blank page), if the user had never logged in using the old UI before. This has been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.37


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.36


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.35


Bugfix SUP-5096 🔗 Link

When a maintenance banner message is set that takes allot of space, it will not overlap the menu anymore. The maintenance banner can be scrolled now.


Bugfix SUP-5169 🔗 Link

Fixed a javascript error that occurred when deleting a Content.Repository which was still linked to at least one node.


Bugfix SUP-5169 🔗 Link

Fixed an error which prevented the native fileutils from being loaded. This error only affected the Gentics CMS docker image.


Bugfix SUP-5125 🔗 Link

When the feature always_localize was enabled, viewing the properties of an inherited object (folders, pages, files) caused the object to be localized immediately. This has been changed now to localize the object only when the user submits the properties dialog.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.34


Documentation SUP-4833 🔗 Link

Fixed Chapters which would not appear on certain Pages. Also fixed the automatic-anchor links to these Chapters.


Bugfix SUP-5056 🔗 Link

Fixed an issue where the tag edit dialog consumed too much memory when the page has many versions.


Bugfix SUP-4988 🔗 Link

When publishing a channel into a ContentRepository, the motherid of objects always contained the ID of the master object, even if the mother was localized in the channel. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4992 🔗 Link

Fixed an SGB error that occured when adding a node in an overview tag with the repository browser.


Bugfix SUP-4834 🔗 Link

When importing a page with a language into a system, where that page was put in the wastebin, the page was not imported, but only removed from the wastebin. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4972 🔗 Link

When an editor starts editing a page that has unversioned changes, the implicitly created version will now have the timestamp of the last change made on the page, not the current timestamp.


Bugfix SUP-4929 🔗 Link

When doing a global tagtype migration on pages and templates, the templates were migrated first. This caused pages to be changed to use the new tagtype, without applying the mapping. The order has been changed now, so that pages will be migrated first, and the templates after that.
Additionally, the Guides:“http://www.gentics.com/Content.Node/guides/feature_migration.html#limitations” have been updated with a note, that when tags in templates are migrated, that are editable in pages, the pages will be changed, but not migrated with the mapping.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.33


Bugfix SUP-4941 🔗 Link

Fixed a bug in the GenticsImageStore that caused images that are cropped to have the wrong width and height. Be careful when updating if you have pages with cropped images and swapped crop width and crop height in the GenticsImagestore URL.


Bugfix SUP-4911 🔗 Link

Aloha Editor gcnfileupload-plugin: Uploading a new file did not work when the Fileupload Manipulator previously rejected the file and the dialog has not been closed in between.


Bugfix SUP-4646 🔗 Link

Moving a folder to another channel did not move all objects within that folder to the new channel which could make objects inaccessible in some situations. This has been fixed.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.32


Enhancement SUP-4907 🔗 Link

It is now possible to use different Media-RequestTypes in Rest-Requests when using the RestClientManager in Activiti-Tasks


Bugfix SUP-4910 🔗 Link

Clicking ‘Back to the folder‘ before uploading a new file or image did nothing. Now it works as intended.


Bugfix SUP-4824 🔗 Link

Some UI errors for export of channels have been fixed:

  • It is now possible to select channels also from the list of nodes (not only from the tree)
  • Channels will now also be included in the count of objects contained in an export bundle
  • Channels will now be shown in the overview and detailed list of objects contained in an export bundle

Bugfix SUP-4867 🔗 Link

The fix for SUP-4530 “When using the gcnfileupload Aloha Editor Plugin to upload files, the file upload dialog did not always close after successful upload. This has been fixed now.” has been extended to work under all circumstances.


Bugfix SUP-4363 🔗 Link

Fixed that Rest API requests to /auth/login failed when the User-Agent header was empty. A set User-Agent ist not required for HTTP requests.


Bugfix SUP-4293 🔗 Link

Fixed a bug where duplicate pages with the same name and filename would be created when copying multiple pages to another folder and the user would double click the folder name link.


