dotCMS 3.2.4
Available: Aug 17, 2015
Fixes
- Added ability to add files without extensions via webdav
- Improved 1.9 to 3.2.4 upgrade
- Improved logging for the Migrate to Content functionality
- Cut/Paste fixed on Legacy Pages
- Added config to sleep during Reindex logic
- Improved the performance for File Assets when getting their dimensions
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dotCMS 3.2.3
Available: Jul 20, 2015
Improvements
- Improvements to Reindex Logic on Failures in ElasticSearch
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dotCMS 3.2.2
Available: Jun 30, 2015
Fixes
- Fixed issues with What's Changed functionality in Edit Mode
- Fixed some issues with Publishing content in multiple languages
- Fixed some major performance issues with legacy pages meaning pages that are not content
Things to Know
- dotCMS no longer supports or provides the autoupdater. dotCMS 3.2.1 was the last release with it. For upgrading refer to this document http://dotcms.com/docs/latest/upgrade-dotcms
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dotCMS 3.2.1
Available: Jun 7, 2015
Improvements
- Updated Spring OSGi example plugin from Spring 3 to Spring 4.
- Made multiple performance improvements.
- Sessions are no longer required and load balancer stickiness is not longer mandatory for front end site delivery in a cluster (the admin functionality and multilingual sites where languages can be toggled still require sessions). By default, dotCMS still creates sessions for clickstream tracking. You can turn off automatic session cookie creation by setting ENABLE_CLICKSTREAM_TRACKING to false in your dotmarketing-config.properties.
Fixes
- Fixed the key value field losing data after rendering in the UI.
- Fixed the DB pooling parameters. The context.xml shipped with 3.2 still used Tomcat 7 specific properties which no longer work with Tomcat 8, specifically the maxActive configuration option has been renamed to maxTotal and the maxWait configuration option has been renamed to maxWaitMillis.
- Fixed issues with images in a multi-lingual site
- Fixed static plugin compiling issues with Java 7 and 8
- Fixed multiple issues with the Navtool Viewtool and Multiple Languages on Pages as Content
Things to Know
- dotCMS will no longer be supporting or providing the autoupdater. dotCMS 3.2.1 will be the last release that can be updated to using it. Moving forward, clients should follow the straightforward upgrade steps found here : http://dotcms.com/docs/latest/upgrade-dotcms
- Everyone running stock dotCMS (meaning running in Tomcat not running as a WAR) and upgrading to 3.2.1 should copy the 3.2.1 context.xml to your Config plugin and replace your connection settings with the new, tomcat 8 specific settings. It has the updated Tomcat 8 datasource properties.
- JbossRulesFilter has been commented out in the web.xml by default.
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dotCMS 3.2
Available: Apr 21, 2015
Improvements
- Ships with updated Tomcat 8.0.18
- Java 8 now supported. You can still run Java 7 if needed
- Added 3 new out of the box Actionlets for Custom Workflows (Email, Auto Set Value, and an Auto Push)
Fixes
- Fixed the random sort on pull contents
- Fixed some issues with Weblogic
- Fixed 3.x issue where the history code fields in containers was not saved
Things to Know
- If using the Autoupdater you will need to alter any plugins that reference Tomcat as the directory is different with the new Tomcat version. ie.. server.xml, ROOT.xml or context.xml
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dotCMS 3.1
Available: Mar 16, 2015
New Features
- HTML Pages are now Content
- As content, HTML Pages enjoys all of the features of content. i.e. workflow, versioning, multilingual support, pessimistic locking etc.
- To support all the new functionality Edit Mode has been improved on the left side controls when editing an HTML Page as Content including Workflow Controls
- Pages can now exist on the root of a host. This means that if you have a page on the root of your site you no longer need the Virtual Link to map your home page
- Pages no longer require a file extension
- Pages can have UTF-8 URIs.
- Added a more secure Viewtool to query the dotCMS DB directly. The new tool is mapped to com.dotcms.rendering.velocity.viewtools.SQLResultsViewTool@32d1f076. The old method in the CMSMacro Viewtool has been deprecated.
