Release notes for Magnolia CMS 6.2.3

LTS release • Delivered on September 9, 2020 • Changelog: 20126

Magnolia CMS 6.2.3 is a bug-fixing and security release that also delivers improvements in the following areas: content importing, field configuration and asset management, internationalization (i18n) and third-party libraries.

magnolia-dx-core-webapp-6.2.3.war
magnolia-dx-core-demo-webapp-6.2.3.war
magnolia-community-demo-webapp-6.2.3.war
mtk_1.5.2.zip (as a light module)

Content importing

Strategies for bootstrapping content for content types

Magnolia 6.2.2 introduced bootstrapping of content for content types at instance startup. In Magnolia 6.2.3, you can use the two new properties magnolia.content.bootstrap.onlyImportAtInstall and magnolia.content.bootstrap.createTasks to configure a content bootstrapping strategy. Example configurations:

onlyImportAtInstall=true and createTasks=always: the most restrictive strategy. Content is bootstrapped only at installation, not at every instance startup. No content is bootstrapped automatically.
createTasks=onchange: the most permissive strategy. Content is bootstrapped automatically if the path does not exist in JCR. If the path exists, a task is created.
createTasks=never: content is bootstrapped at every startup and after every change.

The default configuration is onlyImportAtInstall=false and createTasks=always.

Possible values for createTasks are always, onchange and never.

MGNLCI-25

Content Importer module now part of CE bundles

Content Importer is a module that adds new bootstrapping capabilities that do not depend on Java modules or bootstrap tasks. The module can be used with both light development and Java approaches.

Already a CE module, it is now also part of Magnolia CE bundles to allow for a better experience when using light development in the Community Edition.

MGNLCE-250

Field configuration and asset management

New link field shortcuts

You can now use the following shortcuts for two preconfigured link field types:

damLinkField for a field that links to an asset.
pageLinkField for a field that links to a page.

MGNLUI-5350

Thanks to MGNLUI-5350, an M6 app based on a content type can link correctly to an M5 app through the reference:<content-type name> value of the type property in a content type model definition.

Reinstated features for asset management

The following Magnolia 5 UI features have been reinstated in this release:

Download asset action in the browser subapp of the Assets app (MGNLDAM-849).
Asset preview for fields that link to assets. The screenshots show no preview in Magnolia 6.2.2 (left) and the reinstated feature in Magnolia 6.2.3 (right) (MGNLUI-5979, MGNLDAM-866).

Internationalization

i18n support for option labels in select fields

It is now possible to assign i18n labels to options in select fields by configuring the labels in i18n message bundles. Two generic forms exist for these keys:

fields.<field>.options[.label]
<app>.<action>.<field>.options[.label]

MGNLUI-5881

Add and Remove buttons in multi fields easier to internationalize

We have added the buttonSelectAddLabel and buttonSelectRemoveLabel properties to the Multi field definition. This allows you to label the Add and Remove UI buttons more easily through custom values either in i18n message bundles or directly in a field definition.

Example:

properties:
  multi:
    label: multi
    $type: jcrMultiField
    buttonSelectAddLabel: "Add shopping item"
    buttonSelectRemoveLabel: "Delete shopping item"
    itemProvider:
      $type: currentItemProvider
    field:
      $type: textField

The default (fallback) values for the keys are:

buttons.add=Add
buttons.delete=Delete

MGNLUI-6101

Third-party libraries

List of libraries and licenses

The About app has a new Libraries license info tab. It displays a list of licenses for the third-party libraries used by Magnolia as part of the build.

Libraries license overview page

The list is available on all instances, but it is mainly our Magnolia Cloud customers who will benefit from it as that is the only way for them to get an overview of this information.

MGNLUI-6045

Library updates

This release comes with third-party library updates to fix some security and compatibility issues as well as improve performance. The following are the most notable updates:

Google API Client, HTTP Client and OAuth Client updated to 1.30.10, 1.36.0 and 1.31.0 respectively (BUILD-399, MGNLMAIL-108).
SnakeYAML updated to 1.2.6 (BUILD-401).
Tomcat updated to 9.0.37 (MGNLTOMCAT-16).

We keep the details of security-related fixes private in line with our security policy. Contact our Support team if you need more information.

Notable bug fixes

The following issues have been resolved where:

In the Periscope Result Ranker module, access to the instance was not synchronized properly between different browser sessions (MLEARN-17).
In the REST Content Delivery module, invalid JSON was produced whenever a reference resolver that was applied to a list returned Optional.Empty() (MGNLREST-227).
In the UI module, corrupted messages were stored in JCR, leading to an endless loop in the UI back end (MGNLUI-6001).
For rich text fields:
- The image button added to the toolbar by setting the images property to true did not work (MGNLUI-6061).
- The alignment, colors, fonts and fontSizes properties were ignored (MGNLUI-6087).
- The required property when set to true was ignored. The same issue was also identified in code field configuration (MGNLUI-6112).

Others

Known issues

If you are upgrading from an earlier version, read the Upgrading to Magnolia 6.2.x page first and check the Known issues page.

Documentation screenshot updates

Some of the screenshots in the documentation still show the legacy Magnolia 5 UI. Please bear with us as we work to update them.

Updated modules

Barebones Tomcat Bundle 1.2.2
Community Edition 6.2.3
Contacts App 1.8.2
Content Dependencies 2.0.2
Content Importer 1.0.4
DAM 3.0.3
Definitions App 2.1.1
DX Core 6.2.3
Form 2.7
Icons 23
Image Recognition 1.2.3
Imaging 3.4.4
Machine Learning 1.2.1
Magnolia 6.2.3
Mail 5.5.6
Pages 6.2.3
Personalization 2.0.3
Public User Registration 2.7.4
Publishing 1.2.2
Publishing Transactional 1.0.7
REST Client UI 1.0.2
REST Framework 2.2.2
Templating Essentials 1.5.2
Third-party library BOM 6.2.3
UI 6.2.3
Vaadin Compatibility Addons 1.3.5
Workflow 6.0.2

Acknowledgements

The Magnolia team would also like to thank everyone who reported issues, contributed patches or simply commented on issues for this release. Your continued interest helps us make Magnolia better. Special thanks go to Sven Bach, Sebastian Bauch, Christopher Chard, Maria Fernanda Acero, Marc Johnen, Marvin Kerkhoff, Marek Lesiak, Philip Mundt, Cedric Reichenbach, Alex S. Plouff, Ruth Stocks, Richard Unger and Tom Wespi.

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