Bugfix SUP-4308 🔗 Link

Fixed that the assigned content repository was not saved when using the rest methods /node/create or /node/save with a new content repository ID.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.31


Bugfix SUP-4832 🔗 Link

Feature invalidpageurlmsg: Fixed that deleting a page from the wastebin generated an inbox message when the page was references by a link in another page. The message will be only sent anymore when the page is moved to the wastebin.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.30


Bugfix SUP-4309 🔗 Link

When restarting the Tomcat with the nodectl command, the script could hang in an infinite loop when the PID file doesn‘t exist. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-4638 🔗 Link

Fixed user being notified for offline links unnecessarily when the source page also has been taken offline at the same time.


Bugfix SUP-4740 🔗 Link

The permission check of the REST API endpoint /user/save/{id} was too restrictive and has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4530 🔗 Link

When using the gcnfileupload Aloha Editor Plugin to upload files, the file upload dialog did not always close after successful upload. This has been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.29


Documentation SUP-3892 🔗 Link

A description for the feature tagfill_light has been added to the Guides


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.28


Documentation SUP-4069 🔗 Link

The description for mounting a folder via WebDAV has been updated. Please note that the WebDAV feature is deprecated.


Documentation SUP-4625 🔗 Link

Improved translation for documentation of breadcrumb part type.


Bugfix SUP-4110 🔗 Link

When the license key of an installation was changed during reactivation, the global prefix was not immediately changed to the new license key, but only when the Tomcat was restarted. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4235 🔗 Link

When using MariaDB in the backend, the session handling could cause some locks in the database, which caused SGBs. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4000 🔗 Link

Synchronizing pages between channels sometimes produced an error, when they either contained tags from constructs with multiple parts that had no keyword, or when tags with the same name used different constructs. Those issues have been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4017 🔗 Link

The check for the DB triggers on JVM startup failed to detect non-existent Definers in triggers. This could happen, when the user with which the database was originally created was dropped, or when the triggers were migrated between systems. The trigger check has been changed now, so that triggers with non-existent Definers will be dropped and recreated upon startup of the CMS JVM.


Bugfix SUP-4236 🔗 Link

When the upload of a file fails, because of problems with the file upload manipulator (e.g. timeout), the error message shown to the user has been improved.


Bugfix SUP-4545 🔗 Link

The contentnode-restapi maven module dependencies have been updated. Various mandatory jersey client libraries are now included via the compile time scope setting.


Bugfix SUP-4492 🔗 Link

When the group assignment of users were changed, objects that were created, edited or published by that user were unnecessarily queued for republishing. This has been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.26


Bugfix SUP-4274 🔗 Link

When copying an existing tag inside the same page (with the copy-tags feature activated) and deleting the original tag afterwards the page could not be saved because of a JavaScript error. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4430 🔗 Link

Under special circumstances, the automatic recreation of missing images in the GenticsImageStore while publishing into the filesystem failed, which caused a failure of the publish process. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4358 🔗 Link

Fixed an error in the REST API, which could lead to recurrent NullPointerExceptions.


Bugfix SUP-4360 🔗 Link

When a new user was created, the user list fetched from the REST API via /rest/user/list did not show the new user immediately due to caches not being invalidated. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4372 🔗 Link

When editing a page with Aloha Editor and clicking the “Cancel“ link in the assistant frame, the intermediate state of the page was saved and the page still locked. This has been fixed now, so that “Cancel“ from the assistant frame works exactly like “Cancel” from the main menu.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.25


New UI Update 🔗 Link

  • 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 🔗 Link

  • 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

New UI Update 🔗 Link

  • 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

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UI Version 1.8.1

  • Mark page as changed after submitting tagfill dialog
  • Enable publish button when page has unsaved changes
  • Don‘t show “save/discard changes?” modal after publishing