- All Enterprise versions have added the ability to pass Elasticsearch queries directly into dotCMS. This allows greater flexibility. The queries can be passed in via REST, directly to our APIs in Java, or from Velocity via a Viewtool
- There is a REST example of this using Geolocalization on the new starter site
- This opens the possibilities to using functionality like suggestion, facets, geolocalization etc…
- There is a new portlet that can be used to test queries
Overview of Fixes/Improvements
- Fixed front end issue where some special characters would use excess CPU cycles
- A number of security improvements have been made regarding how dotCMS manages cookies
- Timemachine will now copy dotAsset files
- The Activity Logger is now logging more events on content modifications
- Fixed an issue where the back end session would time out while logged in
- The CSV Content importer now accepts more date formats
- Updated to the latest ElasticSearch (v1.4.2). This will necessitate a reindex on upgrade
- Front end forms have much improved multilingual support
- JGroups library was upgraded which should prevent a small potential memory leak when running a cluster
- Many fixes to the Integrity Checker and Push Publishing infrastructure
- Improved the SASS/LESS infrastructure. There is still an issue with SASS on Windows which is still not working. https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/7236
- Improved the REST Portlet infrastructure for those creating portlets in the backend
- Fixed plugins broken from previous TinyMCE upgrade
- LDAP and WebDAV work properly now
- Date ranges are now supported from the Content Search Manager
- Worked with partner to allow them to run with Azure MSSQL database though Azure is not an officially supported dotCMS stack component
Things to Know
- Over 200 fixes have been made between 3.0 and 3.1
- This is the last release that targets Java 7. 3.1 will NOT work in Java 8.
- You can use the Autoupdater to update from 3.x to 3.1 but you cannot use it to update from any pre 3.0 release
- Because of the ElasticSearch upgrade, it is recommended that you run a full index after you upgrade dotCMS
- There is a new property in the dotmarketing-config.properties files named. CMS_INDEX_PAGE. This setting controls what page is returned when the client requests a folder. (i.e. URL ends with “/”) Its default setting in this release is “index” without extension. If you are upgrading from a previous version, you should either change this to be “index.html” or you will need to change the name of the default file in every folder on every host.
- There is now a property named DEFAULT_PAGE_TO_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE which defaults to true. Because pages can now exist in many languages it is possible to hit a Page URI in a language that doesn’t exist. By default the dotCMS will return the page in the default language but render the content in the appropriate language. This mimics the functionality of pages and multilingual support in all dotCMS versions prior to 3.1. If you set this to false then the dotCMS will return a 404 if the page doesn’t exist in the visitor’s language.
- ESAPI Filter is now turned off by default.
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dotCMS 3.0.1
Available: Dec 22, 2014
Fixes
- Fixed some typos in the backend
- Updated some missing files in the WYSIWYG editor that was causing issues with both workflows and front end content submission
- Addressed a leak from a possible closed connection while requesting a file
- Updated the helloworld plugin for 3.0
- Improved the logic when running a full reindex. Helps with those who run a reindex that never finishes
Things to Know
- 3.0 doesn't have support for the Autoupdater yet so users of 3.0 will have to manually update
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dotCMS 2.5.7
Available: Dec 17, 2014
Improvements
- Ships with updated Tomcat 6.0.41
- Security Improvements:
- Cookies can be forced to use the Secure Flag/SSL Only to prevent session hijacking
- http://dotcms.com/security/SI-2 - Cookies can be forced to HTTPOnly
- http://dotcms.com/security/SI-24 - TinyMCE upgraded to version 4.1.6
Fixes
- Number of fixes to the Integrity Checker and Push Publishing
- Navtool cache fix prevents unnecessary DB queries
- Reindex Process made more robust and fault tolerant.
Things to Note
- If you have a plugin that configs TinyMCE, you will need to review the config to ensure that it is compatible with TinyMCE version 4.x
- The security improvements noted above can be turned on or off (or set to https only) in the dotmarketing-config.properties file.
