Gentics CMS Changelog Summary

Gentics CMS 5.44.9


Bugfix SUP-13587 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Image elements are completely disjoint from the form section and svg files have preview images.


Bugfix SUP-13564 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Download buttons are now properly disabled and enabled again based on whether the data fetch of the form was successful in properties tab.


Bugfix SUP-14195 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Save button is enabled, when confirmation page is linked in form properties.


Bugfix SUP-14476 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface and Editor User Interface: Dismiss button is now hidden in Notification toasts when it‘s disabled.


Bugfix SUP-14476 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue with the Date Picker element which does not show the calendar elements.


Bugfix SUP-12915 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When the form configuration is invalid, an error text is shown.


Bugfix SUP-14418 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed a permission issue to Maintenance Mode which allowed users to access Maintenance Mode even if it is not available.


Bugfix SUP-14362 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: File name is now shown in form report list.


Gentics CMS 5.44.8


Bugfix SUP-14301 Link to this entry

Administrator User Interface: Activity message is shown, upon sync from/to filesystem button clicked in packages.


Bugfix SUP-11342 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed issue with overlapping icons on the dashboard and Administration Permissions interface.


Bugfix SUP-14392 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When the Maintenance-Mode is activated, the user is now properly signed out with a correct error message.


Bugfix SUP-14424 Link to this entry

Editor UI: Error message is shown and prevent the saving, when clicking on the ‘save and close‘ button after closing the image properties editor and it contains invalid data.


Bugfix SUP-11735 Link to this entry

When publishing into a Mesh ContentRepository, all calls to get data using graphql will now have the parameter “wait“ set to “false” and will therefore never wait for the search sync to be idle in Mesh.


Bugfix SUP-14489 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: While creating a Node, it‘s now possible to change the SEO and Internationalization settings. The default values for these settings have also been updated to hide file extensions and without additional file-encoding.


Bugfix SUP-14491 Link to this entry

When adding a contentrepository to a devtool package, which is assigned to a node, and the node has no contentrepository assigned, the node is modified to have the contentrepository assigned. Before this fix, this was done with user ID 0, which changed the last editor of the node to 0, causing errors when reading the node over the REST API. This has been fixed now.


Bugfix SUP-14422 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Synchronizing Dev-Tool Packages from or to the File-System will now wait for 5 seconds to complete. If it is not able to complete in time, the sync will be continued in the Background. The User will now also receive the appropriate messages for the status of the sync.


Bugfix SUP-14380 Link to this entry

Changing the language reloads the page and updates the language.


Gentics CMS 5.44.7


Bugfix SUP-14175 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Icon tooltips are updated in the content permissions of group.


Bugfix SUP-14255 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Linking templates now asks for how to apply the new selection and will update the available templates accordingly.


Bugfix SUP-14374 Link to this entry

When a node is copied, the following data will now also be copied:

  • Activated features
  • Assigned devtool packages
  • Translated folder properties
  • Alternate URLs of pages and files

Bugfix SUP-14414 Link to this entry

In rare cases, it could happen that failing transactions would remain open, possibly leading to database locks. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-14376 Link to this entry

A description for default content language DA / Danish has been fixed.


Gentics CMS 5.44.6


Bugfix GPU-342 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface, Editor User Interface: Fixed visual bug that caused the screen to jump up and be out of view when a checkbox is clicked.


Bugfix SUP-14316 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Validation of Object-Properties has been fixed and now correctly prevents the user from saving invalid properties.


Gentics CMS 5.44.5


Documentation SUP-14257 Link to this entry

Added example configuration for conditionalcontainer elements in the form-editor.json.


Bugfix SUP-14196 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: When assigning groups to multiple users at once, the groups will be added to the users instead of replacing their groups.


Bugfix SUP-14252 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Permission checks to display the context-menu entry for pushing an element back to a master node have been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-14242 Link to this entry

When rendering a tag of another object with velocity, the tag will completely be rendered in preview mode, even if the original object is rendered in edit mode.


Gentics CMS 5.44.4


Enhancement SUP-10093 Link to this entry

Core: Now authentication cookie contains SameSite attribute. The attribute value is set via contentnode.global.config.session_cookie_samesite configuration. Default value is lax.


Documentation SUP-14150 Link to this entry

Updated the guides for the recent items feature as it now works with and without Elasticsearch feature enabled.


Bugfix SUP-10337 Link to this entry

The included version of Aloha Editor has been updated to 1.4.60. This fixes some issues with selecting and deleting tags in editables or other tags. For details, see the Aloha Editor Changelog


Bugfix SUP-10641 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Link checker filter fields retain their value on node change.


Bugfix SUP-11002 Link to this entry

When Elasticsearch is not available, the generic error message has been replaced with a note, that the search service is currently unavailable.


Bugfix SUP-13407 Link to this entry

Core: The spring-security-core dependency has been updated onto version 5.7.3.


Bugfix SUP-14087 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: When creating a new language variant of a page, the template field is now properly updated.


Gentics CMS 5.44.3


Bugfix SUP-13139 Link to this entry

Core: Under some circumstances a new Keycloak login creates a new CMS user with no groups. This is unacceptable and has been fixed. A case of the user with no groups now throws an exception, aborting the CMS user generation.


Bugfix SUP-14063 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: The button for taking a page offline was missing in the list when a node had no languages assigned. This has been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-12917 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed issue in the Form Editor, regarding the key and value input field being draggable, thus preventing selecting its text.