New UI Update 🔗 Link

UI Version 1.8.0

  • Increased performance and responsiveness across all browsers
  • Navigation across items and edit modes now persist in the URL and browser history
  • Improved confirmation prompt when navigating away from unsaved changes
  • Hover intent for item list checkboxes improved
  • Page status visible in repository browser
  • Fix edge-cases with custom scripts for long-loading pages
  • Fix missing cancel button in certain tagfill dialogs
  • Fix time management modal inconsistency in edge-cases
  • Fix creation & edit date in file/image preview
  • Fix file upload issues for Firefox 45
  • Fix breadcrumb styling on deep navigation
  • Item list no longer jumps when using pagination
  • Start page icon now more obvious and added to repository browser
  • Buttons in edit panel rearranged & improved
  • Publishing a page closes the edit panel
  • Folder list is scrolled to top on navigation
  • Better error messages for failed file uploads

New UI Update 🔗 Link

  • 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

New UI Update 🔗 Link

  • 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

New UI Update 🔗 Link

UI Version 1.8.2

  • Add error message when new passwords do not match
  • Fix missing scrollbars in sidebar “messages“ and “favourites” components in FF & IE11
  • Correctly detect and handle errors from the REST API

Gentics Content.Node 5.25.24


Bugfix SUP-4193 🔗 Link

Fixed logging in not working for IPv6 HTTP clients.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.23


Deleting an item from the wastebin has been renamed from “Remove from wastebin“ to “Delete“ for usability reasons, so that it‘s better distinguishable from the “Restore” operation.

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Optional Manual Change

Changed the Tomcat maxThreads setting to 256 for the AJP connector in server.xml in the default package configuration. If your Apache webserver is allowing more than 200 connections you will need to make sure that the Tomcat can also handle at least as many connections (MaxThreads) as the MaxClients setting in Apache (default 256). Please configure this in server.xml for AJP connector if not already done in order to avoid errors.

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Bugfix SUP-3980 🔗 Link

Logged rendering errors will now include more specific information, which object was rendered when the error occurred.


Bugfix SUP-4135 🔗 Link

Under special circumstances, the URL to translate a page could lead to an SGB. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4108 🔗 Link

Enhanced an error message that occured when deleting on object in the CMS with the UI or pageimport and the object was already deleted.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.22


Optional Manual Change

Updated the Oracle JDBC connector to 5.1.41 in order to fix a bug with MySQL 5.7 where the CMS would throw an error when trying to check and update the MySQL database triggers. For newer MySQL server versions the JDBC connector will now use SSL for connections by default. However SSL also comes with a performance impact. If you don‘t need SSL for connections to the MySQL database (eg.: when MySQL is running on the same server), we recommend to turn SSL off by adding useSSL=false to the MySQL JDBC URL.

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This is done in the node.conf of your cms installation. By default the configuration file is found at /Node/etc/conf.d/node.db.conf. If there is no such file – create it.
In the node.db.conf create the following entry:
bc. $SETTINGS[“jdbcparameters“] = “useSSL=false“;
If the jdbcparameters index is already set concatenate parameters with “&“ like
bc. $SETTINGS[“jdbcparameters“] = “someOtherParam=1&useSSL=false”;
When using SSL, server certificate verification should be enabled and configured properly according to the MySQL documentation. See Connecting Securely Using SSL for more information.


Bugfix SUP-4082 🔗 Link

When the permission to view pages was granted through roles, the pages were not always shown in the page list correctly. Especially the list of pages using other items (like specific images) was not always correct. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-4111 🔗 Link

When tags of a template were changed to use a different construct, the synchronization with pages did not change the tags in the page, if the page was imported. This has been fixed now, synchronization of pages with their templates will now work regardless of how the page was created.


Bugfix SUP-4081 🔗 Link

Some icons in the CMS UI were missing tooltips, which have been added now.