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dotCMS 2.5.6
Available: Jul 18, 2014
Fixes
- Addressed issue with saving containers after upgrade to 2.5.5. This was the only thing addressed in 2.5.6
dotCMS 2.5.5
Available: Jul 14, 2014
Improvements
- Integrity Checker & Conflict Resolver - This is a new feature in the Publishing Environments tab (system/configuration/publishing environments) that allows users to check for and resolve conflicts that that may exist between servers. Prior to this there were some conflicts which Push Publishing was unable to handle
- Improved the Job Scheduler�۪s ability to handle errors and delete jobs which no longer exist
- To help developers build workflows, ActionID is now displayed for reference on the Workflow screen
- Significant improvement to the logging of errors while Push Publishing to help with troubleshooting
- Improved performance and stability of the Reindex process
- Improved issues with the Tag Manager when working in other languages
- Improved support for Unicode characters with File Assets
Fixes
- Fixed multiple bugs in the DB layer which caused breakdowns when saving especially during Push Publishing
- Fixed issue when adding comments that would occasionally mess up the comments count
- Fixed absolute URLs in vanity URLs when referencing a dotcms host
- Fixed issue where limited user couldn�۪t create a page using layout templates
- Fixed the help screen when logged in via HTTPS
- Fixed issues with multi lingual content and Push Publishing where titles wouldn�۪t show
- Fixed the reorder menu issue (impacted version 2.5.4 only)
- Fixed ability to reassign workflow directly from the Edit Content Screen
- Fixed Push Publishing issue when Pushing content that didn�۪t have a version in the default language
- Fixed multiple issues when using the Site Search Highlighter on a cluster
- Cleaned up duplicate references in the web.xml which prevented deploy on some app servers
- Fixed issues related to the compare method in later versions of Java
Things to Note
- The Navigation Cache would clear on startup but this doesn�۪t happen anymore
- If you run the integrity checker your DB Config needs a user which can add/delete FKs on dotcms DB Tables
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dotCMS 2.5.4
Available: Mar 6, 2014
Fixes
- Made forgotten password process more secure - now emails token for password reset.
- Increased security algorithm for generation of passwords.
- Fixed issue in Edit Mode which could resulting a 404 when clicking on a Menu Link.
- By default you cannot redirect to an external referrer. To change this default behavior, set DISABLE_EXTERNAL_REFERERS=false in dotmarketing-config.properties file of your configuration plugin.
- Increased security for comments functionality.
- Increased security to prevent header injection.
- Improved XSS prevention algorithms.
- Fixed live site caching issue when updating files.
- Fixed CSV import when importing to a host.
- Increased security of AjaxFileUploadServlet.
- Improved security for system user.
- Locked down multiple security issues.
- Turned off autocompletion of password fields.
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dotCMS 2.5.3
Available: Feb 13, 2014
Fixes
- Fixed multiple IE issues in the backend
- Fixed multiple errors in the browser's console in the backend
- Improved some system performance when running under load and during site search indexing
- Fixed a few Push Publishing Issues
- Fixed multiple issues for WebSphere 8
- Fixed the Auto Login Checkbox
- OSGi can now be disabled
- Tags will now be imported properly when loading users from a CSV file
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dotCMS 2.5.2
Available: Dec 19, 2013
Fixes
- Fixed concurrency issues with the dotcms cache under load
- OSGi Examples all use Gradle now for building. This makes deploying and building plugins much easier
- Fixed the issue where modifying files in a theme could cause the theme to disappear
- Improved the Upgrade from dotcms 1.9 to 2.5.2+
- Fixed over 20 Push Publishing Issues
Things to know
- If you delete your osgi-extra file the system will try to generate a new one for you. It will do nothing if you leave it alone
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dotCMS 2.5.1
Available: Oct 21, 2013
Improvements
- Workflows will now Push Publish when Pushing a Structure
- When Content is Pushed the Workflow will be maintained meaning you will be in the same step on the Receiving server
- When Pushing Structures the Field Variable name is now used for Fields which is important when the inodes are different but the Field Variable is the same
Fixes
- Fixed multiple issues when using the Push Publish Actionlet associated with Workflow
- The User-Agent is now set properly in the header when using dotCMS functionality like Site-Search, Timemachine etc..
