Gentics Portal.Node Changelog Summary

Gentics Portal.Node 4.9.0

The java source code for this project will now be compiled for JDK 1.8. Gentics Portal.Node classes are no longer executable with JDK 1.7 and older JDKs.

Manual Change

The dependency to node-lib has been updated to 2.4.2, which includes an update of the logging library to log4j 2.17.0.

This requires the following changes:

  • The logging configuration file /Node/tomcat/conf/gentics/nodelog.properties has to be migrated to the configuration file /Node/tomcat/conf/gentics/nodelog.yml, in the log4j2 format. It is recommended to use the YAML format.
  • Projects, which depend on portalnode-lib and directly use any classes from log4j1 need to be migrated to use the corresponding classes from log4j2 (where possible).

Please see Log4j 1.x Migration for details.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.8.7

Enhancement

The dependency to node-lib has been updated to 2.3.13.
The SendMailAction has been extended to support authentication and startTls.
The GenticsImageStoreServlet has a new parameter loadTimeout.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.8.6

Bugfix

Updated dependency to node-lib.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.8.5

Bugfix SUP-4077

The version of node-lib has been updated to 2.3.4. This fixes a problem with sync checking of datasource using persistent caches.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.8.4

Bugfix SUP-6561

Updated dependency to node-lib. This solves an issue where images did not get the correct filename when being resized by Gentics Image Store.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.8.3

Bugfix SUP-3959

Fixed a bug in the GenticsContentModul and GenticsContentPortlet that caused CSS pages to be rendered as text/html.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.8.2

Bugfix SUP-3918

The mimetype “application/javascript” has been added to the list of supported mimetypes for resource contents. A content (Type 10007) with this mimetype will now be served the same way as other resource contents. (e.g.: CSS, XML)

Gentics Portal.Node 4.8.1

Bugfix SUP-3553

Several fixes have been made to avoid NullPointerExceptions when running Gentics Portal.Node Java in Apache Tomcat 8.

Bugfix SUP-3567

Several Javadoc errors have been fixed.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.8.0

Enhancement GI-71

The GenticsContentPortlet can now process plinks and action URLs with the channelid attribute. Action requests with the channelid parameter will change the channel of the current datasource to the one given in the request.

Enhancement GTXPE-43

It is now possible for portlets to set cookies in the HTTP response via PortletResponse.addProperty().

Gentics Portal.Node 4.7.7

Bugfix SUP-2488

Raised node version in order to prevent an possible error that could cause resizing with GenticsImageStore to fail with a NullPointerException.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.7.6

Bugfix SUP-2371

Raise node version in order to include support for org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient version 4.5.1.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.7.5

Bugfix SUP-1814

A ClassNotFoundException that occured during portal startup was fixed. The exception was caused by obsolete portlet definitions for the removed GenticsNavigationModule. The definitions were removed from the GPN webapp portlet.xml and gentics-portlet.xml files.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.7.4

Bugfix SUP-1610

The serveResource() methods of the GenticsContentPortlet and GenticsContentModule did not set the HTTP status of the response to 404, when the requested resource could not be found. This has been fixed.

Bugfix

The non-functional GenticsNavigationModule was removed.

Bugfix SUP-994

Portal Implementations using a GCNCasProxyAuthenticationServletFilter to authenticate requests against a CMS Server, responses with a status different from 200 were interpreted as being unauthenticated. This could cause unnecessary re-logins. Additionally, when an unauthenticated request was detected, the filter chain was invoked again, which could cause errors in some portal servers. The implementation of the filter has been changed to fix both issues.

Bugfix SUP-766

The event onSessionCreate was not triggered, if the first request to a new session was a resource request. This has been fixed now, also resource requests will trigger this event in case of a new session.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.7.3

Gentics Portal.Node 4.7.2

Bugfix SUP-715

Added missing documentation for session configuration on Apache Tomcat 7+.

Bugfix SUP-799

The Administration Portlet did not work any more, due to an internal misconfiguration. This has been fixed now.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.7.1

Bugfix SUP-415

The memory consumption while accessing attributes for objects from a multichannelling aware contenrepository has been reduced.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.7.0

The Portal.Node SDK Updatesite is now deprecated. Please take a look at the manual update guide for the Portal.Node SDK. The guide explains how to manually update your SDK Installation.
Additionally the Portal.Node Maven IDE Guide will explain how to use Portal.Node and Maven together. An example project has been created.