Bugfix SUP-4079 🔗 Link

When using the “cancel” action from the related links from the translation split view, the split view was not closed, but showed the page list in the lower part. This has been fixed, cancel will now close the split view and show the page list in the whole frame.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.21


Documentation SUP-4037 🔗 Link

Added missing documentation for the getItems method in FolderResource.


Documentation SUP-4006 🔗 Link

Added MySQL 5.7 to the list of tested database systems in the compatibility documentation.


Bugfix SUP-3543 🔗 Link

In certain situations closing the tagfill dialog in a page could cause the scrollbar to jump to the beginning of the page or editable. This has been fixed. After closing the tagfill, the page will now remain on the same positions as before the tagfill was opened.


Bugfix SUP-4021 🔗 Link

When objects were moved between channels, the search for conflicting localized copies did not always check the wastebin, which could cause data inconsistencies. When objects were moved between folders, localized copies in the wastebin did not always get the new folder set. Both issues have been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3997 🔗 Link

Copying a Node could fail with a NullPointeException. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3288 🔗 Link

When tags in a page were deleted while restoring an older version of the page, some database records in sub tables (like value) where not properly cleaned. This could cause subsequent errors during an import and has been fixed now.


Bugfix 🔗 Link

Fixed a special case where a language variant page in the wastebin would not be deleted when translating a page with the /page/translate Rest endpoint.


Bugfix SUP-3914 🔗 Link

Requests to the REST API endpoint /file/save/{id} with Content-Type: multipart/form-data (for fileuploads) with Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 (or something similar, which preferred xml over json as response) always caused an Internal Server Error (500) response. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3991 🔗 Link

In certain situations, rendering a link to another page with the channel directive would render ‘#‘ even for online pages in the preview and in instant publishing. Rendering the page with the regular publish process always rendered the link correctly. This issue has been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.20


Documentation SUP-3952 🔗 Link

A page with details on the “ExpressionParser for TagMap Entries” has been added to the documentation.


Documentation SUP-3934 🔗 Link

Added missing documentation on how to setup support for Oracle or SQL-Server Content Repositories in the CMS.


Bugfix SUP-3926 🔗 Link

The permission checks for some rarely used administrative functions have been improved.


Bugfix SUP-3915 🔗 Link

JavaScript errors thrown in a PubSub-event-handler in the GCN-JS-API caused an immediate stop of the script‘s execution and could lead to an inconsistent state in the JS-API in the browser. This has been fixed: all errors thrown by an event-handler will be catched and logged back to the console.


Bugfix SUP-3301 🔗 Link

Fixed the permissions “Create / edit tagtype“ and “Channel sync“ for the “GCN5 Demo” node not being set for the node group.


Bugfix SUP-3592 🔗 Link

When objects were exported that referenced objects of other nodes, an optional reference to the node was created, even if the referenced object was in the wastebin. When objects were exported that contained objects of other nodes in an overview with sticky channel, no optional reference to the other node was created. Both issues have been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.19


Bugfix SUP-3873 🔗 Link

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-3871 🔗 Link

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-3876 🔗 Link

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-3832 🔗 Link

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-3867 🔗 Link

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-3591 🔗 Link

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.


Bugfix SUP-3908 🔗 Link

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.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.18


Enhancement SUP-3699 🔗 Link

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 🔗 Link

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


Bugfix SUP-3725 🔗 Link

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-3878 🔗 Link

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


Bugfix SUP-3857 🔗 Link

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 🔗 Link

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


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.17


Documentation SUP-2680 🔗 Link

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


Bugfix SUP-3837 🔗 Link

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-3811 🔗 Link

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-3601 🔗 Link

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-3858 🔗 Link

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.


Bugfix SUP-3820 🔗 Link

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


Bugfix SUP-3849 🔗 Link

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-3830 🔗 Link

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-3819 🔗 Link

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-3786 🔗 Link

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-3797 🔗 Link

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.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.16


Optional Manual Change

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

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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 🔗 Link

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-3679 🔗 Link

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.