- Fixed an issue when adding binary imagines to Events
- Fixed Push Publishing a Page when it contains a Working version of Content but no Live version
- Fixed multiple JS Script Errors on Content Search Manager
- Fixed issues when retrying a failed Bundle
- Improved dotcms logic on flushing the cache which will improve the performance of the system
- Fixed an issue when binary fields weren't being copied over when creating a new language of an existing content
- A number of stability and performance tweaks mostly surrounding Push Publishing
Things to know
- There is a small DB change that will happen on Upgrade. We do not typically do this in a patch release but needed to on this one
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dotCMS 2.5
Available: Sep 23, 2013
New Features
Push Publishing for the following objects
- Hosts
- Folders
- Files
- Menu Links
- HTML Pages
- Templates
- Containers
- OSGI Bundles
- Categories
- Structures
- Users
- Push Publishing will figure out your dependencies. ie.. Folders,files etc.. under your host
- You can build Bundles in the UI as your browse around the dotCMS. These Bundles can be uploaded into other dotCMS installs
- For more info see http://dotcms.com/docs/latest/PushPublishing
Overview of Fixes/Improvements
- The Content REST API is much improved with new examples see http://dotcms.com/docs/latest/RESTSaveContent
- Content Search Manager UI/XP Improvements. Now includes a simple search over all content
- Edit Mode now will keep the session alive after long periods of inactivity
- Company Tooling is now a Configuration Tool. In the future this will be used for dotCMS Configuration in the UI
- Updated our Twitter tooling so the newer authentication works
- Improved the Authentication methods for the REST APIs. Can now use Header, BASIC, Form and Session authentication
- Site Search now respects content on the System Host(All Hosts) see https://github.com/dotCMS/dotCMS/issues/3123
- XSS Viewtool added see https://github.com/dotCMS/dotCMS/issues/3064
- Special Characters not import better when importing Content. See https://github.com/dotCMS/dotCMS/issues/3327
- User Agents are now set when the dotCMS is rendering its own pages for its interal tooling. The possible agents match their functionality. The possible values are DOTCMS-SITESEARCH, DOTCMS-CMIS, DOTCMS-HTMLPAGEDIFF, DOTCMS-TIMEMACHINE, DOTCMS-BROWSER
Things to Know
- Over 300 Bugs and Fixes have been made between 2.3 and 2.5
- Lots of IE9 and IE10 issues addressed
- Added a new configuration CONTENT_ESCAPE_HTML_TEXT which controls the escaping of special UTF8 characters when importing content and in the WYSIWYG Tool
- If you have been running 2.5 master you may need to delete the data from the push
- The Email Campaign manager and functionality has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
- Using filters instead of queries for performance (off by default). You can set the property ELASTICSEARCH_USE_FILTERS_FOR_SEARCHING to true. This should improve the speed of searching for content (at times up to 60%). In 2.3 defaults to false but will be set to true in later versions
- When using IE versions less then 9 with the dotCMS back end now requires the Google Chrome Frame
- The new Javadoc is located at http://dotcms.com/docs/latest/javadocs/index.html
- To see a full list of the 590+ issues worked on, please on visit our issues on GitHub
dotCMS 2.3.2
Available: Jun 16, 2013
Overview of Fixes/Improvements
- Addressed issues with pre 2.0 files in dotCMS
- Addressed the issue where pages could be lost from CMS Maintenance Tooling
- Addressed IE8 issues on login screen
- Addressed Full Reindex issues where dotCMS wouldn't switch to the new index even though no content was left to index
- Fixed the Random Sort in the ContentTool
Security Fixes
- Removed some test JSPs http://dotcms.com/security/SI-11
- Locked down dotCMS Scripts under the JSP directory
- Removed XSS from Login Screen http://dotcms.com/security/SI-14
- Addressed issues with DWR being too open
- Fixed SQL Injection Issue http://dotcms.com/security/SI-8
Notes
- Changed the default for Clickstream. dotCMS now ships with it on by default
dotCMS 2.3.1
Available: May 9, 2013
Overview of Fixes/Improvements
- Fixed the Windows issue when Downloading Data/Assets
- Fixed an issue with Webdav where files could overwrite other files with like filenames
dotCMS 2.3
Available: May 6, 2013
New Features
Themes and Responsive Design
- Themes provide a portable, sharable way to apply a common look and feel across a site or sites.
