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• Updated On 4.2.0

Release Notes

This section contains release notes for CrafterCMS 4.2. For other release notes, please visit your release’s release notes page below <other-release-notes>

Note

CrafterCMS 4.2 requires Java 21

CrafterCMS 4.2.0

Released November 13, 2024

Important

Please see Breaking changes for breaking changes and other things to consider before upgrading

For instructions on how to update your CrafterCMS install to 4.2.x, please see Upgrading CrafterCMS

New Features

• New authentication mechanism for Engine Preview
  To learn more about configuring Engine Preview, see Preview Cookie and Preview Mode

• Crafter CLI has the following new options:

  • Publish Content

  • Create Group

  • List Groups

  • Create User

  • Get Users

  Please see Crafter CLI for more information.

• New RTE configuration for TinyMCE plugin template Please see TinyMCE Plugin Template Example for more information

• YAML, JSON and CSV files are now editable via the “Edit” option in Preview
  See here for more information

• Image placeholder generation util is now integrated into XB
  When generating items on XB, fields without default values use placehold.it for images. See here for more information

• Broken dependencies are now recorded in the DB and with every content written, if the item being written is referenced as a broken dependency, the reference will be fixed.
  See here for more information

• New configuration property for Deployer HTTP requests response timeout
  See Deployer HTTP Requests for more information

Enhancements

• Improved permissions.

  • Added a new permission, publish_by_commits, that allows users to publish by commit ids. See the API publishCommits for permission usage.

  • Items are evaluated for permissions based on their paths regardless of where they are listed. The permission ~DASHBOARD~ is now removed from the list of allowed permissions. The upgrade manager will remove it from your project during your install upgrade.

• Improved item duplication in XB

• Added support for multiple browser tabs for the same project/site

• Set the default sort order of Studio UI search to alphabetical when no keyword is supplied

• Bulk Publishing enhancements

  • Added an option to include soft dependencies when bulk publishing This new option is set to false by default.

  • Studio now does a "Publish All" request when "Publish By Path=’/’" request is received

• Improved XB ease-of-use and resilience for JS apps programmatically registering elements for XB
  See here for more information

  For more information on registering elements for XB, see Lazy Loaded Content.

• Improved SiteItemService. The object returned by SiteItemService is now a copy of the item.

• Added a single item per line view to search and browse item selection dialogs

• Added parameter for setting CloudFormation capabilities
  See CloudFormation Capabilities for more information

Studio UI

• [utils/xml] Upgrade prettier to v3x which changed from sync apis to async

  • serialize no longer formats code

  • beautify is now async

• [components]

  • HostUI removed, merged with Host (its container component)

  • EditModeSwitcherUI removed, merged with EditModeSwitcher (its container component)

  • Removed Legacy Dashboard components:

    • LegacyApprovedScheduledDashlet

    • LegacyAwaitingApprovalDashlet

    • LegacyInReviewDashlet

    • LegacyRecentActivityDashlet

    • LegacyRecentActivityDashlet

    • LegacyRecentlyPublishedDashlet

    • LegacyUnpublishedDashlet

  • Removed documentDomain property from ExperienceBuilder component and its usage in PreviewConcierge component

  • WorkflowCancellationDialogUI: prop items type changed from an async Resource to sync SandboxItem array.

  • AuthorFilter removed, merged with ActivityDashlet

  • UsersAutocomplete removed

  • UploadDialog: Added autoProceed prop to enable/disable automatic upload after file selection

  • DropDownMenuButton component:

    • Internal structure changed so that ListItem wraps the ListItemButton

    • listItemProps are routed to the list ListItem component instead of the ListItemButton

    • Added listItemButtonProps property

  • DraggablePanelListItem prop onMenu send the pointer event as its first and only argument instead of the anchor element attached to the event. Can get element through event.currentTarget.

  • DateTimePicker was moved & renamed to DateTimeTimeZonePicker to better reflect its functionality and to avoid collision with MUI’s DateTimePicker.

    • Components that used the previous version now use the new DateTimeTimeZonePicker (i.e. CreatePreviewTokenDialog, CreateTokenDialogContainer, PublishDialogForm, PublishDialogContainer, FormEngineControls/DateTime, AudiencesPanelUI)

• [services] Removed services associated with v1 APIs:

  • fetchLegacyGetGoLiveItems

  • fetchLegacyUserActivities

  • fetchLegacyScheduledItems

  • fetchPendingApprovalPackageItems

  • fetchLegacyDeploymentHistory

  • getUserPermissions

    • Use fetchMyPermissions instead

  • [services/contentTypes] Add fetchContentType service

• [state]

  • actions/dialogs: Renamed updateEditConfig action to updateEditDialogConfig

• [hooks]

  • usePreviewUrlControl: Removed history prop. Retrieval of search and navigate (previously called ‘push’) is now done internally.