Bugfix SUP-3780 🔗 Link

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-3743 🔗 Link

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.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.15


Bugfix SUP-3775 🔗 Link

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


Bugfix SUP-3752 🔗 Link

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.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.14


Documentation SUP-3719 🔗 Link

The Part Types documentation has been updated.


Bugfix SUP-3724 🔗 Link

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-3739 🔗 Link

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.


Bugfix SUP-3614 🔗 Link

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.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.13


Bugfix SUP-3655 🔗 Link

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 🔗 Link

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

Gentics Content.Node 5.25.12


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.

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Bugfix SUP-3662 🔗 Link

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.


Bugfix SUP-3690 🔗 Link

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


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.11


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.

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Enhancement SUP-3356 🔗 Link

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 🔗 Link

The backup guide has been updated.


Bugfix SUP-3434 🔗 Link

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


Bugfix SUP-3636 🔗 Link

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 🔗 Link

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


Bugfix SUP-3605 🔗 Link

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-3619 🔗 Link

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 5.25.10


Optional Manual Change

When using Internet Explorer in the Task Management UI, a small ‘x‘ button was shown

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in the search field, which cleared the search field, but had no effect on the search itself. This ‘x‘ button has now been removed.
Installations using the Activiti Integration need to have the Activiti Server updated to get those fixes.


Bugfix SUP-3576 🔗 Link

When editing a page with Aloha Editor and an editable is activated, additional paragraphs are added in places where they are necessary in order to place the cursor in front of or after blocks. Those editables were only added to the activated editable and removed from any inactive editable, even if the active editable was nested in a block in another editable. This behaviour has been changed now, so that the paragraphs will be added to all ancestor editables of the active editable.


Bugfix SUP-3568 🔗 Link

When opening a page for editing the event aloha-ready was never fired if the page contained no editable tags. This event should be triggered when the Aloha Editor is fully initialized. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3268 🔗 Link

When translating a local page inside a channel without specifying the channel, the check whether the translation already exists didn‘t work and another language variant of the same page with the same language was created. This has been fixed.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.9


Updated the new CMS UI to version 1.2.3

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Documentation SUP-3565 🔗 Link

The guides for the Url Parttypes were updated to describe the size property which is a formatted string in KB or MB and not to be confused with target.size, which is an integer number in Bytes.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.8


Optional Manual Change

In the Task Management the list of Completed Tasks can now also be filtered to show either all tasks or the tasks assigned to the current user.

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


Bugfix SUP-3212 🔗 Link

When using the extended search for pages in the root folder of a channel, it was not possible to restrict to templates, this has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3551 🔗 Link

When moving a localized folder in a multichannelling environment, the localized copies did not get their parent‘s folder_id updated in the content repository. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3563 🔗 Link

Opening the tagfill produced an error if the tagtype contained a non empty Page-URL part linking to an internal page. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3212 🔗 Link

Localization of templates failed with an error. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3556 🔗 Link

When a page was edited outside the backend UI (e.g. via frontend editing or using the new UI) and a new file was uploaded from within the tagfill dialog, an SGB could occur. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3551 🔗 Link

The maintenance action “Check data“ for multichannelling contentrepositories did not identify objects in channels that should have been overwritten by localized copies. Also, the check only would set the data status to “error” if invalid objects were found in the master node, but not, if invalid objects only existed in channels. Both issues have been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.7


Bugfix SUP-3514 🔗 Link

The default upload folders for images and files could not be unset, once they were set. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3478 🔗 Link

When a new tag was created in a page as copy of another tag with the Gentics Content.Node JavaScript API, the internal cache of the page was cleared which could lead to inconsistent behaviour. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3324 🔗 Link

When a localized or local page was edited in a channel, the setting for whether to use Aloha Editor was always taken from the master node, not from the channel. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3503 🔗 Link

When the tagtype of an object property definition was changed, already existing object tags were not migrated, unless the change was done with the feature “tagtype migration”. This has been changed now. Existing object tags are migrated, when the object properties of an object are shown in the object properties dialog, or the object is loaded for editing.