- The included dotCMS starter site uses a theme based on Twitter’s Bootstrap for Responsive design, though any modern CSS/JS framework can be used.
- dotCMS’s theme library provides starter themes for other major CSS frameworks (Foundation, YAML) and allows the community to contribute new themes.
- Themes can be shared within a host and across hosts.
- Available in the Community Edition
Template Designer
- Allows users to create dotCMS templates without any knowledge of HTML code.
- The Template Designer is used in conjunction with themes to apply a common, responsive look and feel across a site.
- Preview your theme and template in mobile device resolutions.
- Use an existing themes, create your own theme, or download a third party theme to create a new design template.
- Available in the Community Edition
Automatic Link Checker
- The new Link Checker workflow automatically checks links in WYSIWYG content before saving it, to avoid external link errors.
- There is a new portlet called Broken Links that can run an external link check on all content structures and creates a report of all broken links. This process can be scheduled using a cron expression, which then sends an email with the link errors found to the content editors.
- Available in the Enterprise Standard Edition
Time Machine / Static Snapshot
- Time Machine allows a user to browse a snapshot of how a site has looked in the past or will look in the future (based on publish and expire dates).
- The timemachine also allows a user to take a snapshot, or static copy, of selected hosts and save it as a "bundle" in dotCMS. This bundle can then be used to run a static copy of your sites on a non-dotCMS web server. Multiple snapshots can be taken for any dotCMS managed host.
- Available in the Enterprise Standard Edition
Scheduled Publishing
- Users can assign Publish dates and Expire dates to content structure which would automatically publish or expire content based on those dates.
- Available in the Enterprise Professional Edition
Dynamic Plugins get more Powerful
- Hot deploy portlets/admin tools in the backend of dotCMS.
- Added the ability to deploy Quartz/Cron Jobs.
- The extra packages can now be deployed from the UI.
- New Examples on deploying your own Spring version and complete with Spring Web Services.
- urlReWrite (tuckey) Filters can now be deployed from Dynamic Plugins.
- Available in the Community Edition
New Navigation Tool
- dotCMS ships with a developer friendly way to develop custom menus, crumbtrails and sitemaps with your own HTML and styles. This tool will build a navigation given a path and return a list of items.
- Available in the Community Edition
Wiki Tool
- The new WikiTool allows dotCMS to parse wiki formated from 3rd party wiki sources like TWiki, Markdown, MediaWiki, Confluence
- Available in the Community Edition
Remote Publishing - BETA
- 2.3 introduces a new Remote Publishing framework which will enable remote publishing with an easy to use interface.
- Publish content, pages and even whole sites to one or more dotCMS server or dotCMS clusters that can be geographically distributed.
- Remote Publishing is beta functionality that will be supported for Enterprise customers in the 2.3 version and will be finalized in the next dotCMS release.
- Available in the Enterprise Professional Edition
Overview of Fixes/Improvements
- The size of the dotCMS Cache is greatly reduced
- CMIS is now faster and more robust. 2.3 connects can server content via CMIS directly to products like Liferay
- Salesforce can now be used to authenticate similar to LDAP
- Multiple IE9/IE10 fixes made
- Roles Manager can now support hundreds of thousands of roles
- URLMap now respects a passed in language_id and will set the language session to the language you pull
- MySQL 5.6 now fully supported
- Date fields now respect patterns YYYY-MM-DD (HH:MM:SS) and can accept an empty date. You can also set to now by default
- Restful RoleAPI added
- Rest APIs now support many authentication methods (GET,POST,BASIC,HEADER,SESSION)
Things to Know
- Velocity has been updated to version 1.7 - the latest released version. This includes a new
#[[don't parse me! ]]# syntax for escaping large, multiline blocks of velocity code (jquery code anyone?). - The Email Campaign manager and functionality has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
- Using filters instead of queries for performance (off by default). You can set the property ELASTICSEARCH_USE_FILTERS_FOR_SEARCHING to true. This should improve the speed of searching for content (at times up to 60%). In 2.3 defaults to false but will be set to true in later versions
- DOJO has been upgraded to 1.8. As always, we recommend you clear browser cache on upgrade.