Enhancement

GCC: The following classes were moved from Gentics Content.Connector to Gentics Portal.Node in preparation for Gentics Content.Connector Release 2.0.0 which will no longer include the portalnode-lib dependency.

  • com.gentics.cr.template.PortalNodeTemplateManager
  • com.gentics.cr.util.PluggableActionCaller

Gentics Portal.Node 4.6.2

Gentics Portal.Node 4.6.1

Bugfix RT58409

When using the DatasourceQueryImp, sorting by multiple columns did not work. This has been fixed now.

Bugfix RT58428

When the GenticsContentPortlet returned binary data, the Cache-Control: max-age response header was always set to a value of 5184000, which allowed the content to be cached for 60 days in the browser. This was not always appropriate. It is now possible to set the Cache-Control:max-age to a different value by using the pnode Parameter “max-age”. It is even possible to use Expressions to set the max-age depending on attributes of the returned content object. For details, see the pnode parameter list of the GenticsContentPortlet in the Reference Documentation.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.6.0

Manual Change

Product structure changes

  • Various deprecated internal non-api classes were removed. (e.g: GenticsContentModule2)
  • Various classes for Gentics Content.Node and Gentics Portal.Node were moved from node-lib to either contentnode-lib and portalnode-lib.

Manual Change

Java Compiler Update

The compiler settings for the shipped java libraries were changed. It is now mandatory to use at least JDK 1.7.

Enhancement

The runtime profiler servlet configuration root path can now be configured using the profiler.config.rootpath system property.

Enhancement

Datasources used in a Gentics Portal.Node Server will now be checked with autorepair2 instead of autorepair by default.

Enhancement

Gentics Portal.Node 4.6.0 now supports Apache Tomcat 7.0.23. Take a look at our compatibility list for more details

Bugfix RT58150

The error behaviour of the GenticsImageStore web application has been changed: There are now minimalistic error pages for the most common errors defined, that will not give away any server specific information. When the image to be resized cannot be found, the GenticsImageStore servlet will return a 404 (Not Found) response. If the path to the image to be resized does not match the configured pattern, the GenticsImageStore servlet will return a 400 (Bad Request) response.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.5.1

Enhancement

Various internal logging methods have been slightly adapted to improve performance.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.5.0

The Portal.Node SDK Updatesite will be deprecated in the future. Please take a look at the manual update guide for the Portal.Node SDK. The guide explains how to manually update your SDK.

Enhancement

The Portal implements now an additional Feature from JSR-286 Portal Standard. Each PortletRequest now holds information about its lifecycle phase as attribute with the key: PortletRequest.LIFECYCLE_PHASE. Please see the linked standard specification for more details.

Enhancement

It is now possible to store boolean values into Integer attributes of datasources. True will be converted to 1 and False to 0.

Enhancement

When reading data from a multichannelling content repository datasource, that is written by Gentics Content.Node Version >= 5.16, data for optimized attributes will now be read from the table “contentmap“ and not “contentattribute“ any more, because optimized attributes will no longer be stored in the table “contentattribute”.

Enhancement

The “cacheKeyQueryParameters” servlet configuration parameter is supported again in the GenticsImageStore-Servlet. It allows to select URL parameters to be included in the cache key and in the fetch URL of the original image.

Enhancement

The Portal.Node Maven IDE Guide will explain how to use Portal.Node and maven together. An example project has been created.

Bugfix

When using the PortalConnectorFactory to create datasource instances based on properties but without specifying an ID, creating instances with identical datasource properties but different handle properties always returned the same datasource (the one registered first). This has been fixed now, different handle properties will now also result in different datasource instances.

Bugfix RT57448

A possible NPE when handling an invalid action URL for a DatasourceListComponent has been fixed. The invalid action URL could be caused by sending an invalid or empty session ID with the URL.

Bugfix RT57647

Fetching a linked object from an object stored in a multichannelling aware datasource possibly failed with an error like “Linked object [contentid] for attribute [name] of [object] does not exist” when the current channel of the datasource was not correctly set. This has been fixed now, getting linked objects will work regardless of the currently set channels (and will fetch the object from the channel of the object holding the link).