Bugfix SUP-3501 🔗 Link

When a folder was moved into another folder with more restrictive inheritance settings (in a multichannelling environment), and the moved folder or any of its subfolders contained objects in the wastebin which would not allow restricting the inheritance, the move operation did not fail with an explicit message naming the conflicting object, but failed with a general error message. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3435 🔗 Link

When a tagtype contained multiple parts of type URL (page) and one of them referenced a page in the wastebin, opening the tagfill dialog failed with an SGB. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3491 🔗 Link

The script /Node/bin/nodectl sometimes showed an error when stopping Tomcat, although stopping finally worked. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3334 🔗 Link

The regexes contained in the package, which can be used for text parts of constructs did not have proper english translations, which have been added now.


Bugfix SUP-3378 🔗 Link

Some minor issues with the detection of GCMS version numbers from local updatefiles have been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3538 🔗 Link

Fixed possible NPE in the publish process.


Bugfix SUP-3367 🔗 Link

Selecting some text in the tagfill with the chrome browser was not working as expected after opening and closing the RepositoryBrowser without selecting any objects. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3347 🔗 Link

When evaluation of tagmap entries failed with unexpected errors (like NullPointerException) while publishing an object into a content repository, the logged error suppressed the expression causing the error. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3527 🔗 Link

The statement used to get the templates using a specific page (in a pagetag) was inefficient and could cause timeouts in the page list. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3547 🔗 Link

Saving an overview listing folders in the tagfill dialog failed with an SGB. This has been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.6


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.5


Bugfix SUP-3320 🔗 Link

When editing a page with aloha editor, and a tag in an editable was refreshed (e.g. because the tag had been modified using the tagfill dialog), and the tag contained a nested tag in an editable, sometimes the order of initialization of the nested blocks and editables was incorrect and could cause side-effects. One of this side-effects was the automatic modification of editables through the browser when using internet explorer by inserting a br-tag. The initialization order of nested tags has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3488 🔗 Link

The repository browser didn‘t work in the tagfill dialog when the multichannelling feature was not enabled. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3458 🔗 Link

When using the feature attribute_dirting together with instant_cr_publishing and multichannelling, it could happen that objects that were modified again during a publish run for which they were scheduled to be published were not published correctly into channels (not all attributes were updated for the channels). This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3354 🔗 Link

When a page rendered the tag of another page, which rendered a velocity overview containing the original page, and a tag of the original page was rendered that resolved , this was incorrectly not resolved to the name of the page in the overview, but the name of the page containing the overview. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3441 🔗 Link

When the feature activiti_integration was used and a process was configured for the event onPagePublish publishing a new page (which was never published before) with publish at failed with an internal error. Also processes configured for the events onPagePublish or onPageTakeOffline where not started for pages that went on- or offline due to time management. Both issues have been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3457 🔗 Link

Purging the wastebin from many deleted folders consumed a big amount of memory, which could cause OutOfMemory errors. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3413 🔗 Link

When the type of a part in a construct was changed from Select (single) or Select (multiple) to Checkbox, the values of already existing tags where not consistently interpreted: # The tagfill dialog and the REST API showed the checkbox to not be checked # While rendering, the checkbox was treated as being checked. The tag had to be filled once to fix this behaviour. This issue has been fixed now, the checkbox will now consistenly be handled as “not checked”.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.4


Bugfix 🔗 Link

Updated the new CMS UI to version 1.1.0.