- When using IE versions less then 9 with the dotCMS backend now requires the Google Chrome Frame
- The new Javadoc is located at http://dotcms.com/docs/latest/javadocs/index.html
- To see a full list of the 590+ issues worked on, please on visit our issues on GitHub
dotCMS 2.2.1
Available: Mar 5, 2013
Overview of Fixes
- The Log Tailer now Supports Absolute Pathing and logs in sub directories. This should help non Tomcat environments
- Fixed issues with File Systems that do not support Hard Links
- Fixed the issue with uploading files when your assets live on another volume from the dotCMS
- Fixed a number of IE9 issues found on the backend of dotCMS
- Made Workflows more forgiving when a role is deleted
- Fixed the Photo Gallery Macro
- Fixed issues with the Binary Field and Front End Forms
- Fixed issues occuring when uploading multiple files at a time
- Fixed some issues with the Dashboard
- Some minor improvements to backend performance
dotCMS 2.2
Available: Oct 9, 2012
Overview of Changes
OSGI/Dynamic Plugin Improvements
- Dynamic Plugin support has been greatly extended
- Many more examples are provided under docs/examples/osgi
- Added support for Servlets, Spring, and Content Hooks
- Added more controls to Dynamic Plugins. Now you can restart the Framework from the UI without restarting the application
Related Content Improvements
- You can now select multiple Contents to relate at once
- When relating Content you can filter by language
- The Relationship Field UI is much improved when saving content for dotCMS installs with multiple languages
Front End Content Forms
- Custom Fields are now supported on the Front End of dotCMS Forms and SubmitContent Macro
CMIS Library Update
- Updated to the latest Chemistry Open CMIS 0.7 libraries
- RESTful XML/ATOM read write access to content repository
Index Management
- Added new methods to the Restful API for Index Management providing easier backup/restore functionality
- Aliases now work and SiteSearch Indicies can now be managed from the API
- The following methods have been added getIndexName,getIndexStatus,getIndexRecordCount,getNotActiveIndexNames,StopReindexThread, startReindexThread, getReindexThreadStatus
General Backend Enhancements
- Error Pages - You can now control the logo on the default error pages ie.. 403, 404, 500
- dotCMS Browser - You can now copy/paste at root level of Host
- The Drop Old Assets and Fix Asset Inconsistencies are much improved in both performance and functionality
Overview of Fixes/Improvements
- Permission Performance is greatly improved. This included applying permissions from the Role Manager on All Hosts
- Reindex Performance is greatly improved. We have seen over 10 times the speed on some installs
- Upgraded WebDav library and fixed many bugs with WebDav including issues with limited users
- Fixed issues with Site Search fields not be fully searchable
- For cluster fixed the issue with teh WEB-INF/binary directory needing to be on the same partition as the Assets directory
- The Autoupdater uses hardlinks for assets now to help with disk space
- URL Map Content has much improved multiple language support
- DOJO has been upgraded to 1.8 for latest Browser support
- Upgraded Elastic Search to 19.9
- Upgraded TinyMCE to 3.5.7
- dotCMS will now respect the URL you are trying to hit when not logged into the backend. So you can go right to the correct tooling/portlet in the backend
- dotCMS is now fully translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Russian, and Spanish
Things to Know
- The new Javadoc is located at http://dotcms.com/docs/2.2/javadocs/index.html
- To see a full list of issues worked, please on visit our issues on GitHub