Bugfix RT57801

When a portlet or component tried to fetch a datasource from the portal, but no specific datasource was configured for the portlet or component, an error occurred, that the datasource “CN” could not be found. This error will now be suppressed.

Bugfix RT57873

commons-fileupload has been updated to 1.3.1 in order to avoid a DoS vulnerability (CVE-2014–0050)

Gentics Portal.Node 4.4.3

Enhancement RT57008

Contentrepository datasources will now support the newest MS SQL JDBC driver 4.0 for connecting to Microsoft‘s SQL Server.

Enhancement RT56997

When prefilling attributes for a multichannelling datasource, the attributes will first be checked in the cache. Attributes will only be prefilled, if more than “prefetchAttribute.threshold“ objects shall be prefetched or if more than “prefetchAttribute.cacheMissThreshold“ values are not found in the cache. See the section “Attribute Prefetching” in the Reference documentation for more details.

Enhancement

Increase performance of cache warming for multichannelling datasources by optimizing the SQL statements.

Enhancement

It is now possible to change the sorting of the datasourcelistcomponent by setting the component properties “sortby“ and “sortorder“. The readonly property “count“ will return the total number of items in the datasourcelistcomponent. See index term “DatasourceListComponent” in the Reference documentation for more details.

Bugfix RT57193

The PortalConnectorFactory now provides access to datasources, that are managed by a Gentics Portal.Node Java Server. This allows sharing datasources (and their caches) between portlets and other components outside of the scope of the portal (e.g. servlets). Additionally, it is possible to register new datasource handles and datasources using the PortalConnectorFactory, which makes them available in the portal as well. See the section “Gentics .Node PortalConnector Java API“ and the “API Reference” in the Reference documentation for more details.

Bugfix RT56997

When prefilling attributes for a multichannelling datasource, sometimes empty attributes were not put in the cache, which caused additional SQL Statements, when those attributes were accessed. This has been fixed now.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.4.2

Bugfix RT56784

When the language fallback changes the current page of a GenticsContentPortlet, the triggered onChange event will now have the contentid of the new page as property.

Bugfix RT56788

Two issues with redirects were resolved:

  • Using the SendRedirectAction in a callable action, that was executed using the docallableaction() function in a reaction did not work.
  • When the portal parameter portal.response.redirect was set to redirect the request, this setting was not cleared for the next request, so every subsequent request would also be redirected (until portal.response.redirect was manually cleared).

Bugfix RT56705

The operations “clearcache“ and “load” (by contentid) of the DatasourceAction did not work with multichannelling contentrepositories, and have been fixed now.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.4.1

Bugfix RT56151

The caching implementation for CNDatasource and MCCRDatasource has been optimized to reduce the memory consumption for cached objects.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.4.0

Enhancement

The DatasourceAction now supports selecting channels when used with a Multichannelling ContentRepository. See index term “DatasourceAction” in the Reference Documentation for more details.

Enhancement

The PortalConnectorFactory has a new method prefillAttributes() that can be used to prefill attributes for a given collection of objects fetched from a datasource.

Enhancement

The DatasourceQueryImp now supports selecting channels when used with a Multichannelling ContentRepository. See index term “DatasourceQueryImp” in the Reference Documentation for more details.

Enhancement

It is now possible to choose multiple channels when using a Multichannelling ContentRepository (one for each channel structure). Queries will now be done across all currently selected channels. See index term “MCCR” in the Reference Documentation for further details.

Enhancement

It is now possible to use the meta attributes “channel_id“ and “channelset_id” when filtering Multichannelling ContentRepositories.

Enhancement

The Profiler Webapp file was added to the Portal.Node SDK Updatefile

Bugfix RT55379

If the Gentics Portal.Node was started without a Multichannelling ContentRepository configured, numerous errors like ‘No implementation found for AND for {com.gentics.lib.datasource.mccr.MCCRDatasource}‘ where logged. Those errors had no effect on any functionality and are avoided now.

Bugfix RT55593

When reading link attributes from a Multichannelling ContentRepository, where the link target does not exist, null will be returned instead of the linked contentid as string (identical to the behaviour when reading from a non-Multichannelling ContentRepository). Also, before this fix, an exception was logged, that will be omit now.

Bugfix RT55381

Fixed the GenticsContentPortlet to always get the content from the currently selected channel when used with a Multichannelling ContentRepository.