Bugfix SUP-11619 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed Content Repository assignment issue in the Node Properties editor.


Bugfix SUP-14039 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed a folder object property issue when object properties saved recursively in a channel‘s local folder with the old tag editor.


Bugfix SUP-14030 Link to this entry

When a selection intersects with an block/editable, and a deletion (keypress, paste, cut) would occur, the user is now asked if the block should be removed and the action is canceled.


Bugfix SUP-11822 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixes an issue where uploads are getting canceled/cause errors when uploading multiple files.


Gentics CMS 5.44.2


Bugfix SUP-12739 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Added dragging indicator icon to the filter pop-up windows.


Bugfix SUP-13567 Link to this entry

When publishing into a Mesh ContentRepository and using a roles object property, which returned a role, that did not exist in Mesh, the publish process failed with an error. This has been fixed now, inexistent roles will just be ignored.


Bugfix SUP-13908 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Fixed an issue in the Group Module that happened when the Administration Permission tab accessed, the scroll bar and the interface got in an unusable state.


Bugfix SUP-12893 Link to this entry

Setting permissions on various object instances using the REST API was not possible due to incorrect permission checks, which have been fixed.


Bugfix SUP-13985 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Scroll issue has been fixed for long tag properties in the Properties Editor.


Bugfix SUP-13710 Link to this entry

When the image, which was requested from the GenticImageStore could not be resized (like SVG for example), the original image data was returned, but the Content-Type was incorrectly set to ‘application/octet-stream‘. This has been fixed, so that the returned Content-Type will now be the correct one.


Bugfix SUP-13618 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fullscreen mode is now enabled for the form editor interface.


Bugfix SUP-13884 Link to this entry

The docker image has been changed, so that Tomcat will direct its own log to the console.


Bugfix SUP-13709 Link to this entry

Fixes the PUT /rest/user/{id} endpoint which did not update the users password if it was included in the update request.


Bugfix SUP-13266 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Usage now displays correctly without needing to reload the page.


Bugfix SUP-13898 Link to this entry

Fixes a name collision check when creating folders in a channel, where a folder with the same name already exists in a different channel of the same master node.


Gentics CMS 5.44.1


Enhancement SUP-9489 Link to this entry

Editor User interface: with the new feature Folder Based Template Selection, the "Link Templates"-modal can be customized: if enabled, the selection of templates to be linked is constrained to those already linked in a selected folder instead of all visible templates of the current node. See the Feature Overview for details.


Bugfix SUP-8533 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Unpublish menu item text appears correctly based on whether user has publish permission. Page language icons are updated when user publish multiple languages.


Bugfix SUP-12867 Link to this entry

Admin User Interface: Status of scheduler tasks is properly shown, based on whether failed jobs exist.


Bugfix SUP-12474 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Upload button in the selected file preview is visible based on user permissions.


Bugfix SUP-12426 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Publish queue localized page items on click properly redirect to the page editor.


Bugfix SUP-13064 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Checkboxes and save button are disabled in edit dialog of “Administration Permissions”, if user has no edit permission.


Bugfix SUP-12441 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fix an issue when user creates a form, the page is moved outside of the window.


Bugfix SUP-13076 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Form editor menu has sticky position.


Bugfix SUP-10589 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Optimized the loading strategy of folders which leads to faster loading times.


Bugfix SUP-13570 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixed an issue with the File/Image tag editor that prevented changing the item after save.


Bugfix SUP-13140 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Improved visibility of scroll bars in tables for web browsers Google Chrome, MS Edge and Mozilla Firefox running in Microsoft Windows.


Bugfix SUP-13172 Link to this entry

Fixes a permission check which allowed users which are restricted to channels to create file copies in the master node.


Bugfix SUP-13172 Link to this entry

The fields nodeId and targetFolder have been added to the FileCopyRequest for the /rest/file/copy endpoint, so that file copy requests can specify the source node as well as a target folder to copy to.


Bugfix SUP-13276 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Detail view now closing after navigating back to the Dashboard.


Bugfix SUP-11227 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Search filters only in columns that are visible.


Bugfix SUP-13199 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fix saving issue, when user updates the form properties.


Bugfix SUP-11414 Link to this entry

When publishing into a Mesh Content.Repository and the Mesh client user has admin permissions, the publish process will check for unfinished jobs and will trigger processing of those jobs.


Bugfix SUP-13887 Link to this entry

Under specific circumstances (in most cases caused by conflicts with uniqueness of url or segment fields), the publishing process into a Mesh ContentRepository would never finish. This has been fixed, the publish process will now fail in such cases.


Bugfix SUP-12889 Link to this entry

Editor User Interface: Fixes form reports table layout and scrollbar.


Gentics CMS 5.44.0


Enhancement GPU-112 Link to this entry

Admin User Interface: Module Contentrepositories is now available.


Enhancement GPU-130 Link to this entry

Adds the boolean field lastFailed to the response of the /admin/publishInfo endpoint, which indicates if the last completed publish process failed or was completed successfully.


Enhancement GPU-119 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Module “Content Maintenance” is now available.


Enhancement GPU-114 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Module “Maintenance Mode” is now available.


Enhancement GPU-115 Link to this entry

Administration User Interface: Module “CRFragments” is now available.