Release notes for Magnolia CMS 6.2.20

LTS release • Delivered on June 17, 2022 • Page updated on February 14, 2023 • Changelog: 11940

Magnolia CMS 6.2.20 is primarily a bug-fixing and security release that also delivers a number of updates and improvements. We keep the details of security fixes private in line with our security policy. Contact our Support team if you need more information.

magnolia-dx-core-webapp-6.2.20.war
magnolia-dx-core-demo-webapp-6.2.20.war
magnolia-community-demo-webapp-6.2.20.war
mtk_2.0.2.zip (as a light module)

Improvements

MGNLEESOLR-165 Update to support Solr 8.x
MGNLUI-7192 Add "Publish including subnodes" action to CT-based apps

Bug fixes

MGNLUI-7089 Incorrect timezone labels
PAGES-630 "Add component" before/after selected component is broken in 6.2.19

Miscellaneous

BLOSSOM-300 Dismiss Spring framework CVE-2016-1000027
BLOSSOM-301 Update to Spring framework 5.3.20
LANG-116 Remove some unmaintained languages (fi, id, no, pt, pt_BR, ru, sv, tr, sk, sq)
MAGNOLIA-8434 Deprecate/remove GenerateTranslationFilesImpl
MGNLUI-7133 Update to extended maintenance version of Vaadin (license for productionMode=false required!)

For more on this topic

See Vaadin configuration update for custom webapps.
MGNLWORKFLOW-410 Use jBPM 7.70.0.Final

Third-party library updates

BUILD-722 Update to POI 5.2.2
BUILD-770 Update Netty libraries to 4.1.77.Final, while keeping the runtime compatibility with the clients (AWS SDK)
BUILD-772 Update to Vaadin 8.15.2
BUILD-813 Update Tika to version 1.28.3
BUILD-828 Update OkHttp to version 4.9.3

Others

Asset upload fields more secure

To prevent XSS exploits, we have hardened the asset upload functionality in this release.

MGNLUI-7227 (restricted access)

Known issues

If you are upgrading from an earlier version, read the Upgrading to Magnolia 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

Admincentral 6.2.20
Backup 2.4.4
Barebones Tomcat Bundle 1.2.9
Blossom 3.5.1
Community Edition 6.2.20
Content Editor 1.3.11, 2.1.2
Content Translation Support 2.5.7
DAM 3.0.17
DX Core 6.2.20
Language Bundles 1.2.0
Magnolia 6.2.20
Mail 5.5.13
Pages 6.2.19
Personalization 2.1.3

Personalization 2.1.3 is not bundled in this release.
REST Framework 2.2.14
Solr Search Provider 6.1
Tasks 6.2.19

Keep your Tasks App at 6.2.18 as some changes in 6.2.19 are incompatible with Magnolia 6.2.x.

For more, see Magnolia 6.2.20 known issues.
Third-party library BOM 6.2.20
UI 6.2.20
Vaadin Compatibility Addons 1.3.12
Workflow 6.0.7

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 Maik Jablonski, Giulio Garzia "Ozozuz", Jakub Sajniak and Bartosz Śmigielski.

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