Bugfix RT55592

When reading unset text attributes from a Multichannelling ContentRepository, null will be returned instead of an empty string (identical to the behaviour when reading from a non-Multichannelling ContentRepository).

Bugfix RT55361

Fixed a bug in the DatasourceQueryImp which caused an exception to be thrown when used with a Multichannelling ContentRepository.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.3.0

Enhancement

The GenticsContentPortlet now supports streaming of binarycontent, if the attribute is stored in the filesystem.

Enhancement RT54982

The new Portal Page property suppress_gentics_pp will suppress adding the gentics.pp parameter to URLs rendered in a Portal Page, even if that Portal Page is not the current Portal Page and was itself rendered using the gentics.pp parameter.

Enhancement

Gentics Portal.Node will now support using multichannelling datasources (for reading). See the reference documentation about details on configuration and channel selection.

Bugfix RT54418-3

The datasourcetreecomponent will now support the filter() function (using PostProcessors) in the noderule, even if the rule is not transformed into a content repository query, but is evaluated in the program logic.

Bugfix RT54025

The generation of beautiful URLs did not work when two mapping existed with the only difference that one mapping had an additional parameter mapped. This has been fixed now.

Bugfix RT54418-2

The ExpressionEvaluator will now also support the filter() function (using PostProcessors) in the match method.

Bugfix RT54510

The GCNAuthenticationManager will read the session secret in a different way after login to the CMS backend to comply with the latest security fixes of Gentics Content.Node.

Bugfix RT54349

When using a rule like “object.[optimized_attr] CONTAINSONEOF [null]” to query objects from a datasource, the generated SQL statement was invalid. This has been fixed now, this special case will be treated correctly now and the resulting SQL statement will be valid.

Bugfix RT54418

It is now possible to use PostProcessors also with the ExpressionEvaluator (using the filter method).

Gentics Portal.Node 4.2.0

Enhancement RM6440

Added support for configurable RequestDecorators to intercept and modify requests to the GenticsImageStore. See the index term “GenticsImageStore“ in the reference documentation and the interface “com.gentics.api.imagestore.RequestDecorator” in the API documentation about details.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.1.1

Bugfix

Re-added the Profiler.war to the Update Package.

Bugfix

Some fixes and enhancements from previous releases were missing in the release 4.1, which have now been re-added:

  • Fixed the way, files are located in the File Loader of the Template Manager to avoid Exceptions thrown when Gentics Portal.Node is used in BEA WebLogic.
  • Fixed resizing of images using the GenticsImageStore, that have image/x-png or image/pjpeg as mimetype.
  • Fixed clearing caches for portlets due to modifications when used on WebLogic Application Server.
  • It is now possible to configure the context, under which JNDI DataSources for datasource handles are looked up. This might be useful when running in an environment, that does not bind the datasources under the context java:comp/env, as required by the servlet specification.

Bugfix RT51933

Fixed image resizing using the GenticsContentPortlet or GenticsContentModule: When the image could not be resized (e.g. because it was an animated GIF), nothing was returned. This behaviour has been changed now: the original (unresized) image will be returned, but still an error logged on the server.

Gentics Portal.Node 4.1.0

Enhancement

The new filter() function allows using instances of the interface PostProcessor to move complex filtering logic from the rule (which would be transformed in possibly slow SQL statements) into Java Code. See index term “Functions|filter()“ or “PostProcessor” in the reference documentation. Also see the PostProcessorExample in the SDK (which is described in the SDK Guide).

Enhancement

The GenticsContentPortlet will now render an additional Aloha setting so that Gentics Content.Node can hide the ribbon when the Portlet renders an edit view.

Enhancement

Datasources of type ContentRepository that use caching can now be configured to automatically fill the cache in a background job. See index term “ContentRepository|Configuration” in the reference documentation for details.

Enhancement

The Portal.Node Profiler was moved into an separate war file.

Enhancement

The Portal.Node build process was changed and thus the shared libs were renamed.

Enhancement

The Portal will now support reading of ContentRepositories that have some binary or long text attributes stored in the filesystem instead of the database. See index term “ContentRepository|Configuration“ (configuration parameter “attribute.path“) in the reference documentation and consult the Gentics Content.Node guides pages in the Gentics Infoportal for details about the feature “cr_filesystem_attributes”.