• Removed deprecated aws-file-upload and aws-video upload controls.

• Migrated the Studio UI build to Vite/SWC

• Rollup’s XB build to use SWC

• Upgraded target compilation to ES2022, dropping many code transforms for features that are supported by most modern browsers such as nullish coalescing, optional chaining, object spreading and destructuring.

• The allowedContentTypes ContentTypeField validation changed from being an array to a Record<contentTypeId, { embedded?: true; shared?: true; sharedExisting?: true; }>

• Remove legacy browseCMIS dialog and openCMISBrowse function from common-api.

• Remove CMIS-repo, CMIS-upload, img-cmis-repo, img-CMIS-upload, video-cmis-repo and video-CMIS-upload datasources.

• ICEConfig TypeScript interface changed to be type. It now accepts either the (model) or (modelId & path).

• The acecode TinyMCE plugin (for code-highlighted Rich Text Editor code editing), renders the code exactly as Tiny provides without decoding entities.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue when editing an item from a node selector

• Fixed issue with duplicating a site in serverless mode

• Fixed issue with an XB error when duplicating an item in a repeat group

• Fixed issue with TinyMCE not saving HTML code properly
  See working in the RTE with code samples for more information on editing code samples in the RTE.

• Fixed issue with mixed case role names not being recognized by the permission evaluation system

• Fixed issue with "File Upload From Desktop" datasource throwing an error when the dialog is opened and closed

• Fixed issues with dependency calculations "getDependentItems"

• Fixed issue with rootless Docker images build not working

Dependency Updates

• Noteworthy dependency updates:

  • Spring Framework to version 6

  • Spring Boot to version 3

  • Freemarker to version 2.3.33

  • MariaDB to version 11.4

  • MariaDb4J to version 3.1

  • HTTP Proxy to version 2.0

  • UrlRewriteFilter to version 5.1

  • ESAPI to version 2.5.4.0

  • FileUpload to version 2.0

  • Groovy to version 4

  • Tomcat to version 10

  • Studio UI dependencies

    • @craftercms/studio-ui

      • @craftercms/uppy to version 4.2.0

      • @graphiql/plugin-explorer to version 3.0.1

      • @mui/x-data-grid to version 7.13.0

      • @mui/x-date-pickers to version 7.13.0

      • @mui/x-tree-view to version 7.13.0

      • @prettier/plugin-xml to version 3.3.0

      • @reduxjs/toolkit to version 2.2.5

      • @types/ace to version 0.0.52

      • @types/react to version 18.3.2

      • @types/react-dom to version 18.3.0

      • @types/react-swipeable-views to version 0.13.5

      • @types/video.js to version 7.3.58

      • clsx to version 2.1.1

      • fast-xml-parser to version 4.3.6

      • graphiql to version 3.2.2

      • graphql to version 16.8.1

      • graphql-ws to version 5.16.0

      • marked to version 12.0.2

      • marked-highlight to version 2.1.1

      • moment-timezone to version 0.5.45

      • nanoid to version 5.0.7

      • prettier to version 3.2.5

      • react-hotkeys-hook to version 4.5.0

      • tss-react to version 4.9.10

      • query-string to version 9.0.0

      • react-redux to version 9.1.2

      • react-router-dom to version 6.0.0

      • redux to version 5.0.1

      • redux-observable to version 3.0.0-rc.2

      • video.js to version 8.12.0

    • @craftercms/experience-builder

      • @craftercms/classes to version 4.2.0

      • @craftercms/content to version 4.2.0

      • @craftercms/ice to version 4.2.0

      • @craftercms/search to version 4.2.0

      • @craftercms/studio-ui to version 4.2.0

      • @reduxjs/toolkit to version 2.2.5

      • @rollup/plugin-alias to version 5.1.0

      • @types/react-dom to version 18.3.0

      • react-hotkeys-hook to version 4.5.0

      • react-is to version 18.3.1

      • uuid to version 10.0.0

      • react-redux to version 9.1.2

      • redux to version 5.0.1

      • redux-observable to version 3.0.0-rc.2

    • @craftercms/search

      • uuid to version 10.0.0

    • @craftercms/redux

      • @reduxjs/toolkit to version 2.2.2

      • redux to version 5.0.1

      • redux-observable to version 3.0.0-rc.2

    • @craftercms/classes

      • query-string to version 9.1.0

For a complete list of community tickets, please visit: GitHub 4.2.0

For information on upgrading 3.1.x sites, see here

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For CrafterCMS version 4.1 release notes, see 4.1 Release Notes.

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For CrafterCMS version 4.0 release notes, see 4.0 Release Notes.

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For CrafterCMS version 3.1 release notes, see 3.1 Release Notes.