Bugfix SUP-3465 🔗 Link

Resolving the nodeId for URL parttypes did not work correctly, when this was done in a channel. This has been fixed now.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.3


Documentation SUP-2106 🔗 Link

The guides on defining velocity macros in a library page were updated. They now recommend using tagtype “html (long)” to contain the velocity-code in the macro library page.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.2


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.1


Bugfix SUP-3424 🔗 Link

If there was a publishrun between two imports of the same contentrepository, the second import would show a conflict for this contentrepository. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-3329 🔗 Link

When a master object was deleted and localized at the same time (by different users), this could cause a data inconsistency. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-3392 🔗 Link

When images are uploaded where the DPI cannot be determined, the DPI was set to 72 per default. This has been changed now, so that the DPI is internally set to 0. The image list will now show ‘N/A‘ for the DPI value in such cases. Images that are already uploaded will not be affected by this change, unless they are uploaded again.


Bugfix SUP-3405 🔗 Link

In multichannelling environments, the dependencies of images were sometimes not stored correctly, which could cause the automatic dirting mechanism to fail dirting images. This has been fixed now. This change does not automatically fix probably missing dependencies, in order to recalculate the dependencies, it is necessary to republish all files from the maintenance dialog.


Bugfix SUP-3274 🔗 Link

Setting the publish directory for a folder and all its subfolders may take a long time. This action has been modified to be continued in the background if it takes longer than 5 seconds. Before this fix, the long running request could cause a timeout, which was shown as error in the properties dialog of the folder.


Bugfix SUP-3283 🔗 Link

When copying a node together with its templates and some of the templates were assigned to folders in other nodes, the copies of those templates were also assigned to the folders of the other nodes. This has been fixed now. The copied templates will only be assigned to folders of the node copy.


Gentics Content.Node 5.25.0


Manual Change

The new Gentics CMS UI requires an additional symlink within the htdocs folder. You can create the needed symlink using the following command:
ln -s /Node/.node/ui /Node/var/httpd/htdocs/.Node/ui

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Enhancement GCU-29 🔗 Link

The inheritedFromId, and masterNodeId fields have been added to the NodeLoadResponse. These fields contain the structural information that is needed to build up the node/channel tree.


Enhancement GCU-121 🔗 Link

The REST API has been enhanced:

  • The endpoint rest/folder/getFolders/{id} has a new query parameter privilegeMap to get the privileges on each folder in a map representation
  • The endpoint rest/perm/{type}/{id} has a new query parameter map to get the privileges in a map representation

Enhancement GCU-28 🔗 Link

The REST responses of FileLoadResponse, ImageLoadResponse, PageLoadResponse and FolderLoadResponse have been enhanced. Additional fields (masterNodeId, inheritedFromId) which identify the corresponding multichanneling nodes via id have been added.


Enhancement GCU-76 🔗 Link

An additional REST endpoint for users has been added. The endpoint rest/user/save/{id} can be used to update user specific information.


Enhancement GTXPE-37 🔗 Link

The part type Overview has a new setting Sticky Channel, which allows selecting objects from specific channels in overviews. Please consult the section about the Overview Part Type in the Guides for further information.


Enhancement GTXPE-36 🔗 Link

The following part types have been extended to store the node from which internal target objects were selected:

  • URL (page)
  • URL (image)
  • URL (file)
  • URL (folder)

Those part types will expose the node as attribute node and the node ID as attribute nodeId. Please see the Meta Attributes in the Guides for implementation details. Also consult the guides page about the Aloha Editor Page Link Tag
It is important to note, that this change breaks Import/Export compatibility with older version of the Gentics CMS. It will no longer be possible to import data containing URL parttypes from Gentics CMS Version starting with 5.25.0 to Gentics CMS Versions older than

  • 5.21.40 (Michelangelo)
  • 5.22.36 (Raphael)
  • 5.23.17 (Grizzly)
  • 5.24.7 (Georg)

Enhancement GTXPE-42 🔗 Link

It is now possible to deactivate default Aloha Editor Plugins in general or on a per node basis. Please consult the Guides for further information.